Inversion: Black Studies in Canadian Art

Dr. Joana Joachim is an Assistant professor of Black Studies in Art History and Social Justice at Concordia University. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral work, There/Then, Here/Now: Black Women’s Hair and Dress in the French Empire, examined the visual culture of self-preservation and self-care through the lens of creolization as well as historical and contemporary art practices. She earned her PhD in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University working under the supervision of Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson. Dr. Joachim obtained her Master’s degree in Museology from Université de Montréal and her BFA cum laude from University of Ottawa. 

Hosted by the Black Studies Summer Seminar. The Black Studies Summer Seminar is a one-week, on-campus, research-intensive seminar that explores various themes in or connected to Black studies. It honours the field’s radical interdisciplinarity by centering collaboration, co-creation, and experiential learning. It brings together Black artists and scholars at the intersection of imagination and academic trajectories, necessitating alternative modalities of knowledge production and the intramural.