Vortrag | WOC Research Centers Lecture Series #4 Digital Diaspora
This event explores how black humour functions as a powerful tool for resistance, pedagogy, and decolonial critique in contemporary Europe. Through stand-up performance, digital content, and scholarly analysis, both speakers investigate how racialized identities and social inequalities are negotiated and subverted through comedic expression.
Prof. Alfonso Bartolomé (Virginia State University) will present a lecture titled “Decolonial Perspective through Asaari Bibang’s Humor in the Digital World.” This talk examines the work of Spanish-Equatoguinean comedian Asaari Bibang, whose performances address topics such as racism, immigration, and stereotypes through a decolonial lens. Drawing on Horace’s dictum docere et delectare, Prof. Bartolomé explores how Bibang uses laughter as a means of protest and community-building, asserting Black identity and agency within digital and cultural spaces.
Prof. Margherita Dore (Sapienza University of Rome) will deliver a lecture titled “‘Tanto ‘nero’ in spagnolo si dice ‘negro’: Subverting Stereotypes and Racism through Stand-up Comedy.” Her talk investigates the work of Assiane Diop and Nathan Kiboba, two emerging stand-up comedians in Italy whose performances critically engage with racism, identity, and cultural stereotypes. By subverting audience expectations, these comedians open up space for reflection on systemic social inequalities and the transformative potential of humour.
Prof. Alfonso Bartolomé is an Assistant Professor at Virginia State University (2022), an HBCU institution. He received his master’s degree at the University of Kansas (2017) and obtained his PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2022). He has published several articles on different topics like Gender Studies, Migration Studies, Economy, and Race, in different academic journals. At present, he specializes in contemporary Spanish authors of the diaspora, and now, he is also investigating Spanish punk music, where he has been invited to collaborate with a chapter on a special volume about the Canary Islands.
Prof. Margherita Dore is Associate Professor at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. She is a member of the Executive Board of ESIST (European Association for Studies in Screen Translation) and editorial member of four scientific journals (Status Quaestionis, Rivista Italian di Studi sull’Umorismo, RISU, Studia Filologiczne UJK and Respectus Philologicus). She is the author of Humour in Audiovisual Translation. Theories and Applications (Routledge, 2020, tranlated into Chinese and published by WUP, 2023). Her main research interests are in Humour Studies and Audiovisual Translation. She (co)edited several essay collections and special issues on these topics. She also (co)authored more than 30 papers on literary translation, AVT and translated humour in a range of contexts, including stand-up comedy.
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