Proceedings of the first national conference of Roma doctoral and post-doctoral students in Romania
The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, a public cultural institution operating under the authority of Cluj County Council, together with the Doctoral School of Population Studies and History of Minorities of the Babeș-Bolyai University invites you on Saturday, 19 October 2024, 12.00, to the launch of the book Roma - Knowledge, Awareness, Coexistence.
This work brings together the proceedings of the first national conference of Roma PhD students and post-doctoral fellows from Romania, held in Cluj-Napoca in December 2022. The volume includes scientific articles written by young Roma researchers, undergraduates or graduates of doctoral programmes at the universities of Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest, Arad and Timișoara.
The volume attempts to capitalise on a set of social, economic, cultural and religious knowledge about the Roma minority, knowledge resulting from the research work undertaken by Roma elites in the doctoral university environment. As a whole, the book includes scholarly approaches to the Roma in terms of tangible and intangible cultural heritage specific to this ethnic group, including: the role and involvement of the school mediator in the welfare of the community, the role and position of Roma women in the community, slavery, judgement among the Roma Gabor families, mixed marriages, housing, racism, pastoral methods in the relationship with Roma ethnic, ethnographic heritage through brass band music and Roma crafts.
"Getting to know the Roma in a much deeper sense, accepting them and, last but not least, living with them, depends on how each of us is involved and interested in this process. In order to be known, any group of people, any ethnic group or individual, regardless of their ethnicity or their affiliation to certain principles, cultures and ways of life, must first be understood and not viewed with any kind of inferiority...It is an objective and honest analysis of Roma history, research and not labelling their traditions, ways of life and trades, involvement and support for the proposed steps in the process of revitalising Roma cultural heritage". (Marius Lakatos-Iancu - Roma counsellor at Cluj County Council)
The volume Roma - Knowledge, Awareness, Coexistence will be presented by Prof. Ioan Cârja, director of the Doctoral School of Population Studies and History of Minorities, and Dr Tudor Sălăgean, director of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania.
The authors of the volume (Daniel Caraivan, Liliana Chiriac, Eugen Ghiță, Alina Lakatos-Iancu, Marius Lakatos-Iancu, George Rafael Năstase, Marius Imre Parno, Cristinel Constantin Roman, Marin Trandafir Roz, Gabriel Constantin Sala) will also present briefly the results of their research published in this volume.
