"Races" and minorities in the Iberian empires
Coordinator
Stefania Pastore
"Races" and minorities in the Iberian empires
In ten two-hour seminars, the theme “Minority Cultures” will be explored in an interdisciplinary way, across different spaces and times, contexts and dynamics, sources and methodologies. This first cross-disciplinary seminar of the Faculty of Humanities will be held in English and is open to all students of both the Undergraduate and Ph.D. programs, as well as to students from the EELISA Alliance.
Upcoming events
November 19, 2025 - Aula Bianchi Lettere | Fabrizio Oppedisano
The Myth of Rome and Scientific Racism
November 27, 2025 - Aula Marie Curie | Mario Piazza
Epistemic injustice and minorities
December 2, 2025 - Sala Stemmi | Andrea Moro
The race and the tongue: neurobiological evidence for the equivalence among human grammars
December 12, 2025 - Aula Bianchi Lettere | Flavio Fergonzi
Giorgio Morandi and the "minority culture" in the XXth century Italy
February 17, 2026 - Sala Stemmi | Gianfranco Adornato
Decolonizing the Mediterranean: the Greeks and the others in Magna Graecia and Sicily
February 24, 2026 - Sala Stemmi | Massimo Fusillo
The fetish as a subculture: a minority within a minority
March 3, 2026 - Aula Bianchi Lettere | Consuelo Manetta
Invisible, Voiceless, Industrious: The Social Minorities of Ancient Thrace
March 12, 2026 - Aula Marie Curie | Andrea Torre
Mirrored perspectives in Italy's long postcolonial period
March 20, 2026 - Aula Bianchi Lettere | Corinne Bonnet
Cultural minorities in cult-places: bilingual dedications and self fashioning in the ancient Mediterranean
Image credits: A Jew and a Muslim play chess in 13th-century al-Andalus. The Book of Games, commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, 13th century. Madrid. (CC0 Wikipedia)