The Black Mediterranean

Monday, FEBRUARY 15, 2021 I 6:30pm CET I 12.30pm EST

Webinar

This panel will feature the launch of "The Black Mediterranean" a volume edited by a group of scholars who founded the The Black Mediterranean Collective. The volume seeks to rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean by foregrounding questions of race and Blackness. Inspired by Robert Farris Thompson (1984) and Paul Gilroy’s (1993) theorizations of the Black Atlantic, the Black Mediterranean captures the long history of racial subordination and resistance in the Mediterranean region, and points to overlooked histories of racial violence. The Black Mediterranean approaches the Mediterranean Sea as a space of multiple mobilities, traversed by various frontiers and border technologies, and spanning both colonial legacies and postcolonial conditions.

Ida Danewid, University of Sussex and Sarah Parker Remond Centre at UCL

Vivian Gerrand, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University and European University Institute

Giuseppe Grimaldi, Università Roma Tre and Frontiera Sud Aps

Camilla Hawthorne, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gabriele Proglio, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy

Timothy Raeymaekers, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Organized by

Angelica Pesarini, NYU Florence

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