THE BLACK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BLUE
The Anniversary Issue

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Download here Muse Project TRANSITION ISSUE 132

Guest edited by Nobel laureate and longtime chairman of the magazine’s editorial board, Wole Soyinka, alongside Black Mediterranean scholar, Alessandra Di Maio, T132 examines the Mediterranean as a crossroads for migrants, both past and present, willing and unwilling—with careful attention to the human rights abuses that have arisen in the past decade and the cultural miscegenation (sometimes referred to as metissage) that has shaped the region for thousands of years.

In addition to the poetry of Warsan Shire and ground-breaking historical fiction by Cristina Ubah Ali Farah, “The Black in the Mediterranean Blue” presents an anthology of canonical work that has come to define the Black Mediterranean, including excerpts from Ella Shohat’s essay on black and white cultural claims to Cleopatra and Pap Khouma’s memoir I Was an Elephant Salesman. With sections on the arts, history, and activism, and one entitled “Crossings”—which includes tales of a Cuban slave rescued by English abolitionists and a desert explorer’s drive across the Sahara in the sixties, as well as current quixotic crossings of that desert—any reader can experience the long reach of the Mediterranean—which extends not only across the Sahara, but as far as the heart of ancient Nubia and across the Atlantic to Brazil.
Don’t miss theorist Paul Gilroy’s contextualization of the migration crisis amidst the climate catastrophe or Iain Chambers’s essay on the Mediterranean blues. T132 builds on the legacy of ReSignifications, by including much of the artwork featured at that historic conference with notable additions, such as Fabrice Monteiro’s photographs of eerie black goddesses--avatars of the most polluted places in Africa--and stills from Maria Magda Campos-Pons illegal performance at the Venice Biennale. At nearly four hundred and fifty pages, several dedicated to the history of the magazine, this issue is sure to prove a collector’s item.
The photographer Mario Badagliacca takes us inside the Identification and Expulsion Centers for migrants in Italy and the violations of human rights with the photo essay of Letters from the CIE.

Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Now, in an age that demands ceaseless improvisation, we aim to be both an anchor of deep reflection on black life and a map charting new routes through the globalized world. Transition is a publication of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, published three times annually by Indiana University Press. On Twitter at @Transition_Mag

Surviving Society Podcast host a discussion between the photographer Mario Badagliacca with Antonia Lucia Dawes, Anglo-Neapolitan writer and academic about whiteness, the Mediterranean and race from the edge of Europe. For their Spotlight Series.

Listen the Spotlight Series podcast: S3/E5 Whiteness, the Mediterranean & race at the edge of Europe

On May 2-4, 2019 Bard College Berlin and the University of Potsdam invite you to the joint symposium “Shifting Frames: Migrant Children, Politics and History”, and the exhibit 'Fragments' by Mario Badagliacca.

This symposium will critically explore policies and cultural representations of child migrants--specifically but not only those labeled as "child refugees"--in the UK and its former colonies the USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, with comparison to our location of Germany. It aims to think towards frames beyond humanitarianism for understanding and discussing child migration and seeks ways of connecting scholarly research with activism.

On May 2 at 18:00, Professor Jacqueline Bhabha from Harvard University will deliver the keynote lecture "The Human Rights of Child Migrants: An Unfinished Agenda." This public event will take place at the University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais, House 8, Rm 0.64, and will be followed by reception.

May 3-4 will see presentations from scholars in addition to short film screenings and photography viewings, as well as a walking tour.

This event is organized by Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom, Bard College Berlin; Dr. Sunčica Klaas, University of Potsdam, and Dr. Carly McLaughlin, University of Potsdam.

This major funders of this event are the Thyssen Foundation, the Universitätsgesellschaft Potsdam e.V. and the University of Potsdam, with additional support from Bard College Berlin and AlNatura.

Date & time: May 2-4, 2019
Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais

Location: University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais

Mediterranea Saving Humans - La via di terra a Palermo, Teatro Politeama 28 October 2018, 11.00 a.m.
With the participation of: Roberto Alajmo, Vanessa Ambrosecchio, Mario Badagliacca, Letizia Battaglia, Francesco Bellina, Gabriele Bevilacqua, Paola Caridi, Marco Da Milano, Emma Dante, Mariangela Di Gangi, Serena Ganci, Carmelo Graceffa, Itastra, Yossif Latif Jarallah, Simona Mafai, Alessio Mamo, Giuseppe Marsala, Fausto Melluso, Giuseppe Piazzese, Giuseppe Milici, Beatrice Monroy, Paola Nicita, Caterina Pasqualino, Santo Piazzese, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Costanza Quatriglio, Isabella Ragonese, Valerio Rizzo, Evelina Santangelo, Alessandra Sciurba, Antonio Sellerio, Olivia Sellerio Quartet, Shobha, Daniele Vicari.
Mediterranea Saving Humans Project
Mediterranea is a platform of different initiatives of civil society coming to the central Mediterranean after the NGOs have been forced to leave in consequence of being criminalized by political rhetoric, even though no inquiry has ever come to any conviction.
Mediterranea bears great resemblance with the NGOs operating in the Mediterranean sea during the last years, observing, documenting and informing the public of what is happening in those waters, not being carried out by anyone nowadays. At the same time, Mediterranea is different: a non-governmental project by the joint work of heterogeneous organizations and individuals, open to all voices from different perspectives, secular and religious, social and cultural, union and political, that feel the urge to share the goals of this project, which aims at giving hope, rebuilding humanity, and defending law and rights.
The action of Mediterranea is moral disobedience and civil obedience. Disobedience to the nationalist and xenophobic public discourse and to the interdiction of witnessing what is happening in the Mediterranean; but obeying to the constitutional and international law, the law on the seas and general human rights, including the obligation of saving those who are in danger and bringing them to a safe harbor.
Facebook Livestream Event
Mediterranea Saving Humans crowdfunding and donations

Exhibition of Letters from the CIE
CRIMINARE conference Università degli Studi di Milano
November 21 - 30, 2016

A project of:
Centro di Ricerca Coordinato (CRC) UNIMI Criminal hero.
Academic network:
Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication – ITA), Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU – UK), University College Cork (UCC – IRL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU – FR), Centre Aixois d’Études Romanes (CAER/AMU – FR), Centre interdisciplinaires d’études des littératures D’Aix-Marseille (CIELAM/AMU – FR), Altre Modernità. Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali (AMONLINE/UNIMI – ITA)

Guest Speakers:
Mario Badagliacca (Photographer), Paolo Barcella (UNIBG), Luigi Bruti Liberati (UNIMI), Stefania Carini (UNICATT, Corriere della Sera), Francesco Cattani (UNIBO), Maria Cristina Cavecchi (UNIMI), Gigi Cavenago (comics artist), Luca Ciabarri (UNIMI), Claudia Clementi (Ministero della Giustizia), Lidia De Michelis (UNIMI), Alessandra Di Maio (UNIPA), Andrea Fornasiero (RAI), Valeria Gennero UNIBG), Pavel Hak (novelist), Paolo Inghilleri (UNIMI), Lorenzo Mari (UNIBO), Luigi Mignacco (comics writer), Marco Modenesi (UNIMI), Emilia Perassi (UNIMI), Barbara Pinelli (UNIMIB), Gianluigi Rossini (UNIVAQ), Igiaba Scego (novelist), Giovanni Turchetta (UNIMI), Federica Zullo (UNIFE)
Organization at UNIMI & Altre Modernità:
Paolo Caponi, Daniele Croci, Serena Guarracino, Emanuele Monegato, Anna Pasolini, Cinzia Scarpino, Nicoletta Vallorani.

Università degli Studi di Milano
1° floor, Polo di Mediazione e Comunicazione,
UNIMI P.zza Indro Montanelli, 1




CRIMINAL HERO Project's website

Università degli studi di Milano
giovedì 5 maggio 2016

Seminario Escapes – Fotografia, racconto, potere: le immagini delle migrazioni, la conoscenza delle migrazioni.
Il giorno 5 Maggio dalle 10,30 si terrà la giornata di studi e discussione sulla relazione tra le forme di rappresentazione e le forme di conoscenza delle migrazioni.
Alle ore 16,30 si terrà l’inaugurazione della mostra fotografica “Dopo l’approdo. Un racconto per immagini e parole sui richiedenti asilo in Italia”, un progetto realizzato da Barbara Pinelli e Luca Ciabarri in collaborazione con i fotografi Giovanni Diffidenti, Alessio Genovese ed Alessandro Sala.

Programma della giornata

Aula Crociera Alta di Lettere

h. 10,30 – 12,30
Luca Ciabarri (Antropologo): Introduzione ai lavori
Barbara Pinelli (Antropologa): Dopo l’approdo. Un racconto per immagini e parole sui
richiedenti asilo in Italia
Nicoletta Vallorani (Letteratura inglese): Testimoni per procura. L’Occidente nei panni dell’Altro
Cristina Casero (Storia della fotografia): Il racconto fotografico: luci e ombre della narrazione per immagini

h. 14,00 – 16, 00
Mario Badagliacca (Fotografo): Fotografia e migrazioni. Uno sguardo sugli aspetti culturali delle migrazioni
Cinzia Scarpino (Letteratura angloamericana): Fotografia sociale e libri-documentario nella Grande Depressione
Ivan Bargna (Antropologo): Dalla rappresentazione del bisogno all’espressione del desiderio: un’esperienza con artisti, antropologi e persone senza fissa dimora

Corridoio dell’Aula Magna

h. 16,30
Inaugurazione della mostra fotografica
Dopo l’approdo. Un racconto per immagini e parole sui richiedenti asilo in Italia
La mostra è in esposizione dal 2 al 13 Maggio

Università degli studi di Milano, Aula Crociera Alta di Lettere
via festa del perdono, 7 Milano

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Fotografia_5_maggio.pdf (2.2 MB)

HONORABLE MENTION IN THE MONOCHROME AWARDS 2015 COMPETITION PHOTOJOURNALISM CATEGORY

London, UK (28 February 2015) – Photographer Mr Mario Badagliacca of Italy was Awarded Honorable Mention in Photojournalism for the winning entry Letters from the CIE at prestigious Monochrome Awards honouring Black & White Photography.
The 2015 Monochrome Awards received nearly 7000 submissions from 86 countries around the world. Winning images were selected by panel of international judges, including: Ted Preuss, David Fokos, Roman Loranc, David Johndrow, Stefano Brunesci, Tomasz Lazar, Dominique Bollinger, Andre Brito, Giacomo Brunelli and Martin Stavars.

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Exhibition of Letters from the CIE at the San Diego State University
November 2015 - May 2016

The main event of the year is a Photographic Exhibition by award-winning Italian photographer Mario Badagliacca entitled “Letters from the CIE” featuring a series of 31 pictures of migrants of different backgrounds detained in Centers for Identification and Expulsion in Italy.

During the course of the exhibition, students in various courses will be asked to pay close attention to the pictures, to select specific ones for analysis and to experiment with similar rhetorical strategies used by the photographer to convey his message.
In November the photographer will take part to a lecture and meeting with students.

San Diego State University
AD building’s Atrium
Alcala Park
San Diego, Ca, USA.



For more info about the "Common Experience SDSU" initiative visit here
For more details about the event visit here

'Letters from CIE' has been awarded with a honorable mention at the MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards 2015.

Letters from CIE is part of a bigger visual project about the Identification and Expulsion Centers (CIEs) in Italy. Italy, and other European countries, are at the center of serious violations of human rights with the detention and forced deportation of thousands of migrants.These are not regular prisons and detainees are not regular prisoners. Although foreign nationals are detained within CIEs under the status of “guests,” their stay in these poorly built structures corresponds to a de facto detention, as they are deprived of their freedom and subjected to a regime of abuse and coercion.

MIFA Awards web page

Workshop - Campi: che fine? Teorie e prassi di governance

ore 17.15 Mario Badagliacca - Fotografare i luoghi di internamento. Uno sguardo dentro i CIE Italiani
(Audience Engagement Grant 2014 - Documentary Photography Project)

Lunedì, 11 maggio 2015

Dipartimento di Scienze politiche e sociali Università agli studi di Firenze
via delle Pandette, 21 - Firenze

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