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Documentary Screening of “We Were Here” (2024)

Fred Kuwornu, director

Wed, 3/19 · 5:00 pm7:30 pm · Rocky-Mathey Theater

Department of French and Italian

Screening of the documentary We Were Here (2024), the untold history of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, directed by Fred Kuwornu.

How did they come to Europe? Why were they portrayed? Were they truly all servants and slaves? If the Black presence portrayed in these Renaissance masterpieces could speak, what would they tell us?

(2024, Documentary 60minutes, In Italian with English subtitles)

Followed by a Q&A with the director.

Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, the Humanities Council and the Program in Italian Studies

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