This Summer, the Harriet Tubman Institute hosted two brilliant PhD scholars from the University of Mons in Belgium. Supervised by Dr. Gertrude Mianda, Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and former Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute, Rose Ukeci and Borauzima Feza Esther expanded their research journey with the Tubman community. […]
Dr Lace M Jackson, Staff Tutor and Regional Academic at the Open University in the Faculty of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care As a child born in the UK to Jamaican parents who were part of the Windrush generation, I felt quite sheltered from direct experiences of racism until I arrived at primary school. It […]
A workshop organized by: Salewa Olawoye, Director The Harriet Tubman Institute and Louis-Philippe Rochon, Director, Monetary Policy Institute United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs October 31, 2024 United Nations Headquarters, New York Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Proceedings to be published in the Review of Political Economy
As African scholars and academics, we are deeply concerned with the crisis in Sudan. The armed conflict between the army and the state sponsored paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces continues to threaten the civilian population and the democratization process in the country. We are extremely saddened by the number of civilian causalities […]
Dear colleagues and friends, From Saturday, May 27 to Friday, June 2, York University will be hosting Congress 2023—the largest gathering of academics, educators, and policy makers in Canada—to reflect on the theme, “Reckonings and Re-Imaginings.” We are extending a special invitation to community members who may not have attended Congress before to participate this […]
Today, March 21th, the HTI marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / Ce 21 mars, le HTI marque la journée internationale pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale. Please join our Graduates Students' Caucus Conversation on how to resist racial discrimination at the University Institution on March 28th, 2023 on Zoom from […]
Written by Dr. Patricia Elaine Perkins March 13, 2023 Climate justice is a central priority of the HTI, which “focuses on the struggles in current lives of African peoples and diasporic communities to achieve social justice and covers contemporary forms of exploitation.” Africans, who make up about 17% of the global population, have contributed only […]
Dr. Sylvia Bawa & Chidinma Umahi Odi Nwankwo Sponsored by: LAPS, The Harriet Tubman Institute -York University, Canada and the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS), Ghana. The African feminism(s) and its relevance today in Northern Ghana Workshop is a sponsored event funded by the York University LAPS and awarded to Prof. […]
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022 Time: 1:00PM-2:30PM EST Location: Zoom Register in advance for this meeting:https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcuirqD4rH9bhPyaz5cc-uLyhAHs8nkAt Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad Abstract: Underground Railroad scholarship has focused almost exclusively on interior overland routes used to escape enslavement in the Antebellum South. Largely overlooked, however, is the great multitude of enslaved persons […]