English BHMF VI Edition OSTINATO PROGRAM

Friday 12 February - 6:30pm
LA GEOPOLITICA DEI CORPI: "Underground Europe"- Lungo le rotte dei
migranti
Curated by Decolonising The Academy, Black Lives Matter Bologna and
BHMBo
Speakers_Federico Rahola (Author), Anthony Chima Okorokoo,
Antonella Bundu
Moderator_Decolonising The Academy
Is it possible to tell the current migrant routes inside, around and against
the European borders through the historical lens of the Underground
Railroad, the essentially black experience of escaping and subtracting
from the chains of slavery and the plantation regime of the Southern
United States before the Civil War? Perhaps so, provided you recognize
in two events temporally distant, and in many ways incomparable, a
common matrix: the tension towards a place perceived as free and the
creation of alternative routes and spaces, which in this book continue
to be referred to as "Europe". In an ethnographic journey
through a series of border situations, temporary places and spaces
reappropriated (Calais, Ventimiglia, Ceuta and Melilla, Athens, Paris,
Patras, Pozzallo) ends up running into as many stations of a hypothetical
and updated underground railway, Underground Europe, the only
possible escape from the claustrophobic and racialized geography of
Europe today.
This event will be held in Italian on social channels of Decolonising
The Academy:
https://www.facebook.com/decolonisingtheacademy