[Chern.fsw] Chinese Espresso and Everyday Conviviality in Italy: A Conversation with Grazia Ting Deng, April 16 2025

[Martina Bofulin]

*Chinese Espresso and Everyday Conviviality in Italy: A Conversation 
with Grazia Ting Deng*

We are pleased to invite you to an online event hosted by the CHERN 
Working Group on Migration and Labour.


The event will begin with a short presentation of the book /Chinese 
Espresso//: Contested Race & Convivial Space in Contemporary 
Italy/(Princeton University Press, 2024) by author Grazia Ting Deng, 
followed by a conversation between the author and Martina Bofulin, and a 
live Q&A.

Whether you're interested in migration, labor, race, or urban 
culture—this is a conversation not to miss.

We look forward to seeing you there!

🗓*Date:* April 16, 2025
🕓*Time:* 16:00–17:00 CET
🔗*Join via Zoom: 
*https://vu-live.zoom.us/j/95687263791?pwd=nEXE0IxqgyOKMBbnKHqT8HWYLzp8LR.1
💻*Meeting ID: *956 8726 3791
🔐*Passcode: *361144

In her book, /Chinese Espresso/Grazia Ting Deng explores the surprising 
rise of “Chinese espresso” in Italy, where Chinese immigrants 
increasingly operate coffee bars serving Italy’s iconic espresso. Once a 
purely Italian tradition, espresso culture is now maintained by Chinese 
baristas using flexible family labor and local know-how. Deng’s 
ethnographic research in Bologna reveals how these immigrants have 
redefined social roles in a society that still sees them as outsiders. 
Their presence highlights broader shifts in postmodern, postcolonial 
urban life, offering a powerful example of how cultural traditions can 
evolve through unexpected agents of preservation and change.

Grazia is a lecturer in anthropology at Brandeis University. She 
received her doctoral degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong 
and later served as a postdoctoral research associate at Brown 
University and a Marie Curie Fellow at University of Venice 
Ca’Foscari.//Her research sits at the intersection of the Chinese 
diaspora and immigrant Italy, broadly exploring migration dynamics, race 
and ethnicity, health, urban conviviality, and global capitalism.

The event is organized by CHERN in collaboration with ZRC SAZU (project 
/Migrants' emplacement at the micro-level: Restaurants as the contact 
zones/ funded by Slovenian Research Agency, J6-60098)


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