Publication Series of the DFG Research Unit

The publication series “Antiziganism and Ambivalence in Europe” of the DFG Research Unit is published by EUF University Press in cooperation with wbg academic at Verlag Herder.

It presents key perspectives and findings of the DFG Research Unit and makes them visible and accessible to the academic public. Through interdisciplinary collaboration between literary, historical, art, and media studies, the series examines the interrelations between external ascriptions and self-representations of Sinti and Roma in Europe.

From a transnational and comparative perspective, the series analyzes antiziganism bodies of knowledge and cultural representations in academia, art, politics, and the public sphere, primarily focusing on the period between 1850 and 1950, while also extending beyond this timeframe into the present. Central themes include the ambivalent dynamics between fascination, emancipation, and elimination, as well as the entanglements of antiziganism with antisemitism and colonial racism. Particular attention is paid to the deconstruction of these systems of knowledge and to reconstructing the agency of Sinti and Roma through the inclusion of minority perspectives. At the same time, the series aims to serve as a forum for knowledge transfer between academia, minority communities, and the wider public. It documents a Europe-wide research network and investigates transfers and entanglements between different European regions, from Spain through Germany to Romania.

The series is planned to include four conference volumes, two synthesis volumes, as well as monographs and qualification theses emerging from the context of the Research Unit. While the primary purpose of the series is to publish the research conducted within the DFG Research Unit, it is also open to selected scholarly contributions related to the broader thematic field. The aim is to make the shared profile and central research questions of the Unit visible, to document interdisciplinary collaboration, to ensure academic quality, and to promote early-career researchers.

An academic advisory board is currently being established to support the international integration and quality assurance of the series.

Further information on the first conference volume, “Circulation of Knowledge and Aesthetics of the Spectacular,” will follow shortly.

Series Editors:

Prof. Dr. Iulia-Karin Patrut (Speaker of the Research Unit, Europa-Universität Flensburg)
Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen (Deputy Speaker of the Research Unit, Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Mercator Fellow of the Research Unit, Bielefeld University)
Mirjam Karoly (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
Dr. Dezso Mate (Assoc. Research Fellow, Europa-Universität Flensburg)