Call for Papers

2015 Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Romani Studies

Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, 10-12th September 2015

The Gypsy Lore Society annual meeting and conference on Gypsy/Romani Studies for 2015 will be held from the 10th-12h of September at the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau. The meeting is being organized on behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society by the team of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (“Ethnology of Roma” Research Group) [http://patrimoniu.asm.md/] in cooperation with Public Association “Porojan” [www.porojan.md]. Contributions from various disciplines and perspectives on any aspect of Gypsy/Romani 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.

Requirements for proposals:

Open panel:
Please send your proposal for an open panel of no more than 500 words.
This can be published as a call for papers after approval; the deadline for receiving abstracts for the panel is March 15, 2015.

Pre-arranged panel:
Please send your proposal for a pre-arranged panel of no more than 250 words.
We also ask for an abstract of 250 words for each individual paper by a common deadline of March 15, 2015.

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 your paper is submitted to a panel, also the convenors of the particular panel will review the abstract. Deadline: March 15, 2015. You will be notified if your contribution has been accepted by April 06, 2015. Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2015. Each approved participant will be entitled to have only one presentation
You will be notified if your contribution has been accepted by April 6, 2015.

Please send your proposals of panels, contributions and posters in plain text format (no tables or charts) in the body of an e-mail message (not as an attachment) in English to the Program Chair, Dr. Ion DUMINICA, glsam2015moldova@gmail.com
Subject line 2015 GLS Annual Meeting and Conference
Submissions should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation (if relevant), address, daytime telephone, e-mail address and CV.
Please address all conference inquiries to glsam2015moldova@gmail.com or by telephone +37379537572.
More information about the conference will be published in coming issues of the Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, and on the Gypsy Lore Society web site, http://www.gypsyloresociety.org.

The Gypsy Lore Society, an International Association of persons interested in Romani Studies, was founded in Great Britain in 1888, so it is the oldest and most prominent academic organizations in the world. Since 1989 it has been headquartered in the United States. Its goals include promotion of the Romani studies; dissemination of accurate information aimed at increasing understanding of Romani life, history, language, cultures and contemporary situation in their diverse forms; and establishment of closer contacts among scholars active in Romani studies. The Annual Meetings of the Gypsy Lore Society are organized in collaboration with prominent scholars and academic establishments worldwide.

The Gypsy Lore Society has held annual conferences in some of the world's great cities: Leicester (United Kingdom,1991); Cambridge (USA, 1992); Washington D.C. (USA, 1993); Los Angeles (USA, 1994); Leiden (Netherlands, 1995), New York City (USA, 1996), Boston (USA, 1997), Arlington (USA, 1998), Florence (Italy, 1999), Washington D.C. (USA, 2000), New York City (USA, 2001); Budapest (Hungary, 2002); Ann Arbor (USA, 2003); Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom, 2004); Granada (Spain, 2005); Tucson (USA, 2006), Manchester (United Kingdom, 2007); Washington D.C. (USA, 2008), Helsinki (Finland, 2009); Lisbon (Portugal, 2010); Graz (Austria, 2011); Istanbul (Turkey, 2012); Glasgow (United Kingdom, 2013); Bratislava (Slovak Republic, 2014).