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LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY: A VISIT TO JASENOVAC

Author: Siena Fam

Upon arrival, I was surprised that there were almost no traces of the camp left, as though it had never existed. The atmosphere felt ambiguous, and the monument and museum were minimalistic. There were few signs marking the site. If you drove by...

JASENOVAC: ECHOES FROM THE PIT

Author: Lizi Bukhrashvili

These lines belong to Ivan Goran Kovačić. His poem - Jama - gives a vivid first-person testimony of a man that became a victim of war, was tortured and thrown into a mass grave. Kovačić, a Croatian writer who fought alongside the partisan...

ROMA ORIGINS IN CRIMEA

Author: Lizi Bukhrashvili

The exact time and the origins of the Roma that arrived to the Crimean peninsula and laid the foundations to the new sub-group are unknown. The high probability that the different Roma groups migrated to this territory from different places and at...

OLDER ROMA AND THE FIGHT FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION

Author: Siena Fam

MYTHS ABOUT AGING AND TECHNOLOGY It is common to hear that older people struggle with technology because of age. While it is true that some cognitive and physical changes can come with aging, these differences vary greatly from person to person....

WE WERE THE SCENERY - WHEN HISTORY TURNS PEOPLE INTO BACKGROUND

Author: Siena Fam

It tells the story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, a Vietnamese couple who fled the country after the war in 1975. A year after arriving in a refugee camp in the Philippines, they were hired as extras for the filming of Apocalypse Now. Many years...

CALÓ IN SPAIN: THE ROMANI LANGUAGE LEFT BEHIND

Author: Eva Ibanez

Language has always been one of the first targets of oppression for the Roma people, whose history in Europe is marked by exclusion, poverty, and systemic racism. Words, after all, are not just a way of communicating but a means of preserving culture...

BREAKING BARRIERS: THE STRUGGLE OF ROMA STUDENTS IN ACCESSING HIGHER EDUCATION

Author: Eva Ibanez

Whenever discussions about Roma people surface in public debate, stereotypes quickly take over: “they don’t want to study,” “they drop out by choice,” or “education isn’t part of their culture.” These lazy narratives ignore a basic...

DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REINFORCE STEREOTYPES AGAINST THE ROMA COMMUNITY?

Author: Eva Ibanez

We often hear that artificial intelligence is neutral: that it reflects us, but doesn’t judge. So I put that idea to the test, asking an AI the kind of questions people don’t say out loud... but often believe, specially when it comes to...

THE PORAJMOS: THE FORGOTTEN AND UNSPOKEN GENOCIDE

Author: Eva Ibanez

The Jasenovac concentration camp is a place marked by absence: absence of humanity, of justice, and in some ways, of memory. What is most striking about Jasenovac today is the profound silence that surrounds it — not only the physical quiet of the...

AI AND ANTI-ROMA HATE SPEECH IN BULGARIAN

Author: Olesya Yaneva

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened new opportunities to explore how technology understands and engages with sensitive social issues. One such area is the treatment of ethnic minorities, and in this case, the Roma community in...