Bucknell to Host Three-day Event Celebrating 'Afrodescendant Women Artists in Italy and Beyond National Borders'

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Bucknell University will host a three-day event celebrating Afrodescendant women artists from Italy and beyond Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 24-26. The Right to Be (Seen): Afrodescendant Women Artists in Italy and Beyond National Borders will feature directors, filmmakers, actresses, writers and scholars, including Daphne Di Cinto, who appeared in the acclaimed Netflix drama Bridgerton; and Ira Fronten, who starred in Ridley Scott's film House of Gucci. 

The event will explore race, gender and identity in cinema and art through film screenings, a symposium, a forum and a jazz/blues concert. Professor Anna Paparcone, Italian studies, National Endowment for the Humanities Chair in the Humanities (2022-2025), gathered the funding and led the massive organization effort to bring the first-of-its-kind event to Bucknell and Lewisburg with the assistance of Pamela Glass, academic assistant of the Department of Languages Cultures and Linguistics and the Program of Comparative and Digital Humanities. 

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