Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies: Book of abstracts

The Gypsy Lore Society is an international association of scholars, specialists and experts, founded in Great Britain in 1888. Its annual conferences are among the most important scientific events dedicated to Romani studies worldwide. Each year the event is held in a different country and is being held in France for the first time. The meeting and the conference are organised on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society by the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the FNASAT Gens du Voyage – Médiathèque “Matéo Maximoff” in Paris. Invited papers are focused on various aspects of Romani studies, from various fields of the humanities and social sciences. The working languages of the conference are English and Romani. Introducing the context of the organisation of the conference in 2025, this book presents Romani studies in the context of artificial intelligence (Tatiana Zachar Podolinská). It includes the abstracts of three keynote speakers (Tommaso Vitale, Jana Horváthová, and Martin Olivera), and those of three pre-arranged panels about the history and ethnography of Roma in Iceland, the re-ethnicization of Roma religious culture between heritage and innovation, and the historicity of Roma migration in an Indian and Iranian perspective. The abstracts of seven open panels are then presented: Roma in and from Ukraine, Religiosity, Spirituality and Non-religiosity among the Roma, Roma Slavery in the Romanian Principalities, Book/Book Series/Journal Panel Discussion, Romani language and literature (in Romani language), Roma in historical and anthropological research (in Romani language), Teaching Romani literature. Sixty-two individual papers were submitted in the fields of anthropology, arts, history, linguistics, literature, pedagogy, political sciences, sociology. Practical information is provided about the conference venue and the social events organised on the occasion of the conference: book stand, exhibition about French writer Matéo Maximoff, exhibition about French Travellers, film screening, and concert.