The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University is proud to be part of an international network of research centres committed to overcoming injustice and inequity as a result of slavery. Our leading-edge research focuses on the forced and voluntary movement of African peoples around the world. As a social innovator, the Institute's mandate is to promote a greater understanding of the history of slavery and its legacy. The Institute fosters debate, informs public policy and strives to resolve current social injustices. Digital archiving technology enables the preservation of documents and other materials for easy access to historical records. The Institute is named for the spirit of Harriet Tubman, liberator of her people, feminist, and humanist (c.1820-1913).
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Martin A. Klein Prize in African History. The American Historical Association. 2010 Submission

Comments on the International Symposium: "Esclavitud, ciudadanía y memoria: Puertos Menores en el Caribe y el Atlántico", held in  Omoa, Honduras. Nov 18, 2008

 February 23, 2010 Black History Month. The Harriet Tubman Lecture:
Karolyn Smartz Frost, Fugitive Sources: Uncovering Toronto's Underground Railroad Connection
Time and Location to be announced

Karolyn Smardz Frost is among the TVO 20 semifinalists in the 2009 Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition

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TVO Media Release
speaks about her research for her book: I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

Professor Paul Lovejoy, Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, receives President's Research Merit Award

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November 12, 2009: Open House
The Harriet Tubman Institute welcomed over 70 people to its Open House   on November 12. Dr. Toyin Falola presented a lecture on "Globalization   of the African Diaspora."At the reception that followed, Kassahun   Checole, Publisher of Africa World Press formally launched The Harriet   Tubman Series on the African Diaspora.

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October, 2009 - HIGHLIGHT: ANNOUNCING THE HARRIET TUBMAN SERIES ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, AFRICA WORLD PRESS

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October 13, 2009 Now released, in the Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, Africa World Press.

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August 14, 2009 With the launch of the book collection Del Olvido a la Memoria - Africanos y Afromestizos en la Historia Colonial de Centroamérica, we are making available for download the ebook version of the four Volumes:

 

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October 05, 2009 The Tubman Institute is pleased to announce that Prof. Danielle  Robinson has been awarded a Faculty of Fine Arts Teaching Award. Danielle was curator of the highly successful Performing Diaspora 2009 series and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tubman Institute. Danielle is also a participant in the MCRI Project "Slavery, Memory, Citizenship." A full feature story is available on Y-File, as indicated by the link below:

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Reviews about Performing Diaspora 2009. Celebrating Black History Month

Performing Diaspora 2009. Pictures

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Tubman Newsletter

July 2009 The Harriet Tubman Institute Newsletter number 19 is out. It includes Conference and Workshop Reports, Performing Diaspora 2009, Research Video Festival 2009, and much more...

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Future Events

 Performing Diaspora 2010. Celebrating Black History Month Through Expressive Culture
Afrodiasporic Women in Focus

January 31-February 5, 2010 Tubman Institute Screening of Research Video Festival. Click the thumbnail below for the official poster, program and synopses.
Program

February 4, 2010, 2:30 - 4 pm. Edgar Nkosi White comes to York: Performance "Trance: Langston Hughes in Translation"
Samuel Beckett Theatre 112 Stong College

February 18, 2010, 5:00-6:30 pm. Dr. James Walker. "Human Rights and the Historian". Founders College Assembly Hall (152)

February 22, 2010 at 2:30 pm `Educating “Emma”: Stories to Pass on from the Late Slavery Era in the Niger Area'
Presented by Professor Modupe Olaogun, Renaissance Room, 001 Vanier College

March 15-19, 2010 2nd International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS) "The Many Caribbeans and the Bicentennial of the Continental Spanish American Independence Movements", University of Cartagena, Cartageran de Indias, Colombia

Call: Español  Français  English

March 19-21, 2010 Comparative History Workshop, McMaster University
Program

March 26-28, 2010 10th Annual Africa Conference: Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.
Call (English)

April 13-15, 2010 International Conference: Legal Structures and Localised Practices of Slavery, from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century (Europe - Africa - Americas), Cheik Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
Call (English)          Call (French)

3 May 2010 Call for Papers - The Slave Voyage Database and African Economic History - A Workshop: Monday, May 3, 2010 Harriet Tubman Institute York University, Toronto, Canada

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5-7 May 2010 CAAS 2010 Conference - Call for Papers "Africa Matters": Celebrating 40 years of the Canadian Association of  African Studies. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Conférence de l´ACEA 2010- Appel à communications «L´AFRIQUE COMPTE»: Une célébration des 40 ans de l´Association canadienne des Etudes africaines. Université Carleton, Ottawa, Canada

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6-8 May 2010 The 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Toronto and York University Toronto, Canada. Theme: ‘African languages in contact’
Call for Papers

24-28 May, 2010 Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference 2010. Barbados "Understanding the Everyday Occurrence of Violence in the CulturalLife of the Caribbean: Where Do We Go From Here?"
DEADLINE for Submission: January 22nd, 2010
Call

07-09 June 2010 International Conference: The Impact of the Atlantic World on the "Old Worlds" in Europe and Africa from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
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August 17, 2010 Negotiating the African Presence: Rastafari Livity and Scholarship
Rastafari Conference 2010. University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

October 7-9, 2010"Remembering Africa & Its Diasporas: Memory, Public History & Representations of the Past"
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

December 12-19, 2010 Linking Ghana and the Caribbean: Legacies, Memories and Belongings
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Deadline May 1, 2010
Call

December 17-19, 2010 International Conference: Preserving Africa's Ancient Manuscripts, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
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