Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the symposium is March 18, 2022 and the second day is April 8, 2022.

Day 1 Schedule:

Welcome and Roundtable 1 Cultural, Legal, and Sociological Perspectives on Racial Justice in Italy and the Mediterranean, 9:45–11:30 a.m. (ET)

Keynote: Racial Justice and the Black Mediterranean, 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)

Speakers: Camilla Hawthorne and Angelica PesariniDiscussants: Simone Brioni and Teresa FioreStudent Reflection Session, 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)

Open to undergraduate and graduate students at any institution

Facilitators: Simone Brioni and Teresa FioreRoundtable 2: “Italian Others”: Histories of Racialized Migration and Diaspora between the Nineteenth Century and the Present, 2:45–4:15 p.m. (ET)

This symposium is organized through the Central New York Humanities Corridor (LLC35), with co-sponsorship from Montclair State University Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the AAIS Critical Race Studies Caucus, Cornell's Migrations initiative, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its Institute for European Studies, the Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the University of Rochester's Humanities Center, and the Department of Humanities in the Eastman School of Music.