Event Details
Mon, February 24, 2025
18:15 – 19:30
VILLA SASSETTI
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
A book presentation and conversation with author Emma Dabiri.
Moderated by Benedicta Djumpah, NYU Florence
Emma Dabiri, an Irish-Nigerian writer, delves into the intersection of the personal and political in her acclaimed book, Don’t Touch My Hair, now available in Italian, translated by Anna Dalton for the publishing house People. Her work has played a crucial role in enriching our understanding of race and our propensity to transcend it while addressing privilege, and identity within a European context and transnationally.
In collaboration with Black History Month Florence.
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Emma Dabiri
ACADEMIC, AUTHOR AND BROADCASTER
Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, author and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don’t Touch My Hair. In 2023 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and published the book Disobedient Bodies (2023) . She has presented several television and radio programs including BBC Radio 4’s critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, as well as BBC 2’s Back in Time for Brixton and the Cannes Silver Lion award-winning Hair Power for Channel 4. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account, Disobedient Bodies.