Join us for an engaging session where Amir Issaa, a Black Italian rapper, activist, and educator, will discuss his music, career, and activist work.
Registration Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/cz3w4xr8
Contact information: Rachel Grasso, [email protected]
Experience BU Link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/323467
Join ITAL/CANA 2Q93 for
Critical approaches to Molisana Identities
When: March 3, 2026 at 4-5:30PM ET (Toronto), on Zoom
Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88593835182
Experience BU Link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/322945
Cassandra Marsillo (Molisana Italian-Canadian) is a public historian and artist based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal), telling and listening to stories about immigration, identity, collective memory, food, and folklore, particularly in relation to the Italian-Canadian experience and traditions from her family’s region, Molise. www.artistorian.com
In this talk, Cassandra will speak about the particularities of being Molisana, efforts to keep the community alive and thriving, the importance of intergenerational connections, and the work within the Italian-Canadian community towards anti-racism justice for all.
All welcome!
Join us on March 3, 2026 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm for an engaging session where Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, a Black Italian filmmaker, will discuss his work on Black Italia, such as Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema, Inside Buffalo, 18 Ius Soli, and We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe.
Join us on February 24 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm for an engaging session where Barbara Ofosu-Somuah, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University, will discuss her research on Black Italia.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/44p6bwyv
Brock News: Black Italian culture course explores concepts of identity
Experience BU link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/322958
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 — noon – 1p.m.
Race, Citizenship, and the Global Far-Right
Dr. Camilla Hawthorne (University of California)
Join us for an engaging session where Dr. Hawthorne, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will discuss her research on Black Italy.
Register with Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/44ywzmb7
Experience BU link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/318014
Black Italy: Shifts in Italian Culture
Guest Speaker: Dr. Angelica Pesarini
January 20, 2026, 1:00 pm on Zoom
Join us for an engaging session where Dr. Angelica Pesarini an Assistant Professor in Race and Cultural Studies/Race and Diaspora and Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, will discuss her research on Black Italia.
Experience BU Link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/317118
Italian Explorers and Missionaries in North America: First Contact and Cultural Narratives
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Paolo Frasca
January 20, 2026, 4:00 pm on Zoom
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81548415840
Dr. Paolo Frascà will join ITAL /CANA 2Q93 to discuss Italian involvement in the early colonization of Turtle Island, with particular attention to how colonial figures are narrated, glorified, and challenged.
Experience BU Link: (https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/317072)
Dr. David Yesaya is an Assistant Professor in the French section of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His interests include Francophone cultures and literatures, with a specific focus on migrant texts, and racial, postcolonial and decolonial issues. His latest book is entitled La réussite sociale du migrant postcolonial en France (2023). In his talk, Dr. Yesaya will discuss the decolonization of Western ideologies as a key concept to understand the world we live in. Focusing on his research interests in Francophone African writers, he will present their place and impact in the Western world.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
