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SUMMARY: Book Talk: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentenc
 es
DESCRIPTION: Join us for an engaging discussion with Margareta Matache\, fe
 aturing her recently published book The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism (Un)
 uttered Sentences. Matache situates anti-Roma racism within national and in
 tra-continental histories and global scholarship\, exploring its specific a
 nd universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness wi
 th other systems of oppression. The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism offers a
  theoretical perspective on the roots […]
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  entry bans across Europe in the late Middle Ages. Furthermore\, employing 
 theoretical frameworks of structural oppressions\, anti-colonial and decolo
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 (Magda) Matache</strong> is a Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at
  the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the co-founder and Direc
 tor of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Ha
 rvard University.  Matache’s research focuses on the manifestations and imp
 acts of racism and other systems of oppression in different geographical an
 d political contexts. Her research examines the structural and social deter
 minants of health and their nexus with historical contexts and contemporary
  public policies\, with a particular focus on anti-Roma racism.</p><p><stro
 ng>Beatrice Lindstrom</strong> (Respondent/Moderator) is Senior Clinical In
 structor and Lecturer on Law in the International Human Rights Clinic at Ha
 rvard Law School.  Since 2020\, she has led the clinic’s efforts to secure 
 justice and compensation for Romani communities poisoned by lead in UN-mana
 ged camps in Kosovo — a case that exemplifies how anti-Roma racism enables 
 rights violations and denial of justice. Together with Kosovo Roma activist
 s\, she has co-authored several publications and facilitated policy discuss
 ions on the issue. Her work in Kosovo builds her experience litigating and 
 advocating for accountability for gross human rights violations in Haiti\, 
 including UN peacekeepers’ 2010 introduction of cholera to the country.</p>
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 ><em>This event is organized by The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law Sch
 ool and co-sponsored by the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World\
 , Harvard Law School’s Advocates for Human Rights</em>\, <em>the Harvard Hu
 man Rights Journal\, and the Ethnicity\,</em> <em>Migration\, Rights: The C
 ommittee on Ethnicity\, Migration\, Rights\, Faculty of Arts & Sciences at 
 Harvard University.</em></p>
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