CEIPES ETS organized the last national memory forum of the session envisaged in the project SOLREM – A Necessary Past: Remembering Solidarity and Resistance against Authoritarianism in Europe [Project Number 101091335] on the 22nd of May 2024, at the University of Palermo Campus, in Viale delle Scienze.
The last forum was dedicated to one the most resistant communities in the centuries, the Roma. The event was hosted at the University of Palermo, where two experts in the field made their speeches, respectively Professor Elisabetta di Giovanni, anthropologist, and Michele Mannoia, sociologist.
Thus, after the project coordinator presented to a class full of students the SOLREM project activities and results, Professor Mannoia made an interactive speech with the audience. Indeed, he published a book analyzing the stereotypes that characterized the minority of Roma people, who while being settled for a long time in European countries, Italy in particular, spoke a different language and still face many stereotypes, and inclusion issues.
Looking at these points and analyzing the motivations that make relations with this population objectively difficult, the professor explains it can be the starting point for overcoming situations of total social marginality and for devising institutional responses that are appropriate to the real needs of nomads.
In addition, Professor Elisabetta Di Giovanni, as an anthropologist, she also been researching in the field and made publications dealing with Roma identity and culture, such as Design, as a Resistance tool within the construction of the Roma identity and representation.
The event has been an opportunity to talk with students and University professor, to learn more about Roma people and cultural publications, such as the Italian song-writer Fabrizio De Andrè that within the album Anime Salve published the song “Khorakhanè (A Forza Di Essere Vento)”, that has also been listen and discuss during the forum.
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