If the first panel uncovers how exclusion operates, this second one focuses on the possibilities of resistance. “The Power of Counter-Narratives” brings together thinkers and practitioners who use storytelling, history, and collective memory as tools of emancipation.

Marie Moise (Italy) is a philosopher and activist whose work centres on Black feminism and the politics of memory. As co-author of Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi, she explores how reclaiming suppressed stories — from colonial resistance to migration — can open new spaces of belonging in contemporary Europe. Moïse’s interventions consistently connect structural critique to hope, insisting that narratives are not only tools of critique but also of healing and imagination.

Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak (Poland) is a linguist and critical discourse analyst whose research on racialised language in public and educational settings exposes how Europe’s self-image as “colour-blind” often silences racial realities. Her work emphasises the need to make visible the everyday narratives that sustain racism — and to create counter-narratives that affirm dignity, agency, and plurality.

Moderated by Mette Toft Nielsen (Spark Teachers, ENAR foundation), this conversation will examine storytelling as a pedagogical imaginative practice: how can educators and cultural institutions create spaces where marginalised voices are not merely included but centred? How can history education itself become an act of narrative repair?