Research events
Spring School on Explainable AI: XAIDATA
from June 2, 2026 to June 3, 2026
Research events
Published on May 12, 2026– Updated on May 12, 2026
Overflowing the Black Mediterranean. Creations, cultures and identities across the Euro-African borders
Location: Campus EHESS - Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille.
Seminar coordinated by Sarah Fila-Bakabadio from AGORA research center.
Since the mid-2010s, a field of research has emerged around a new concept: the Black Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Sea is now seen as an area of racial violence, imposed by immigration restriction policies. We propose to understand it through the arts and culture by observing the trajectories of artists, amateurs, and intermediaries who, through their movements, practices, and imaginations, recount the history, societies, and specificity of this transmaritime matrix of memory and identity. Thus, when African writers reimagine the relationship between Europe and Africa from the perspective of counter-factual history, or when hip-hop artists translate the landscapes of Afropeanity into sound, they recount the history, societies, and specificity of this transmaritime matrix of memory and identity. They show how the Black Mediterranean is not just a space of South-North migration, but rather an area of dialogue. This meeting therefore aims to document the artistic circuits and individual or collective trajectories of artists, amateurs, and intermediaries who invent, imagine, or recompose the Black Mediterranean.
Since the mid-2010s, a field of research has emerged around a new concept: the Black Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Sea is now seen as an area of racial violence, imposed by immigration restriction policies. We propose to understand it through the arts and culture by observing the trajectories of artists, amateurs, and intermediaries who, through their movements, practices, and imaginations, recount the history, societies, and specificity of this transmaritime matrix of memory and identity. Thus, when African writers reimagine the relationship between Europe and Africa from the perspective of counter-factual history, or when hip-hop artists translate the landscapes of Afropeanity into sound, they recount the history, societies, and specificity of this transmaritime matrix of memory and identity. They show how the Black Mediterranean is not just a space of South-North migration, but rather an area of dialogue. This meeting therefore aims to document the artistic circuits and individual or collective trajectories of artists, amateurs, and intermediaries who invent, imagine, or recompose the Black Mediterranean.
