From October 29 to November 2 our colleague Anabel Carballo from the Spanish team took part of the learning programme about the Roma genocide in Zagreb organised by the Sinti and Roma Documentation Centre in Heidelberg and TernYpe within the Dikh He Na Bister initiative. The learning programme included the visit to Jasenovac Memorial Site and the Roma cementery in Uštica.

BESTROM team is very happy to announce that our colleagues Eve Rosenhaft and Tamara West have been awarded a join grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. They will carry on an investigation into the “German Gypsy Invasion” for three years, in collaboration with Dr Felix Brahm (University of Bielefeld). We attach below a short description of the project and wish Eve and Tamara every success in this endeavor.

On 22/10/202, our colleague Ana G. Piotrowska took part in the conference 'Spaces of Diversity? Polish Music Festivals in Changing Society', organized within the framework of HERA by a team working on the project European Music Festivals, Public Spaces, and Cultural Diversity.

Congratulations to our partners from the Bremer Shakespeare Company/Aus den Akten auf die Bühne, BSC Director Peter Lüchinger and Dr Eva Schöck-Quinteros of the University of Bremen, on winning second prize in the competition for Das goldene Plietsch.