"From the Margins to the Centre of Holocaust Studies:
Commemoration and Reconciliation Politics of the Nazi Genocide of the Roma"
with Nadine Blumer

This presentation charts the biography of the Roma Holocaust Memorial, prior to and since inauguration. A brief introduction will provide a historical overview of the Nazi genocide of the Roma, and how Romani leaders mobilized in the postwar years to be recognized as a victim group of the Holocaust. Blumer will then discuss the role of the memorial in present-day Romani politics.

Nadine Blumer (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Toronto) is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University. She is affiliated with the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV) where she is conducting a study on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Canada’s newest cultural institution.