Johny Pits: Afropea: An Imaginative Map
ECAS Prag, 25 June 2025
During an era of cultural and geopolitical fractures, how can Black communities in Europe form resilient cross-border connections and solidarities? Drawing upon underrepresented histories in order to suggest alternative futures, At the ECAS 2025 in Prag, Johny Pitts will present a keynote speech bringing together 15 years of on the ground travels and research, which culminated in his award-winning book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe will suggest a theoretical framework for scholars, artists and writers.
Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, academic and journalist and he recently served as the 20th Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor at the University of Bern. He has received various awards for his work exploring African-European identity, including a Decibel Penguin Prize, an ENAR (European Network against Racism) award, the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
