Narrative Performance: Gabriella Ghermandi, “Queen of Flowers and Pearls: Telling History Through Stories"
Followed by Q&A.
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Location
126 Memorial Library
Description
This narrative performance is based on Ghermandi’s novel Regina di Fiori e di perle (Donzelli, 2007) / Queen of Flowers and Pearls (Indiana UP, 2017). The novel rotates around the figure of Mahlet, a young Ethiopian girl with a gift for storytelling, who tells her stories of Ethiopians who fought in the resistance against the Italian occupation of Ethiopia during Italian Fascism. Mahlet will become the keeper and the teller of stories through time and space between Africa and Europe.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-265-8274 or email gmeneche@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.