Foreword

Roma Holocaust, Memory, and Representation

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v4i2.159

Abstract

Foreward of the thematic issue Roma Holocaust, Memory, and Representation

Author Biographies

  • Lise Foisneau, Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC – UMR 7307)

    Lise Foisneau is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She defended, in 2018, a doctorate in anthropology on the political forms of a Romani collective in Provence; she conducted postdoctoral research on the memory of the Second World War at the Central European University (Budapest), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington), and EHESS (Paris). Les Nomades face à la guerre (1939–1946), published in 2022, is her first book.

  • Joanna Talewicz, Co-founder and President of the Foundation Towards Dialogue; University of Warsaw

    Joanna Talewicz, PhD – University of Warsaw. She collaborates with the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau and she is a member of the Polish delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). A graduate of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programme at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, Talewicz has attended numerous prestigious academic programmes: fellow of the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program – Columbia University, the Leadership Academy for Poland, Fulbright scholarship, Tom Lantos Institute, European Commission’s Marie Curie Programme, and the
    International Leadership Visitor Program of State Department of the United States. She was a guest lecturer at a handful of leading universities in the United States and Europe. Her main topic relates to the Roma Holocaust and Romani refugees. She is Co-founder and President of the Foundation Towards Dialogue and crisis-intervention group Roma-Poland-Ukraine, which has been helping Romani refugees from Ukraine. 

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Published

10/25/2022

How to Cite

Foreword: Roma Holocaust, Memory, and Representation. (2022). Critical Romani Studies, 4(2), 4-7. https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v4i2.159