Upcoming Events




Watch past events on YouTube
Tubman Talks with Mary Uhunoma Isibor
Sacrifice and Survival: Benin Women Entrepreneurs, Migration, and Family Support during the 1980s–1990s
Tubman's Black History Month 2025
Community Organizing
Xavier McLaughlin, Parents of Black Children; Mischka Crichton, Toronto Caribbean Carnival; Tatiana Ferguson, Black Queer Youth Collective.
Accessible Digital Research Spaces for Black Female Scholars in Social Science Research
Equitable Frontiers of Digital and Technological Empowerment in Academia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Past Events















The Harriet Tubman Institute offers an intellectual space that fosters debate among all York scholars whose research interest focuses on the history and contemporary experience of Africans and people of African descent in Canada and globally.
The Harriet Tubman Institute celebrates Black History Month by focusing on the achievements of African Diaspora; looking back to examine their accomplishments as a path to move forward.


The Harriet Tubman Institute hosts international conferences every two years, in collaboration with Universities accross the globe.
