Le 'morette', dalla schiavitù al chiostro: traiettorie di vita di afro-italiane del XIX secolo

Il 16-17 novembre, a Roma, Giacomo Ghedini parteciperà al V Convegno della Fondazione Ernesta Besso sul tema "Schiavitù tra vecchio e nuovo mondo: un confronto". Parlerà all'interno del panel su "La schiavitù femminile tra Africa, Europa e Americhe", con un intervento dal titolo "Le 'morette', dalla schiavitù al chiostro: traiettorie di vita di afro-italiane del XIX secolo".,

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Un’abolizione incompiuta? Gli italiani e la tratta clandestina nell’Atlantico ottocentesco

Martedì 3 novembre Matilde Flamigni terrà una lezione all'Università dell'Insubria nell'ambito del corso di Global History per illustrare i risultati delle sue ricerche sui rapporti tra gli Stati italiani preunitari e il mondo atlantico della schiavitù nell'Ottocento, nei decenni in cui la tratta transatlantica, formalmente proibita, continuava attraverso circuiti clandestini. Martedì 3 novembre 2026, ore 11:00-13:00 aula 10 TM (Pad. Morselli),

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Così Vicini Così Lontani Italia, Mediterraneo a Africa, fra XVI e XX secolo

Federica Morelli interviene al Congresso internazionale Così Vicini Così Lontani Italia, Mediterraneo a Africa, fra XVI e XX secolo, che si tiene a Roma dal 19 al 21 ottobre. Il titolo della relazione è: "Tra Mediterraneo, Africa occidentale e Brasile: la tratta illegale degli schiavi del Regno di Sardegna (1830-1860)".,

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Lo storico degli schiavi diventati missionari

Intervista al ricercatore Giacomo Ghedini di Stefano Lorenzetto pubblicata su "L'Arena" di Verona., 4 ottobre 2026

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Migrazioni e lavoro nella storia globale: un corso di formazione per docenti promosso da Università dell’Insubria e Fondazione ISEC | Università degli studi dell'Insubria

La Fondazione ISEC di Milano, in collaborazione con l’Università dell’Insubria, organizza il corso di formazione «L’Italia delle migrazioni nelle dinamiche globali. Tra lavoro libero e lavoro forzato dall’età moderna al presente», rivolto ai docenti delle scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado. Ad aprire il percorso, giovedì 12 novembre dalle 16.30 alle 18, sarà Federica Morelli, di FBK-ISIG, con una lezione dedicata a «Libertà e coercizione nella storia del lavoro». Lunedì 16 novembre, sempre dalle 16.30 alle 18, Catia Brilli, dell’Università dell’Insubria e di FBK-ISIG, affronterà il tema «Lavoro libero e schiavitù nella storia delle diaspore italiane di età moderna».,

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Tre recensioni BlackItaly nel nuovo numero di ARO

The new issue of ARO – Annali.Recensioni.Online, the journal of the Italian-German Historical Institute of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-ISIG) devoted to the critical discussion of the most recent historiographical output, is now online. Issue IX, 2026/2, brings together reviews covering a wide range of themes and periods of European and global history. Among the contributions in this issue are three reviews written by researchers of the BlackItaly project. Irene Fattacciu reviews Atlantic Italies. Economic Entanglements Between the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean (15th–19th Centuries), Matilde Flamigni reviews The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, while Giacomo Ghedini discusses Chiesa e Stato in Brasile. Religione, politica e società nella Repubblica (1889–1945). Three volumes that, from different perspectives and periods, intersect with some of the themes at the heart of BlackItaly’s research: the connections between Europe, Africa and the Americas, slavery and the slave trade, global networks, and the history of institutions and societies in the age of abolition. The three reviews are available online in open access on the ARO website.,

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L’Italia e la tratta atlantica degli schiavi: una storia dimenticata, XV-XIX secolo

On Monday 5 October 2026 Federica Morelli gave the talk L’Italia e la tratta atlantica degli schiavi: una storia dimenticata, XV-XIX secolo as part of the course in History and Institutions of Africa of the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento.,

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The History of Mobility in the Atlantic and the Pacific: People, Goods, Ships, Ideas, and Routes between the Continents and Islands La historia de la movilidad en el Atlántico y el Pacífico: Personas, mercancías, barcos, ideas y rutas entre los continentes e islas

15th International ADHILAC Meeting Talks by Matilde Flamigni and Federica Morelli, “Una ruta olvidada: Los navíos sardos y la trata ilegal de los esclavos (1834–1857)” Irene Fattacciu, “Rutas invisibles. Redes italianas, bienes coloniales y economía esclavista atlántica en el siglo XVIII”,

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Claudio Fogu e Federica Morelli hanno organizzato tre panel dal titolo Mediterranean Blue(s), Black and White, or Multicolor? all'interno della conferenza dell'AAIS (American Association for the Italian Studies) (Sassari, 3-5 giugno 2026).

Mediterranean Blue(s), Black and White, or Multicolor? Organizers: Claudio Fogu (UCSB), Federica Morelli (FBK-ISIG) Description: In recent years, several theoretical paradigms have been mobilized to contextualize Italian history, arts, and culture within a Mediterranean framework of reference. The Black Mediterranean, post-and decolonial theory, metageography. Southern Thought, island studies, ocean studies, and environmental humanities are among the most prominent. Yet, despite their common geographical referent the "Mediterranean", however conceived, researchers have struggled to put their different theoretical orientations in dialogue with each other. This panel aims to start the conversation by calling on scholars exploring the relationship between Italy and the Mediterranean to present specific applications of different theoretical paradigms to their research. Speakers: Benedetta Chizzolini (Tel Aviv University,) “Mediterranean Blackness: Sub-Saharan Africans and Baptismal Records in Naples (16th-17th centuries)” Stephanie Malia Hom (University of California Santa Barbara), “Geographies of Power in a Transnational Mediterranean: Slavery, Colonialism, Italy” Erica Moretti (Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY), “Intimate Politics: Families, Mobility, and the Afterlife of Empire in the Mediterranean” Valerie McGuire, (University of Texas, Austin), “Italians in the Maghrebi Archipelago: Between Isolation and Integration in French North Africa” Federica Morelli (Bruno Kessler Foundation (ISIG-FBK)), “The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Different Perspective on the Black Mediterranean” Stefano Muneroni (Università of Alberta, Canada), “Beyond and Beneath the Surface: A Volumetric Approach to Mediterranean Migration” Lorenzo Fabbri (University of Minnesota), “The White Mediterranean: Power, Race, and Melodrama in the Mare Nostrum” Laura Sarnelli (UCSB), “Sexing the Mediterranean: Views from Naples” Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago), “Geopoetics of the Mediterranean: Emilio Villa’s Idrologie and the Rejection of ‘Europe’”,

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Abolizionismo africano: nascita e trasformazioni dell’antischiavismo in Africa

Seminar by Benedetta Rossi as part of the FBK-ISIG series Storie in costruzione. By reconstructing the struggles and biographies of African people who fought against slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries, the lecture offers a new perspective on abolitionism in Africa. Most research, in fact, has so far focused on colonial anti-slavery legislation and on the abolitionist actions of Europeans, while little has been written about the local trajectories of abolitionist ideas and strategies in Africa. The lecture aims to fill this gap, highlighting how African ruling classes, intellectuals, ordinary people, enslaved people and the descendants of the enslaved challenged the legitimacy of slavery within their own societies.,

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Il ruolo della penisola italiana nella tratta e nella schiavitù atlantica

On 21 May 2026 members of the BlackItaly project will take part in the Orizzonti Latinoamericani conference in Turin with two panels devoted to slavery, Atlantic networks and the connections between Italy, the Americas and Africa between the early modern period and the 19th century. Il ruolo della penisola italiana nella tratta e nella schiavitù atlantica This panel highlights how the Italian peninsula was a central actor in the Atlantic slave system over the long term, showing how many Italian merchants, sailors, exiles and missionaries found in slavery and the slave trade a channel of access to broad and diversified intra- and inter-American commercial networks.,

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Connectors From the Italian Peninsula and the Evolution of Global Human Trafficking

On 22 April 2026 Catia Brilli will give a seminar entitled "Connectors From the Italian Peninsula and the Evolution of Global Human Trafficking" at the Department of History of the University of Macau,

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Blackness and Islam among enslaved North Africans in 18th-century Mediterranean Europe. Seminar by M’hamed Oualdi

FBK-ISIG Tavola Ovale di Storia moderna Slavery in the Mediterranean, from ancient times through the abolition era, is often thought to have been mostly unaffected by racial issues. It is usually considered to have been, above all, shaped by religious divides: men and women were enslaved according to their religious affiliation. But at the same time, in this type of slavery, dark-skinned enslaved men and women were often in the most subordinate positions compared to other dominated groups. Can historical studies on race help to shed light on this Mediterranean slavery, or conversely, can the Mediterranean case provide a different understanding of racialization processes during the early modern period?,

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Da schiava a venerabile: la storia di suor Maria Giuseppina Benvenuti (Zeinab Alif)

On 20 and 21 March 2026 Giacomo Ghedini will take part in the conference Da schiava a venerabile: la storia di suor Maria Giuseppina Benvenuti (Zeinab Alif), held in Serra de' Conti (Ancona), with the talk "Il viaggio di Zeinab Alif Maria Giuseppina Benvenuti, la schiava divenuta badessa: biografia e contesto storico agbiografia e contesto storico".,

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Commerce and Merchants in the Age of the Atlantic

On 6 and 7 March 2026 Catia Brilli will take part in the scholarly meeting Commerce and Merchants in the Age of the Atlantic, organised by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture at William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA).,

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Italian Traders and the Shaping of Euro-Atlantic Connections in the 18th Century

On 14 January 2026, Catia Brilli will give a seminar entitled “Italian Traders and the Shaping of Euro-Atlantic Connections in the 18th Century” as part of the course GSP B 3.2 "Akteure der frühen Globalisierung,1480-1815" (Protagonists of Early Globalisation, 1480–1815), at the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History of Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz.,

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Islands and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories. From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th-21st Centuries)

On 15 and 16 December Federica Morelli and Matilde Flamigni are taking part in the international conference Islands and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories. From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th-21st Centuries) at the Maison Française d’Oxford.,

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45e colloque du Centre de Recherche et d’Échanges sur la Diffusion et l’Inculturation du Christianisme (CREDIC)

On Thursday 27 November 2025, on the occasion of the 45th colloquium of the Centre de Recherche et d’Échanges sur la Diffusion et l’Inculturation du Christianisme (CREDIC), in association with the Theologicum-Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), Giacomo Ghedini will give a talk entitled: "Présences religieuses africaines en Europe avant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle : histoires oubliées et héritages contemporains".,

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Così lontani così vicini: Italia, Mediterraneo e Africa

On Wednesday 26 November 2025, on the occasion of the training day "L'Africa Coloniale", as part of the series of events "Così lontani così vicini: Italia, Mediterraneo e Africa" in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and VIVE, at the Colosseum Archaeological Park in Rome, Giacomo Ghedini will give a public engagement talk entitled: "Schiavitù, riscatti e missioni tra Africa ed Europa (1824-1947)".,

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BlackItaly. La penisola italiana e la schiavitù atlantica: una storia dimenticata

On Monday 24 November Federica Morelli will give a lecture at the University of Insubria to present the BlackItaly project to students of the bachelor's courses in Early Modern Global History and Contemporary History.,

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Terza edizione del festival Pauca et Rationabilia presso l'Abbazia di Subiaco

On Sunday 16 November 2025, on the occasion of the third edition of the Pauca et Rationabilia festival at Subiaco Abbey, as part of the series of events for Subiaco Italian Capital of the Book 2025, during the workshop "La voce del tempo 2", Giacomo Ghedini will give a public engagement talk entitled: “Un drappello di giovinetti dal volto nerissimo, che mal si distingue dalla tintura delle sante lane”: S. Scolastica intorno al 1850, un'abbazia globale.,

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IV edizione del Forum Cultura Milano, organizzato dall’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Milano presso il CASVA - Centro di Alti Studi sulle Arti Visive

Participation of Catia Brilli in the round-table discussion "Insegnare la Storia globale: i musei come detentori di testimonianze materiali di una storia non eurocentrica",

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Historia global, historia total, historia integrada: Diálogos sobre la dominación en América

Paper by Catia Brilli on Economía global y articulación territorial en la monarquía policéntrica: el papel de los intermediarios,

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Les violences sexuelles commises par des clercs. Sources et nouveaux chantiers en Europe et dans les empires coloniaux (XVI-XIX siécles)

Talk by Giacomo Ghedini on "Cas d'enfants africains victimes ou témoins de violences sexuelles commises par des clercs européens (XIX siécle, Sénégal, Soudan - Italie, France)",

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CENTENARIO DELLA "MORETTA" SUOR MARIA GIUSEPPINA BENVENUTI

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L’Italia e la schiavitù atlantica: una storia rimossait

Federica Morelli anticipa le linee di ricerca di BlackItaly, 17/06/2025

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