‘New Slavery,’ modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy – seminar with Irene Peano

We are very excited to welcome Irene Peano (University of Lisbon) to give a seminar on modern marronage in contemporary Italy. Irene holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2011). She held post-doc positions at the University of Bologna (under a Marie Curie Intra-European scholarship) and at the University of Bucharest. For over 15 years, she has been researching the labour exploitation of migrants, focusing on sex work and agricultural work, and both researching and participating in forms of resistance to migratory and labour regimes.

Some examples of her writings below:

Specters of Eurafrica in an Italian Agroindustrial Enclave – Architecture – e-flux

Irene Peano, “Within and Against Racial Segregation: Notes from Italy’s Encampment Archipelago” – Lateral (csalateral.org)

This seminar is organised by the Modern Marronage project, ‘The Pursuit and Practice of Freedom in the Modern World,’ and supported by MMB.