Dr. Malte Gasche received his PhD. in Scandinavian Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany). He is a researcher and project manager at the Centre for Nordic Societies at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He has managed several international summer schools on various topics (‘Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies’, Roma and Travellers: Mobility, Persecution and Memory; Museums and Memorial Sites: Displaying and Remembering Minorities’). Gasche is Finland’s representative in the committee ‘Genocides on the Roma’ within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). He developed and coordinated the pilot-project ‘Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus People in Europe under National Socialism’ (www.divergingfates.eu) and the project ‘Forgotten Cosmopolitans: Diverging Fates of Europe’s Circus People’ (www.forgottencosmopolitans.eu). Within the Bestrom-project Gasche will study ‘Romani groups in the public space of the circus: Exotic otherness as the narrow gateway into European Societies’.
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