Roma Studies Forum on ’Roma Stories’ by Rade Uhlik

Organized by the SASA Board for the Study of Life and Customs of the Roma, a forum on Roma studies will be held at the SASA Hall 3, on Tuesday, 10 June, at 1 p.m. On this occasion, the editorial project of Hedina Tahirović Sijerčić will be presented — a four-volume collection of Roma folklore manuscripts by Rade Uhlik (1899–1991), published between 2020 and 2024.

A corpus of 547 Roma tales, recorded in various Romani dialects across the former Yugoslavia — primarily in the Western Gurbet dialect spoken by Bosnian Roma — is currently at the disposal of the global field of Roma studies, which has been published in a high-quality Bosnian translation by a team led by writer Ruždija Sejdović, and supported by the Open Society Foundation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.

The forum is concurrently an opportunity to sum up the past and encourage future work on the collection of oral Roma folklore in Serbia. After the introductory address by Academician Tibor Varadi, the forum will feature speeches by Hedina Tahirović Sijerčić, PhD, writer and translator Ruždija Sejdović, Professor Danijela Popović Nikolić, PhD, and Biljana Sikimić, PhD.