On 6 October 2022 (1-2:30pm) we will have our first "Reading While Black" event for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
We invite you to read the final chapter of M. Jacqui Alexander's *Pedagogies of Crossing*, "Pedagogies of the Sacred," and at least one other chapter.

This text is critical for Black Studies as it commends and cultivates socially engaged research, writing, and teaching in the field.  Moreover, it invites us to develop our academic spaces in community and spiritually cognizant, accountable, and relevant ways.

We will discuss this book and the ways it informs and might further inform our research, teaching, and writing and Black Studies Program formation at Queen's.

This event will be virtual. Participants may join at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85067891209?pwd=YmQxMjUvL0Y0cVlQWUd0dE5xTGRyUT09. 

Contact Taylor Cenac for details.

 

 

Kingston Book Launches: Celebrate new books and research in Black Studies

 

The Black Studies Program at Queen’s University will be launching throughout 2022-2023 with a series of screenings, conversations, and celebrations.

 

Join us from 11 am – 2 pm on October 22 at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for the Kingston book launches of:

• The Long Road Home: Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompson 
• Abolitionismus: Ein Reader, edited by Vanessa Thompson and Daniel Loick
• Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation by Daniel McNeil

 

Copies of A is for Acholi by Juliane Okot Bitek will also be available to buy at the event.

 

Register your attendance via Eventbrite.

 

 

 

Black Studies Inauguration: Celebrate the launch of the Black Studies Program

 

The Black Studies Program at Queen’s University will be launching throughout 2022-2023 with a series of screenings, conversations, and celebrations.

 

Join us Friday, October 21, 2022 from 5:30 pm – 10 pm at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for:

 

Introductory remarks and greetings from Associate Vice-Principal (Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation) Jan Hill, Vice Dean Lynda Jessup, and Principal Patrick Deane.

A poetry reading by Lillian Allen 

A conversation between Stephanie Simpson, Beverley Mullings, Kristin Moriah, and Rachel Goffe about the past, present, and future of Black Studies at Queen’s

The premiere of the short film, “Black Studies is…”, which was conceived by the Black Studies Program Group and produced by Katherine McKittrick. The film features Ibram X. Kendi (Boston University), Syrus Marcus Ware (McMaster), Carole Boyce Davies (Cornell), David Chariandy (SFU), Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt), Ashon Crawley (University of Virginia)) and many other anti-racist activists, artists and intellectuals from around the world responding to the prompt, “Black Studies is…”. The film’s soundtrack is by Vijay Iyer, who was voted 2022 Pianist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. Post-screening discussion with faculty, pre-doctoral fellows and post-doctoral fellows in Black Studies (Joseph Kangmennaang, Kesha Fevrier, Jennifer Leath, Bianca Beauchemin, Tari Ajadi, Sefanit Habtom, and Nataleah Hunter-Young).

A DJ set by DJ Grumps

 

Register your attendance via Eventbrite

 

Please contact BLCK@queensu.ca for further information.

 

Mingle with Black Studies faculty, staff, pre-docs, and students on September 15th from 4-7 at the Grad Club.

This event is located in the Law Lounge/North Room (2nd floor of the Grad Club). Food and drinks will be provided.

Please register in advance to secure your drink tickets! Drink tickets will only be provided to registrants. Two drink tickets per person. 

Contact Taylor Cenac at blck@queensu.ca if you have any questions.

See you there!

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November 2022 Gender Matters Speaker Series

 

Natasha Henry Dixon: 'One Too Many: The Lives and Experiences of the Enslaved in Upper Canada'

Natasha Henry-Dixon will discuss her current research, One Too Many: The Enslavement of African People in Early Ontario, 1760 – 1834, which draws on Black Digital Humanities (BDH) as method to centre enslaved people as historical subjects and uncovers their lives. In so doing, this work intentionally disrupts the silences of the history of racial enslavement and destabilizes the fragmentation of enslaved Africans that is persistent in colonial archival practices. This talk will highlight aspects of her research which explores the lives and experiences of the enslaved, and the role of chattel slavery in Upper Canada.

Natasha Henry-Dixon is an assistant professor of African Canadian History at York University. The 2018 Vanier Scholar is researching the enslavement of African people in early Ontario. Natasha is the president of the Ontario Black History Society. Her publications include Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada (June 2010), Talking about Freedom: Celebrating Freedom in Canada (2012), a number of youth-focused titles, and several entries for the Canadian Encyclopedia on African Canadian history. Through her various professional, academic, and community roles, Natasha’s work is grounded in her commitment to research, collect, preserve, and disseminate the histories Black Canadians.

 

October 2022 Gender Matters Speaker Series