a video celebrating the event: The Right to Be (Seen): Afrodescendant Women Artists in Italy and Beyond National Borders, which spanned three days in October of 2024 and featured Afrodescendant directors and actresses, alongside students, scholars, activists and artists at Bucknell University and the Campus Theater in Lewisburg, PA.
Organized by Dr. Anna Paparcone, NEH Chair in the Humanities, 2022-2025 | Associate Professor of Italian Studies
Sponsored by the Bucknell University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, with special thanks to the Italian Consulate of Philadelphia, American Association Teachers of Italy, The Lewisburg CommUnity Zone, and thr many departments, councils, and organizations of Bucknell University.
videography by Wes Bernstein & Iaroslava Polusmak. edited by Wes Bernstein. photography by Jamie Lindsey, Jean Marie Ngabonziza, & Duc Thanh Nguyen