2024 Edition

In 2024, the programme of BHM at the EUI comprised scholarly events featuring international academics, activists, and cultural practitioners, alongside film screenings, blog post articles, and a poster exhibition made through a collaborative effort between researchers and the EUI Library. This edition has a notable emphasis on addressing the critical issues of the invisibilization of Black subjectivities, systemic and institutional racism, and the imperative for European scholarship to actively engage with non-white epistemologies. This year's programming specifically aimed to confront these concerns, fostering discussions, debates, and academic engagements centered around these themes.

Events 2024

FILM SCREENING

• Wednesday 14 February, Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 20:00, Rye Lane by Raine Allen-Miller (2023) - 82 minutes, English
• Wednesday 21 February, Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 19:00, Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako (2014) - 96 minutes, French with English subtitles
• Monday 26 February, Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana 18:00-20:00, Saint Omer by Alice Diop (2022) - 122 minutes, French with English subtitles

2023 Edition

In 2023, the celebration of BHM at the EUI continued to grow as a group of researchers and the EUI Library organized a series of activities across EUI departments and research centers. The rich programme included academic events with international scholars, artists and activists as well as several film screenings and debates.

Events 2023

EUI Cine-club

To celebrate Black History Month, the EUI Cineclub has organised special film screenings

• 2 February 2023 at 8pm (Emeroteca) Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story / Atlantique directed by Mati Diop (2019)
• 9 February 2023 at 8pm (Emeroteca) Baldwin’s Nigger directed by Horace Ové (1968) and Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris by Terence Dixon (1970). Short documentaries on rekown African American writer James Baldwin.

2022 Edition

In February 2022, EUI researchers collaborated with the EUI Library and other members of the EUI academic community to organize several initiatives, including interviews, book recommendations and blog posts. Moreover, while sanitary measures prevented to have external guests for in-person events at the EUI, two online events with international scholars were organized for the occasion.

 Events 2022

2021 Edition

In February 2021, members of the EUI participated to Black History Month Florence (BHMF) by organising two online events addressing the question of race in Italy through discussions on colonial past and memory, cultural heritage and the decolonisation of higher education.

• Roundtable: “Race in Italian Culture and Heritage” - Online
  22 February 2021 - 5:00-6:30 pm With Shelleen Greene (UCLA), Lucia Piccioni (EUI - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow), Angelica Pesarini (NYU-Florence).
  Organizers: Lucy Riall and Daphné Budasz (EUI)
  About: This event explores the portrayal of race in Italian culture across history, analyzing how non-White bodies have been depicted in cinema and anthropology. It addresses the changing paradigms of racist heritage and its political implications in Italy.
  
  
• Lecture “Decolonising The Metropolitan University” by professor Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)
  1 March 2021, 14.30 CET – Online Via Zoom Discussant: Gabriele Proglio (University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo)
  Organizers: Lucy Riall and Daphné Budasz (EUI)
  About: This event discusses the international movement for decolonizing universities, triggered by South African students in 2015. Priyamvada Gopal explores its implications for institutional change and addresses institutional racism and inequalities in higher education.