The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy Studies will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 11 to 13, 2014. The meeting is being organized on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society by:

The Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava

in cooperation with:

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
Representation of European Commission in Slovakia
Roma Institute, Bratislava
Slovak Association for the Study of Religions, Bratislava



Call for Papers

Contributions from various disciplines and perspectives on any aspect of Gypsy Studies are most welcome, but substantive scholarly papers will be given priority. Papers should be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes allotted for discussion.

Proposals for individual papers and poster presentations are welcome. Please note that each author should plan to submit only one proposal (an individual paper or poster proposal).

Proposals for organized sessions were due February 15, 2014. The following panels have been accepted.

Roma/ Gypsies and Public Policies in the Iberian Peninsula.
Organizers: Maria Manuela Mendes, Ana Rita Costa, and Liliana Moreira.

Critical approaches to Roma Participation and Empowerment.
Organizers: Márton RÖVID and Bálint-Ábel BEREMÉNYI.

Muslim Roma - Issues of Language and Identity.
Organizer: Hristo Kyuchukov.

The Experience, Problems, and Romani Studies of Roma/Gypsies in Slovakia and former Czechoslovakia.
Organizer: Eva Davidová.

Religion in Roma Studies.
Organizer: Tatiana Podolinska.


Requirements for Abstracts and Proposals

Individual papers:

Please send your abstract of no more than 250 words and indicate whether this is an open submission, or a submission to a particular panel. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the academic organising committee, which includes representatives of the Gypsy Lore Society Board of Directors and local organisers. If you submit your paper for a particular organized panel, the conveners of the particular panel will also review the abstract.

Deadline: April 15, 2014. You will be notified if your contribution has been accepted by May 31, 2014.

Poster presentations:

The conference provides facilities for poster presentations. Posters will be displayed during the duration of conference. Depending on the number of submissions accepted, a few poster-presentation sessions are planned as “guided tours”. Posters must present research projects and results. Posters should meet academic standards in both content and form. The presentation of the poster should not exceed 5 minutes. Please send your proposal for an poster section of no more than 100 words before April 15, 2014.


Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2014.

You will be notified if your contribution has been accepted by May 31, 2014.

Please send your proposals for contributions and posters in plain text format (no tables or charts) in the body of an e-mail message (not as an attachment) to the Program Chair, Dr Tatiana Podolinska, gls.2014@savba.sk. Submissions should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation (if relevant), address, daytime telephone and e-mail address.

Please address all conference inquiries to gls.2014@savba.sk. More information about the conference will be published in coming issues of the Newsletter, and on the Gypsy Lore Society web site, http://www.gypsyloresociety.org.

Conference Venue
Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences Comenius University
Mlynské luhy 4
821 05 Bratislava
The Slovak Republic
http://www.gypsyloresociety.org/annual-meeting