Speaker Series: Canadiensis: Meeting the People Who Make a Country
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- In-person event
- 360, Tory Building, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Join Drs. Arianna Dagnino and Stefano Gulmanelli as they retrace their 75-day, 21,000 km journey across Canada, from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again.
Drawing on photographs, field notes, and conversations with artists, Indigenous elders, farmers and newcomers, the two offer a grounded portrait of the country, reflecting on question of identity, belonging and solidarity across the vast Canadian landscape.
Their work is chronicled on the Canadiensis Substack.
As traditional media models lose ground and the space for long-form, nuanced reporting keeps shrinking, “Canadiensis” speaks to readers who wish to understand Canada through the stories of those who live it. Here you’ll find dispatches from across the country, portraits of people and places, fragments of everyday life and individual stories that, taken together, form a mosaic of the real Canada.
The event is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Italy in Ottawa and modern languages program of Carleton’s School of Linguistics & Language Studies.
About the Speakers
Dr. Arianna Dagnino is a writer, journalist, and researcher at the University of British Columbia. Her career spans five continents and has cultivated a transnational perspective on identity, migration, and cultural transformation. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and her work explores the human stories within global shifts.
With a background in Economics and a PhD in Sociology, Dr. Stefano Gulmanelli has worked as a corporate manager, journalist, photographer, and academic across the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and North America. His experience informs an interdisciplinary practice that combines research, writing, and photography, bringing these perspectives together in his storytelling.
