Gaia Giuliani's seminar focused on connections and disconnections between the history of the Black Atlantic and the current Middle Passage through the Mediterranean. It confronted the opposite histories of the figures of the slave ship and the migrants' boat in colonial and postcolonial Modernity by employing the idea of borders and 'figures of race' as semiotic dispositifs. Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Clara Keating, and Júlia Garraio elaborated on the topic, bringing into the debate their different theoretical and methodological perspectives.

O seminário de Gaia Giuliani incidiu sobre as conexões e desconexões entre a história do Atlântico Negro e a atual Middle Passage pelo Mediterrâneo. Confrontou, na Modernidade colonial e pós-colonial, as histórias opostas das figuras do navio negreiro e das embarcações de migrantes ao empregar a ideia de fronteira e de “figura racial” como dispositifs semióticos. Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Clara Keating, e Júlia Garraio debateram o tópico, contribuindo com as suas perspetivas teóricas e metodológicas.