SYMPOSIUM & FORUM
Friday, October 25th
SYMPOSIUM at the Hildreth-Mirza Hall, Humanities Center
FORUM at the The Leanne Freas Trout Auditorium, Vaughan Literature Building
Participation in both the Symposium and the Forum is open to in-person and online attendees, including students, faculty, staff, and the Lewisburg community.
REGISTRATION is strongly recommended. You will receive an email after your registration with the Zoom link for the symposium and forum.
The artists will be available for individual or small group interviews during the symposium in the library of the Humanities Center. Their schedule is available here
Symposium Schedule
Hildreth-Mirza Hall, Humanities Center
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Anna Paparcone: Greetings; Karl Voss, Dean of Arts & Sciences: Introductory Remarks.
8:45-9:50 Session I + Q&A
Moderator: Cymone Fourshey (History Department and Griot Director, Bucknell University)
Loredana Di Martino (University of San Diego): Decolonizing Feminism in Italy
Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto): The Racialization of the Black Body in (post)Colonial Italy
Valentina Ippolito (Kingston University London): Animating Cultural Identity: Short Animated Films by Women Filmmakers
9:50-10:00 Coffee BREAK
10:00- 11:05 Session II + Q&A
Moderator: Katharine McCabe (Women and Gender Studies, Bucknell University)
Michela Ardizzoni (University of Colorado Boulder): Sonic Opacity: Vhelade’s AfroSarda and the Transnational Echoes of Black Italian Women Artists
Áine O’Healy (Loyola Marymount University): Diasporic memory and the visual archive in “Asmarina”
Cassie Osei (Bucknell University): Pornotroping Mother and Daughter? Technologies of the Black Maid & Mulatta in a Comparative Context
11:10- 12:10 SPECIAL SESSION + Q&A
Moderator: Anna Paparcone (Bucknell University)
Medhin Paolos (filmmaker, photographer, activist & scholar (Princeton University)
Marilena Umuhoza Delli (writer, photographer, filmmaker & activist)
12:10- 1:30 LUNCH
1:30- 2:30 Session III: Students’ Roundtable
Moderator: Martin Isleem (Arabic & Arab World Studies, Bucknell University)
Speakers:
Athaliah Elvis (English/Creative Writing and Political Science, class ’26)
Ella Grenci (Art History and Italian Studies. class 2025)
Izzy Lippolis (Film Studies and Arabic & Arab World Studies, class ’26)
Esther Zhao ( English/Creative Writing, class ’27)
2:45- 3:50 Session IV + Q&A
Moderator: Caitlyn Olson (Islamic Studies, Bucknell University)
Giovanna Faleschini-Lerner (Franklin & Marshall College): Afrodescendant Women Behind the Movie Camera in Italy
Lisa Dolasinski ( University of Georgia): Serie italiane, feminism, and (Muslim) women: The cases of “Imma Tataranni” and “SKAM Italia”
Khalil Saucier (Bucknell University): Inglorious Images: Sicily and Lampedusa in the Visual Language of Modern-day Abolitionism
3:55- 5:00 Session V + Q&A
Moderator: Camilla Hawthorne (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jessica Harris (St. John’s University): Black America and Italy: Representations of African American Female Entertainers in Italian Print and Visual Media, 1960s-1970s
Gloria Pastorino (Fairleigh Dickinson University): Hybrid Identity: Sabrynex/Sabrina Efionayi
Vetri Nathan (University of California, Los Angeles): “Edible Nation”: The Creative Nostalgia of Diasporic Somali Food Cultures
FORUM @ 5:30-7:00pm in the Trout Auditorium
Greetings: Anna Paparcone
Introductory Remarks: Angèle Kingue, Associate Provost, Associate Provost, Faculty Engagement & Inclusion.
Moderators: Jaye Austin Williams (Critical Black Studies, Bucknell University)
Anna Paparcone (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Bucknell University)
All the artists will be present. Scholars, faculty, students, staff and community are invited to join the forum in person or remotely.