Judge Cruz Melchor Eya Nchama's visit

On 28 January 2026, we will welcome Judge Cruz Melchor Eya Nchama from the Geneva Tribunal to Barcelona. This visit will give members of The Making of Blackness, BADEMS, and contributors to the collective volume, Iberia negra: textos para otra historia de la diáspora Africana (siglos XVI y XVII) (edited by Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, Manuel Olmedo Gobante, and Cornesha Tweede, Routledge: 2024), the chance to discuss their work, its inspirations, challenges, and impact with Judge Eya Nchama. Additionally, it provides the opportunity for a conversation about the ongoing research that builds on these initiatives and about the judge’s own interest in the history of Black Africans and Afrodescendants in early modern Spain. We look forward to the visit and see it as a way to form connections between researchers and leaders beyond the academic sector.

The visit includes the following events:

11am – 1pm (CET, Barcelona): In-person meeting (Judge Cruz Melchor Eya Nchama and Barcelona-based BADEMS researchers), Edifici B, Facultats de Ciències Socials i Lletres, B3b/-104 & B3b/-106

1:30pm – 3:30pm (CET , Barcelona): Lunch at the Restaurant de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres i Psicologia(Judge Cruz Melchor Eya Nchama and Barcelona-based BADEMS researchers)

4pm – 5pm (CET, Barcelona): Online meeting: Discussion of Iberia negra (Judge Cruz Melchor Eya Nchama, contributors to Iberia negra, members and friends of The Making of Blackness, all BADEMS researchers). Attendance requires access links, but is open to all. For access information, please write to makingofblackness@gmail.com.

This activity is a result of the project I+D+i PID2021-124893NA-I00: The Making of Blackness, A Process of Cultural and Social Negotiation from the Bottom-Up, funded by MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

Organizers

Diana Berruezo-Sánchez

Rubén Bracero Salvat

Erica Feild-Marchello

Gerard Rosich Pagès