Junghaus Timea
Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
Berlin | Germany
Biography
Timea Junghaus is an art historian, a leader of the Roma cultural and political movement, and a contemporary art curator. She is the executive director of the Berlin-based European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture founded in September, 2017 by the Council of Europe, the Open Society Foundations and the Alliance for the European Roma Institute. She has researched and published extensively on the conjunctions of modern and contemporary art with critical theory, with particular reference to issues of cultural difference, colonialism, and minority representation. Junghaus was a scientific fellow of the Working Group for Critical Theories at the Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010-2017). In recognition of her curatorial activities Junghaus received the Kairos - European Cultural Price from the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., in 2008. Her curatorial works include the Roma component of the Hidden Holocaust- exhibition in the Budapest Kunsthalle (2004), Paradise Lost - the First Roma Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Contemporary Art Biennale (2007), the Archive and Scholarly Conference on Roma Hiphop (2010), The Romani Elders and the Public Intervention for the Unfinished Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Murdered Under the National Socialist Regime in the frame of the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012), the (Re-)Conceptualizing Roma Resistance – exhibition and education program in Hellerau, Dresden (2015) and the Goethe Institute, Prague (2016). She is the curator of the Visual Art Section for the RomArchive Initiative of the Kulturstiftung Des Bundes, (2016-2017). Junghaus was founding director of Gallery8 - Roma Contemporary Art Space (www.gallery8.org) in the middle of the "Roma district" of Budapest (2013-2017). Gallery8 was the winner of the 2014 Catalyst Contemporary Art Award (of Tranzit Hungary) and the 2014 Otto Pankok Prize awarded by the For Roma Foundation of German writer and Literary Nobel Laureate, Günter Grass.
Organisation
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
EU Institutions
Speaker session
Break-out session 2:
Environmental racism and climate justice
Environmental racism is a form of systemic, structural racism whereby racialised communities are disproportionately burdened with health hazards through policies and practices that force them to live in proximity to sources of toxic waste such as sewage works, mines, landfills, power stations, major roads and emitters of airborne particulate matter. As a result, these communities suffer greater rates of health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed these underlying inequalities and exclusion, and their potentially dire health consequences.
A recent report highlights the severe and systemic environmental racism which Roma communities across Europe face. Roma communities often live on polluted wastelands and lack running water or sanitation in their homes as a result of “environmental racism”, a report has concluded. At the same time, several other persons or communities who have sought refuge in EU countries because of climate change in their home countries in Africa or in the Middle East are now impacted by racism.
The aim of the break-out session is to examine, how the issue of environmental racism can be effectively addressed by means of the European Green Deal.
Moderator: Vera Winthagen, JRC 01, European Commission
Scene setting: Arnold Kreilhuber, Head of the International Environmental Law Unit in the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions of the United Nations Environment Programme
- Teresa Aristegui, DG ENER B1, European Commission
- Ufuk Kâhya, Member of the Committee of Regions, Alderman of Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
- Gabriela Hrabanova, ERGO Network
- Archana Ramanujam, ENAR
- Linda Greta Zsiga, Romani activist
- Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, World Health Organisation Advocate for Health and Air and Quality and co-founder of the Ella Roberta Family Foundation
Kahya Ufuk
Vice-mayor/Alderman
's-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
Biography
Organisation
Gemeente 's-Hertogenbsosch
Other
Speaker session
Break-out session 2:
Environmental racism and climate justice
Environmental racism is a form of systemic, structural racism whereby racialised communities are disproportionately burdened with health hazards through policies and practices that force them to live in proximity to sources of toxic waste such as sewage works, mines, landfills, power stations, major roads and emitters of airborne particulate matter. As a result, these communities suffer greater rates of health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed these underlying inequalities and exclusion, and their potentially dire health consequences.
A recent report highlights the severe and systemic environmental racism which Roma communities across Europe face. Roma communities often live on polluted wastelands and lack running water or sanitation in their homes as a result of “environmental racism”, a report has concluded. At the same time, several other persons or communities who have sought refuge in EU countries because of climate change in their home countries in Africa or in the Middle East are now impacted by racism.
The aim of the break-out session is to examine, how the issue of environmental racism can be effectively addressed by means of the European Green Deal.
Moderator: Vera Winthagen, JRC 01, European Commission
Scene setting: Arnold Kreilhuber, Head of the International Environmental Law Unit in the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions of the United Nations Environment Programme
- Teresa Aristegui, DG ENER B1, European Commission
- Ufuk Kâhya, Member of the Committee of Regions, Alderman of Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
- Gabriela Hrabanova, ERGO Network
- Archana Ramanujam, ENAR
- Linda Greta Zsiga, Romani activist
- Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, World Health Organisation Advocate for Health and Air and Quality and co-founder of the Ella Roberta Family Foundation
Kerameus Niki
Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
Greece
Biography
Organisation
Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece
Member State authority
Speaker session
Break-out session 2:
Environmental racism and climate justice
Environmental racism is a form of systemic, structural racism whereby racialised communities are disproportionately burdened with health hazards through policies and practices that force them to live in proximity to sources of toxic waste such as sewage works, mines, landfills, power stations, major roads and emitters of airborne particulate matter. As a result, these communities suffer greater rates of health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed these underlying inequalities and exclusion, and their potentially dire health consequences.
A recent report highlights the severe and systemic environmental racism which Roma communities across Europe face. Roma communities often live on polluted wastelands and lack running water or sanitation in their homes as a result of “environmental racism”, a report has concluded. At the same time, several other persons or communities who have sought refuge in EU countries because of climate change in their home countries in Africa or in the Middle East are now impacted by racism.
The aim of the break-out session is to examine, how the issue of environmental racism can be effectively addressed by means of the European Green Deal.
Moderator: Vera Winthagen, JRC 01, European Commission
Scene setting: Arnold Kreilhuber, Head of the International Environmental Law Unit in the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions of the United Nations Environment Programme
- Teresa Aristegui, DG ENER B1, European Commission
- Ufuk Kâhya, Member of the Committee of Regions, Alderman of Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
- Gabriela Hrabanova, ERGO Network
- Archana Ramanujam, ENAR
- Linda Greta Zsiga, Romani activist
- Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, World Health Organisation Advocate for Health and Air and Quality and co-founder of the Ella Roberta Family Foundation