Description
Join Dr. Adrian Marsh, an academic of Romani-Traveller origins and an eminent researcher in Romani Studies, as he takes us on a journey exploring the history and influence of Romani and traveller literature and poetry.
This illuminating talk will chart the origins of Romani literature, from the evolution of oral storytelling and the poetry that flourished through cultural traditions through to the shift to the written word and the establishment of the International Romani Writers Association. It will explore Romani poetry and literature as identity and examine the Romani ‘voice’ in world literature and its influence.
With live poetry readings from Bradford residents with Romani-Traveller heritage, this compelling journey will shine a light on the rich cultural heritage of Romani-Traveller Literature and celebrate its role and reach.
This event is delivered in partnership with Connecting Roma CIC.
About the Speaker
Dr Adrian Marsh
Dr Adrian R. Marsh is of U.K. Romany-Traveller origins, a Researcher in Romani Studies and an expert consultant in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller early years education, working with communities and NGO’s (such as ERIAC, the RomArchive, and the Romani Cultural & Arts Co.) in the UK, Sweden, Turkey, Egypt, Azerbaijan, and across Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. He gained a PhD in Romani Studies from the University of Greenwich, London (2008) and he has taught Romani Studies at universities in London, Bangor, Newport, Malmö, Lund, Stockholm, Cairo, Istanbul, Diyarbakir, and Lyon (at the Romani Studies Summer University, 1st Iteration), and has held an Economic and Social Research Council fellowship as Researcher in Romani Studies at University of Greenwich, London (2007-2008). He has been a professor at Bilgi University Istanbul, a visiting professor at KTH Stockholm, and is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University. Global Childhoods Group.
He is currently living in Baku, Azerbaijan and Istanbul, Turkey where he leads the international Romani Studies Network (iRSN), an NGO he established there in 2002, at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, which he remains affiliated to.
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