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Our Water Series events this week will explore themes such as colonialism, migration, and racism from a variety of perspectives, with a special focus on Italy and the Mediterranean. All of these are in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105), Bay 4, Smith Warehouse.

Monday, March 18, 11:30-1pm - The Challenge of Being an Afro-Italian Writer features author, academic, and activist Igiaba Scebo discussing Italy's relationship to Africa from her perspective as a Muslim woman raised in Italy, the child of Somali immigrants.

Wednesday, March 20, 11am - 3pm, with lunch - Mediterranean Mediations features two talks from Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti of the University of Naples Orientale, on disciplinary representations of the Mediterranean and diasporic female narratives. Kindly RSVP at mediterraneanmediations.eventbrite.com by 5pm, Monday, 3/18.

Thursday, March 21, 11am-12:30pm with lunch - Mediterranean Migrant Rescue, the third event in the Aquatic Meditations: Conversations on Water series, focuses on Social Movements Lab co-directors Michael Hardt and Sandra Mezzadra's ongoing migrant rescue ship project.

Explore more events on our website at fhi.duke.edu/events! All events are free and open to the public.

Announcing Digital Humanities Week, March 25-29! Visit our website at fhi.duke.edu/dhiweek2019 for a full listing of related events, including events on digital pedagogies, digital and hybrid publishing forms, the feminist genealogies of digital humanities, a VR demo, and more!

Our latest Water Series event, “Hydropolitics In Latin America,” featured @dukeuniversity Prof’s Diane Nelson & Christine Folch. Search DUKE FHI on YouTube to find our channel and watch!

A PACKED HOUSE at today’s special @duke.human.rights.center event, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline with Ryan Emanuel. #pipeline #humanrights #indigenousrights

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