International Workshop: Gazes / Countergazes. Roma and Sinti in Photography
26 February 2026 / University of Vienna / Department of European Ethnology
The international workshop is taking place as part of the research project “Representing Roma and Sinti” at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna. It deals with central questions of historical and contemporary European culture: How are cultural, social and ethnic boundaries drawn and how are they visually represented? Who determines in images, texts and media discourses where and how the boundaries between the (claimed) “self” and the (imagined) “other” are drawn?
Teaser for the Workshop “Gazes / Countergazes”. Source: Collection Anton Holzer
The discussion will focus both on the structures of the hegemonic gaze regime, which has produced stereotypical and racist images, and on possible countergazes: subversive and resistant interventions in the act of image-making and viewing.
Participants:
Kateřina Čapková (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague / Prague Centre for Romani Histories)
Vida Bakondy (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Alexa Färber (Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna)
André Raatzsch (University of Marburg)
Anton Holzer (Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna)
Location:
Universität Wien / Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Hanuschgasse 3, Staircase 1, 1010 Vienna / Seminar Room 1
Registration, information:
Participation in the workshop (in German) is free of charge.
Please register with Dr Anton Holzer, Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna: anton.holzer@univie.ac.at
Gazes / Countergazes. Roma and Sinti in Photography, 26 February 2026
