Critical Romani Studies

✊🏽 Racism and Romani Studies
Critical Romani Studies – Volume 8, Number 1 (2025)

📰 Critical Romani Studies is proud to announce the publication of Volume 8, Number 1, a thematic issue dedicated to exploring racism and its intersections with Romani Studies.
This issue interrogates the mechanisms through which antigypsyism has shaped knowledge production and critiques how Romani people have been placed at the margins—and remain so today. Deconstructing antigypsyism and affirming Romani contributions to European cultural heritage and academic narratives are essential steps toward a dignified collective memory.

📖 Editors
Dezso Mate · Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka · Iulius Rostas · Călin Rus

📚 Authors include
Rafael Buhigas Jiménez · Lesia Pahulich · Gaëtan Cognard · Nora Tyeklar · Martina Boykova Drobenova · Ognyan Isaev · Stefania Cotei · Camilla Salvatore · Adrian-Nicolae Furtună · Eddie Bruce-Jones · Dóra Bogárdi · Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka · Dezso Mate · Iulius Rostas · Diana Aburas · Sanni Matleena Lindroos · Rufat Demirov · André Raatzsch · Calin Rus · Ismael Cortés Gómez · Carmen Cañete Quesada

🎨 Cover image
The Structure of Antigypsyism by Luna De Rosa

🔗 Read the open-access issue here:
👉 https://crs.ceu.edu

🤝 Supporting organizations
Romani Studies Program at Central European University
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)
Intercultural Institute of Timișoara

🙏 Thank you to all contributors—authors, reviewers, editors, and partner organizations—who made this issue possible.

✊🏽 Racialized Slavery in Moldavia and Wallachia: Legacies and Silences
Volume 9, Number 1

📣 Critical Romani Studies is proud to announce the publication of a new Thematic Issue dedicated to one of the most profound yet silenced histories in Europe: the centuries-long racialized enslavement of Romani people in Moldavia and Wallachia, and its enduring legacies.

📝 As part of the MEMOROBIA project, this thematic issue pursues a dual aim: to advance new research and to examine existing historiography on slavery from anti-racist, critical, and feminist perspectives. It features contributions from scholars and artists exploring political debates during abolition, the gendered dimensions of slavery, and the persistent erasures in historiography, arts, education, and public memory.

💙 Authors include: Magda Matache, Bogdan Chiriac, Maria Dumitru, Adrian-Nicolae Furtună, Delia Grigore, Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen, Alexandru Zamfir, Maria Luiza Medeleanu, Petre Petcuț, and Oana Rusu.

❗️ This issue also highlights a landmark text in Romanian Romani slavery studies: the first English translation of an edited version of Nicolae Gheorghe’s 2006 article — sociologist, visionary Romani activist, and one of the most influential voices in the field. The translation is accompanied by a foreword by the Romani feminist scholar, Nicoleta Bitu, Gheorghe’s life partner and collaborator for over two decades.

🖼️ Cover image: The Abolition of Slavery by Emanuel Barica (2025).

📚 Editors: Margareta Matache, Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen, Maria Dumitru, Adrian-Nicolae Furtună, and Delia Grigore.

📖 The full issue is now available on the Critical Romani Studies website.
👉 https://crs.ceu.edu/index.php/crs/issue/view/15

✨ Follow the official launch of the thematic issue live as part of the MEMOROBIA conference on November 25 at 12:15.
💡 https://www.youtube.com/live/4iLyShImD8I?si=ca8WckThBBkRnyOj

❤️ Thank you to all contributors — authors, reviewers, and editors — who made this work possible.

Because remembrance matters. Scholarship matters. And telling our history matters.

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