Critical Approaches to Anti-Romani Racism - ASEV100602

• Title: Critical Approaches to Anti-Romani Racism
• Guaranteed by: Department of Ethnology and Central European and Balkan Studies (21-UESEBS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 20 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: yes
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Helena Sadílková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Yasar Abu Ghosh, Ph.D.; Mgr. Pavel Baloun, Ph.D.; Mgr. Renata Berkyová; Helena Sadílková, Ph.D.

Annotation

Course dedicated to develop the understanding of anti-Romani racism as a phenomenon of originally European societies that does not cease to dominate the relationship of diverse non-Romani societies towards the Roma across the globe. The course will open the insight into the diverse facets of this form of racism and lead to the discussion of structures, power hierarchies and mental framing that enable its perpetuation and re-establishment. The course is a joint teaching endeavour by a group of researchers primarily at Charles University, University of St. Andrews and Leiden University. It is taught as a joint course of the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University and researchers and lectures from Czech Republic (on-site), Great Britain (on-line) and Netherlands (on-line) will take turn in guiding the students through the course. Together with required reading for each session the syllabus will offer a list of additional readings for each topic in order to support and help to navigate individual students in their exploration of the sources, effects and legacies of anti-Romani racism as well as the diverse reactions by individual Roma to the diverse forms of their oppression.<br>
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PLEASE NOTE: TEACHING STARTS ON OCTOBER 7, 2025. This is a joint course taught in cooperation between the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Humanities of the Charles university. ALL COURSE SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND IN TEACHING SLOTS OF THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES – Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8, on Tuesdays 13:00-14:20, room number YT 003.

Last update: Sadílková Helena, Ph.D. (22.09.2025)

Course completion requirements

The course requires regular home preparation for the individual sessions (readings and short written assignment for each session) and regular participation in the class activities and discussions.

Last update: Sadílková Helena, Ph.D. (18.09.2025)

Syllabus

Topics of individual sessions
(detailed sylabus will be presented as part of the first session)

7.10.
WEEK 1 – Introductory conceptual analysis of anti-Romani racism
Yasar Abu Ghosh (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague)

14.10.
WEEK 2 - Representations: images, voices, expert regimes
Renata Berkyová (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

21.10.
WEEK 3 – Armed conflicts: The invisibility of Romani entaglements in and experience of conflicts, its sources, effects and legacies 
Sarah Edgcumbe (University of St. Andrews)

28.10. National holiday - no classes

4.11.
WEEK 4 – Persecution: Roma and Sinti in the Holocaust 
Pavel Baloun (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague)

11.11.
WEEK 5 - Governing space: the spatial segregation of the Roma
Jan Ort (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) 

18.11.
WEEK 6 - Governance of the mobility of the Roma
Huub van Baar (University of Leiden)

25.11.
WEEK 7 -  Anti-Romani racism ad its forms under state socialism 
Helena Sadílková (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)

2.12.
WEEK 8 - Economic inequality and poverty
Yasar Abu Ghosh 

9.12.
WEEK 9 - Beneviolence: between control and care
Paloma Gay Blasco (University of St. Andrews)

16.12.
WEEK 10 - Racialization
Martin Fotta (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

23.12.
WEEK 11 - Re-cap – Anti-Romani Racism
Yasar Abu Ghosh

Last update: Sadílková Helena, Ph.D. (18.09.2025)