Outsiders, Others, and Outcasts: Examining Antiziganism and Race-Making in Albania

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Chelsi West Ohueri
Date: 
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 14:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Zoom
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Zoom registration

In this talk Dr. West Ohueri explores the contours of antiziganism, conceptualized as racism and prejudice against Romani people groups, in Albania and the Balkan region. Part one of the presentation considers the theoretical framings of antiziganism and asks how analyses of antiblackness can allow scholars to think through contemporary manifestations of antiziganism in the Balkan region. Part two of the talk explores whiteness in relation to antiziganism and antiblackness. In doing so, Dr. West Ohueri draws attention to the ways that Albanians have been racialized and othered as outcasts and outsiders both within Europe and the Balkans, and ask how this broadly shapes our understandings of whiteness and regional racialization.

Zoom registration here: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91254449072

This event is part of the Area Studies Lecture Series presented by the 2018-2021 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipients for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies on behalf of Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
the Institute of Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
the Russian East European & Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University
the Center for Russian East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan
the Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University
the Center for Russia East Europe and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at The University of Chicago and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University
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