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2024
April
March
February
News, Updates, Publications
ICYMI (in case you missed it) – HTI’s Black History Month Opening Ceremony is on YouTube
If you were unable to make it to the Black History Month Opening Ceremony on February 1st, you can watch it on YouTube! The panel discussion was live streamed and recorded on YouTube.
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 30
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Study Rooms (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
The Resource Room Booking form can be found here. All other booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Monday, February 5: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Black Students (Organized with Black Student’s Mental Health Project)
Date: February 5th, 2024
Meal and Gathering: 5:30pm EST
Round table discussion: 7:00pm EST
Location: Founders Assembly Hall
Founders College, Room 152, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
Speakers:
- Dr. Delores Mullings
- Dr. Jean-Jaques Rousseau
- Yasmine Gray
- Dr. Sophie Yohani
- Dr. Carl James
- Dr. Agnès Berthelot-Raffard
Tuesday, February 6: EDI Strategy in Academia (Organized with Black Student’s Mental Health Project)
Date: February 6th, 2024
Time: 7-10pm EST
Location: Founders Assembly Hall
Founders College, Room 152, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
Our panel of experts will lead a discussion on Black students mental health, mental wellbeing in academia, equity, diversity, inclusion and racial climate on campus. Come and let us discuss strategies and resources to promote mental health and equity among the Black academic community.
Speaker: Marie Dasylva
February 7: Mental Wellness Workshops (Black students only) (Organized with Black Student’s Mental Health Project)
Date: February 7, 2024
Time: Sessions from 10am-6:30pm
Location: Founders College, FC303 & 305, York University, Keele Campus
Lunch and refreshments will be provided
Thursday, Feb 29: DEI: The Good, The Bad, and the Performative (Co-Organized with School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies)
Date: February 29th, 2024
Time: 12-2pm EST
Reception to follow
Location: Founders Assembly Hall (152 Founders College), Keele Campus, York University
The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies invites you to join our Annual Lecture event featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. The roundtable will explore various fields such as higher education, broadcasting, news organizations and politics and the ways in which racialized and other marginalized people with progressive politics are initially welcomed in spaces of power, becoming symbols (or tokens) of progress in achieving “diversity and inclusion,” only to then be gaslighted, vilified or face reprisals for espousing their views.
Featured speakers:
- Ginella Massa, Broadcast journalist and media consultant
- Desmond Cole, Journalist, activist and author of The Skin We’re In
- Dr. Nadiya Ali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trent University
- Somar Abuaziza, President of the Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC)
The event will be moderated and hosted by Dr. Bianca Beauchemin and Dr. Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professors from the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.
The roundtable will be followed by a reception with refreshments.
Space is limited. Please register for the event at the following link: https://laps.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=2176459
Friday, March 1: Movie Screening – Paris is Burning (Co-organized with Department of Dance)
Date: March 1st, 2024
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Upcoming York Events and News
Call for Director: Centre for Feminist Research (ORU)
CFR Description and History:
Today, the Centre for Feminist Research/ Le Centre de recherches féministes is an internationally recognized Centre for research on gender, race, class, indigeneity, disability, sexuality, and women's issues. Its mandate is to promote feminist activities and collaborative research at York University by working to establish research linkages among York scholars and between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities. The CFR carries out its mandate by supporting individual and collaborative research, developing research materials, communicating research results, providing opportunities and training for graduate students, fostering relationships with community organizations and government personnel, and through hosting visiting scholars from outside the university.
Position Requirements: Applicants are expected to be members of the full-time faculty at York University, and to have a distinguished record of scholarship and research interests. The Director is expected to administer the financial, organizational and academic and collegial activities of the ORU, to develop external funding sources, and to maintain an active individual and collaborative research program.
Stipend: The successful applicant will receive an administrative stipend and the appropriate course load reduction as stipulated by the YUFA Collective Agreement. The Director of the Centre reports to the Associate Vice-President Research
Deadline: February 20, 2024
Laptop & Learn: “Discover York Academics” Tutorial (new virtual option)
You’re invited to Laptop & Learn: “Discover York Academics” Tutorial, a hands-on workshop on Discover York Academics, York’s new electronic CV tool.
Discover York Academics is designed for faculty to promote and share their work through an electronic curriculum vitae (eCV) profile. A profile on Discover York Academics uses automation to continually update itself and aggregates data from public sites to centralize and showcase your research, publications, scholarly and creative work, awards, professional activities, and more. By the public site, faculty can indicate their availability for graduate student supervision, academic and industry collaborations, and more.
Join us for a step-by-step tutorial, with opportunities to ask questions and get real-time assistance.
We are offering this workshop on two dates. The first will be in person, and the second is now virtual.
SECOND DATE
Thursday, February 8, 2024
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Zoom
Contact: Hajer Mirwali (she/her)
Operations Manager, Research Commons
Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation
Kaneff Tower, 5th Floor
York University
ART & ANTHROPOLOGY: Winter Workshop
Date: Friday, February 9 2024
Location: Art Exhibit (Vari Hall Rotunda) – 11:00AM – 2:00PM
Lecture Presentation (Vari Hall Room) – 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Register Here to experience the art and hear from the artist afterwards!
Art and anthropology are intertwined in so many intricate, intriguing ways. On Friday, Feb-09-2024, join us and learn about Art and Anthropology! Walk through an enrapturing art exhibit by Audra Townsend (MA Anthropological Research), on the wonderful journey to becoming an Artist.
Toronto Black Histories Edit-A-Thon
We live in a world of information, and the knowledge we share matters: it can challenge or uphold the systemic barriers that many in our communities’ face. This February, we invite you to join your library in making the world of information more inclusive in the Toronto Black Histories Edit-a-thon!
First, join us Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 11 am to 12:30 pm EST for an online kick-off panel featuring
- Melissa J. Nelson, the founder and creative director of the Black Memory Collective, produces and hosts the podcast Archives & Things.
- An early career heritage professional with a background in English and History, Tonya Sutherland-Stewart is a Belleville-based graduate of the Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto.
- The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Natasha Henry Dixon who teaches in the Professorial Stream in the Department of History at York University. Her publications include Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada and Talking about Freedom: Celebrating Freedom in Canada.
Join us to hear how these scholars research and surface Black Canadian histories/experiences. You won’t want to miss this lively discussion about community engagement in research and the roles that digital technologies have in constructing the knowledge we share online.
Next sign up to take part in one of the Black Histories Edit-a-thons. No experience with Wikipedia and Wikidata is needed because all events have training embedded into their programming. Join us for York’s in-person edit-a-thon on Tuesday, February 13, anytime between 11am - 3pm! You can sign-up for an calendar invite here or just drop-in to the Scott Library Atrium.
There are many other online and in-person opportunities listed at Toronto BHE website to learn more and register for the events. You also have the opportunity to participate on your own! The BHE website can connect you with online training and projects so you can work independently on our BHE 2024 campaign.
This event is organized by U of T Libraries, York University Libraries, Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries, and Toronto Public Library. We look forward to seeing you!
Robarts Centre: Willful Pedagogies: Unlearning with Visual Activism
Date: Monday February 12, 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:30 PM
Location: Winters College 117
Register: robarts@yorku.ca by February 9, 2024
This lecture engages with visual activism, asking how this genre’s insurgent aesthetics may enact what I call willful pedagogies by urging viewers to unlearn pernicious stereotypes and essentialisms around minoritized populations.
Drawing from Trans cultural production and Black feminist pedagogies, I consider how Syrus Marcus Ware’s visual activism unscripts damage-centered educational trends while cultivating arts of living and futures otherwise.
Dr. Libe García Zarranz (she/her) is Associate Professor of cultural theory and literatures in English in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research sits at the intersection of Canadian literary and visual studies, affect theory, and trans studies.
Plowing the past, harvesting the present: the perspective of the decolonial narrative with Itamar Vieira Junior
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Time: 2:30-4:30
Location: Kaneff Tower 519 - York University
RSVP:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pWCGC0K8XPXiY2iFhGg_Nxbk4LLAdqW6KaFsrEd6Jxs/edit
This event will be held in Portuguese, but English interpretation will be provided.
In his brief intervention, the author reads his novel Crooked Plow in light of the decolonial thought of Malcolm Ferdinand and Antônio Bispo dos Santos. Topics such as colonialism and slavery and its consequences over time converge aesthetically to create a literary narrative that enlightens a better understanding of our present.
Itamar Vieira Junior was born in 1979 in Salvador, Bahia. He is geographer and has a PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from UFBA, the Federal University of Bahia. As an author, he won Portugal’s Leya Prize for Torto Arado in 2018. The novel, a best-seller in Brazil and praised by critics, went on to win Brazil’s most prestigious literary award, the Jabuti, as well as the Oceanos Prize. Itamar Vieira Junior was also a finalist for the Jabuti for his book of short stories, The Executioner’s Prayer. Itamar Vieira Junior has recently published his highly anticipated second novel, Salvar o Fogo.
Conference: Artificial Intelligence and the Law: New Challenges and Possibilities for Fundamental Human Rights and Security
Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2023
Location: 1014 Helliwell Centre, Osgoode Hall Law School (Keele campus) and Online
The Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security will hold a conference titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Law: New Challenges and Possibilities for Fundamental Human Rights and Security”, on March 13, 2024, Room 1014 Helliwell Centre, Osgoode Hall Law School (Keele campus) and ONLINE.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dramatically reshaping how people live, work, and interact, as well as the functioning of societies and legal systems' adaptations to these changes. Machine learning technologies' integration into various decision-making processes carries profound implications for sentencing, taxation, workplace dynamics, surveillance and policing, privacy, and financial markets. The rising automation of human activities prompts significant legal inquiries spanning constitutional, contractual, and tort issues.
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Chat GPT are AI technologies with a range of legal, ethical, and societal implications. These models, trained on massive volumes of text data, can generate text resembling human language, enabling tasks like answering questions, writing essays, even crafting poetry. They implicate freedom of expression, the right to information, and the democratic process at large. They have the potential to generate misleading, harmful, or hateful content, regardless of their programmers' and owners' intentions. They could become tools for propaganda or disinformation campaigns. They raise intellectual property questions, particularly when their output is based on pre-existing intellectual or artistic works and could lead to mass job automation.
On March 13, we will meet to discuss all these issues with a stellar group of researchers and speakers. The conference will include presentations from: Aida Abraha, Carys Craig, Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Trevor Farrow, Stephen Fulford, Richard Haigh, Allan Hutchinson, Xiaolu Liu, Patricia McMahon, Ivan Ozai, Jonathon Penney, Sean Rehaag, Amy Saluyzyn, Anthony Sangiuliano, Alexandra Scott, James Sheptycki, Glenn Stuart, François Tanguay-Renaud and Aneurin Thomas.
The detailed agenda will be circulated shortly. The event will be both in-person and livestream online.For any further info, please feel free contact Prof Valerio De Stefano, by nathansoncentre@osgoode.yorku.ca and copying vdestefano@osgoode.yorku.ca.
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Other Events & Opportunities
CBR Canada Awards 2024: Call for Nominations Open
Community-Based Research Excellence Awards
| Community-based research has great potential to contribute toward transformative societal impact that benefit and uplift marginalized communities across Canada and the world. CBRCanada recognizes excellence in community-based research and is thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for two 2024 Community-Based Research Excellence Awards. Submit a nomination of an exceptional research partnership or emerging researcher for the following awards:1. Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership 2. Emerging Community-Based Researcher. Nominees (at least one for a research partnership) must belong to a CBRCanada member organization OR be a registered individual member of CBRCanada. Nominations are due April 3rd, 2024 at 12 midnight ET. |
FROM THE ANCIENT TO MODERN - PLACING AFRICA AT THE CENTER OF OUR HISTORY
Tickets: https://tickets.regenttheatre.ca/eventperformances.asp?evt=970
Date: Thursday, February 8, 6-8:30 PM
Location: Regent Theatre | 50 King Street East | Oshawa
Reception: 6-7 PM
Discussion: 7-8:30 PM
Free event open to the public either in-person or online via livestream.
Tickets required, please RSVP for catering and seating.
Following the reception there will be a conversation between Howard French, Professor and author of "Born In Blackness: Africa, Africans & Making of The Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War" and Wesley Crichlow, Professor and Critical Race Theory Scholar. Together, they will de-construct the historical erasure and unrecognized role that Africa has played in the making of the "modern world."
For more on Professor Howard French: https://www.howardwfrench.com/
Presented by: Ontario Tech University, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities in Association with Ontario Tech Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Office and the Carpenters Union, Local 397
News, Updates, Publications
News@York: Walking the path with Harriet Tubman at York University
The recently opened resource centre at the HTI in York Lanes allows for a continuation of that safe space and research, individual and collaborative. Most of the books that line the walls of the centre, including several first-editions, as well as the artifacts on display, are donated. There are also archival documents, and audio and video tapes. It’s a growing collection that may soon spill out of its allotted space.
As part of its mandate, the HTI encourages the study of pre-contact cultures and the histories of Africa, slavery and colonialism, but also current struggles in the lives of African peoples and diasporic communities, including contemporary forms of exploitation.
“We are also building up our research clusters to encourage scholarly discussions and enrollments, not just in STEM [science, technology, engineering and math]. We like to put an ‘A’ in there for the ‘arts’, so it's STEAM,” says Olawoye. The HTIis also partnering with other organized research units at York, such as the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, as well as the Department of Dance and external organizations.
Media Contact: Sandra McLean, York University Media Relations and External Communications
Call for Director: Centre for Feminist Research (ORU)
CFR Description and History: Today, the Centre for Feminist Research/ Le Centre de recherches féministes is an internationally recognized Centre for research on gender, race, class, indigeneity, disability, sexuality, and women's issues. Its mandate is to promote feminist activities and collaborative research at York University by working to establish research linkages among York scholars and between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities. The CFR carries out its mandate by supporting individual and collaborative research, developing research materials, communicating research results, providing opportunities and training for graduate students, fostering relationships with community organizations and government personnel, and through hosting visiting scholars from outside the university.
Position Requirements: Applicants are expected to be members of the full-time faculty at York University, and to have a distinguished record of scholarship and research interests. The Director is expected to administer the financial, organizational and academic and collegial activities of the ORU, to develop external funding sources, and to maintain an active individual and collaborative research program.
Stipend: The successful applicant will receive an administrative stipend and the appropriate course load reduction as stipulated by the YUFA Collective Agreement. The Director of the Centre reports to the Associate Vice-President Research
Deadline: February 20, 2024
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 30
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Study Rooms (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
The Resource Room Booking form can be found here. All other booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Black History Month with The Harriet Tubman Institute
Thursday, Feb 29: DEI: The Good, The Bad, and the Performative (Co-Organized with School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies)
Date: February 29th, 2024
Time: 12-2pm EST
Reception to follow
Location: Founders Assembly Hall (152 Founders College), Keele Campus, York University
The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies invites you to join our Annual Lecture event featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. The roundtable will explore various fields such as higher education, broadcasting, news organizations and politics and the ways in which racialized and other marginalized people with progressive politics are initially welcomed in spaces of power, becoming symbols (or tokens) of progress in achieving “diversity and inclusion,” only to then be gaslighted, vilified or face reprisals for espousing their views.
Featured speakers:
- Ginella Massa, Broadcast journalist and media consultant
- Desmond Cole, Journalist, activist and author of The Skin We’re In
- Dr. Nadiya Ali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trent University
- Somar Abuaziza, President of the Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC)
The event will be moderated and hosted by Dr. Bianca Beauchemin and Dr. Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professors from the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.
The roundtable will be followed by a reception with refreshments.
Space is limited. Please register for the event at the following link: https://laps.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=2176459
Friday, March 1: Movie Screening – Paris is Burning (Co-organized with Department of Dance)
Date: March 1st, 2024
Time: 7:00pm EST
Location: MacLean Performance Studio, Studio F - Accolade East, York University
Upcoming York Events and News
Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) New Parenting in Academia
Date: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Location: 6th Floor, Kaneff Building
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehOTeJtUblcso853evlPP2lj_U-l9rDjLRkhtZwL80UagBKg/viewform
All CFR parents of small children are welcome to a casual get-together at the
CFR, with your children to engage in dialogue with other parents and CFR faculty about navigating parenting in academia.
A light snack will be served.
Hosted by Dr. Elaine Coburn, Director of CFR
Negative Rights: Racial Segregation and the Law in Twentieth Century Brazil
Though Brazil and the United States share a history of deep racial inequalities and discrimination, they have pronounced differences in frameworks of civil rights. This presentation places those patterns of rights in conversation, and focuses on ways in which twentieth-century Brazilians who were Black made claims in a context of negative rights.
Thursday, February 29, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
York Hall 170 (across from the Glendon cafeteria)
2275 Bayview Avenue – Glendon College
Registration Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rduqhrzgoGtAlNbc8DgNDQblJoHASn_Vx#/registration
Jerry Dávila is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History and Executive Director of the Illinois Global Institute at UIUC. Dávila’s research focuses on the influence of racial thought and social movements on public policy in Brazil. He is the author of Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization (Duke, 2010), Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Public Policy in Brazil (Duke, 2003), and Dictatorship in South America (Wiley, 2013), and also co-authored A History of World Societies, 12th ed. (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2021).
Sponsored by the Glendon History Department’s Albert Tucker Fund.
Antisemitism and Racism: A Shared History with Prof. Magda Teter
In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” This convergence is not just a product of American history; its roots go far deeper. In this talk, Magda Teter, the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, will explore the interplay between Christian theology and law to demonstrate how the theological framework of Christian supersessionism articulated in antiquity and its subsequent application in law led to the creation of social hierarchies, legal exclusion of and a denial of equality to Jews and Black people also in modern times.
Magda Teter is a Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (2005), Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (2011), Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), and of dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her book Blood Libel won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award, The George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Ronald Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. Teter has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, HF Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Cullman Center at the NYPL, the NEH, and others. Teter is currently the President of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Who is an Activist Scholar? Praxis, Challenges, and Opportunities
Friday, March 1, 2024
1:30pm-2:30pm EST
Zoom
Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOuuqTMvGNUdS6GTfv03-DTff0GPsAKl#/registration
Other Events
The Parents of Black Children: Connecting Generations Panel
Date: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
Time: 6-8pm EST
Location: 995 Arrow Rd., North York, ON, M9M 2Z5
For many generations Black advocates have paved the way for the work that we do to be possible, their wisdom and experiences are invaluable. The Connecting Generations Panel will bring together generational leaders and our youth to share invaluable knowledge on navigating systems. You don't want to miss this conversation! Join us to soak up this knowledge session.
Transnational Black Feminist Food Sovereignty and Solidarity
Time: 11:00AM - 12:15 PM EST, 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM UTC
In-person Attendance: Ballroom B (Campus Center, 3rd Floor),
University of Massachusetts Boston
RSVP Here
Virtual Attendance: Register for the Zoom webinar here.
The Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights is pleased to announce our upcoming hybrid event. This Speaker Series is organized in collaboration with the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with support from an Affirming Multivocal Humanities grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Dr. K. Melchor Quick Hall
Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center,
Brandeis University
In this interactive talk, K. Melchor Quick Hall will discuss her ongoing scholar-activism related to food sovereignty and solidarity. In 2022, Hall facilitated a transnational Black women’s food sovereignty project, funded by Institute of International Education (IIE), that connected two women’s groups—Lucha y Esperanza in Punta Piedra, Honduras and Tabasamu in Mwanza, Tanzania. Although the two groups are separated by geography and language, they share a common commitment to feeding their communities. Lucha y Esperanza (translated from Spanish as Hope and Struggle) grows cassava, making the traditional ereba (or cassava bread) food staple of the Garifuna people. Tabasamu (translated from Swahili as Smile) supports women’s family gardens, in the midst of drought. In a photographic essay, Hall connects this recent project to her ongoing farmer education work at Global Village Farms in Grafton, MA, which supports Black women’s growing initiatives in the region.
K. Melchor Quick Hall (she/her/hers) is a popular education and community-based researcher, currently working as a postdoctoral fellow for Wellesley College’s Anti-Carceral Co-Laboratory and the Education Director at Global Village Farms. In these current professional roles, she advances abolitionist and food sovereignty futures that are longstanding commitments. As a New America Us@250 Lumina Foundation Fellow, Hall is organizing the “Aiming for Freedom: Race, Reparations & Right Paths” traveling art exhibition, which features Black feminist artistic visions of our shared liberation. She is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness and the co-editor, with Gwyn Kirk, of Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and Beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism.
Call for Participants: Research study on Black student experiences with campus security
The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of Black students who have had an uncomfortable or negative interaction with campus security. This study will be completed using a critical race lens and critical race methodology.
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and registered at an Ontario college or university. Interviews will require 1 hour to 1.5 hours to complete virtually via telephone, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
Participants will receive a $25 e-gift card for Tim Hortons.
Interested participants can contact look1790@mylaurier.ca for more information.
This study has been approved by the Wilfrid Laurier University Research Ethics Board (REB #8320). This study has been approved by the York University Research Ethics Board (REB# 2023-277). Supervisor: Dr. Shoshana Pollack
CAAS Professional Development Webinar #4: Leadership in Academia
Date: March 1, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:30pm EST
Moderator
Prof. Uwafiokun Idemudia
Dean, College of School and Applied Human Sciences
University of Guelph
Featuring:
PROF. ELIZABETH ADJIN-TETTEY
Associate Vice-President Academic Programs,
University of Victoria
PROF. SULAIMON GIWA
Interim Dean
School of Social Work
Memorial University
PROF. TAIBAT LAWANSON
Co-Director, Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development
University of Lagos
PROF. GERTRUDE MIANDA
Former Director,
Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas,
York University
Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects
Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Location: Dunton Tower 1706 ( Pius Adesami African Studies Resource Centre) and online via Zoom.
Register here: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0of-iorj4jG9ZpE1_cEJG0Q_KgdAJZokGz#/registration
Olukunle P. Owolabi presents his book entitled : ” Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South”.
In summary, Olukunle P. Owolabi“s book:
- Distinguishes between forced settlement and colonial occupation as distinct modes of imperial domination in the Global South
- Uses statistical data methods and comparative-historical analysis to analyze the long-term developmental consequences of forced settlement and colonial occupation across multiple colonial empires
- Highlights significant variations in colonial state-building, long-term development, and postcolonial democratization across the Black Atlantic world
- Draws evidence from more than ninety developing countries that gained independence after World War II.
About the Author
Dr. Olukunle P. Owolabi is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, African Politics, comparative democratization, and the developmental legacies of colonialism. His research examines the developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the Global South and has been published in Comparative Politics.
Survey: Being Black in Public
Since George Floyd, public conversations and media coverage concerning anti-Black public space discrimination have sharply declined. However, this long-standing issue remains urgent. That’s why Jay Pitter Placemaking—an award-winning, binational practice located at the nexus of urban planning and social justice—has partnered with academics, philanthropic organizations, mental health professionals, media and urban planning regulators to launch the Being Black in Public Survey.
The survey is geared toward Black-identified individuals residing in Canada and the U.S. It creates dedicated space for Black people, outside of trauma and the labour of public protest, to process their public space experiences.
In addition to questions that explore policing issues and other public space challenges, this asset-based survey creates an opportunity for respondents to share their thoughts on what contributes to positive public space experiences. The insights gathered will not only benefit Black communities. They will benefit cities (and rural communities) by inviting greater understanding and tangible recommendations for change through an action-oriented report.
Again, we ask that you circulate this survey across your email lists and social media platforms. Sample Post: "If you’re a Black-identified individual please complete & share this survey. Also, if you’re connected with Black community stakeholders, please share. Public spaces should be enjoyable & safe for all. https://www.isryorku.ca/beingblackinpublic"
Thanks in advance for your support.
Follow this link to the Survey:
BeingBlackInPublic
Jay Pitter Placemaking
Technical support is available at survey@yorku.ca.
Learning from Sivanandan: Anti-Racism Practices and Pedagogies from Below (Call for Participants/Expression of Interest)
Call for expressions of interest to participate in our workshop/gathering focusing on the work of Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Anti-Racism Practices and Pedagogies from Below on 21-22 March 2024 (in Toronto).
We welcome expressions of interest from emerging and established scholars (including graduate students) from all perspectives, including those teaching race and the law.
Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 (please email: glrc@yorku.ca).
Sujith Xavier (University of Windsor) & Adrian Smith (Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) / York University)
Job Opportunities
Indigenous Research and Community Engagement Associate
Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages
News, Updates, Publications
“For the Culture” with Amanda Parris and Dr. Andrea Davis is Streaming Now on CBC Gem
Tubman Faculty Fellow, Dr. Andrea Davis’s participation in “For the Culture” was filmed at The Harriet Tubman Institute last year. Check it out below!
Watch here: https://gem.cbc.ca/for-the-culture-with-amanda-parris
Watch the extended trailer here: 02 - FTC 3 minute Trailer.mp4 - Google Drive
Call for Director: Centre for Feminist Research (ORU)
CFR Description and History: Today, the Centre for Feminist Research/ Le Centre de recherches féministes is an internationally recognized Centre for research on gender, race, class, indigeneity, disability, sexuality, and women's issues. Its mandate is to promote feminist activities and collaborative research at York University by working to establish research linkages among York scholars and between York scholars and local, national, international and transnational communities. The CFR carries out its mandate by supporting individual and collaborative research, developing research materials, communicating research results, providing opportunities and training for graduate students, fostering relationships with community organizations and government personnel, and through hosting visiting scholars from outside the university.
Position Requirements: Applicants are expected to be members of the full-time faculty at York University, and to have a distinguished record of scholarship and research interests. The Director is expected to administer the financial, organizationaland academic and collegial activities of the ORU, to develop external funding sources, and to maintain an active individual and collaborative research program.
Stipend: The successful applicant will receive an administrative stipend and the appropriate course load reduction as stipulated by the YUFA Collective Agreement. The Director of the Centre reports to the Associate Vice-President Research
Deadline: February 20, 2024
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 30
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Study Rooms (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
The Resource Room Booking form can be found here. All other booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Black History Month with The Harriet Tubman Institute
Thursday, Feb 29: DEI: The Good, The Bad, and the Performative (Co-Organized with School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies)
Date: February 29th, 2024
Time: 12-2pm EST
Reception to follow
Location: Founders Assembly Hall (152 Founders College), Keele Campus, York University
The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies invites you to join our Annual Lecture event featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. The roundtable will explore various fields such as higher education, broadcasting, news organizations and politics and the ways in which racialized and other marginalized people with progressive politics are initially welcomed in spaces of power, becoming symbols (or tokens) of progress in achieving “diversity and inclusion,” only to then be gaslighted, vilified or face reprisals for espousing their views.
Featured speakers:
- Ginella Massa, Broadcast journalist and media consultant
- Desmond Cole, Journalist, activist and author of The Skin We’re In
- Dr. Nadiya Ali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trent University
- Somar Abuaziza, President of the Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC)
The event will be moderated and hosted by Dr. Bianca Beauchemin and Dr. Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professors from the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.
The roundtable will be followed by a reception with refreshments.
Space is limited. Please register for the event at the following link: https://laps.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=2176459
Friday, March 1: Movie Screening – Paris is Burning (Co-organized with Department of Dance)
Date: March 1st, 2024
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Upcoming York Events and News
Service Opportunity – Calling for Editors: Feminisms in Focus
We are looking for York University faculty with strong public writing skills or journalism experience to become the Editors of the CFR's Feminisms in Focus series.
The series features interviews with CFR faculty, students and associates, for instance, visiting scholars.
Besides interviews, there are also "Dispatches" which are short, lively descriptions, for general audiences, of CFR events.
These help to introduce diverse feminist and 2SLGBTQ+ ideas to general publics and keep a public record of the important ideas shared at CFR events.
The Editors will be responsible for:
-arranging at least 4 interviews with CFR associates per academic year
-arranging at least 4 CFR event organizers to write a "Dispatch"
-creating a call for student writers and identifying student writers
-helping student interviewers formulate questions and edit transcripts for publication
-coming up with new ideas for the series, subject to the approval of the CFR Director
If you are interested, submit 200-500 words explaining your interest and writing experience, a short CV, and two short writing samples to: the cfr-coor@yorku.ca. if you are a team, submit one page total, a short CV, and one writing sample each.
This is service to the CFR and your role as Editors should be included on your CV.
Rolling applications to a hard deadline of June 1, 2024.
If you would like to know more before applying, email the CFR Director: Elaine Coburn, ecoburn@yorku.ca
Toronto Black Histories Edit-A-Thon – Feb. 13 – anytime between 11am-3pm
We live in a world of information, and the knowledge we share matters: it can challenge or uphold the systemic barriers that many in our communities’ face. This February, we invite you to join your library in making the world of information more inclusive in the Toronto Black Histories Edit-a-thon!
Sign up to take part in one of the Black Histories Edit-a-thons. No experience with Wikipedia and Wikidata is needed because all events have training embedded into their programming. Join us for York’s in-person edit-a-thon on Tuesday, February 13, anytime between 11am - 3pm! You can sign-up for an calendar invite here or just drop-in to the Scott Library Atrium.
There are many other online and in-person opportunities listed at Toronto BHE website to learn more and register for the events. You also have the opportunity to participate on your own! The BHE website can connect you with online training and projects so you can work independently on our BHE 2024 campaign.
This event is organized by U of T Libraries, York University Libraries, Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries, and Toronto Public Library. We look forward to seeing you!
Robarts Centre: Willful Pedagogies: Unlearning with Visual Activism
Date: Monday February 12, 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:30 PM
Location: Winters College 117
Register: robarts@yorku.ca by February 9, 2024
This lecture engages with visual activism, asking how this genre’s insurgent aesthetics may enact what I call willful pedagogies by urging viewers to unlearn pernicious stereotypes and essentialisms around minoritized populations.
Drawing from Trans cultural production and Black feminist pedagogies, I consider how Syrus Marcus Ware’s visual activism unscripts damage-centered educational trends while cultivating arts of living and futures otherwise.
Dr. Libe García Zarranz (she/her) is Associate Professor of cultural theory and literatures in English in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research sits at the intersection of Canadian literary and visual studies, affect theory, and trans studies.
Plowing the past, harvesting the present: the perspective of the decolonial narrative with Itamar Vieira Junior
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Time: 2:30-4:30
Location: Kaneff Tower 519 - York University
RSVP:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pWCGC0K8XPXiY2iFhGg_Nxbk4LLAdqW6KaFsrEd6Jxs/edit
This event will be held in Portuguese, but English interpretation will be provided.
In his brief intervention, the author reads his novel Crooked Plow in light of the decolonial thought of Malcolm Ferdinand and Antônio Bispo dos Santos. Topics such as colonialism and slavery and its consequences over time converge aesthetically to create a literary narrative that enlightens a better understanding of our present.
Itamar Vieira Junior was born in 1979 in Salvador, Bahia. He is geographer and has a PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from UFBA, the Federal University of Bahia. As an author, he won Portugal’s Leya Prize for Torto Arado in 2018. The novel, a best-seller in Brazil and praised by critics, went on to win Brazil’s most prestigious literary award, the Jabuti, as well as the Oceanos Prize. Itamar Vieira Junior was also a finalist for the Jabuti for his book of short stories, The Executioner’s Prayer. Itamar Vieira Junior has recently published his highly anticipated second novel, Salvar o Fogo.
CIKL: Women’s Memorial March Day Film Screening: Mary Two-Axe Earley: I am Indian Again
The Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages in association with Associate Vice President of Indigenous Initiatives will be holding a get together on Wednesday February 14th from 1 until 3pm. February 14th is Women’s Memorial March Day and marks the incredible outpouring of grief and community solidarity following the death of an Indigenous Woman, Cheryl Ann Joe, in 1992.
We will host tea and coffee for faculty, staff, and students and then watch a short film together called Mary Two-Axe Earley: I am Indian Again. The film, which is available in both Kanienʼkéha and English, was created by Kanien'kehá:kafilm-maker Courtney Montour and chronicles the incredible life of Mary Two-Axe Early an Indigenous woman who lost her status when she married a non-Indigenous man and her incredible struggle to reclaim her identity. The screening will start at 2pm.
In the week leading up to the film the centre will be giving out red felt dresses and ribbon to put up around campus, to raise awareness of this important day and to show solidarity. Please drop-in and get some to put up around your office.
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to reach out to cikl@yorku.ca.
The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the Wellness Impact Lab are hosting the last of a 3-part seminar series:
"Climate Change and Mental Health: Listening to the Canadian North."
This series focuses on the interplay between climate change and mental health, particularly in the context of the Canadian North, highlighting Indigenous perspectives – starting next Wednesday, RSVP below:
Antisemitism and Racism: A Shared History with Prof. Magda Teter
In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” This convergence is not just a product of American history; its roots go far deeper. In this talk, Magda Teter, the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, will explore the interplay between Christian theology and law to demonstrate how the theological framework of Christian supersessionism articulated in antiquity and its subsequent application in law led to the creation of social hierarchies, legal exclusion of and a denial of equality to Jews and Black people also in modern times.
Magda Teter is a Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (2005), Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (2011), Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), and of dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her book Blood Libel won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award, The George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Ronald Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. Teter has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, HF Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Cullman Center at the NYPL, the NEH, and others. Teter is currently the President of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Who is an Activist Scholar? Praxis, Challenges, and Opportunities
Friday, March 1, 2024
1:30pm-2:30pm EST
Zoom
Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOuuqTMvGNUdS6GTfv03-DTff0GPsAKl#/registration
Other Events
The Parents of Black Children: Connecting Generations Panel
For many generations Black advocates have paved the way for the work that we do to be possible, their wisdom and experiences are invaluable.
The Connecting Generations Panel will bring together generational leaders and our youth to share invaluable knowledge on navigating systems.
You don't want to miss this conversation! Join us to soak up this knowledge session.
CBR Canada Awards 2024: Call for Nominations Open
Community-Based Research Excellence Awards
| Community-based research has great potential to contribute toward transformative societal impact that benefit and uplift marginalized communities across Canada and the world. CBRCanada recognizes excellence in community-based research and is thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for two 2024 Community-Based Research Excellence Awards. Submit a nomination of an exceptional research partnership or emerging researcher for the following awards:1. Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership 2. Emerging Community-Based Researcher. Nominees (at least one for a research partnership) must belong to a CBRCanada member organization OR be a registered individual member of CBRCanada. Nominations are due April 3rd, 2024 at 12 midnight ET. |
Call for Participants: Research study on Black student experiences with campus security
The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of Black students who have had an uncomfortable or negative interaction with campus security. This study will be completed using a critical race lens and critical race methodology.
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and registered at an Ontario college or university. Interviews will require 1 hour to 1.5 hours to complete virtually via telephone, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
Participants will receive a $25 e-gift card for Tim Hortons.
Interested participants can contact look1790@mylaurier.ca for more information.
This study has been approved by the Wilfrid Laurier University Research Ethics Board (REB #8320). This study has been approved by the York University Research Ethics Board (REB# 2023-277). Supervisor: Dr. Shoshana Pollack
Job Opportunities
Research Grant Manager, African Extractivism and the Green Transition
Indigenous Research and Community Engagement Associate
Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages
News, Updates, Publications
News@York: Walking the path with Harriet Tubman at York University
The recently opened resource centre at the HTI in York Lanes allows for a continuation of that safe space and research, individual and collaborative. Most of the books that line the walls of the centre, including several first-editions, as well as the artifacts on display, are donated. There are also archival documents, and audio and video tapes. It’s a growing collection that may soon spill out of its allotted space.
As part of its mandate, the HTI encourages the study of pre-contact cultures and the histories of Africa, slavery and colonialism, but also current struggles in the lives of African peoples and diasporic communities, including contemporary forms of exploitation.
“We are also building up our research clusters to encourage scholarly discussions and enrollments, not just in STEM [science, technology, engineering and math]. We like to put an ‘A’ in there for the ‘arts’, so it's STEAM,” says Olawoye. The HTIis also partnering with other organized research units at York, such as the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, as well as the Department of Dance and external organizations.
Media Contact: Sandra McLean, York University Media Relations and External Communications
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 30
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Study Rooms (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
The Resource Room Booking form can be found here. All other booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Black History Month with The Harriet Tubman Institute
Thursday, Feb 29: DEI: The Good, The Bad, and the Performative (Co-Organized with School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies)
Date: February 29th, 2024
Time: 12-2pm EST
Reception to follow
Location: Founders Assembly Hall (152 Founders College), Keele Campus, York University
The School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies invites you to join our Annual Lecture event featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. The roundtable will explore various fields such as higher education, broadcasting, news organizations and politics and the ways in which racialized and other marginalized people with progressive politics are initially welcomed in spaces of power, becoming symbols (or tokens) of progress in achieving “diversity and inclusion,” only to then be gaslighted, vilified or face reprisals for espousing their views.
Featured speakers:
- Ginella Massa, Broadcast journalist and media consultant
- Desmond Cole, Journalist, activist and author of The Skin We’re In
- Dr. Nadiya Ali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trent University
- Somar Abuaziza, President of the Palestine Solidarity Collective (PSC)
The event will be moderated and hosted by Dr. Bianca Beauchemin and Dr. Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professors from the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.
The roundtable will be followed by a reception with refreshments.
Space is limited. Please register for the event at the following link: https://laps.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=2176459
Friday, March 1: Movie Screening – Paris is Burning (Co-organized with Department of Dance)
Date: March 1st, 2024
Time: 7:00pm EST
Location: MacLean Performance Studio, Studio F - Accolade East, York University
Upcoming York Events and News
Building Black Worlds: Making Black Spaces in Digital Gaming Places
Date: Tuesday February 27
Time: 1-2:30pm (EST)
Register via Eventbrite to receive the zoom link for this virtual talk.
In this talk, Dr. Akil Fletcher will share his new work on Black intermediality, exploring how Black players take existing game environments for their own use, going beyond the intentions of developers to create new social worlds of experience and being.
Utilizing Research Funds: A Guide to Finance at York
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 am
Location: Zoom
So, you were awarded a research grant… congratulations! Now what? How do you reconcile your budget, pay your research assistants, claim your expenses, and so on? Utilizing Research Funds: A Guide to Finance at York is a virtual workshop designed to demystify the university’s finance departments and help you understand where and how to get help when you need it. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or new to the academic world, this workshop provides an opportunity to engage with finance managers and directors, ask questions, and discover how to leverage financial resources effectively for your research projects.
Speakers
- Francesca Abbruzzese, Assistant Manager, Research Accounting
- Rachelle Marfa-Surco, Manager, Procure to Pay
- Paula Perri, Manager, General Accounting
- Angela Zeno, Associate Director, Research Accounting
The workshop will be recorded and sent to registrants.
If you’d like specified training on key finance supports in order to familiarize yourself with specific platforms or come prepared with questions, the following modules are available through YU Learn in advance of the workshop:
- Sm@rtBuy for Requisitioners – Friday, February 23, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (virtual)
- Sm@rtBuy for Approvers – Friday, February 23, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (virtual)
Negative Rights: Racial Segregation and the Law in Twentieth Century Brazil
Though Brazil and the United States share a history of deep racial inequalities and discrimination, they have pronounced differences in frameworks of civil rights. This presentation places those patterns of rights in conversation, and focuses on ways in which twentieth-century Brazilians who were Black made claims in a context of negative rights.
Thursday, February 29, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
York Hall 170 (across from the Glendon cafeteria)
2275 Bayview Avenue – Glendon College
Registration Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rduqhrzgoGtAlNbc8DgNDQblJoHASn_Vx#/registration
Jerry Dávila is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History and Executive Director of the Illinois Global Institute at UIUC. Dávila’s research focuses on the influence of racial thought and social movements on public policy in Brazil. He is the author of Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization (Duke, 2010), Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Public Policy in Brazil (Duke, 2003), and Dictatorship in South America (Wiley, 2013), and also co-authored A History of World Societies, 12th ed. (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2021).
Sponsored by the Glendon History Department’s Albert Tucker Fund.
Antisemitism and Racism: A Shared History with Prof. Magda Teter
In 2017 in Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” This convergence is not just a product of American history; its roots go far deeper. In this talk, Magda Teter, the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, will explore the interplay between Christian theology and law to demonstrate how the theological framework of Christian supersessionism articulated in antiquity and its subsequent application in law led to the creation of social hierarchies, legal exclusion of and a denial of equality to Jews and Black people also in modern times.
Magda Teter is a Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (2005), Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (2011), Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), and of dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her book Blood Libel won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award, The George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Ronald Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. Teter has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, HF Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the Cullman Center at the NYPL, the NEH, and others. Teter is currently the President of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Who is an Activist Scholar? Praxis, Challenges, and Opportunities
Date: Friday, March 1, 2024
Time: 1:30pm-2:30pm EST
Location: Zoom
Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOuuqTMvGNUdS6GTfv03-DTff0GPsAKl#/registration
Other Events
The Centre for Caribbean Studies cordially invites you to a special presentation: A Very Canadian Coup in Haiti (20 Years Later)
Date: February 26, 2024
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St. Toronto
Lower Level (Basement), University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-canadian-coup-in-haiti-20-years-later-tickets-815706308527
CAPACITY IS LIMITED AND FOOD WILL BE SERVED AT 6PM.
THIS IS A PUBLIC EVENT - ALL ARE WELCOME
On February 29, 2004, the Canadian military participated in the overthrow of the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Under Aristide, Haiti was making progress towards building a people’s democracy, strengthening political institutions and the rule of law through elections, reforming the economy to redirect resources to build much needed schools and primary clinics and infrastructure for the Haitian people. This was done through a popular platform based on the idea that these modest reforms would transform life for the majority of the Haitian people, moving them “from absolute misery to dignified poverty”. Combine this with the call for reparations, Aristide and the Lavalas party had to go.
For almost 20 years, Canada pushed the lie that Aristide had resigned and fled the country due to a popular uprising and denied any wrongdoing via this violent intervention into Haiti’s political affairs. Not only was the Canadian military involved, but the Canadian government also directly funded Haiti's elite opposition parties, withheld aid to Aristide to undermine his ability to govern, engaged in a coordinated demonization campaign in the media, and organized the “Ottawa Initiative” in 2003 with the plan to remove Aristide from power. This has now been publicly admitted by those directly involved in the coup, including former Secretary of State for Latin America and Africa, Denis Paradis, and the former French Ambassador to Haiti, Yves Gaudeul.
Much of Haiti’s current crises and political breakdown can be traced back to the catastrophic consequences unleashed by this intervention - but the Canadian government deliberately chooses to downplay and ignore this history.
Join us for a conversation with an exciting panel that brings some of the top minds and critical voices together, as we are delighted to host Professor Jemima Pierre, filmmaker and journalist Etant Dupain and activist and educator Jean St. Vil.
Call for Participants: Research study on Black student experiences with campus security
The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of Black students who have had an uncomfortable or negative interaction with campus security. This study will be completed using a critical race lens and critical race methodology.
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and registered at an Ontario college or university. Interviews will require 1 hour to 1.5 hours to complete virtually via telephone, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
Participants will receive a $25 e-gift card for Tim Hortons.
Interested participants can contact look1790@mylaurier.ca for more information.
This study has been approved by the Wilfrid Laurier University Research Ethics Board (REB #8320). This study has been approved by the York University Research Ethics Board (REB# 2023-277). Supervisor: Dr. Shoshana Pollack
CAAS Professional Development Webinar #4: Leadership in Academia
Date: March 1, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:30pm EST
Moderator
Prof. Uwafiokun Idemudia
Dean, College of School and Applied Human Sciences
University of Guelph
Featuring:
PROF. ELIZABETH ADJIN-TETTEY
Associate Vice-President Academic Programs,
University of Victoria
PROF. SULAIMON GIWA
Interim Dean
School of Social Work
Memorial University
PROF. TAIBAT LAWANSON
Co-Director, Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development
University of Lagos
PROF. GERTRUDE MIANDA
Former Director,
Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas,
York University
Black And Free: Scene Study
March 3 – June 9, 2024
Sundays: 12:30PM – 2:30PM
Grades 7-8
YPT 161 Studios
Free Registration
Click Here to Register Today!
Black And Free: Scene Study is a YPT Drama School course offered this year as a continuation of the SOLD OUT 2022.23 pilot class “Black Theatre in Ontario”. Black And Free: Scene Study is for students in Grades 7 & 8 and will explore Black theatre and performance through a journey of reading and working on texts by Black playwrights and performers. Over 12 weeks, students will investigate themes of blackness and freedom and their connections to theatre. No prior theatre experience is necessary; we enthusiastically invite students of all levels to join this program.
In this class students will…
- Read and perform texts from Black playwrights and performers
- Work on scenes in pairs and small groups
- Develop acting skills and have fun!
- Investigate the powerful theme of blackness and freedom
- Perform a scripted scene on a YPT stage at the end of the 12 weeks!
Please Note: Everyone registered in the course will be invited to participate in the Black And Free research study in the form of a short interview about their reflections on the course with one of the project’s research assistants. Please note, participation in the study is not required to take the course.
Contact: Project Coordinator, Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae’s Black And Free Research-Creation Project
University of Waterloo, Department of Communication Arts
200 University Ave. West, ML Building
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects
Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Location: Dunton Tower 1706 ( Pius Adesami African Studies Resource Centre) and online via Zoom.
Register here: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0of-iorj4jG9ZpE1_cEJG0Q_KgdAJZokGz#/registration
Olukunle P. Owolabi presents his book entitled : ” Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South”.
In summary, Olukunle P. Owolabi“s book:
- Distinguishes between forced settlement and colonial occupation as distinct modes of imperial domination in the Global South
- Uses statistical data methods and comparative-historical analysis to analyze the long-term developmental consequences of forced settlement and colonial occupation across multiple colonial empires
- Highlights significant variations in colonial state-building, long-term development, and postcolonial democratization across the Black Atlantic world
- Draws evidence from more than ninety developing countries that gained independence after World War II.
About the Author
Dr. Olukunle P. Owolabi is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, African Politics, comparative democratization, and the developmental legacies of colonialism. His research examines the developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the Global South and has been published in Comparative Politics.
Survey: Being Black in Public
Since George Floyd, public conversations and media coverage concerning anti-Black public space discrimination have sharply declined. However, this long-standing issue remains urgent. That’s why Jay Pitter Placemaking—an award-winning, binational practice located at the nexus of urban planning and social justice—has partnered with academics, philanthropic organizations, mental health professionals, media and urban planning regulators to launch the Being Black in Public Survey.
The survey is geared toward Black-identified individuals residing in Canada and the U.S. It creates dedicated space for Black people, outside of trauma and the labour of public protest, to process their public space experiences.
In addition to questions that explore policing issues and other public space challenges, this asset-based survey creates an opportunity for respondents to share their thoughts on what contributes to positive public space experiences. The insights gathered will not only benefit Black communities. They will benefit cities (and rural communities) by inviting greater understanding and tangible recommendations for change through an action-oriented report.
Again, we ask that you circulate this survey across your email lists and social media platforms. Sample Post: "If you’re a Black-identified individual please complete & share this survey. Also, if you’re connected with Black community stakeholders, please share. Public spaces should be enjoyable & safe for all. https://www.isryorku.ca/beingblackinpublic"
Thanks in advance for your support.
Follow this link to the Survey:
BeingBlackInPublic
Jay Pitter Placemaking
Technical support is available at survey@yorku.ca.
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Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages
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News, Updates, Publications
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 25
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Room (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
The Resource Room Booking form can be found here. All other booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Tubman Talks with Dr. Patrícia Ferraz de Matos: On (in)visibility: women in colonial iconography during the Portuguese Estado Novo (1930s – 1940s)
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Time: 2:30-4:00pm ET
Location: Tubman Resource Room - 314 York Lanes, York University, Keele Campus (hybrid)
Refreshments will be served.
Registration for in-person attendance
Registration for virtual attendance
Title: On (in)visibility: women in colonial iconography during the Portuguese Estado Novo (1930s – 1940s)
Abstract: The aim of this presentation is to reflect on the presence of colonized women in photographs and other representations, such as drawings, posters, postcards, exhibition catalogues, newspapers and magazines, which were disseminated in the context of the Portuguese colonial expositions, and in exhibition spaces conceived by the Portuguese with a colonial component. Generally speaking, the exhibitions sought to put forward the progress, taking into account land, rail and sea transport, but also roads, communications, trade, industry, arts, architecture, culture, and the most recent advances in science and medicine. The exhibitions were also places where the logic of colonial models was staged, showing a clear relationship between colonial domination and gender representation. The research includes several materials produced throughout the 1930s (a fertile period regarding the Portuguese participation in this kind of international events) intended to publicize these exhibitions or serve as a complement to them. These materials may include art works or merely propagandistic works, or works that combine both components. The analysis will include materials associated with several exhibitions between 1931 and 1940, such as the International Colonial Exhibition of Paris (1931), the Lisbon Industrial Exhibition (1932), the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition in Porto (1934), the Exhibition of the Portuguese World in Lisbon (1940), and the Portugal of the Little Ones (Portugal dos Pequenitos) in Coimbra (1940). The contexts in which women appear and the way they are represented — as active beings (performing tasks), as contemplative beings (as in natural landscapes) or as objects of sexual desire, revealing the context of power (legislative, administrative, male and colonial) in which the images and the representations were produced — will be analyzed.
Bio: Patrícia Ferraz de Matos is an anthropologist, research fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa (UL), and member of the teaching staff of the PhD in Anthropology of UL since 2013. She is associate editor of Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2020-2024), convener of the Europeanist Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2020-2024), deputy director of the journal Análise Social (2021-2024) and correspondent member, in Portugal, of the History of Anthropology Network of EASA since 2019. She is also Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, since 2019, and member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities of Portuguese Language, representing the meritorious member ICS-UL (2021-2025). She is the author of The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations During Portuguese Colonialism (Berghahn Books, 2013) and of Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism: Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology (Berghahn Books, 2023). Prizes: Victor de Sá Prize in Contemporary History 2005; ERICS Prize (ICS-UL/CGD) 2014; Scientific Prize - Honourable Mention (UL/CGD) 2019.
Tubman Talks with Dr. Molade Osibodu: Unsettling Colonial Logics in Secondary Mathematics Education
Date: Thursday, November 23, 2023
Time: 2:30-4:00pm ET
Location: Zoom
Title: Unsettling Colonial Logics in Secondary Mathematics Education
Bio: Dr. Molade Osibodu is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at York University. Her research critically examines the experiences of Black youth in mathematics education. Dr. Osibodu is specifically interested in examining ways to decolonize mathematics education for liberatory futures, engaging with social justice issues and exploring African Indigenous mathematics practices.
Abstract: Recently, the casting of Black actors in fantasy-based contexts, such as The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power, House of the Dragon, and The Little Mermaid, has caused significant controversy. The issue raises the question of where Black people are allowed to exist, as some find it challenging to conceive of Black people simply existing in the realm of fantasy and fiction. In the realm of mathematics education, it appears equally challenging to believe in the success of Black learners in secondary mathematics education. Katherine McKittrick’s (2006) Demonic Groundsdelves into how physical and material spaces reveal the non-neutral nature of spatiality, particularly for Black people. McKittrick queries, “what is it about space, place, and blackness—the uneven sites of physical and experiential ‘difference’—that derange the landscape and its inhabitants?” (p. 3). This talk examines how coloniality has contributed to this derangement by closely examining the experiences of Black secondary learners in mathematics education. I challenge the notion of exceptionality by arguing that Black learners success in mathematics should be normalized. Furthermore, these experiences underscore the imperative to reimagine spaces and to contemplate the conditions under which Black mathematics learners not only exist but thrive in mathematics education.
Upcoming York Events and News
Call for Reviewers: Africa Knowledge Project and African Philosophy
Dr Azuka Nzegwu, the Managing Editor of Africa Knowledge Project, is seeking reviewers for two journals:
Contact Dr. Azuka Nzegwo editor@africaknowledgeproject.org for more information.
Research Commons: Conflict in Research (Part 1) Research Integrity and Research Ethics
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 10-11am ET
Location: Zoom
In Part 1, you will hear from experts in research ethics and integrity, data management, and information security. Join us to learn more about Responsible Conduct in Research, Data Access and Ownership in Collaborative Teams, and Data and Information Security in the age of AI.
Presenters:
Alison Collins-Mrakas
Director, Office of Research Ethics
Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation
Topics: Supervision of Students, Research Authorship, Data Access & Ownership
Minglu Wang
Research Data Management Librarian, Open Scholarship Department
Division of Research & Open Scholarship in Libraries
Topics: Open Access, Data Management, Data Sharing & Publication
Chris Russel
Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer
University Information Technology
Topics: Data Information & Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Registration Link: https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=188298
Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/97934244227?pwd=QTZBR1U4OTZDYkF2VzU5MndRUHliQT09
Meeting ID: 979 3424 4227
Passcode: 484053
Social Exclusion of Roma, Indigenous People and Irregular Migrants
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Time: 2:30PM - 4:00PM
Location: Ross S802, York University, Keele Campus (hybrid)
Please RSVP by Friday, November 9, 2023.
Speaker: Dr. Andriani Papadopoulou, Senior Investigator in the Human Rights and Equal Treatment Department, Greek Ombudsman
Discussant: Dr. Gemechu Abeshu, Postdoctoral, Department of Sociology, York University
Zoom link:
https://yorku.zoom.us/j/97236315327?pwd=TmJ2bFFLRVE0cnBpZ25ZMUtoTXJaUT09
Meeting ID: 972 3631 5327
Passcode: 020005
Event co-sponsors
Department of Sociology, LA&PS
Department of Sociology Maurice Manel Colloquium Fund
Resource Centre for Public Sociology
Centre for Refugee Studies
YRC in Political Sociology of Health (PI: Cary Wu)
Robarts, CFR, GLRC & Nexus Connect: Who is an Activist Scholar? Praxis, challenges, and opportunities
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Time: 12:00-5:00pm ET
Location: Zoom
Robart’s Centre for Canadian Studies: Designing a Flourishing Future and Researching with Black Communities in Canada
Date: Monday November 20, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Room 519 Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University (in-person event).
RSVP here by November 20th at 8:00am.
EUC Seminar Series “Aim High, Degrow: Dialogues on Degrowth”.
Session 1 in November: “Degrowth: a slogan, a movement or a concept?”
Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov 22 @ 1:00 pm EST
Description: Discussion about the origins of degrowth, the controversies around its name, the advances in recognition of degrowth in academia, grassroots initiatives and political debates, and the directions of future research and action on degrowth.
Speakers:
Peter Victor
Elena Hofferberth
Moderator:
Anna Zalik
Session 2 in December: “Decolonization and feminism: does degrowth cut it?”
Date/Time: Thursday, Dec 14 @ 11:30 am EST
Description: Discussion around how degrowth is (or not) aligned with decolonial and feminist approaches. Where are the synergies and where are the contradictions between decolonization and feminism, and degrowth?
Speakers:
Corinna Dengler
Wendy Harcourt
Moderator:
Ellie Perkins
Other Events & Opportunities
Call for Participants: Research study on Black student experiences with campus security
The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of Black students who have had an uncomfortable or negative interaction with campus security. This
study will be completed using a critical race lens and critical race methodology. Participants must be at least 18 years of age and registered at an Ontario
college or university. Interviews will require 1 hour to 1.5 hours to complete virtually via telephone, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams.
Participants will receive a $25 e-gift card for Tim Hortons.
Interested participants can contact Yugita Looknauth look1790@mylaurier.ca for more information.
This study has been approved by the Wilfrid Laurier University Research Ethics Board (REB #8320).
This study has been approved by the York University Research Ethics Board (REB# 2023-277).
Supervisor: Dr. Shoshana Pollack
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan: Call for survey participation
Thank you to everyone who participated in our study this summer exploring the role of research development in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). There has been tremendous interest in the project and, as a result, we have decided to reopen the survey in order to collect additional data.
As someone who has considerable knowledge and experience in this area, we would value your feedback. We are specifically looking for insight from professionals with responsibility for fostering DEI-related research within higher education institutions and/or those involved with research development activities. If you have already participated, please consider sharing this opportunity with colleagues.
The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete and will close November 17, 2023.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Alexus Roane and Rebecca Shea Irvine, Co-investigators
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
E: rsirvine@umich.edu | P: (734) 647 8642 | W: irwg.umich.edu
Institute of African studies Knowing Africa Seminar Series: Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 1:00-2:30pm EST
Location: Zoom
October
News, Updates, Publications
VPRI accepting applications for ORU Coordinator positions
#1) The York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response, and Governance Institute (Y-EMERGE)
Institute Coordinator (technomedia.com)
#2) Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages (CIKL)
Centre Coordinator (technomedia.com)
Tubman Events
HTI & YCAR Present: India's Solidarity Economics: An Indian Feminist Understanding of ROSCAs, Self Help Groups, and the Kudumbashree System in Kerala with Christabell P.J.
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 2:30-3:30pm EDT
Location: 314 York Lanes, Resource Room, Third Floor, York Lanes, York University Keele Campus
Registration for virtual attendees
Registration for in-person attendees
The talk will be based on an Indian feminist understanding of the wide variety of solidarity systems in India and how they affect the lives of the marginalized sections of society.
HTI’s International Conference 2023 - Dakar, Senegal – October 9-11, 2023
The International Conference 2023 is taking place next week in Dakar, Senegal! With many efforts in planning, the organizing committee will be travelling to Dakar with HTI members to present their research under the theme of Africa and its Contributions to World Civilization (see poster and schedule attached).
Upcoming York Events and Opportunities
Centre for Vision Research - Ian P. Howard Memorial Lecture
Date: Friday, October 6, 2023
Time: 2-3pm EDT
Location: Senate Chambers, Ross N940
Next Friday (Oct. 6) the Centre for Vision Research (CVR) hosts the Ian P. Howard Memorial Lecture. This is our premier event of the year where we honour a distinguished vision scientist and ask them to present an accessible overview of their work. We are delighted to be hosting Prof. Jack Gallant from Berkeley. The lecture will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the complex brain networks which underlie vision, language and other cognitive functions from a leader in the field. Please share this with your members and extend our invitation for them to attend. There will be a reception following.
Abstract: Navigation is a complex and dynamic task that engages multiple brain systems for perception, cognition, planning and decision making, and motor control. Most studies focusing on the brain systems mediating navigation use sparse environments, simple tasks, and reduced models. Such studies optimize experimental control, but because the
brain is a highly nonlinear dynamical system they are unlikely to lead to models that accurately explain brain function during natural navigation. In this talk I will describe human functional neuroimaging experiments that overcome many of the limitations of prior navigation studies, and which produce rich computational models that explain human brain function during naturalistic, active navigation. In these experiments participants first learned to navigate through a large virtual city containing hundreds of distinct roads, buildings and landmarks. After learning to criterion participants performed a taxi driver task in the MRI scanner while brain activity was recorded. Banded ridge regression was then used to create high-dimensional voxelwise encoding models separately for every subject, and model prediction accuracy and generalization was tested using a separate data set. The encoding model framework allowed us to simultaneously evaluate 33 separate hypotheses about navigation-related representations that might be represented in the human brain. In this talk I will summarize the results of these experiments, focusing on three different aspects of these rich data: visualization and interpretation of the fit voxelwise encoding models across the cortical surface and in the hippocampus; evaluation of navigation-related networks; and decoding of information from navigation-related functional regions. Although I will be focusing on navigation in this talk, the methods that underpin these studies can be applied to many different problem domains and across species, and my laboratory has developed a large suite of open source tools and tutorials to facilitate adoption of this approach. Therefore, I hope that this talk will be of interest to a broad audience.
Bio: Jack Gallant is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and the 2022 Chair of the IEEE Brain Community. Professor Gallant's research focuses on high-resolution functional mapping and quantitative computational modeling of human brain networks. His lab has created the most detailed current functional maps of human brain networks mediating vision, language comprehension and navigation, and they have used these maps to decode and reconstruct perceptual experiences directly from brain activity. Further information about ongoing work in the Gallant lab, links to talks and papers and links to online interactive brain viewers can be found at the (somewhat out-of-date) lab webpage: http://gallantlab.org.
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents:The 2023-2024 Michael Baptista Lecture
Haitian Feminist Epistemologies and Critical Pedagogies In and Outside the Classroom with Dr. Célia Romulus
When: Thursday, October 26
Time: 5:30pm EDT
Location: Kaneff Tower Room 519 – York University
This is a hybrid event:
- If you will attend in person, please register here by October 19 to secure your spot: https://forms.office.com/r/3vXDZG5YMy
- If you will attend via Zoom, please register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6tRAisclTh6MIJuqDwgh8Q
Reception to follow.
Pedagogy is commonly understood to include practical matters concerning curriculum, instruction, and evaluation as well as a deeper engagement with power as it affects knowledge, educational institutions, and classroom dynamics (Crabtree, Sapp, and Licona 2009). Post-secondary university settings in Canada have historically been arenas of struggle regarding education about Race. World politics, changing demographics and challenges to systems of power in the education system have resulted in increased attention to equity in teaching and research. While there has been hiring of Black faculty in higher education institutions in Canada in the past three years, the academy continues to discriminate and uphold institutionalized racism through policies and practices. Obstacles to academic publishing and teaching that put women and racialized faculty at a disadvantage remain understudied particularly for those who challenge discursive and intellectual hierarchies through an engaged classroom. Indeed, institutional dynamics and students’ reactions can create a challenging classroom environment (Sampaio, 2010). Drawing on Haitian feminist experiences and thus on Black feminist epistemologies, this lecture will problematize intersections between identity, pedagogy and power structures in the classroom. By bridging disciplinary and methodological divides, this lecture will reflect on the following questions: how does positionality shape teaching practices? What are the pedagogies deployed to teach controversial topics that are met by resistance in universities? Memory work and experiential knowledge will be addressed as strategies in promoting critical thinking, independent learning and decentering Eurocentric and other hegemonic systems of knowledge in global politics.
Dr. Célia Romulus in an assistant professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of International Development and Global Studies of the University of Ottawa. Her research and teaching draw from anti-oppression and anti-racist education and Afro and decolonial feminisms, and explore questions related to gender, race and the politics of memory, migrations, citizenship, political violence, and development. The second aspect of her research explores epistemic violence and resistance and interdisciplinary methods. Célia Romulus worked as a program director in the areas of gender-based violence in public spaces and in security sector reform for UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. She continues to work as a consultant and trainer on questions related to anti-oppression, anti-racism, Black femininities/masculinities, and gender mainstreaming in public policies and in development.
Or Emet Webinar "THE INCREASING REGULATION OF BUSINESS FOR THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACTS"
Speaker: Robert McCorquodale, Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
Date: October 26, 2023
Time: 12:30pm EDT
Location: Room 1014, Paul Helliwell Centre, Osgoode Hall Law School
This lecture will consider this increasing regulation and what it means for businesses today, including those based in Canada, and the consequences for rightsholders affected by business activities. It will also analyse the breadth of businesses covered, including the extractive sector and the financial sector, as well as the extension of this regulation to include environmental and climate change matters.
When the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were adopted in 2011, the expectation was that the responsibility of business to respect human rights would largely be a voluntary one, with improvements in business actions occurring due mainly to social and economic pressures. While some businesses have made changes, and some industry associations have encouraged this, there has been an increasing amount of legal regulation of business for their actions which have had adverse human rights impacts.
This regulation has occurred at the international, regional and domestic levels, with changes to the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises, the International Labour Organisation Tripartite Principles and other international documents, which place expectations on states to act in relation to their regulation of business activities impacting on human rights. In the past few years, a number of states, such as Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom and the United States, have introduced various pieces of legislation or administrative action to place legal obligations on businesses in regard to a range of human rights. The European Union is about to finalise its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive which would cover a wide range of human rights and environmental matters, and would include within its scope both EU domiciled businesses and businesses domiciled elsewhere and operating in the EU. In addition, a series of cases before the courts, including in Canada, have broadened the possible legal duties and liabilities of businesses in this area.
The Or Emet Lecture is presented annually by Osgoode’s Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, with the assistance of the Or Emet Fund. The Fund, which was established in 1976, seeks to promote through public discussion, research and scholarly writing, public and professional appreciation of the significance of religion, ethics, culture and history in the development of the legal system. ‘Or ‘Emet means “the light of truth.”
Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC): 8th annual Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour
Date: Thursday, October 12 - Friday, October 13, 2023
Sessions on Wednesday run concurrently
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Registration: Zoom registration links are included in the program. Attendees must register for each panel separately.
Join the Global Labour Research Centre at York University for the 8th annual Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour, a virtual forum designed to showcase the scholarship of new voices in labour studies across a diverse range of disciplines.
The Symposium is generously supported by York University's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; Department of Sociology; Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies Program; School of Human Resources Management; and Social and Political Thought Program; and McMaster University’s School of Labour Studies.
Visit the GLRC website for more information.
Environmental Research Group: Indigenous Environmental History Walk (Keele Campus)
Date: Wednesday October 18
Time: 3pm EDT
Location: outside Skennen’ko:wa Gamig (The House of Great Peace)
Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/34ACMGfEagxL69fk7
Calling all environmental researchers at York University!
Join us on Wednesday, October 18th for an Indigenous History Walk at Keele Campus led by guides from First Story Toronto.
All are welcome, including faculty and graduate students from across the university.
Meeting place and itinerary
The Indigenous History Walk will meet at 3pm outside Skennen’ko:wa Gamig (The House of Great Peace) RAIN OR SHINE. From there we will walk south to the Parsons Site and then on to the Black Creek Watershed system. The tour will make several stops at points of historical significance to the Indigenous Nations with longstanding relationship to the territory upon which the Keele campus is located.
Directions
Skennen’ko:wa Gamig appears in Section F4 of the Keele Campus map. It is listed under "Historical Houses". To learn more about Skennen’ko:wa Gamig, visit: https://aboriginal.info.yorku.ca/skennenkowa-gamig/
Event sponsors
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Environmental Research Group
About ERG
The Environmental Research Group is one of the research clusters in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. The group brings together graduate students and faculty at York University studying aspects of the Canadian environment from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives including sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, health, and engineering. We strive to provide a forum for researchers to make connections, share findings and explore key issues in environmental research.
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents:Canada-Chile Solidarity 1973-1990, Testimonies of Civil Society Action - Liisa North (Editor)
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Kaneff Tower 626 – York University
To register for the event, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-chile-solidarity-1973-1990-testimonies-of-civil-society-action-tickets-726959825407
The stories and documents presented in this book relate key facets of the history of Canadian civil society solidarity with Chile after the September 1973 military coup d’état. It is a history that speaks to the importance of well-organized and coordinated civic action in the formulation of public policy, especially with regard to refugees and dealing with dictatorships; it also speaks to the significance of refugee and exile community contributions to Canadian society. In addition to retrospective interpretations by activists, through the documents that are reproduced here, we hear the voices of the churches, unions, and civic organizations as they worked to ensure justice and debated with government officials and corporate leaders about the directions that Canadian policy toward Chile and Latin America should take.
With:
Liisa North, York University | Joan Simalchik, University of Toronto | Veronica Schild, University of Western Ontario | Magdalena Ugarte, Toronto Metropolitan University | Rachel Warden, KAIROS | Patricio Bascuñán, Casa Salvador Allende | Fernando Morales Godoy, Chilean Consul.
Moderator: Alan B. Simmons, York University
This event is being co-sponsored by: The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) and the Department of Politics.
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies Small Grants (Fall deadline: October 6, 2023)
The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies runs a biannual internal competition for funds to support the research activities of its emerging scholars, either Faculty Associates employed at York University for less than four years and Research Associates.
Once a year, each emerging scholar can apply to the small grants program with a request for funds to a maximum of $750 for Faculty Associates and $200 for Research Associates.
Deadlines for applying to the program for activities held between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2024: Fall deadline: 6 October 2023
Winter deadline: 1 March 2024
Visit: https://www.yorku.ca/research/robarts/robarts-centre-for-canadian-studies-small-grants/ for application forms
Other Events & Opportunities
Indigenous Solidarity Across Borders, Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
Date: Friday Oct 13th, 2023 - Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
Saturday, Oct 14th, 2023 - Nathan Philips Square
Time: 6:30pm EDT
Join us on Friday Oct 13th at 6:30 pm at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto and Saturday October 14th at 1:00 pm for a rally at Nathan Philips Square.
UNITED AGAINST TC ENERGY
Wet'suwet'en leaders and Mixtec, Otomi & Nahua land defenders are coming together to resist TC Energy's pipelines on their territories. Travelling 4000 kilometers east from Wet'suwet'en territory and north from Puebla/Hidalgo, and Veracruz Mexico, these land defenders will converge in Toronto and Ottawa to build their shared resistance to Canadian company TC Energy's colonial pipeline projects.
With special guest Rev. Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nigeria, Recipient of Right Livelihood Award.
We are inviting you to show up in solidarity with them in Toronto on October 13 and 14 and in Ottawa on October 16 to hear directly from these land defenders and join their rallying call: NO to pipelines, colonization, policing, and corporate greed stealing their land, poisoning the water, and burning the planet!
FRIDAY OCT 13 - Toronto Panel and Film Screening. Info and registration here.
SATURDAY OCT 14 - Toronto Rally and March. Info here.
MONDAY OCT 16 - Ottawa Public Talk. Info and registration here.
News, Updates, Publications
The Office of the VPRI is still accepting applications for ORU Coordinator positions
#1) The York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response, and Governance Institute (Y-EMERGE)
Institute Coordinator (technomedia.com)
#2) Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages (CIKL)
Centre Coordinator (technomedia.com)
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 25
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Room (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
Booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Presented by HTI & YCAR: India's Solidarity Economics: An Indian Feminist Understanding of ROSCAs, Self Help Groups, and the Kudumbashree System in Kerala
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2023
Time: 14:30 to 15:30 EDT
Location: Room 314, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom
Registration for virtual attendees
Registration for in-person attendees
With Christabell P. J., Department of Economics, University of Kerala
In the solidarity sector, India is well-known for self-help groups. This ability to mobilize groups is no easy feat in a country with a population of 1.35 billion and hundreds of languages and ethnicities bounded by caste, class and such identities. There are various forms of cooperatives—both informal and formal—in India. Part of the diverse financial economies include Chit funds, a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), and this system is both informal and regulated. Kerala's expertise in self-help groups and mutual aid, with innovations such as Chits and Kudumbashree, has earned the state a rightful place as a leading expert on cooperative development. The talk will be based on an Indian feminist understanding of the wide variety of solidarity systems in India and how they affect the lives of the marginalized sections of society.
Dr Christabell P. J. is an academic and researcher in the field of Economics, known for her contributions to social and solidarity economy. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. She is the founder of DISE (Diverse Solidarity Economies) Lab in India, which is funded by the University of Kerala.
Her educational journey began with a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Kerala in 1998 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the same university in 2004.
Noteworthy among her books are titles like Women Empowerment through Capacity Building: The role of Micro-Finance, and Inclusive Growth through Social Capital Formation: Is Microfinance an Effective Tool for Targeting Women?She is co-editor with Caroline Shenaz Hossein of Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings, Credit Associations, and Economic Cooperation.
She is recipient of a K N Raj Fellowship on Research Grant for Researchers in Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and Publication Grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She has been awarded research funding from agencies including the University Grants Commission, Kerala State Planning Board, ICSSR, Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), etc.
This event is presented by the Harriet Tubman Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research. The speaker was invited to Canada by the DISE collective and the University of Toronto.
MABOUNGOU: Being in The World (film screening & artist panel) — A Special Tubman Talks and Department of Dance Event
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm ET
Location: McLean Performance Studio, 244 Accolade East Building (2nd Floor)
Register for your free ticket HERE
The McLean Performance Studio is fully accessible.
On Wednesday November 1st, The School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) will host a screening of the 2023 biographical documentary MABOUNGOU: Being in the World (48 minutes) followed by a discussion panel featuring Governor General’s Performing Arts Award-winner Zab Maboungou and three internationally renown dance artists – Isaac Akrong, Florent Nikiéma, and Pulga Muchochoma. This special event is a collaboration between the Department of Dance and the Harriet Tubman Institute, addressing how colonial pasts inform the present experience of dance artists of African descent working in the diasporas.
Panel Moderator: Collette ‘Coco’ Murray, arts educator and doctoral student in Dance
Sponsored by PUBLIC: journal of art, culture and ideas.
This event will be presented in English and French.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Mouvement Perpétuel is an award-winning Montreal-based independent film, video, and new media production company specializing in arts programming. Co-directors Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer create impressionistic dance-media films, arts documentaries and multi-channel video installations. MABOUNGOU: Being in the World has received critical success at dance and film festivals around the world since its release in 2023.
Upcoming York Events and News
The Niche is an Intensive Certificate Course for Young Black Leaders, led by The Harriet Tubman Community Organization and funded by The City of Toronto, Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit (CABR).
HTI’s Community partner, The Harriet Tubman Community Organization, will be hosting a 3-day Intensive Certificate Course for young Black leaders.
This is a FREE 3-day certificate training course that runs from Oct 27-29, 2023 and is for young Black leaders (18-35 years old) who are active within the social service sector (social work, child and youth care, etc.) and are seeking to advance their careers in decision-making roles. Facilitators for the program include David Lewis-Peart, Dr. Leo Edwards, Danielle Gilmore, Akilah Hamilton, Teshyla Bailey, Dr. Joseph Smith, and Pascale Diverlus.
The Niche will provide participants with an opportunity to, upon completion, receive a certificate of completion that is endorsed by the Making Space Lab at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - at the University of Toronto and The Harriet Tubman Institute- at York University.
Register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/intensive-certificate-course-for-young-black-leaders-tickets-440448151277?aff=oddtdtcreator
Contact: Dee Marksman-Phillpotts, They/Them
The Niche, Learning Co-Coordinator
Harriet Tubman Community Organization
Four leaders to receive honorary degrees during Fall Convocation
Itah Sadu, author, entrepreneur
Honorary doctor of laws
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies I, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Thursday, Oct. 12, 10:30 a.m.
Wes Hall, Chair and founder of WeShall Investments, television personality
Honorary doctor of laws
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies II
Thursday, Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m.
Andromache Karakatsnais, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Honorary doctor of laws
Schulich School of Business, Osgoode Hall Law School
Friday, Oct. 13, 10:30 a.m.
Nnimmo Bassey, architect, poet and environmental activist
Honorary doctor of laws
Glendon College, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, Faculty of Education, Lassonde School of Engineering, Faculty of Science
Friday, Oct. 13, 3:30 p.m.
Philosophy of Health speaker series: Prof Monique Lanoix
Date: October 25, 2023
Time: 9:30am ET
Location: Zoom
Register here.
Dr. Agnès Berthelot Raffard is pleased to welcome Prof. Monique Lanoix (St-Paul University) for the subsequent Philosophy of Health speaker series. Prof. Lanoix's talk is entitled "En-abling or Dis-abling Aging? Rethinking aging beyond the medical model".
Other Events & Opportunities
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunity: Action on Just Transition: City of Edmonton Change(s) for Climate
Just Powers is Seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow (Mitacs funded with City of Edmonton as partner).
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2023 (or until position is filled)
Job Description: This Mitacs Elevate postdoc has been recently awarded, and we are now seeking a post-doc to work on this project titled “Action on Just Transition”. This is a collaboration between Just Powers and the City of Edmonton Corp. The successful postdoctoral fellow will work under the supervision of both Professor Sheena Wilson at the University of Alberta, and the City of Edmonton’s Environment and Climate Resilience (ECR) Unit lead Chandra Tomaras. This postdoc is focused on shifting the work culture at the City of Edmonton Corp to centre climate justice as a priority in all decision making and planning. The postdoc, as such, will have a mandate to (1) educate the 12,000 employees, with a particular focus on City leadership teams. (2) facilitate workshops and cross-divisional collaborations to centre climate justice in the work culture; (3) track the culture-of-work shifts (best practices, failures, obstacles, etc.); (4) document and archive locally-generated knowledge related to climate, mitigation, adaptation, transition, climate justice etc; (5) disseminate outcomes and coordinate with other municipalities and institutions organizing to centre climate justice and just transition to new ways of working and living.
Read more here.
News, Updates, Publications
HTI Member Rosemary Sadlier recognized as key figure in how the city of Toronto is shaped as part of the Myseum of Toronto’s latest project, The 52: Stories of Women Who Transformed Toronto.
Rosemary Sadlier (BA ‘75) – social justice advocate, researcher and author
Rosemary Sadlier served as president of the Ontario Black History Society for 22 years. She played a key role in the national declaration of February as Black History Month. She also successfully secured Emancipation Day (now, Emancipation Month) commemorations municipally in 1994, provincially in 2008 and nationally in 2021. Sadlier is also known for her contributions to the development of the African-Canadian curriculum and books on African-Canadian history.
Read more here.
Room Booking & Study Spaces at The Harriet Tubman Institute (Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus)
Resource Room (314 York Lanes) – cap. 25
Study Room (316 York Lanes) – cap. 1
Meeting Room (332 York Lanes) – cap. 4
Graduate Caucus Room (325 & 327 York Lanes) (for HTI Research Associates only)
Open study space (does not require a booking)
Open weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm. After hour access requires a YU Card.
Booking requests can be sent to tubman@yorku.ca with your name, date, and time of the request in the subject line.
Tubman Events
Co-Presented by HTI & YCAR: India's Solidarity Economics: An Indian Feminist Understanding of ROSCAs, Self Help Groups, and the Kudumbashree System in Kerala
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2023
Time: 14:30 to 15:30 EDT
Location: Room 314, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom
Registration for virtual attendees
Registration for in-person attendees
With Christabell P. J., Department of Economics, University of Kerala
In the solidarity sector, India is well-known for self-help groups. This ability to mobilize groups is no easy feat in a country with a population of 1.35 billion and hundreds of languages and ethnicities bounded by caste, class and such identities. There are various forms of cooperatives—both informal and formal—in India. Part of the diverse financial economies include Chit funds, a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), and this system is both informal and regulated. Kerala's expertise in self-help groups and mutual aid, with innovations such as Chits and Kudumbashree, has earned the state a rightful place as a leading expert on cooperative development. The talk will be based on an Indian feminist understanding of the wide variety of solidarity systems in India and how they affect the lives of the marginalized sections of society.
Dr Christabell P. J. is an academic and researcher in the field of Economics, known for her contributions to social and solidarity economy. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. She is the founder of DISE (Diverse Solidarity Economies) Lab in India, which is funded by the University of Kerala.
Her educational journey began with a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Kerala in 1998 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the same university in 2004.
Noteworthy among her books are titles like Women Empowerment through Capacity Building: The role of Micro-Finance, and Inclusive Growth through Social Capital Formation: Is Microfinance an Effective Tool for Targeting Women?She is co-editor with Caroline Shenaz Hossein of Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings, Credit Associations, and Economic Cooperation.
She is recipient of a K N Raj Fellowship on Research Grant for Researchers in Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and Publication Grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She has been awarded research funding from agencies including the University Grants Commission, Kerala State Planning Board, ICSSR, Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), etc.
This event is presented by the Harriet Tubman Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research. The speaker was invited to Canada by the DISE collective and the University of Toronto.
MABOUNGOU: Being in The World (film screening & artist panel) — A Special Tubman Talks and Department of Dance Event
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm ET
Location: McLean Performance Studio, 244 Accolade East Building (2nd Floor)
Register for your free ticket HERE
The McLean Performance Studio is fully accessible.
On Wednesday November 1st, The School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) will host a screening of the 2023 biographical documentary MABOUNGOU: Being in the World (48 minutes) followed by a discussion panel featuring Governor General’s Performing Arts Award-winner Zab Maboungou and three internationally renown dance artists – Isaac Akrong, Florent Nikiéma, and Pulga Muchochoma. This special event is a collaboration between the Department of Dance and the Harriet Tubman Institute, addressing how colonial pasts inform the present experience of dance artists of African descent working in the diasporas.
Panel Moderator: Collette ‘Coco’ Murray, arts educator and doctoral student in Dance
Sponsored by PUBLIC: journal of art, culture and ideas.
This event will be presented in English and French.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Mouvement Perpétuel is an award-winning Montreal-based independent film, video, and new media production company specializing in arts programming. Co-directors Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer create impressionistic dance-media films, arts documentaries and multi-channel video installations. MABOUNGOU: Being in the World has received critical success at dance and film festivals around the world since its release in 2023.
The Niche is an Intensive Certificate Course for Young Black Leaders, led by The Harriet Tubman Community Organization and funded by The City of Toronto, Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit (CABR).
HTI’s Community partner, The Harriet Tubman Community Organization, will be hosting a 3-day Intensive Certificate Course for young Black leaders.
This is a FREE 3-day certificate training course that runs from Oct 27-29, 2023 and is for young Black leaders (18-35 years old) who are active within the social service sector (social work, child and youth care, etc.) and are seeking to advance their careers in decision-making roles. Facilitators for the program include David Lewis-Peart, Dr. Leo Edwards, Danielle Gilmore, Akilah Hamilton, Teshyla Bailey, Dr. Joseph Smith, and Pascale Diverlus.
The Niche will provide participants with an opportunity to, upon completion, receive a certificate of completion that is endorsed by the Making Space Lab at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - at the University of Toronto and The Harriet Tubman Institute- at York University.
Register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/intensive-certificate-course-for-young-black-leaders-tickets-440448151277?aff=oddtdtcreator
Contact: Dee Marksman-Phillpotts, They/Them
The Niche, Learning Co-Coordinator
Harriet Tubman Community Organization
Upcoming York Events and News
CFR Open House
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Location: Room 636, 6th Floor Kaneff Tower, York University, Keele Campus
Time: 11:00AM -12:30PM
Registrater here.
Stop by for tea, coffee, cookies and fruit, to share ideas and learn how the CFR can support your research and events.
We are happy to talk about supporting your events in the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities by feminists of all genders -- and to support the transformation of your grant into a fundable research proposal.
And we look forward to sharing with you about how to get involved in our research clusters, feminisms in focus profiles, climate change research month, new “feminist policy briefs” initiative launching later this year and more!
See you there!
🎈🎈🎈Those with childcare responsibilities are welcome to bring small humans with them to the event.
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents: The 2023-2024 Michael Baptista Lecture
Haitian Feminist Epistemologies and Critical Pedagogies in and Outside the Classroom with Dr. Célia Romulus
When: Thursday, October 26
Time: 5:30pm EDT
Location: Kaneff Tower Room 519 – York University
This is a hybrid event:
- If you will attend in person, please register here by October 19 to secure your spot: https://forms.office.com/r/3vXDZG5YMy
- If you will attend via Zoom, please register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6tRAisclTh6MIJuqDwgh8Q
Reception to follow.
Pedagogy is commonly understood to include practical matters concerning curriculum, instruction, and evaluation as well as a deeper engagement with power as it affects knowledge, educational institutions, and classroom dynamics (Crabtree, Sapp, and Licona 2009). Post-secondary university settings in Canada have historically been arenas of struggle regarding education about Race. World politics, changing demographics and challenges to systems of power in the education system have resulted in increased attention to equity in teaching and research. While there has been hiring of Black faculty in higher education institutions in Canada in the past three years, the academy continues to discriminate and uphold institutionalized racism through policies and practices. Obstacles to academic publishing and teaching that put women and racialized faculty at a disadvantage remain understudied particularly for those who challenge discursive and intellectual hierarchies through an engaged classroom. Indeed, institutional dynamics and students’ reactions can create a challenging classroom environment (Sampaio, 2010). Drawing on Haitian feminist experiences and thus on Black feminist epistemologies, this lecture will problematize intersections between identity, pedagogy and power structures in the classroom. By bridging disciplinary and methodological divides, this lecture will reflect on the following questions: how does positionality shape teaching practices? What are the pedagogies deployed to teach controversial topics that are met by resistance in universities? Memory work and experiential knowledge will be addressed as strategies in promoting critical thinking, independent learning and decentering Eurocentric and other hegemonic systems of knowledge in global politics.
Dr. Célia Romulus in an assistant professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of International Development and Global Studies of the University of Ottawa. Her research and teaching draw from anti-oppression and anti-racist education and Afro and decolonial feminisms, and explore questions related to gender, race and the politics of memory, migrations, citizenship, political violence, and development. The second aspect of her research explores epistemic violence and resistance and interdisciplinary methods. Célia Romulus worked as a program director in the areas of gender-based violence in public spaces and in security sector reform for UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. She continues to work as a consultant and trainer on questions related to anti-oppression, anti-racism, Black femininities/masculinities, and gender mainstreaming in public policies and in development.
Research Commons: Upcoming Workshops
Creating Your Research Website: Digital Branding, Literacy and Compliance(Wednesday, October 25th from 10:00 am – 11:30 am; Location - ZOOM)
Have you ever stumbled upon a beautifully designed research website and wondered “How in the world do I make my website look like this?” Do you have questions about which web-based software, unit-led supports and overarching guidelines are available to you as a researcher at York? If so, we’ve got you covered! Join us virtually and hear from experts on digital branding, literacy and compliance. What separates your research website from the rest could be revealed by attending our 90-minute workshop designed to build your digital literacy toolbox.
Presenters:
Patricia Lynch
Director, Information, Privacy and Copyright Office
Office of the General Counsel
Topics: Copyright Infringement & Consequences
Stephanie Quail
Acting Director, Open Scholarship Department
Division of Digital Strategy and Engagement
Topics: Open Access and Public Domain Media
Jason Miller
Digital Marketing Manager, University Brand and Marketing
Division of Communications and Public Affairs
Topics: Web Design and Branding
Lawrence Pan
Global Brand and Marketing Manager, University Brand and Marketing
Division of Communications and Public Affairs
Topics: Internationalization and Research Visibility
Registration Link: https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=186963
Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/92926363286?pwd=anRMd2FWRHJXQ3RjT3l6ckExR1BIZz09
Meeting ID: 929 2636 3286
Passcode: 528612
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Conflict in Research: Staying (and Getting) Out of Trouble – Two-Part Series
Research Commons is pleased to host a virtual workshop series designed to generate discussion and add tools to your toolbox for mitigating and resolving conflict in research. Experts will discuss Research Integrity, Research Ethics, Legal Obligations, and Research Agreements related to: Authorship; Data Management, Access, and Ownership; and Intellectual Property.
Conflict in Research (Part 1) Research Integrity and Research Ethics(Wednesday, November 8th from 10:00am – 11:30 am; Location - ZOOM)
In Part 1, you will hear from experts in research ethics and integrity, data management, and information security. Join us to learn more about Responsible Conduct in Research, Data Access and Ownership in Collaborative Teams, and Data and Information Security in the age of AI.
Presenters:
Alison Collins-Mrakas
Director, Office of Research Ethics
Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation
Topics: Supervision of Students, Research Authorship, Data Access & Ownership
Minglu Wang
Research Data Management Librarian, Open Scholarship Department
Division of Research & Open Scholarship in Libraries
Topics: Open Access, Data Management, Data Sharing & Publication
Chris Russel
Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer
University Information Technology
Topics: Data Information & Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Registration Link: https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=188298
Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/97934244227?pwd=QTZBR1U4OTZDYkF2VzU5MndRUHliQT09
Meeting ID: 979 3424 4227
Passcode: 484053
Conflict in Research (Part 2) Legal Obligations, Protections and Consequences, and Conflict Resolution (Week of November 20th, 2023; Location - ZOOM)
Keep an eye out for more details on our Conflict in Research (Part 2) workshop offering!
For those interested in attending the workshops but are unable to attend on the day of, a recording be sent to all who register beforehand. Recordings of our previous workshops can be found on our website at: www.yorku.ca/researchcommons/archived-workshops
LA&PS Presents: the Alchemy Lecture
Date: November 2, 2023
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m ET
Location: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby, in person at York University or via livestream online
You are invited to attend this year’s Alchemy Lecture on Thursday, November 2.
The Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University are proud to be hosting the Second Annual Alchemy Lecture on November 2, 2023.
The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times.
This year, our Alchemists will be engaging in discussion titled Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World.
The lecture will be delivered by five renowned Alchemists: Joseph M. Pierce, writer and Associate Professor; Phoebe Boswell, Multidisciplinary artist; Cristina Rivera Garza, Professor and MacArthur Fellow; Saidiya Hartman, University Professor and MacArthur Fellow; and Janaína Oliveira, Professor, film scholar and independent curator.
Please join us Thursday November 2, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., at the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby, in person at York University or via livestream online.
If you have any questions, please direct them to thealchemylecture@yorku.ca.
Other Events & Opportunities
Institute of African Studies, Carleton University Presents: Changes in Care: Aging, Migration and Social Class in West Africa
Date: November 1, 2023 | 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Venue: Online via Zoom
As part of the Knowing Africa Seminar Series, The Institute of African Studies in partnership with Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University invites you to the online book discussion: “Changes in Care: Aging, Migration and Social Class in West Africa”.
Author: Cati Coe is the Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University
Discussants:
Rianne Mahon, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Carleton University
Mary Owusu, Department of History, Carleton University
Africa is known both for having a primarily youthful population and for its elders being held in high esteem. However, this situation is changing: people in Africa are living longer, some for many years with chronic, disabling illnesses.
In Ghana, many older people, rather than experiencing a sense of security that they will be respected and cared for by the younger generations, feel anxious that they will be abandoned and neglected by their kin. In response to their concerns about care, they and their kin are exploring new kinds of support for aging adults, from paid caregivers to social groups and senior day centers. These innovations in care are happening in fits and starts, in episodic and scattered ways, visible in certain circles more than others.
News, Updates, Publications
Nothing new this week!
Tubman Events
Presented by HTI & YCAR: India's Solidarity Economics: An Indian Feminist Understanding of ROSCAs, Self Help Groups, and the Kudumbashree System in Kerala
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2023
Time: 14:30 to 15:30 EDT
Location: Room 314, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom
Registration for virtual attendees
Registration for in-person attendees
With Christabell P. J., Department of Economics, University of Kerala
In the solidarity sector, India is well-known for self-help groups. This ability to mobilize groups is no easy feat in a country with a population of 1.35 billion and hundreds of languages and ethnicities bounded by caste, class and such identities. There are various forms of cooperatives—both informal and formal—in India. Part of the diverse financial economies include Chit funds, a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA), and this system is both informal and regulated. Kerala's expertise in self-help groups and mutual aid, with innovations such as Chits and Kudumbashree, has earned the state a rightful place as a leading expert on cooperative development. The talk will be based on an Indian feminist understanding of the wide variety of solidarity systems in India and how they affect the lives of the marginalized sections of society.
Dr Christabell P. J. is an academic and researcher in the field of Economics, known for her contributions to social and solidarity economy. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. She is the founder of DISE (Diverse Solidarity Economies) Lab in India, which is funded by the University of Kerala.
Her educational journey began with a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Kerala in 1998 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the same university in 2004.
Noteworthy among her books are titles like Women Empowerment through Capacity Building: The role of Micro-Finance, and Inclusive Growth through Social Capital Formation: Is Microfinance an Effective Tool for Targeting Women?She is co-editor with Caroline Shenaz Hossein of Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings, Credit Associations, and Economic Cooperation.
She is recipient of a K N Raj Fellowship on Research Grant for Researchers in Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram and Publication Grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She has been awarded research funding from agencies including the University Grants Commission, Kerala State Planning Board, ICSSR, Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR), etc.
This event is presented by the Harriet Tubman Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research. The speaker was invited to Canada by the DISE collective and the University of Toronto.
MABOUNGOU: Being in The World (film screening & artist panel) — A Special Tubman Talks and Department of Dance Event
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm ET
Location: McLean Performance Studio, 244 Accolade East Building (2nd Floor)
Register for your free ticket HERE
The McLean Performance Studio is fully accessible.
On Wednesday November 1st, The School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) will host a screening of the 2023 biographical documentary MABOUNGOU: Being in the World (48 minutes) followed by a discussion panel featuring Governor General’s Performing Arts Award-winner Zab Maboungou and three internationally renown dance artists – Isaac Akrong, Florent Nikiéma, and Pulga Muchochoma. This special event is a collaboration between the Department of Dance and the Harriet Tubman Institute, addressing how colonial pasts inform the present experience of dance artists of African descent working in the diasporas.
Panel Moderator: Collette ‘Coco’ Murray, arts educator and doctoral student in Dance
Sponsored by PUBLIC: journal of art, culture and ideas.
This event will be presented in English and French.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Mouvement Perpétuel is an award-winning Montreal-based independent film, video, and new media production company specializing in arts programming. Co-directors Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer create impressionistic dance-media films, arts documentaries and multi-channel video installations. MABOUNGOU: Being in the World has received critical success at dance and film festivals around the world since its release in 2023.
Upcoming York Events and News
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents: The 2023-2024 Michael Baptista Lecture
Haitian Feminist Epistemologies and Critical Pedagogies in and Outside the Classroom with Dr. Célia Romulus
When: Thursday, October 26
Time: 5:30pm EDT
Location: Kaneff Tower Room 519 – York University
This is a hybrid event:
- If you will attend in person, please register here by October 19 to secure your spot: https://forms.office.com/r/3vXDZG5YMy
- If you will attend via Zoom, please register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6tRAisclTh6MIJuqDwgh8Q
Reception to follow.
Pedagogy is commonly understood to include practical matters concerning curriculum, instruction, and evaluation as well as a deeper engagement with power as it affects knowledge, educational institutions, and classroom dynamics (Crabtree, Sapp, and Licona 2009). Post-secondary university settings in Canada have historically been arenas of struggle regarding education about Race. World politics, changing demographics and challenges to systems of power in the education system have resulted in increased attention to equity in teaching and research. While there has been hiring of Black faculty in higher education institutions in Canada in the past three years, the academy continues to discriminate and uphold institutionalized racism through policies and practices. Obstacles to academic publishing and teaching that put women and racialized faculty at a disadvantage remain understudied particularly for those who challenge discursive and intellectual hierarchies through an engaged classroom. Indeed, institutional dynamics and students’ reactions can create a challenging classroom environment (Sampaio, 2010). Drawing on Haitian feminist experiences and thus on Black feminist epistemologies, this lecture will problematize intersections between identity, pedagogy and power structures in the classroom. By bridging disciplinary and methodological divides, this lecture will reflect on the following questions: how does positionality shape teaching practices? What are the pedagogies deployed to teach controversial topics that are met by resistance in universities? Memory work and experiential knowledge will be addressed as strategies in promoting critical thinking, independent learning and decentering Eurocentric and other hegemonic systems of knowledge in global politics.
Dr. Célia Romulus in an assistant professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of International Development and Global Studies of the University of Ottawa. Her research and teaching draw from anti-oppression and anti-racist education and Afro and decolonial feminisms, and explore questions related to gender, race and the politics of memory, migrations, citizenship, political violence, and development. The second aspect of her research explores epistemic violence and resistance and interdisciplinary methods. Célia Romulus worked as a program director in the areas of gender-based violence in public spaces and in security sector reform for UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. She continues to work as a consultant and trainer on questions related to anti-oppression, anti-racism, Black femininities/masculinities, and gender mainstreaming in public policies and in development.
LA&PS Presents: the Alchemy Lecture
Date: November 2, 2023
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m ET
Location: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby, in person at York University or via livestream online
You are invited to attend this year’s Alchemy Lecture on Thursday, November 2.
The Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University are proud to be hosting the Second Annual Alchemy Lecture on November 2, 2023.
The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times.
This year, our Alchemists will be engaging in discussion titled Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World.
The lecture will be delivered by five renowned Alchemists: Joseph M. Pierce, writer and Associate Professor; Phoebe Boswell, Multidisciplinary artist; Cristina Rivera Garza, Professor and MacArthur Fellow; Saidiya Hartman, University Professor and MacArthur Fellow; and Janaína Oliveira, Professor, film scholar and independent curator.
Please join us Thursday November 2, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., at the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby, in person at York University or via livestream online.
If you have any questions, please direct them to thealchemylecture@yorku.ca.
Film Screening: of STEADFAST: The Message and The Messenger
Date: November 2, 2023
Time: 4-6pm ET
Location: Price Family Cinema, Accolade East Building, York University
The Faculty of Education and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora cordially invite you to join us for a film screening of STEADFAST: The Message and The Messenger – The Story of Jean Augustine’s journey from Happy Hill, Grenada to being the first Black woman elected to Canada’s House of Commons and the first Black woman to serve in Canada’s federal Cabinet.
The Honourable Dr. Jean Augustine is a Canadian icon whose legacy has made a lasting impact on society. In the highly anticipated documentary film “Steadfast – The Messenger and the Message” directed by Fahim Hamid Ali, you will witness the unwavering determination of a trailblazing federal level politician, social activist, and educator.
Through captivating enactments and firsthand accounts, the film captures Dr. Augustine’s journey from her humble beginnings in Grenada, West Indies, to her numerous achievements and accolades after immigrating to Canada in 1960. Her life is a testament to the power of perseverance, courage, and the unwavering commitment to fighting for the rights of women, African-Canadians, and the socially disadvantaged.
Refreshments and hors d'oeuvre will be served starting at 4:00 p.m. from The Islands Caribbean Cookshop.
Please RSVP here and forward this invite to your community members, students and colleagues who would like to attend.
Philosophy of Health Speaker Series: Please save me from the people trying to save me!” The epistemic harm experienced by trans suicidal people at the intersections of cisgenderism, ableism, sanism and suicidism, Prof. Alexandre Baril (University of Ottawa)
Date: November 8, 2023
Time: 4:00pm ET
Location: Zoom
Abstract: In this presentation, I argue that suicidal people are oppressed by structural suicidism. Suicidism and its preventionist script, interlocked with ableism and sanism, cause additional harm and death through forms of epistemic violence, incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups, such as trans people, for whom suicidist interventions increase cisgenderist (transphobic) violence. I therefore question the idea that the best way to help (trans) suicidal people is through prevention. I put forth the argument that supporting assisted suicide for suicidal people could more effectively prevent deaths. Drawing on trans-affirmative approaches, I propose a queercrip model of suicide and a suicide-affirmative approach that allows for a genuine accompaniment of (trans) suicidal individuals.
Research Commons: Conflict in Research (Part 1) Research Integrity and Research Ethics
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 10-11am ET
Location: Zoom
In Part 1, you will hear from experts in research ethics and integrity, data management, and information security. Join us to learn more about Responsible Conduct in Research, Data Access and Ownership in Collaborative Teams, and Data and Information Security in the age of AI.
Presenters:
Alison Collins-Mrakas
Director, Office of Research Ethics
Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation
Topics: Supervision of Students, Research Authorship, Data Access & Ownership
Minglu Wang
Research Data Management Librarian, Open Scholarship Department
Division of Research & Open Scholarship in Libraries
Topics: Open Access, Data Management, Data Sharing & Publication
Chris Russel
Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer
University Information Technology
Topics: Data Information & Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Registration Link: https://research.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=188298
Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/97934244227?pwd=QTZBR1U4OTZDYkF2VzU5MndRUHliQT09
Meeting ID: 979 3424 4227
Passcode: 484053
Robart’s Centre for Canadian Studies: Designing a Flourishing Future and Researching with Black Communities in Canada
Date: Monday November 20, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Room 519 Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University (in-person event).
RSVP here by November 20th at 8:00am.
EUC Seminar Series “Aim High, Degrow: Dialogues on Degrowth”.
Session 1 in November: “Degrowth: a slogan, a movement or a concept?”
Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov 22 @ 1:00 pm EST
Description: Discussion about the origins of degrowth, the controversies around its name, the advances in recognition of degrowth in academia, grassroots initiatives and political debates, and the directions of future research and action on degrowth.
Speakers:
Peter Victor
Elena Hofferberth
Moderator:
Anna Zalik
Session 2 in December: “Decolonization and feminism: does degrowth cut it?”
Date/Time: Thursday, Dec 14 @ 11:30 am EST
Description: Discussion around how degrowth is (or not) aligned with decolonial and feminist approaches. Where are the synergies and where are the contradictions between decolonization and feminism, and degrowth?
Speakers:
Corinna Dengler
Wendy Harcourt
Moderator:
Ellie Perkins
Resource Centre for Public Sociology (RCPS) Fellowships
Members of the department and graduate program are hereby invited to apply to become formally affiliated with the RCPS as Fellows. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Benefits of membership include:
§ Access to and use of the RCPS space;
§ In-kind support for grant application and other professional development activities;
§ Opportunities for global/local public engagement about your work;
§ Platform for knowledge mobilization
Kindly apply using the links below.
RCPS Fellowship Postdoctoral Form
Thanks for all the support,
Sylvia Bawa
Other Events & Opportunities
Institute of African Studies, Carleton University Presents: Changes in Care: Aging, Migration and Social Class in West Africa
Date: November 1, 2023 | 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Venue: Online via Zoom
As part of the Knowing Africa Seminar Series, The Institute of African Studies in partnership with Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University invites you to the online book discussion: “Changes in Care: Aging, Migration and Social Class in West Africa”.
Author: Cati Coe is the Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University
Discussants:
Rianne Mahon, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Carleton University
Mary Owusu, Department of History, Carleton University
Africa is known both for having a primarily youthful population and for its elders being held in high esteem. However, this situation is changing: people in Africa are living longer, some for many years with chronic, disabling illnesses.
In Ghana, many older people, rather than experiencing a sense of security that they will be respected and cared for by the younger generations, feel anxious that they will be abandoned and neglected by their kin. In response to their concerns about care, they and their kin are exploring new kinds of support for aging adults, from paid caregivers to social groups and senior day centers. These innovations in care are happening in fits and starts, in episodic and scattered ways, visible in certain circles more than others.
September
News, Updates, Publications
Welcome Back!
Dear Tubman members, community, and friends,
The Harriet Tubman Institute welcomes you back into the new academic year! We are excited to share upcoming events with you at the annual Open House (see details below). If you’re on the Keele Campus, feel free to stop by our open study spaces, or book the Study Room (YL 316) or Meeting Room (YL 332) on the third floor of York Lanes by sending a request to tubman@yorku.ca. Our Resource Room is also bookable through this form.
The Tubman space is open on weekdays from 8:30am-4:30pm EDT.
Tubman Events
The Harriet Tubman Institute’s Open House
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm ET
Location: 314 York Lanes, York University
The Harriet Tubman Institute will be hosting its annual Open House to welcome back Tubman Members, community, and friends. All are welcome!
Fall Semester Tubman Talks: Seed Grant Recipients
Mark your calendars! This Fall Semester we will be hosting a very special series of Tubman Talks with the recipients of the Harriet Tubman Institute’s Seed Grant. These HTI scholars will share the projects they have been working on over the past couple of years.
Tubman Talks take place Thursdays from 2:30-4:00pm ET in hybrid format. Zoom registration links will be sent out on a weekly basis in these newsletters.
Read more about Tubman Talks here.
Upcoming York Events and News
Project to explore experiences of Syrian, Ethiopian refugees
The community-led, collaborative project will explore the complexities and challenges of racism faced by Syrian and Ethiopian refugees in Canada.
See the full YFile article here.
We Do It For The Culture: A Hip Hop 50 Event Series - Citizen Kane’s Spade: Toronto’s OG B-Boy
Date: September 22, 2023
Time: 6:30pm – 10:00pm EDT
Location: Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto
On September 22, 2023, Roots Rhymes Collective in collaboration with The Urban at York University, Hart House at the University of Toronto, CIUT 89.5, and the Hip Hop Education Center invites you to:
“Citizen Kane’s Spade: Toronto’s OG B-Boy” as part of the inaugural event series "We Do It For The Culture: A Hip Hop 50 Event Series" - which celebrates 50 years of Hip Hop history across the globe.
On that evening, we honour the urban and cultural histories of Toronto Hip Hop culture through a retrospective of the three-plus decade career of Hip Hop artist Jeff ‘Spade’ Duke. Having mastered the Hip Hop artistic elements of graffiti (as Crazy Roc of the Graffiti Knights), breakdancing (as a dancer for Canada’s Queen of Hip Hop Michie Mee among others), emceeing (as the legendary emcee Spade of Citizen Kane), and music production at Treehouse Records (an independent music label he co-created and co-owns). To celebrate his legacy as an artist, innovator and entrepreneur, we will begin with a conversation moderated by Michele Geister - creator of MuchMusic’s RapCity - and commentary from K-Cut (of New York City rap group Main Source) and Mathematik (of Toronto rap group Down to Erf), and will close with a special screening of director Alison Duke’s “Raisin’ Kane: A Rapumentary” which highlights the journey of Citizen Kane to promote their sophomore album Deliverance.
To register, visit: https://www.rootsrhymescollective.com/spade-event
For more information about the entire event series, visit: www.rootsrhymescollective.com
Event Contact:
Francesca D'Amico-Cuthbert, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Urban Studies Program
Department of Social Science
Other Events & Opportunities
Princeton in Africa Nexus Program Application & Information Session
Information Session
Date: September 13, 2023
Time: 12:00-1:30pm EDT
Location: Zoom information will be sent upon registration
Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 11:59pm Eastern
- Princeton in Africa (PiAf) is a non-profit organization that offers yearlong paid post-graduate fellowship opportunities to graduates of US-accredited colleges & universities with a variety of organizations working across the African continent.
- The Nexus Program is for applicants who are citizens of an African country who are residing on the African continent and who are recent graduates or graduating seniors of a bachelor's, master's or PhD program at an African university.
The Princeton in Africa Nexus Program pairs 5 Nexus Fellows, who are citizens of African countries educated and resident on the African continent, with 5 Fellows educated at U.S. accredited institutions in the same fellowship host organizations on the African continent for a co-fellow exchange of skills, knowledge, leadership, and technical expertise. All Nexus applicants must be citizens of an African country who are residing on the African continent and who are recent graduates or graduating seniors of a bachelor's, master's or PhD program at an African university. The Nexus Program is an addition to PiAf’s signature fellowship program tailored for young leaders educated at U.S.-accredited institutions. Additional information regarding Nexus can be found here as well as in our FAQs.
Princeton in Africa will be holding their first info session for prospective applicants on Wednesday, September 13 from 12:00-1:30pm EST. The info session will be held on Zoom and a recording will be emailed to all who register. We will also be holding a Professional Sectors Alumni Panel and Black & African Alumni Panel, where prospective applicants will be able to hear from Princeton in Africa alumni about their fellowship experiences. Prospective applicants should email piafapp@princetoninafrica.org to join the email list and get updates about these events.
Prospective applicants can also connect with Princeton in Africa on Instagram (@princetoninafrica), Twitter (@PiAfinAction), Facebook, and LinkedIn.
HOW TO APPLY
Princeton in Africa’s application is now live! To access the application and find out more information about Princeton in Africa, please visit the “How to Apply” section of their website. The application deadline is Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 11:59pm Eastern.
Simcoe Country Museum: Call for Speakers for Virtual Lecture Series
To celebrate Black History Month, the Simcoe County Museum will be organizing a virtual lecture series throughout February. The series will showcase notable Black Canadian historians hailing from both the local region and the entire country. Each lecture will explore various aspects of the rich history of Black individuals, not only from Simcoe County but also in broader contexts. Each talk, lasting up to 45 minutes, will be followed by a question and answer session.
Past presentations have covered an array of topics, including:
- The Sheffield Park Museum
- Boots on the Ground: Serving the Public Interest
- The Voice of the Fugitive: Henry Bibb and the Origins of Canada's Black Press
- Slavery and Emancipation in Canada
- Examining Different Perspectives
- Navigating Academic and Community Spaces
If you're interested in potentially becoming a speaker for this series, please get in touch with Meredith Patterson. You can reach out via email at Meredith.patterson@simcoe.ca or by phone at 705-728-3721.
News, Updates, Publications
New Publication by Tubman Member Zulfikar A. Hirji: "A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa", Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 14 (2023)
Abstract: This article examines a little-known corpus of illuminated Qurʾān manuscripts that were produced between ca. 1750–ca. 1850 in the Swahili city-states of Pate, Siyu, and Faza on Pate Island in the Lamu archipelago (Kenya). Now dispersed in collections in Kenya, Tanzania, Oman, the UK, and the USA, the manuscripts have many distinctive features: decorative frontispieces, sūra titles, basmalas, and division and prostration markers; locally developed Arabic script styles; colophons containing names of copyists and completion dates; endowment dedications; northern Italian-made paper; and, blind-stamped, leather covers. The list of known manuscripts presented in the appendix is aimed at encouraging the identification, digitization, and study of other manuscripts in the corpus. The study of their content, materiality, and contexts of production can advance scholarship on the histories of Islamic manuscript production in coastal East Africa and provide comparative material for manuscript studies in other regions of Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Tubman Fellow Collette Murray recognized by National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) for Outstanding Leadership in Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Virtual Awards Ceremony: September 13th, 2023, 7pm ET
Collette Murray is a dance scholar in arts education, community arts engagement and Afrodiasporic dance vernacular. Collette centralizes dance education in teaching, mentorship, and advocacy of the Canadian African diasporic dance sector. Her multi-award recognitions are for advancing the importance of cultural arts and anti-racism work in dance in Ontario and for significant contributions to collaboratively work with culturally diverse communities and creating access to arts and culture in Toronto. With a background in West African, Caribbean folk, and stilt-walking/dance, Murray pursues a Ph.D. in Dance Studies at York University on the pedagogical training of Afrodiasporic dance educators. Murray holds a master’s in education, an Honours BA in Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity from York University, and a Sociology BA from the University of Toronto. Miss Coco Murray is her mobile dance education business, and she is artistic director of Coco Collective, an intergenerational team offering culturally responsive dance programs and cultural arts education of African and Caribbean practices to schools, organizations, and communities. Murray leads as Board Chair of Dance Umbrella of Ontario, a National Council member of the Canadian Dance Assembly, and the Board of Directors for Arts Etobicoke to bring an equity and decolonizing lens for change.
Read more here.
Looking for Fellowship Opportunities? Check out these Databases
ProFellow - https://www.profellow.com/
ProFellow.com is the world’s leading online resource for information on professional and academic fellowships. We offer our readers a free fellowships database where you can search and bookmark more than 2,500 fellowships and fully funded graduate programs. We also publish articles with application tips written by fellows, features and interviews with current and former fellows, and fellowship calls for applications. We also founded the International Fellows Network, a global professional network of current and former fellowship recipients.
ProFellow’s mission is to make funding opportunities more accessible to diverse audiences and to share advice on the competitive application process. All of our content is voluntarily produced by current and former fellows who aim to pay-it-forward and inspire the next generation of aspiring fellows.
ARMACAD - https://armacad.info/
ARMACAD is a platform for students, scholars, scientists and parents to search and find scholarships, summer schools, grants, fully funded conferences, trainings, seminars and other study and research opportunities worldwide. Every day publications on new opportunities across hundreds of disciplines appear online on armacad.info.
By using advanced search options available on our homepage scholarship programs, summer schools, conference call for papers and other academic opportunities may be filtered according to the eligible country, venue country, discipline, etc.
To make the search among thousands of up to date academic and educational opportunities easier and more user-friendly, there are different ways to view the newsfeed on armacad.info.
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ConnexUs is a global learning, networking & coordination platform for you to collaborate with people in conflict-affected contexts who are addressing pressing challenges. ConnexUs seeks to improve the effectiveness & impact of your work by creating connections & opportunities.
Tubman Events
The Harriet Tubman Institute’s Open House
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm ET
Location: 314 York Lanes, York University
The Harriet Tubman Institute will be hosting its annual Open House to welcome back Tubman Members, community, and friends. All are welcome!
Fall Semester Tubman Talks: Seed Grant Recipients
Mark your calendars! This Fall Semester we will be hosting a very special series of Tubman Talks with the recipients of the Harriet Tubman Institute’s Seed Grant. These HTI scholars will share the projects they have been working on over the past couple of years.
Tubman Talks take place Thursdays from 2:30-4:00pm ET in hybrid format. Zoom registration links will be sent out on a weekly basis in these newsletters.
Read more about Tubman Talks here.
Upcoming York Events and News
We Do It For The Culture: A Hip Hop 50 Event Series - Citizen Kane’s Spade: Toronto’s OG B-Boy
Date: September 22, 2023
Time: 6:30pm – 10:00pm EDT
Location: Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto
On September 22, 2023, Roots Rhymes Collective in collaboration with The Urban at York University, Hart House at the University of Toronto, CIUT 89.5, and the Hip Hop Education Center invites you to:
“Citizen Kane’s Spade: Toronto’s OG B-Boy” as part of the inaugural event series "We Do It For The Culture: A Hip Hop 50 Event Series" - which celebrates 50 years of Hip Hop history across the globe.
On that evening, we honour the urban and cultural histories of Toronto Hip Hop culture through a retrospective of the three-plus decade career of Hip Hop artist Jeff ‘Spade’ Duke. Having mastered the Hip Hop artistic elements of graffiti (as Crazy Roc of the Graffiti Knights), breakdancing (as a dancer for Canada’s Queen of Hip Hop Michie Mee among others), emceeing (as the legendary emcee Spade of Citizen Kane), and music production at Treehouse Records (an independent music label he co-created and co-owns). To celebrate his legacy as an artist, innovator and entrepreneur, we will begin with a conversation moderated by Michele Geister - creator of MuchMusic’s RapCity - and commentary from K-Cut (of New York City rap group Main Source) and Mathematik (of Toronto rap group Down to Erf), and will close with a special screening of director Alison Duke’s “Raisin’ Kane: A Rapumentary” which highlights the journey of Citizen Kane to promote their sophomore album Deliverance.
To register, visit: https://www.rootsrhymescollective.com/spade-event
For more information about the entire event series, visit: www.rootsrhymescollective.com
Event Contact:
Francesca D'Amico-Cuthbert, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Urban Studies Program
Department of Social Science
Other Events & Opportunities
Princeton in Africa Nexus Program Application & Information Session
Information Session
Date: September 13, 2023
Time: 12:00-1:30pm EDT
Location: Zoom information will be sent upon registration
Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 11:59pm Eastern
- Princeton in Africa (PiAf) is a non-profit organization that offers yearlong paid post-graduate fellowship opportunities to graduates of US-accredited colleges & universities with a variety of organizations working across the African continent.
- The Nexus Program is for applicants who are citizens of an African country who are residing on the African continent and who are recent graduates or graduating seniors of a bachelor's, master's or PhD program at an African university.
The Princeton in Africa Nexus Program pairs 5 Nexus Fellows, who are citizens of African countries educated and resident on the African continent, with 5 Fellows educated at U.S. accredited institutions in the same fellowship host organizations on the African continent for a co-fellow exchange of skills, knowledge, leadership, and technical expertise. All Nexus applicants must be citizens of an African country who are residing on the African continent and who are recent graduates or graduating seniors of a bachelor's, master's or PhD program at an African university. The Nexus Program is an addition to PiAf’s signature fellowship program tailored for young leaders educated at U.S.-accredited institutions. Additional information regarding Nexus can be found here as well as in our FAQs.
Princeton in Africa will be holding their first info session for prospective applicants on Wednesday, September 13 from 12:00-1:30pm EST. The info session will be held on Zoom and a recording will be emailed to all who register. We will also be holding a Professional Sectors Alumni Panel and Black & African Alumni Panel, where prospective applicants will be able to hear from Princeton in Africa alumni about their fellowship experiences. Prospective applicants should email piafapp@princetoninafrica.org to join the email list and get updates about these events.
Prospective applicants can also connect with Princeton in Africa on Instagram (@princetoninafrica), Twitter (@PiAfinAction), Facebook, and LinkedIn.
HOW TO APPLY
Princeton in Africa’s application is now live! To access the application and find out more information about Princeton in Africa, please visit the “How to Apply” section of their website. The application deadline is Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 11:59pm Eastern.
News, Updates, Publications
Tubman Membership
As a reminder, all Tubman members have access to the following:
- Support in putting together research/grant applications
- Administrative support for projects and events run through Tubman (ie. payroll, finance transfers, honorariums, booking rooms, creating posters etc.)
- Promotion of events on topics relevant to HTI’s Research Mandate (regardless of which department is hosting the event)
- A central place to promote your publications (through our newsletters and on our website)
- Membership involves sharing your profile on our website and participating in the life of Tubman by sharing your research, events, and projects that fall under the mandate of HTI
Tubman Events
Tubman Talks: Fanny Teissandier (Cancelled)
Date: Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Time: 2:30-4:00pm EDT
Location: Hybrid – 314 York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University
Zoom: Register Here
Join us for our first Tubman Talks of the Semester! We’ll be hearing from a recipient of the Harriet Tubman Institute’s Seed Grant.
More information about this Talk will be shared soon.
Upcoming York Events and News
NSERC Live Q&A Webinars - How to complete a Discovery Grant application
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023 (English Session)
Time: 1-2pm EDT
Location: Live Q&A for September 21, 2023
NSERC offers a series of pre-recorded videos followed by live Q&A sessions which are meant to assist the research community on how to complete an application using the Research Portal and the NSERC Canadian Common CV (CCV). You will find below the pre-recorded videos as well as the dates for these upcoming live Q&A sessions.
Please view the pre-recorded videos prior to attending a live Q&A session, as the material presented in the videos will not be repeated.
In preparation, you are invited to familiarize yourself with the following documents:
- Discovery Grant application program description which includes the Peer Review Manual
- Instructions for Completing an Application
- Submitting an NSERC individual Discovery Grant application through the Research Portal tutorial.
Pre-registration is not required to attend the live Q&A sessions. The session will be open 15 minutes in advance. Considering the high attendance to our live Q&A sessions, NSERC staff may not have time to respond to all individual questions during the session. Any additional questions should be directed to our support team at NSERC Discovery.
| How to complete a Discovery Grant application (English session) | |
| Dates | Thursday, September 21, 2023 |
| Time | 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. (ET) |
| Open to | Members of the research community across Canada |
| Links and passwords (if required) | Live Q&A for September 21, 2023 21Sept |
Consult the Live Q&A sessions page to learn about upcoming sessions.
Seminar – Improving Postpartum Outcomes for Women in Ghana: The Focused-Postpartum Care Model, with Yenupini Joyce Adams
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Time: 1:00p.m. ET
Location: Hybrid
Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest rate of maternal deaths, accounting for 70% of global maternal mortality. Despite this, postpartum care is often neglected in developing countries. Dr. Yenupini Joyce Adams will discuss the development of the Focused Postpartum Care (PPC) model, an innovative group postpartum care model for women up to one year after delivery, and share trial results. It is crucial for healthcare providers to promptly identify and treat complications, provide support for a range of health and social needs, and promote evidence-based postpartum practices at home.
Avie Bennett Public Lecture in Canadian History- Dr. Adele Perry
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023
Time: Dinner – 5:30-7:00pm; Lecture – 7:00pm-8:00pm EDT
Location: Private Dining Room (Schulich Building), Keele Campus, York University
Registration form: https://laps.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=2001045
Adele Perry (FRSC) is a settler historian at the University of Manitoba, where she is currently Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of the Centre for Human Rights Research. Perry is a graduate of York’s PhD programme in History and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association.
Description of the public lecture: How should historians understand the fur-trade, and powerful corporate entities associated with it, as a chapter in a global history of colonialism and dispossession? This talk will aim to trouble the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company by centering it in difficult histories of violence, conflict, and the theft of knowledge, land, and lives in North America, ones with implications for the lived present of colonialism in Western Canada.
Call for Participants: Blood Testing at Black Creek
Our partners at the Black Creek Community Health Center are conducting research on diabetes risk in the Black population, comparing CANRISK survey results and blood test results. They will be conducting testing at Black Creek over the next two Saturdays. Participants will be provided with a cash honorarium of $100. The focus will be on community members from Northwest Toronto.
Eligibility:
• You are between 18 and 39 years of age (inclusive)
• You self-identify as being of African, Caribbean, and/or Black ethnicity and/or race
• You are NOT pregnant
• You do NOT have Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes
• You are NOT taking medications that affect your blood sugar levels or are taking them but, with your doctor’s approval, can stop taking them the night before testing until your appointment the next day
• The night before testing, you are able to fast until your appointment the next day (meaning, only drink water), likely about 8-10 hours
• You are willing to read (or have someone read to you) the consent form and sign it (or verbally agree) to participate in the study
I have attached a flyer containing more information to this email.
Contacts: Jude Dzevela Kong <jdkong@yorku.ca>; Michelle Westin <Michelle.Westin@bcchc.com>
SSHRC PARTNERSHIP GRANTS
Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training, and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through shared resources as evidenced by cash and/or in-kind contributions.
Complete program details can be found at SSHRC's web site here. Guidelines from the 2023 SSHRC Partnership Grant Stage 1 competition (subject to changes with SSHRC’s official 2024 Competition Launch) can be found here.
Please see the SSHRC website for definitions of “Partner Organization” and “Formal Partnership.”
Partnership Grant proposals are expected to respond directly to the objectives of the Insight, Connection or Talent programs.
VALUE OF AWARDS
Stage 1: Letter of Intent – Up to $20,000
Stage 2: Full Application (by invitation only) – between $500,000 and $2.5 million over 4-7 years
INTERNAL NOTICE OF INTENT
Although the 2024-25 competition has not yet formally launched, York is proceeding with a Notice of Intent (NOI) process given the strategic importance and extreme competitiveness of the program. This process is designed to provide early feedback and support to strengthen Stage 1 applications.
All Stage 1 applicants are required to submit an NOI to the Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) team in the Office of Research Services (ORS) no later than 9 am on November 27, 2023. Applicants are encouraged to meet with the SIRI team to access support at earlier stages of their proposal development. NOI packages will be reviewed by the Strategic Project and Opportunity Review Team (SPORT), as well as the SIRI team, with feedback returned to Project Directors by December 18, 2023.
Please Note: SSHRC Partnership Grants are required to secure 35% (minimum) additional cash and/or in-kind contributions. To facilitate this, applicants should notify their respective Department, Faculty Research Office, ORU (if applicable) and the SIRI team as soon as possible of their intent to apply.
Also note that to enhance York’s competitiveness, the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation has recently implemented a new framework to match Faculty cash commitments, provided proposals undergo SPORT review.
Application components include:
- NOI application form
- Project Goals and Description (8 pages)*
- Previous SSHRC funding (1 page, if applicable)*
- Description of Team (3 pages)*
- Proposed Contributions Plan (1 page)*
- Funds Requested from SSHRC (use the attached budget template)*
- Project Director SSHRC CV and attachment (Research Contributions and Relevant Experience – 5 pages)*
- Data Management Plan (use the attached DMP form)
- Project Alignment with University and Faculty Strategic Plans (1 page)
- Confirmation of York commitments (i.e., email communications, Dean’s memo)
*For bullets 2-7, please follow SSHRC Partnership Grant Stage 1 Guidelines. SIRI also has templates available for all sections of the application, so please contact the SIRI team if you would like access to these documents.
IMPORTANT DATES and DEADLINES
- November 2023: SSHRC Partnership Grant webinar. Details to be circulated once confirmed.
- November 27, 2023: NOI and Confirmation of Resources/Institutional Support Submitted to SIRI
- December 18, 2023: SPORT Committee and SIRI feedback
- January 29, 2024: ORS deadline for Final Technical Review of completed application
- February 9, 2024: Final ORS deadline for complete Letter of Intent
- February 12, 2024: Agency deadline for Stage 1 application
- Spring 2024: Stage 1 results
- October 30, 2024: Stage 2 application deadline (by invitation only)
- January/February 2025: SSHRC Response Phase (all applicants invited to full application)
- March 2025: Funds released
For more information, and to set up a one-on-one meeting, contact the Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives team at siri@yorku.ca
SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants: Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in partnership with Canadian Heritage, Genome Canada, and UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council have launched a Knowledge Synthesis Grants (KSG) funding opportunity to assess the state of research knowledge on the topic of “Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories” under SSHRC’s Imagining Canada’s Future initiative. A summary is provided below.
Objectives
This funding opportunity will support research that will foster a deeper understanding of the state of knowledge about the global challenge of Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories. This competition will include two streams:
- Stream 1 will be reserved for applications submitted by an applicant or project director affiliated with an eligible Canadian institution. Genome Canada may fund up to four projects in this stream and SSHRC, with additional funding from Canadian Heritage, may fund up to 16 projects.
- Stream 2 will be reserved for applications jointly submitted by two applicants or project directors, one based in Canada and the other in the UK, who are affiliated with eligible institutions in their respective countries. Up to 20 projects may be jointly funded by SSHRC and UKRI-AHRC.
The resulting syntheses will identify roles that the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors could play in promoting more inclusive and equitable societies and can inform the development of effective tools and technologies, robust policies and sustainable practices required to support the path toward a diverse and inclusive future for all.
This call for proposals invites applications from researchers from any discipline that can inform and contribute to the objectives of the funding opportunity.
Applicants must address the following three objectives in their proposals:
State of Knowledge and Research Gaps
- critically assess the state of knowledge of the theme under consideration from a variety of sources, as appropriate;
- identify knowledge strengths and gaps within the theme; and
- identify the most promising policies and practices related to the theme.
Research Data
- assess the quality, accuracy and rigour (i.e., methodological approaches) of current work in the field; and
- identify strengths and gaps in the quantitative and qualitative data available.
Knowledge Mobilization
- engage cross-sectoral stakeholders (academic, public and not-for-profit sectors) and/or First Nations, Inuit and Métis rights holders throughout the project to mobilize knowledge related to promising policies and practices; and
- use effective knowledge mobilization methods to facilitate the sharing of research findings with cross-sectoral stakeholders and Indigenous rights holders.
Researchers can include international comparisons and case studies in their proposal but must show how the research has the potential to inform policy issues in Canada (Stream 1) or Canada and/or the UK (Stream 2).
This Knowledge Synthesis Grants funding opportunity is guided by the following questions:
- Drawing on domestic, international and/or cross-sectoral evidence, what can researchers tell us about these issues?
- How might the findings guide public policy, practice and research agendas for Canada (Stream 1) or Canada and/or the UK (Stream 2) in the immediate and long term?
Knowledge Synthesis Grants are not intended to support original research. Rather, they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge and identify knowledge gaps. This call is focused on the state of research knowledge emerging over the past 10 years.
Value
Up to $30,000
Duration
1 year
Deadlines
| Full proposal due at ORS for full review | Thursday, November 30, 2023 |
| Final proposal and fully signed ORS Checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | by 9:00am on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 |
| Full proposal due at agency | Thursday, December 14, 2023 Note: Applications must be submitted to the SSHRC’s Online System by 12Noon to allow ORS enough time to e-approve and submit to SSHRC for peer review. |
Please contact your Faculty Research Office for information on their internal deadlines.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here:
For complete details and application process, please consult the following link:
Other Events & Opportunities
Institute of African Studies, Carleton University: Knowing Africa Series – Riotous Deathscape
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Time: 1:00-2:30 EDT
Location: Virtual
Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice (CHRRJ) Speaker Series 2023/24 - Dr. Sascha Auerbach
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST (Toronto time)
Registration link for virtual attendance.
About Our Speaker: Dr. Sascha Auerbach, FRHistS, is an Associate Professor of Modern British and Global History at the University of Nottingham, where he specializes in the history of race, imperialism, and the state in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Overseer-State: Slavery, Indenture, and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916 (Cambridge, 2024), Armed with Sword and Scales: Law, Culture and Local Courtrooms in London, 1865-1913 (Cambridge, 2021), and Race, Law, and “the Chinese Puzzle” in Imperial Britain (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). Dr. Auerbach’s articles and book chapters have appeared in the English Historical Review, the Journal of Social History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Law and History Review and other major academic journals. His research has been supported by the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. He is the director of the Institute for the Study of Slavery (ISOS) at the University of Nottingham, the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series “Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies,” and regularly serves as an on-air contributor for The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. Dr. Auerbach’s current projects examine colonialism, science and aesthetics, and the relationship between slavery, public health, and state authority in the nineteenth century.
The CIARS Decolonizing Conference is fast approaching, Nov 9-11, 2023!
Thank you for your ongoing support and contributions. If you haven't yet registered, we urge you to join us for this critical decolonizing dialogue. Our conference includes top scholars from around the world including our very own OISE/CIARS/UofT community. In addition to great sharing and learning, meals will be served.
We don't want you to miss this exciting opportunity!
Also, we want to bring your attention to another special event in the conference, scheduled for November 9 at 5:40 - 7 pm, at the OISE Library, which will be the launch of Dr. Dei’s book, 'The Black Scholar Travelogue in Academia,’ for sale at the event, and a short tribute/celebration to our departed ancestress, Keren Brathwaite.
We will be closing the conference with a wrap-up social on Saturday, November 11, 8-11 pm @ Massey College for a nominal fee. Click here for more information and to purchase ticket.
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Click here to explore the list of amazing speakers and presenters.
HERSTART FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR WINTER & SUMMER 2024 ARE OPEN! 🌎
Youth Challenge International (YCI) has launched new positions and start dates for Canadians (citizens and permanent residents) to gain professional experience in the international development and social entrepreneurship sectors in a HerStart Fellowship. YCI is currently recruiting for HerStart International Fellowship positions to collaborate for 3 or 6 months with our impact-driven teams in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda!
HerStart is a YCI program providing 10,000 women in Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana with the training, tools, and funding opportunities to become social entrepreneurs. As a key part of HerStart, Fellows have the opportunity to support YCI staff, as well as our innovative and impact-driven partner organizations in each country.
3- and 6-month placements with start dates in January and May 2024 are now open.Positions available include:
- Gender Equality Fellow
- Climate Action Fellow
- Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Fellow
- Social Entrepreneurship Fellow
- Program & Partnerships Fellow
- Communications Fellow
HerStart Fellows will gain hands-on professional international development experience, expand their impact-driven networks, and engage in high quality training from experts in critical topics such as gender equality, climate action and social innovation.
HerStart International Fellows receive a holistic benefits package including pre-departure training, post-placement support, round-trip airfare, visas, health insurance, a monthly living stipend and much more. This program is funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs.
💡 Want to learn more about HerStart International Fellowships? 🎬 Meet our Fellows and watch videos highlighting their experience here!
💡Curious to see what HerStart entrepreneurs are innovating? Meet Entrepreneurs from each country and watch videos showcasing their social businesses here!
Access the full list of current HerStart Fellowship opportunities and apply today! ➡️bit.ly/3pW1DBv
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News, Updates, Publications
Notice from Office of Research Ethics: Protocol Submission Deadline
Please be advised that given the 20-day turn-around time for protocol approvals, protocols received after Friday November 17th, 2023 will not be circulated to the committee until the New Year.
In addition, due to the significant volume of protocols generally received in November,protocols received up to and including Friday November 17th, 2023 will be reviewed by the committee; however, committee comments and/or approvals may not be forwarded to the researchers until the 2nd week in January 2024 when the University re-opens.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact me at wjokhoo@yorku.ca.
Tubman Events
Cancelled: Tubman Talks with Fanny Teissandier
Date: Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Time: 2:30-4:00pm EDT
Please note that this event has been cancelled. Check in next week for upcoming Tubman events.
Upcoming York Events and News
Robarts Centre Environmental Research Cluster: Lunchtime Q&A with Dagomar Degroot
Date: Thursday, October 26th, 2023
Time: 3-5pm EDT
Location: Schulich Executive Dining Room
RSVP here
On Thursday, October 26, Dr. Dagomar Degroot will be giving the 2023 Melville Nelles Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History. The lecture, titled “Coping with Climate Change: Can the Past Teach Us How to Survive the Future?”.
Members of the Robarts community are also invited to join us for a lunchtime Q&A session with Dr. Degroot from 12:30-2:00PM at the Robarts Centre, Kaneff Tower room 749. See the attached poster for more details. For graduate students and faculty with interests in climate change and environmental humanities research, this is an excellent opportunity to meet the author and discuss his research on global historical climate change and its implications for the present.
For the lunchtime Q&A with Dagomar Degroot email robarts@yorku.ca by Friday October 13.
Call for Papers: At the Margins, Issue 2
Theme: (M)other/ed Tongue
In her poem, “Dreaming in Gujarati,” Shailja Patel asks the following: “When we lose language / does culture die?” We open with this question to contemplate and take seriously the ways in which cultural identity is framed and shaped by language in the way Gloria Anzaldúa does in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” In her essay, Anzaldúa reveals several complexities and nuances about language: attempts to erase culture, questions about belonging, linguistic borders, and ways to embrace one’s own tongue. Like her, we are interested in examining and interrogating how languages are destroyed, revitalized, and sustained. We are interested in a careful, complex, and nuanced reflection of the (m)other/ed tongue, and we seek abstracts of 150-200 words that specifically situate live(d) experiences and personal narratives.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
- Creolization
- Cultural identity
- Diasporic experiences with language(s)
- Endangered languages
- Migration and language barriers
- Multilingual contexts
- Names and their complexities
- Racialization of accent(s)
- Revitalization of languages
- Unspeakable truths
We are looking for pieces that are in the following form:
- Artwork (a drawing, painting, or photograph, for example)
- Creative Expression (e.g., prose or short story up to 1,500 words)
- Essays (1,000 to 1,500 words)
- Poetry (1-3 poems up to five pages in total)
Co-authored pieces are welcome, but please note that this journal is only open to currently enrolled students, and specifically Indigenous, Black, Brown, and/or Asian graduate students, at York University. We also request submissions of works that have not been published elsewhere or that do not require ethics approval.
Abstracts of 150-200 words can be submitted to atthemarginscollective@gmail.com as a Word doc with the email header, “Abstract/Proposal Submission for At the Margins” using your York University email.
Please also make note of the following deadlines:
- Abstract: November 1, 2023
- Response from Editors: November 15, 2023
- Draft: February 1, 2024
- Revisions from Editors: April 1, 2024
- Final Drafts: June 1, 2024
- Publication: September 1, 2024
Our first and current issue can be viewed at: https://sites.google.com/view/at-the-margins/home.
Feel free to contact Monica Tang (she/her/hers) <monica_tang@edu.yorku.ca> with any questions or thoughts.
Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award - Intent to Apply
The Banting Research Foundation is accepting applications to its Discovery Award Program. A summary is provided below.
Objectives
- To fund innovative health and biomedical research projects by outstanding new investigators at universities and research institutes in Canada
- To provide seed funding so that applicants are able to gather pilot data to enhance their competitiveness for other sources of funding
Eligibility
This competition is open to new investigators at any Canadian university or affiliated research institute who will be within the first three years of the date of their first career academic appointment at the application deadline date of January 24, 2024,
AND
have not been awarded more than $250,000 in start-up funding by your institution, excluding support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI),
AND
have not been awarded more than $50,000 per annum in external operating funds at the application date of January 24, 2024. (An applicant who has been awarded more than $50,000 per annum in external operating funds may submit a request for up to $30,000, provided that the total sum of operating funds received from all sources during the funding year, including any funding awarded by The Banting Research Foundation, will not exceed $80,000.)
Important Note
A department/division head will be permitted to nominate only ONE potential applicant during each annual granting cycle. For this reason, please indicate your intent to apply by sending an email to research@yorku.ca no later than 9am on Monday, 2 October 2023, so that the Office of Research Services can liaise with your department/faculty if there is more than one applicant from any department.
Note: Intent to apply that are submitted to ORS after the October 2nd deadline will not be accommodated if a potential applicant from your department has already been approved to submit their application to agency.
Overhead
Not eligible
Value
Up to $30K
Duration
The maximum duration of the grant is one year - July 1 to June 30
Deadlines
This opportunity has a three-step application process: 1) Intent to Apply to ORS 2) Mandatory Notice of Intent (NOI) to the agency upon departmental/faculty approval and 3) Full Application to the agency (by invitation only)
| Intent to Apply due at ORS | Monday, October 2, 2023 |
| Internally approved NOI due at ORS for full review | Wednesday, October 18, 2023 |
| Internally approved NOI due at ORS for mandatory review | By 9am on Monday, October 30, 2023 |
| Mandatory NOI due at agency | By 9pm ET on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 |
| Full application due at ORS for full review | Wednesday, January 10, 2024 |
| Full application and fully signed ORS Checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | By 9:00am on Monday, January 22, 2024 |
| Full application due at agency (by invitation only) Note: Those who have been invited to submit a full application will be provided with access to the application form by the Foundation. | Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Note: A letter of nomination from the applicant’s host department or division head is required at the application stage (see agency guidelines for more details). |
Please contact your Faculty Research Office for information on their internal deadlines.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here:
All materials and Call for Proposals can be found here:
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature.
Call for Nominations: Frontiers Planet Prize
York University is seeking nominations for the Frontiers Planet Prize. The Frontiers Planet Prize recognizes research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals within the past two calendar years with the greatest potential to help keep the Earth system within planetary boundaries that should not be crossed for ensuring sustainability.
The program identifies nine planetary boundaries:
- Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
- Ocean Acidification
- Freshwater Use
- Climate Change
- Atmospheric Aerosol Loading
- Biochemical Flows
- Biosphere Integrity
- Land System Change
- Novel Entities
Objective
The goal of the Frontiers Planet Prize is to mobilize the scientific community to speed up the search for planetary solutions.
Selection criteria are:
- Scalable Solution: The research advances insights, approaches and scalable solutions for humanity’s ability to navigate a world that develops within the safe operating space of the planetary boundaries.
- Breakthrough Application: The research has the potential for breakthrough applications that can reduce or reverse the planetary imbalances.
- Planetary Boundaries: The research must explicitly connect several planetary boundaries at the Earth system scale.
- Boundary Interaction: Research that explores interactions/relations between multiple planetary boundaries will be prioritized.
Eligibility
- The Frontiers Planet Prize will be awarded to the best research published in established peer-reviewed scientific journals, with robust peer review and transparent publication procedures.
- The acceptance date of the article must fall within the 2 years prior to the launch of the competition (date of acceptance: 1 November 2021 to 31 October 2023).
- Scientific excellence is the default principle to participate in the Frontiers Planet Prize.
- The competition is open to all disciplines, including social sciences, on the condition it is focused on planetary boundaries and offers new insights that help to reduce the destabilization of the Earth system.
- Nominees should be the lead scientist on the published article who best represents the research team.
Value
The institution of each International Champion receives 1 million Swiss Francs to advance the scientist’s breakthrough research.
Nomination Process
York University, as a registered national nominating body, may put forward up to 3 nominations to the national representative body, the National Research Council (NRC). The NRC will assess and select 3 nominations to go forward as the shortlisted candidates to represent Canada. An international Jury will first assess nominations and select National Champions, and then select 3 International Champions from among the National Champions cohort.
To be considered as one of York University’s nominees, interested scientists must complete the attached nomination form and submit it along with the relevant research articles to Abby Vogus, Strategic & Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) Specialist (avogus@yorku.ca), no later than October 18, 2023.
SIRI will support selected nominees to finalize the nominations and submit to the NRC.
Timeline
| Internal Nominations due to SIRI | October 18, 2023 |
| Deadline to Submit to NRC | November 1, 2023 |
| NRC Selection Committee Meeting | November 24, 2023 |
| Deadline for NRC Submission to International Jury | December 1, 2023 |
| Results Announced | April 2024 |
For More Information
For more details on this opportunity, please visit the Prize website: https://www.frontiersplanetprize.org/. If you have any questions, please contact Abby Vogus, SIRI Specialist at avogus@yorku.ca.
Call for nominations for 2023-2024 President’s Research Awards
The Senate Committee on Awards encourages you to submit nominations for the three President’s Research Awards and to promote the submission of nominations among your colleagues.
The Committee wishes to remind you of the two disciplinary clusters introduced in the 2018-2019 competition, applicable to the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award and the President’s Research Excellence Award: 1) Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine, and 2) Social Sciences, Arts & Design, Humanities, Business, Law and Education.
The President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) recognizes full-time faculty members within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the York community’s intellectual life.
The PERLA will be conferred to two researchers annually, one from each disciplinary cluster. In cases where there is ambiguity regarding the appropriate cluster, the nominee may include a rationale.
The President’s Research Impact Award recognizes full-time, active faculty members whose body of research or scholarship has translated into a notable impact on communities, individuals, public policies or practice beyond academe, or translated successfully into impactful commercial or other applications, while significantly and positively contributing to the University’s research culture and reputation.
The President’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) recognizes senior full-time faculty at the rank of Professor, with distinguished scholarly achievements who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the York community’s intellectual life.
The PREA will be conferred in alternating years between the two disciplinary clusters. The 2023-2024 PREA will be open to Cluster 1: Engineering, Science, Technology, Health and Biomedicine. In cases where there is ambiguity regarding the appropriate cluster, the nominee may include a rationale.
Reflecting on the nomination criteria regarding the nominee’s research achievements and demonstrated leadership as a contributor to York’s intellectual community, nominators are encouraged to highlight the nominee’s production of scholarship or creative contributions through public service and community engagement, scholarly publication, or the production of works of art.
The criteria and nomination forms can be found on the Senate Committee on Awards webpage. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 4:30 pm. Nominations should be submitted via MachForm available on the Awards webpage. Alternatively, nomination packages may be submitted to the Committee Secretary at awasser@yorku.ca.
York strongly values diversity and equity within its research community and encourages nominations of those who are under-represented in recent competitions.
President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award
President’s Research Impact Award
President’s Research Excellence Award
Other Events & Opportunities
Ajamu Baraka & Zubairu Wai at Toronto Public Library
Date: October 2, 2023
Time: 7:00pm EDT
Location: Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St.)
Ajamu Baraka will be in conversation with Zubairu Wai about the Black radical and peace movements’ opposition to militarism and their roles in presenting an alternative vision of world order.
Save the Date: The 2024 Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies
Date: Thursday, Feb 1, 2024
Time: 6:00pm ET
Event contact: Ady Matos amatos@barnard.edu.
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Dr. Omosalewa Olawoye-Mann Selected as New Director for The Harriet Tubman Institute!
Please join us in congratulating and welcoming The Harriet Tubman Institute’s new Director, Dr. Omosalewa (Salewa) Olawoye-Mann!
Salewa is an Assistant Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at York University. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Science Consortium (University of Missouri – Kansas City, 2016).
Her research focuses on heterodox approaches to sustainable economic development through natural resources, and monetary theory. She co-edited the book Monetary Policy and Central Banking: New Directions in Post-Keynesian Theory (2012).
With a long relationship and engagement with the Harriet Tubman Institute, Salewa served on the Executive Committee and led the Tubman Talks series.
Congratulations Salewa!
As HTI’s new Director starts her 5-year term, we also say goodbye to our outgoing directors, Dr. Gertrude Mianda and Deputy Director, Dr. Nathanael Ojong. Congratulations and well done on your hard work and commitment to The Harriet Tubman Institute!
Tubman Events
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Upcoming York Events and News
Connected Minds Program Membership Call
We are excited to extend an invitation to Black & Indigenous scholars to register for membership in the Connected Minds Program, a transformative initiative that seeks to harness the power of emerging technologies to promote a healthy and just society.
Supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) and over 50 industry, hospital, and community partners, Connected Minds is poised to become a global hub of critical transdisciplinary scholarship. With a special focus on Black and Indigenous communities, our research teams and partners will work collaboratively to optimize the benefits and mitigate the risks associated with the integration of humans and intelligent machines.
In addition to the core 8 research centers, during our first phase of membership calls, we are welcoming regristration from both Black or Indigenous Scholars at YorkU and QueensU for membership in the Connected Minds Program. By joining us, you will have access to a range of benefits and opportunities outlined on our website.
To register for membership, please complete the online application form at the link here:
https://connectedminds.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=10958
The final due date for the initial membership call is September 1st, 2023.
The recording of the town hall that took place on June 28th is available here if you weren’t able to make it:
We look forward to welcoming you as a member of the Connected Minds Program and embarking on this transformative journey together.
Please send any questions to connectedmindsinfo@yorku.ca
Invitation to Participate in Research Study on the Experiences of Black Women in Academic Institutions
My name is Dara Dillon, and I am an undergraduate researcher at York University. I am conducting a study on the experiences of Black women in academic institutions, specifically focusing on the post-George Floyd era. The aim of this study is to gain insights into the challenges faced by Black women in academic settings, the strategies they employ to overcome these challenges, and the opportunities for positive change.
Your unique perspective as a Black woman working at York University is incredibly valuable for this study. I am reaching out to invite you to participate in this research and kindly ask you to share information about the study with your networks as well.
Participation in this study will involve a confidential interview, which can be conducted conveniently via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. The interview will be recorded for accuracy and will typically last between 45 to 60 minutes. Rest assured that all recordings will be kept strictly confidential, and your privacy will be respected. The recording will be transcribed, and participants will be emailed a copy of the findings at the end of the project.
To ensure that potential participants meet the criteria for this study, we kindly request that you complete a brief pre-screening form. Please click on the following link to access the form: https://forms.gle/zTcxtirEghKF14YB9. Once you have completed the pre-screening form, I will provide you with further information about the study, including the objectives, interview process, and the subsequent steps involved.
By taking part in this study, you will contribute to shedding light on the experiences of Black women in academic institutions and help drive efforts to improve the well-being of Black women in academia. Your insights and perspectives are vital in fostering positive change within our university community.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Your participation would be immensely appreciated and will contribute significantly to the advancement of knowledge and understanding in this crucial area. Should you have any questions or require additional clarification, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Wishing you all the best,
Dara Dillon
Undergraduate Researcher
York University
Conference: Arts of the Indian Ocean
Location: Toronto, Canada
Date: May 2-4, 2024
Conveners
Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum) • Zulfikar Hirji (York University) • Ruba Kana’an (University ofToronto)
Keynote Speakers
Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) • Stephen Murphy (SOAS) • Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (FictionAuthor, Kenya) • Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University)
Collaborators
Deepali Dewan (Royal Ontario Museum) • Kajri Jain (University of Toronto) • Pedro Machado(Indiana University) • Chantal Radimilahy (University of Antananarivo) • Fahmida Suleman (RoyalOntario Museum) • Nancy Um (Getty Research Institute) • Richard Vokes (University of WesternAustralia) • Aga Khan Museum • Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (University of TorontoMississauga)
Conference Call for Papers
The ‘global turn’in academia bringsa renewed focuson the Indian Ocean and its diversehistories ofmobilities and interactions. The ocean’s unique climatic systems of seasonal monsoon winds andcurrents and its geographiccontours whose littoral shapes the shorelines of Africa, Asia, Australia, andAntarcticahave over millennia facilitated and sustained movements of human and non-humananimals, plants, minerals, things, and ideas.The historical formationof the Indian Ocean’s ecologies,mobilities, and economies have been regular subjects of scholarly enquiry and research, and thefocus of numerous publications, conferences, and workshops. By contrast, there has been limitedattention on the study of the Indian Ocean’s distinctive materialities and artistic expressions, bothpast and the present, and their roles in forging connections between the region’s peoples andgenerating new visual and expressive cultures. Additionally, scholarship on the Indian Ocean’smaterial and artistic worlds is often siloed by disciplinary approach, medium of production,periodization, ethnicity, religious affiliation,nationalism, or geographical demarcation.
Arts of the Indian Ocean will bring together knowledge producers from diverse backgrounds andscholarly arenas to present and discuss research and work on the materialities and artisticexpressions in the Indian Ocean world, across geographies — from eastern and southern Africa,through the Gulf and Red Sea to South and Southeast Asia and the south China Sea — as well asacross temporalities — from antiquityup until the present-day. The conference aims to gatheremerging and established researchers from the fields of archaeology, art history, history, architecture,museum studies, anthropology, visual studies, materialculture, and fashion studies, aswell as practicing artists from around the Indian Ocean region.
Arts of the Indian Ocean seeks to open up new questionson the multiple pasts, presents,and futures ofthe Indian Ocean throughthe examination of the creation,production, and circulation of materialculture in a wide range of forms includingthe visual arts, portable objects,manuscripts and maps,ships and navigational instruments, landscape, architecture, and the built environment, textilesanddress, photography and film, as well as the digital and plastic arts.
We welcome the submission of individual papers presenting case-based object studies as well as fullpanel proposals that engage in one or more of the followingtopics: production, materials, circulation,reception, transformation, connectivity, exchange, encounter, mobility, fluidity, transmediality,pilgrimage, ecology, faith and the spiritual, intimacy, materiality, heritage, imaginaries,(dis)placement, marginialities, resistance, violence, collecting and collections, decolonization,futurity, or the sensory.
The conference will be held in a hybrid format(virtual and in-person) to facilitate the participation ofcolleagues from around the world. The in-persongathering will be held in Toronto, Canada. Travelscholarships may be availablefor graduate students and colleagues working in the Indian Oceanregion.
Selected papers will be includedin an edited volume.
Submissions of Individual Paper Abstracts and Panel Proposals Individual Paper Submissions should include:
- Name, affiliation, and contact information
- Abstract of 200-300 words
- 1 to 2 images (related to proposed paper)
- 100-word author bio
Panel Proposal Submissions should include:
- Names, affiliations, and contact information of panel organizer and panelists
- Panel title and abstract of 100 words
- Abstract of 200-300 words for each paper
- 1 to 2 images (related to each proposed panel paper)
- 100-word bio for each panelist
Send all Submissions by email attachment in a single pdf to: ArtsOfTheIndianOcean@gmail.com
Deadline for Submissions: September 15, 2023
Notification of accepted Abstracts and Panel Proposals: October 5, 2023.
Send all inquiries to: ArtsOfTheIndianOcean@gmail.com
Contact Email: ArtsOfTheIndianOcean@gmail.com
Opportunity for incoming Master’s student interested in adaptive cycles, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Interested students should contact Glen Norcliffe, sending a short CV to gnorclif@yorku.ca.
The Velomobility for Disability project is seeking a domestic student who wishes to complete a master’s thesis and conduct fieldwork focused on the design, fabrication and trade of adaptive cycles used by persons with a disability. This opportunity is open to Canadian students or those with permanent residency in Canada.
The graduate student would conduct field work between 2024 and 2025 in North America, Western Europe and Indonesia accompanied by Dr Kruse (University of Graz, Austria), Professor Sugiono (University of Brawijaya, Indonesia), Dr Lintangsari (University of Brawijaya, Indonesia), and Professor Norcliffe (York University, principal investigator). All fieldwork expenses as well as a stipend will be provided. The student is expected to develop a thesis research topic based on this field research. Graduate students at York University have the opportunity to apply for other employment during the academic year, including as Teaching Assistants.
About the project
The three goals of this project are closely related. First, to uncover the source of new technologies used on adaptive cycles by persons with disability (PWD), with particular emphasis on the role of users in developing these devices. Second to investigate how such cycles are made, and customized for users. And third, to determine how users (and their immediate social network) choose one cycle design over another. The approach (based on fieldwork) is comparative of these activities in North America, Western Europe and Indonesia.
1. Many persons with a disability have to cope with an impairment that restricts their spatial mobility, including their access to schools and other places of learning, to jobs, to stores, sport and entertainment, and to socializing with family and friends. This research focuses on the case of adaptive cycles which, due to recent advances in design, have led to major technical improvements that offer one of the most promising avenues to improving mobility. Poorly understood, however, is the role of users, their family and friends, engineers, virtual information and trade magazines in the design, manufacture and distribution of adaptive cycles.
This study will compare the design and production in four advanced industrial countries—Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands—with their design and production in Indonesia. Being a country with incomes approximately one quarter of the Advanced Industrial Countries (AICs), Indonesia appears to have developed low-cost solutions using recycled materials, with adaptive cycles mostly customized to meet user needs and affordability. Interviews, public records and websites indicate that there are between 25 and 30 specialized makers of adaptive cycles in North America and Europe, whereas in Indonesia many tukang (artisans) are engaged in these activities on a very small scale.
2. How are these adaptive cycles made? The price attached to some of the most sophisticated devices (over $10,000) is not very different from that of a low-end car, and beyond the limited means of many PWD. Production runs in industrialized countries are very short, indeed many cycles are customized to meet a user’s specific needs. In Indonesia, in contrast, much lower cost structures and wages are found, and there is greater use of recycled bicycles and other materials to match the lower incomes of the average citizen. This raises the possibility of creating supply chains connecting low-cost parts makers in the global south with high-cost assembly in AICs.
3. How do users select adaptive cycles and how are they distributed? How does a user find out about alternate models and choose between them? Do they “test drive” an existing model, or negotiate with a maker for customized adaptations? Are markets local, or do niche cycles enter into international trade?
Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) Call on Democracy, Governance and Trust
The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently launched its fourth joint funding opportunity on Democracy, Governance and Trust. The call brings together research funding organizations from countries in South America, Africa, North America, and Europe, and will support international projects that contribute to our understanding of how democracy, governance, and trust play a role in tackling both short-term crises and long-term challenges. A summary is provided below.
Objectives are to:
- catalyze and support transnational research teams from countries on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond the North/South divide to advance key insights from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) led research and interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic research collaborations through strengthening existing partnerships and establishing new ones
- support outstanding, innovative, and interdisciplinary research proposals that contribute to the understanding of challenges and opportunities affecting democracy, governance, and trust, and/or test interventions or initiatives aimed at rebuilding democracy, governance and trust
- co-develop robust and resilient work programs with communities and key stakeholders, including local, regional, and international policy makers
- promote equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) through the composition of the research teams and the research environment, design, and implementation by, among others:
- integrating diversity-related considerations into the design of the project (e.g., use gender or other identities as factors of analysis, or involve research participants from diverse or disadvantaged groups);
- composing and recruiting diverse research teams;
- offering quality training and mentoring for young researchers from disadvantaged groups;
- ensuring research-related activities and decisions are conducted in inclusive ways.
For substantive objectives of the call please consult the DGT Call Scope (English)
DGT Call Scope (French).
The funding opportunity focuses on the following nine cross-cutting themes:
- Concepts, understandings, and models of democracy, governance and trust
- Education
- Media, information and communication
- Economies and economic systems
- Identities, discrimination, marginalization and inequalities
- Ecosystems and environments
- Epistemologies, knowledge and expertise
- History and culture
- Power, authority and conflict
Eligibility
This call is open to only international research projects that:
- comprise at least three eligible Co-Principal Investigators from at least three different T-AP participating countries from both sides of the Atlantic. (Research partners will receive funding from the national funding agency for their country)
- nominate one of the Co-Principal Investigators as the project’s lead Principal Investigator (PI)
Webinars
SSHRC will be holding two webinars for applicants and research administrators on this funding opportunity. The webinars will be held via Webex at the following dates and times:
| Webinar | Date | WebEx Link |
| Democracy, Governance and Trust (French) | August 23, 2023 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Meeting link: Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities: Democracy, Governance and Trust |
| Democracy, Governance and Trust(English) | August 23, 2023 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. | Meeting link: Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities: Democracy, Governance and Trust |
Value
Canadian applicants can request up to a maximum of $200,000 per proposal
Quebec applicants eligible to apply for SSHRC funding may also apply for a supplement from the FRQSC: Up to $75,000 (+ Indirect costs of research)
Duration
Up to 36 months
Deadlines
| Compulsory Intention to Submit due at agency | Friday, September 15, 2023 no later than midnight BRT – please use the NOI Form to submit your intent. IMPORTANT NOTE: The NOI must be submitted by the proposal’s Lead PI. For submission of the full proposal, the Lead PI and the themes selected in the NOI form must be maintained. |
| Full application due at ORS for full review | Monday, October 23, 2023 |
| Full application and fully signed ORS Checklist due at ORS for required review | by 9:00 am on Thursday, November 2, 2023 |
| Full application due at funding agencies | Monday, November 6, 2023 no later than midnight BRT via SAGe – please consult the DGT call instructions to apply. Note: Researchers applying for SSHRC funds must submit all supplementary SSHRC documents through the Convergence Portal by 9:00 am on November 6, 2023 for ORS to provide institutional approval and forward documents to SSHRC for peer review. |
Please contact your Faculty Research Office for information on their internal deadlines.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here:
For more information on this Call, please consult the following links:
Other Events & Opportunities
Canada Council for the Arts - 2024 Molson Prize competition
The Canada Council for the Arts will soon be accepting nominations for the 2024 Molson Prize competition. A summary is provided below, and application materials will be available on the Council’s website. The is a pre-announcement; please consult the full announcement on the call website for any changes from previous rounds.
Objective
Molson Prizes are awarded annually to distinguished individuals to encourage continuing contributions to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.
Nominees are assessed on:
- Merit (50%)
- Quality of their overall career achievements
- International stature, where appropriate
- Impact (50%)
- The scope of the candidate’s contributions to the cultural or intellectual heritage of Canada, taking into account the context of their artistic discipline or academic field of study
- Evidence of the candidate’s outstanding commitment, creativity and effort to share research and knowledge beyond the artistic or academic community
- The influence of the candidate and their work on enriching and evolving current thinking and practice in their area of expertise
- The candidate’s contributions towards a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive society
Two prizes are awarded each year, one in the arts and one in the social sciences and humanities.
Eligibility
Nominator
Candidates must be nominated by one nominator: either an individual or an organization. Anyone or any organization with an interest in, and capacity for, nominating appropriate individuals is eligible to do so.
Nominee
Candidates must be nominated for the award. To be nominated, candidates must have made a substantial and distinguished contribution over a significant period and still be active and productive in their career. They must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, as defined by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. They do not need to be residing in Canada. A person may only be nominated in one category for one competition.
Value
Each prize is in the amount of $50,000.
ORS Nomination Support
If you are planning to submit a nomination, please contact Sherri Kogan at skogan@yorku.ca to discuss how the SIRI team can support you. Review by the Major Awards Advisory Committee is available if nominees adhere to the deadlines below. SIRI will also support all institutional nominations.
Deadlines
| Drafts for MAAC Review | August 24, 2023 |
| Funder Deadline | October 1, 2023 |
For more details on this opportunity and to access the nomination form, please visit the following link:
https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes/molson-prizes/guidelines-molson-prizes
IDRC-KIX: Knowledge and innovation for achieving gender equality and social inclusion at school
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) are inviting proposal for applied research projects that will generate and mobilize evidence to contextualize and scale the impact of innovative approaches to strengthen gender-responsive and socially inclusive education and safe schooling experiences for all children, especially those facing multiple forms of gender inequalities and marginalization.
The call focuses on the creation of:
- Inclusive and gender-responsive curriculum, pedagogies and leadership, and
- Safe, inclusive and supportive schools for all.
The aim is to respond to these challenges by doing the following:
- Generating evidence about how to scale the impact of innovative approaches that address the challenges of gender equality and social inclusion at school.
- Strengthening the capacities of relevant stakeholders to use that knowledge and innovation.
- Mobilizing the evidence developed to improve policy and practice in education systems.
Eligibility
This funding opportunity is open to either individual organizations or consortia of up to three organizations working in Global Partnership for Education partner countries (see Annex A).
Funding
Value:
Single-country grants: $300K - $500K
Multi-country grants: $800K - $1.5M
Regional/global grants: up to $2.5M
Duration:
Single-country grants: up to 24 months
Multi-country grants: up to 36 months
Regional/global grants: up to 36 months
Deadlines:
| Activity | Date |
| Notify SIRI of intent to apply | As soon as possible, to ccorre@yorku.ca |
| First draft to SIRI for review | July 14, 2023 |
| Full application to SIRI for review | August 14, 2023 |
| Final application and signed ORS checklist to SIRI | August 24, 2023 |
| Agency deadline | August 28, 2023 |
Applicants are asked to please notify SIRI of intent to apply as soon as possible, by e-mail to ccorre@yorku.ca.
Detailed call information:
News, Updates, Publications
New dates for Dakar Conference: October 9-11, 2023
The Dakar ConferenceOrganizing Committee is happy to share that the conference will be postponed, not cancelled. The new date for the conference in Dakar will be from October 9thto 11th, 2023. The new venue will be at l’Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Cultures. The Organizing Committee is coordinating accommodation and will send out updates as soon as possible.
If you have not already, please confirm your attendance for the Dakar Conference through this Form.
Tubman Events
No Tubman events this week, check in next week for updates!
If you would like to book a room or host an event with or at Tubman, contact tubman@yorku.ca.
Upcoming York Events and News
Call for Abstracts: COVID-19 and Gendered and Sexual Violence on Campuses
Book editors: Dr. JJ Wright, Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg, and Dr. Emily Colpitts
Deadline for proposals: July 21st, 2023
Deadline for full draft: November 1st, 2023
Poster & Full call for abstracts are attached.
A “ shadow pandemic ” of gendered violence (GV) emerged during COVID-19 due to a rise in conditions that are known to hike rates of violence such as economic precarity, mental distress, and isolation. GV on college and university campuses already existed at some of the highest rates, and we invite chapter proposals for an Edited Collection that reflect upon how COVID-19 changed the appearance of GV on campus and reshaped the possibilities for survivors to seek refuge and justice. The book is currently under contract with Peter Lang to be published in 2024.
COVID-19 has also sparked conversation about avoiding a return to ‘ normal’ and the need to include frameworks from disability justice, racial justice, and abolitionist thought into our efforts to address GV. We encourage chapter proposals that explore the interconnectedness of different forms of systemic injustice that perpetuate GV, such as anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, sexism, and classism.
We welcome chapters that highlight the voices of administrators and frontline workers who are coming up with innovative solutions despite everdecreasing resources, as well as student activists who continue to protest and demand real solutions to injustice on their campuses. Through this Edited Collection we are interested in engaging with critical responses to the pandemic as part of the project to envision a more just future.
Dahdaleh Institute: Seminar – Can Post-Vaccination Sentiment Affect the Acceptance of Booster Jab? with Blessing Ogbuokiri
Date: Wednesday, July 26
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Location: Hybrid
Connected Minds Program Membership Call
We are excited to extend an invitation to Black & Indigenous scholars to register for membership in the Connected Minds Program, a transformative initiative that seeks to harness the power of emerging technologies to promote a healthy and just society.
Supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) and over 50 industry, hospital, and community partners, Connected Minds is poised to become a global hub of critical transdisciplinary scholarship. With a special focus on Black and Indigenous communities, our research teams and partners will work collaboratively to optimize the benefits and mitigate the risks associated with the integration of humans and intelligent machines.
In addition to the core 8 research centers, during our first phase of membership calls, we are welcoming regristration from both Black or Indigenous Scholars at YorkU and QueensU for membership in the Connected Minds Program. By joining us, you will have access to a range of benefits and opportunities outlined on our website.
To register for membership, please complete the online application form at the link here.
https://connectedminds.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=10958
The final due date for the initial membership call is September 1st, 2023.
The recording of the town hall that took place on June 28th is available here if you weren’t able to make it.
We look forward to welcoming you as a member of the Connected Minds Program and embarking on this transformative journey together.
Please send any questions to connectedmindsinfo@yorku.ca
Research Commons: York Research Chair Information Session
Date: July 19, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Zoom (register here)
Please contact Andrew Castillo (drewcast@yorku.ca) with any questions about this event.
The Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) unit is hosting a York Research Chairs (YRC) Information Session in conjunction with the launch of the 2023-24 competition. The YRC program mirrors and complements the Canada Research Chairs program and recognizes researchers who have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship and have made, or are poised to make, substantial contributions to research leadership. Led by Dr. Mark Roseman, Director of SIRI, the session will provide an overview of the nomination process. It will also highlight changes to this year’s competition and provide guidance for developing an effective nomination package. While the session is designed primarily for administrators of the program at the Faculty level, interested applicants are welcome to attend. Please note Faculties will undertake their own internal nomination processes outside of the VPRI process.
Other Events & Opportunities
Call for Papers: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Date: 23-24 October 2023
Location: SOAS / University of London
Deadline: TODAY July 17, 2023
Organisers: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Esteban Salas, Wayne Dooling
Please send an abstract of 300 words plus a short bio to
mr28@soas.ac.uk, pelckmans@hum.ku.dk, es34@soas.ac.uk, wd2@soas.ac.uk
by 17 July 2023.
Decisions will be communicated by 31 July 2023.
Abstracts can be sent in English, French or Portuguese.
Some funding might be available to support travel and accommodation for those who do not dispose over their own funding.
Download full call of papers here
The aim of the symposium is to re-explore the very idea and concept of resistance to slavery in a cross-regional comparative perspective. Debates about collective forms of resistance to slavery in Africa appear to have faded in the face of a focus on individual agency and everyday resistance. By depicting especially complex individualised trajectories of agency within the ‘kinship continuum’ (Miers & Kopytoff 1977), research has tended to lose sight of resistance and the fundamental oppressive and violent nature of slavery. We aim to highlight the complex relations between the individual and the collective in their response to the institution of slavery - whether as social system, form of labour, or mode of production.
Ghanaian Student Scholarship Program 2023 - Now Accepting Applications for Pass the Torch Collective
Organizer: Mary Ann Boateng
Email: pttcollective@gmail.com
Flyer attached
Hello,
My name is Mary Ann Boateng and I am part of a young group of Ghanaian professionals called Pass the Torch Collective that is looking to give back and uplift the community.
I am emailing to let you know about our scholarship program for Ontario-based Ghanaian Canadian students pursuing a college/university degree or diploma in Fall 2023.
The Ghanaian Student Scholarship Program is providing two awards of $1,500 to two successful applicants. To be eligible applicants must:
- Be 17 to 30 years of age
- Live in the Greater Toronto Area
- Have at least one parent of Ghanaian descent
- Be enrolled in a post-secondary diploma/degree program at a recognized Canadian institution
For more information and to apply, please visit our website at: passthetorchcollective.com
Follow us on Instagram: @pttcollective
--
Pass The Torch Collective
www.passthetorchcollective.com
Call for Youth Participants: Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Deadline for participant recruitment: August 31, 2023
Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is currently recruiting youth participants for one of its research studies, "Discrimination, ableism and racism hurt but inclusion can heal: 'Listening to the intersectional lived experiences of youth with disabilities and co-creating solutions'. This study focuses on understanding the diverse lived experience of youth with disabilities and particularly how disability intersects with race, ethnicity and/or gender. This study is for youth aged 15-29 years old who has a disability and identifies as belonging to a racial, ethnic or gender minority group. They should be able to communicate in English or with the help of an interpreter (can be provided by the study upon request). This study is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Holland Bloorview Kimel Family Opportunities Fund.
Read more here.
Posters attached.
Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) Call on Democracy, Governance and Trust
The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently launched its fourth joint funding opportunity on Democracy, Governance and Trust. The call brings together research funding organizations from countries in South America, Africa, North America, and Europe, and will support international projects that contribute to our understanding of how democracy, governance, and trust play a role in tackling both short-term crises and long-term challenges. A summary is provided below.
Objectives are to:
- catalyze and support transnational research teams from countries on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond the North/South divide to advance key insights from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) led research and interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic research collaborations through strengthening existing partnerships and establishing new ones
- support outstanding, innovative, and interdisciplinary research proposals that contribute to the understanding of challenges and opportunities affecting democracy, governance, and trust, and/or test interventions or initiatives aimed at rebuilding democracy, governance and trust
- co-develop robust and resilient work programs with communities and key stakeholders, including local, regional, and international policy makers
- promote equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) through the composition of the research teams and the research environment, design, and implementation by, among others:
- integrating diversity-related considerations into the design of the project (e.g., use gender or other identities as factors of analysis, or involve research participants from diverse or disadvantaged groups);
- composing and recruiting diverse research teams;
- offering quality training and mentoring for young researchers from disadvantaged groups;
- ensuring research-related activities and decisions are conducted in inclusive ways.
For substantive objectives of the call please consult the DGT Call Scope (English)
DGT Call Scope (French).
The funding opportunity focuses on the following nine cross-cutting themes:
- Concepts, understandings, and models of democracy, governance and trust
- Education
- Media, information and communication
- Economies and economic systems
- Identities, discrimination, marginalization and inequalities
- Ecosystems and environments
- Epistemologies, knowledge and expertise
- History and culture
- Power, authority and conflict
Eligibility
This call is open to only international research projects that:
- comprise at least three eligible Co-Principal Investigators from at least three different T-AP participating countries from both sides of the Atlantic. (Research partners will receive funding from the national funding agency for their country)
- nominate one of the Co-Principal Investigators as the project’s lead Principal Investigator (PI)
Webinars
SSHRC will be holding two webinars for applicants and research administrators on this funding opportunity. The webinars will be held via Webex at the following dates and times:
| Webinar | Date | WebEx Link |
| Democracy, Governance and Trust (French) | August 23, 2023 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Meeting link: Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities: Democracy, Governance and Trust |
| Democracy, Governance and Trust(English) | August 23, 2023 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. | Meeting link: Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities: Democracy, Governance and Trust |
Value
Canadian applicants can request up to a maximum of $200,000 per proposal
Quebec applicants eligible to apply for SSHRC funding may also apply for a supplement from the FRQSC: Up to $75,000 (+ Indirect costs of research)
Duration
Up to 36 months
Deadlines
| Compulsory Intention to Submit due at agency | Friday, September 15, 2023 no later than midnight BRT – please use the NOI Form to submit your intent. IMPORTANT NOTE: The NOI must be submitted by the proposal’s Lead PI. For submission of the full proposal, the Lead PI and the themes selected in the NOI form must be maintained. |
| Full application due at ORS for full review | Monday, October 23, 2023 |
| Full application and fully signed ORS Checklist due at ORS for required review | by 9:00 am on Thursday, November 2, 2023 |
| Full application due at funding agencies | Monday, November 6, 2023 no later than midnight BRT via SAGe – please consult the DGT call instructions to apply. Note: Researchers applying for SSHRC funds must submit all supplementary SSHRC documents through the Convergence Portal by 9:00 am on November 6, 2023 for ORS to provide institutional approval and forward documents to SSHRC for peer review. |
Please contact your Faculty Research Office for information on their internal deadlines.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here:
For more information on this Call, please consult the following links:
News, Updates, Publications
New dates for Dakar Conference: October 9-11, 2023
The Dakar ConferenceOrganizing Committee is happy to share that the conference will be postponed, not cancelled. The new date for the conference in Dakar will befrom October 9thto 11th, 2023. The new venue will be at l’Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Cultures. The Organizing Committee is coordinating accommodation and will send out updates as soon as possible.
If you have not already, please confirm your attendance for the Dakar Conference through this Form.
Tubman Events
No Tubman events this week, check in next week for updates!
If you would like to book a room or host an event with or at Tubman, contact tubman@yorku.ca.
Upcoming York Events and News
AGYU Research Assistant Position for Graduate Student
Research Assistant, African and Caribbean Modern Art
Application deadline: Monday, August 14, 2023
Interview dates: Interviews to take place via zoom on August 24, 25, and 28
Position duration: September 5, 2023 – August 31, 2024 (end date flexible)
Weekly hourly commitment: 5 hrs
Hourly wage: $23.15
Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) is a socially minded not-for-profit contemporary art gallery that is a space for the creation and appreciation of art and culture. It is a supported Unit of York University within the President’s Division. We are externally funded as a public art gallery through the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council. Since 1988, the AGYU has operated at the forefront of contemporary artistic, curatorial, and educational practices with a dedication to presenting international artists within local contexts and bringing Canadian artists into international conversations. We are known for providing sustained support to artists, curators, and writers through long-term engagement that often begins with hosting residencies that tend to lead to exhibitions, performances, lectures, and publications. Through our collections, exhibitions, and public programs the AGYU acts as a rich pedagogical resource for students and faculty, as well as Toronto’s contemporary artists and creative communities.
Position Summary:
The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) invites an organized graduate student to apply to a research assistant role. This position will assist an AGYU curator with research, and administration for a grant project focused on the work of seminal Guyanese artist, anthropologist, and novelist Denis Williams (1923–1998). Across Williams' lifetime, his drawings and paintings took on an array of styles from figurative works imbued with social commentary to works focused on geometric abstraction. Furthermore, Williams lived and worked across three continents, developing a distinctly transnational artistic practice that unfurled in dialogue with numerous artists and cultural figures including Mozambican artist Malangatana Ngwenya (1936–2011), art historian Ulli Beier (1922–2011), and Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1930– ). This research project aims to examine the international significance of Williams practice through studying his illustrative works, their visual motifs, and their relationship to African and Caribbean literature.
The research assistant will assist the curator in organizing all aspects of the grant project which includes researching works of art through reviewing primary and secondary source literature, assisting with the coordination of the curator’s research trips, corresponding with conservators to organize a technical study of a selection of Williams works on paper, and planning and hosting a two-day scholarly convening.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ability to independently conduct thorough, accurate, and historic research using primary and secondary resources
- Update working bibliography and source all related text
- Catalogue and fact-check artwork records, including exhibition and literature history
- Organize checklists of Williams work
- Correspond with individuals and organizations to locate artist works and relevant ephemera
- Meet with supervising curator on a regular basis to maintain ongoing communication regarding project progress
- Performs other related administrative duties as required
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated research interest and experience in one or more of the following areas: African art history, Caribbean art history, post-war modern art in Britain, drawings and works on paper, Caribbean literature
- Excellent written and verbal communication, strong email etiquette, and an ability to communicate with a wide range of individuals, including artist estates, private collectors, and institutions
- Highly organized; can easily record and keep track of research sources
- Competency with Microsoft Office
- Experience in various approaches to research from database research to visiting libraries and archives
Application process:
All applications should be emailed to mings@yorku.ca The email subject line should read “Research Assistant” followed by applicant’s last name.
All applications must include:
- resume or CV
- Short statement of interest sharing any relevant coursework and what the applicant hopes to gain from this research assistant position
- Writing sample (8 pages or less)
New Courses with Dr. Joe Pateman
Dear Students,
Are you looking for a 3.00 or 6.00 elective course this Fall/Winter term? Open Spaces are available in AP/POLS 4520 3.00 &AP/POLS 3565 6.00.
There are no prerequisite requirements. Please see attached poster and information below on the course director Dr. Joe Pateman and information on each course.
AP/POLS 3565 6.00 Racism and Colonialism
AP/POLS 4520 3.00 Nationalism, Communism and Imperialism
Please note: If you experience issues accessing the Registration & Enrolment Module (REM), please email lapspols@yorku.ca and we would be glad to assist.
Kindly include the following information when emailing us:
- Student number
- Full name
- Course Code and course section/tutorial # if applicable (i.e., AP/POLS 1000 section A – please do not include the catalogue number)
Connected Minds Program Membership Call
We are excited to extend an invitation to Black & Indigenous scholars to register for membership in the Connected Minds Program, a transformative initiative that seeks to harness the power of emerging technologies to promote a healthy and just society.
Supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) and over 50 industry, hospital, and community partners, Connected Minds is poised to become a global hub of critical transdisciplinary scholarship. With a special focus on Black and Indigenous communities, our research teams and partners will work collaboratively to optimize the benefits and mitigate the risks associated with the integration of humans and intelligent machines.
In addition to the core 8 research centers, during our first phase of membership calls, we are welcoming regristration from both Black or Indigenous Scholars at YorkU and QueensU for membership in the Connected Minds Program. By joining us, you will have access to a range of benefits and opportunities outlined on our website.
To register for membership, please complete the online application form at the link here.
https://connectedminds.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=10958
The final due date for the initial membership call is September 1st, 2023.
The recording of the town hall that took place on June 28th is available here if you weren’t able to make it.
We look forward to welcoming you as a member of the Connected Minds Program and embarking on this transformative journey together.
Please send any questions to connectedmindsinfo@yorku.ca
Other Events & Opportunities
Buxton 100th Homecoming
Homecoming in Buxton is a special time and for many an emotional experience, a reminder of the injustices endured and the struggles to overcome them. Our unique history has touched the lives of many African Canadians and Ameri- cans. Many courageous people made the perilous journey of the Underground Railroad to acquire freedom, an educa- tion, and build a future for themselves and their descendants.
This event was intended to draw those former residents who relocated to various parts of Canada and the United States for a return visit to this community. This is a formal invitation for you to attend the 100th Buxton Homecoming, for more information on what this event entails, please click here.
Get Involved:
- Volunteer
- Labour Day Parade
- The Black Vendor Market
- Labour Day Book Advertisements
Ghanaian Student Scholarship Program 2023 - Now Accepting Applications for Pass the Torch Collective
Organizer: Mary Ann Boateng
Email: pttcollective@gmail.com
Hello,
My name is Mary Ann Boateng and I am part of a young group of Ghanaian professionals called Pass the Torch Collective that is looking to give back and uplift the community.
I am emailing to let you know about our scholarship program for Ontario-based Ghanaian Canadian students pursuing a college/university degree or diploma in Fall 2023.
The Ghanaian Student Scholarship Program is providing two awards of $1,500 to two successful applicants. To be eligible applicants must:
- Be 17 to 30 years of age
- Live in the Greater Toronto Area
- Have at least one parent of Ghanaian descent
- Be enrolled in a post-secondary diploma/degree program at a recognized Canadian institution
For more information and to apply, please visit our website at: passthetorchcollective.com
Follow us on Instagram: @pttcollective
Call for Youth Participants: Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Deadline for participant recruitment: August 31, 2023
Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is currently recruiting youth participants for one of its research studies, "Discrimination, ableism and racism hurt but inclusion can heal: 'Listening to the intersectional lived experiences of youth with disabilities and co-creating solutions'. This study focuses on understanding the diverse lived experience of youth with disabilities and particularly how disability intersects with race, ethnicity and/or gender. This study is for youth aged 15-29 years old who has a disability and identifies as belonging to a racial, ethnic or gender minority group. They should be able to communicate in English or with the help of an interpreter (can be provided by the study upon request). This study is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Holland Bloorview Kimel Family Opportunities Fund.
Read more here.
June
News, Updates, Publications
Congratulations and well done to everyone who presented and assisted with Congress 2023 at York University! 👏
Michaëlle Jean’s return to the Harriet Tubman Institute
Last Thursday, May 31st, Michaëlle Jean, the former Governor General of Canada, returned to The Harriet Tubman Institute after inaugurating it back in 2007. The Harriet Tubman Institute’s Executive Committee welcomed her to the Gathering Spaces for Black and Indigenous Scholars on the 3rd floor of York Lanes Keele Campus. We had an insightful discussion with the Director for the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages about the power of solidarity between Black and Indigenous communities across Canada. We are grateful to have had this opportunity!
Tubman Events
Dakar Conference Program is Available on our Website
Dates: June 26-29, 2023
Location: l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Conference Program is now available! View it here.
The Harriet Tubman Institute is going to Dakar! The Conference will be hosted at l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. HTI extends a huge thank you to our supporters, York International, The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the African Studies Program, and the Resource Centre for Public Sociology.
Dakar Conference Program
Upcoming York Events and News
Research Commons Upcoming Workshops
Dates: July 16, July 19 (details below)
Location: Zoom
A recording of the event will be sent to those who register beforehand.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Shana Shubs (re: SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Information Session) or Andrew Castillo (re: York Research Chair Information Session).
- SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Information Session (June 16, 2023 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm)
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Dean’s Office cordially invites you to the LA&PS annual information session on SSHRC Partnership Development Grants (PDG).
PDGs (maximum $200,000, duration 1-3 years, deadline November 15) provide support to teams/partnerships, led by a project director, to:
- develop research and/or related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including knowledge mobilization and the meaningful involvement of students and emerging scholars, by fostering new partnerships with existing and/or potential partners; or
- design and test new partnership approaches for research and/or related activities that may result in best practices or models that either can be adapted by others or have the potential to be scaled up to a regional, national or international level.
The session will feature an overview of the competition, guidance on strategies for developing competitive proposals, and a panel discussion with faculty members who have developed successful PDG applications. The session will also outline resources available from LA&PS and from across York to strengthen applications and support research plans.
Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
Time: 10 am – 12 noon
Place: Zoom (register here)
Please contact Shana Shubs (shanays@yorku.ca), LA&PS Grant Development Specialist, with any questions about this event.
- York Research Chair Information Session (July 19, 2023 from 10:00 am - 11:00 am)
The Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) unit is hosting a York Research Chairs (YRC) Information Session in conjunction with the launch of the 2023-24 competition. The YRC program mirrors and complements the Canada Research Chairs program and recognizes researchers who have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship and have made, or are poised to make, substantial contributions to research leadership.
Led by Dr. Mark Roseman, Director of SIRI, the session will provide an overview of the nomination process. It will also highlight changes to this year’s competition and provide guidance for developing an effective nomination package. While the session is designed primarily for administrators of the program at the Faculty level, interested applicants are welcome to attend. Please note Faculties will undertake their own internal nomination processes outside of the VPRI process.
Date: July 19, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Place: Zoom (register here)
Please contact Andrew Castillo (drewcast@yorku.ca) with any questions about this event.
Other Events & Opportunities
If you would like to share a recent publication, event, or other news through our weekly newsletter, please send an email to tubman@yorku.ca.
News, Updates, Publications
The Harriet Tubman Institute and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research are proud to announce that Dr. Denis Mukwege will receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from York University during Spring Convocation. This honorary LLD will be conferred on Friday, June 16, 2023 at 3pm EDT on York’s Keele Campus.
Read the full story here.
Tubman Events
Dakar Conference Cancellation
Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas (Université York, Canada/York University, Canada), in collaboration with L'Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Cultures (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal), we would like to inform you that the conference ('Africa and its Diasporas' Contributions to World Civilization/ Les contributions de l'Afrique et ses diasporas à la civilization du monde') which was scheduled from June 26-29, 2023 in Dakar, Senegal, has been canceled due to the political crisis in the country.
Given the recent surge in violent protests in Dakar, which damaged the UCAD campus where the conference was scheduled, the committee has regrettably canceled our conference to ensure participants' safety and security.
We encourage participants to provide the letter attached to airlines for flight reimbursements, as the current situation is beyond our control.
We sincerely regret any inconvenience caused by this unexpected circumstance. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for being so understanding.
On the behalf of the organizing committee,
Dr. Gertrude Mianda
Director, Harriet Tubman Institute /Directrice, Institut Harriet Tubman.
Upcoming York Events and News
OneWater ORU: "Water Security, Climate Change & Resilience: Sharing Experiences from the UN Water Conference with Our Community & Partners."
Date: Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Time: 10:00am EDT
Location: 280N York Lanes; 10AM
Register here.
During this event, we will be sharing our experiences from the recent UN Water Conference, held in March 2023 in New York. It will be a great opportunity to gain insights into the current challenges and innovative solutions in the field of water security, climate change, and resilience. We are excited to showcase our research in the water field and exchange valuable knowledge with our community and partners.
The event is organized by Sapna Sharma (Science), Marina Freire-Gormaly (Lassonde), and Sylvie Morin (Science) in collaboration with the OneWATER Institute, Women & Inclusivity in Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), and CIFAL York.
Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at onewater@yorku.ca.
The Home, Identity and Belonging Research Cluster at the CFR invites you to
Women's Voices from Conflict Zones: Experiencing, Understanding, and Embodying Identity, Home, and Belonging in Diaspora & War Zones
Date: June 16, 2023
Time: 10:00am – 1:30pm EDT
Location: Online
Register here.
Other Events & Opportunities
Call for Youth Participants: Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is currently recruiting youth participants for one of its research studies, "Discrimination, ableism and racism hurt but inclusion can heal: 'Listening to the intersectional lived experiences of youth with disabilities and co-creating solutions'. This study focuses on understanding the diverse lived experience of youth with disabilities and particularly how disability intersects with race, ethnicity and/or gender. This study is for youth aged 15-29 years old who has a disability and identifies as belonging to a racial, ethnic or gender minority group. They should be able to communicate in English or with the help of an interpreter (can be provided by the study upon request). This study is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Holland Bloorview Kimel Family Opportunities Fund.
Read more here.
Call for Papers: International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCCASU)
Theme: Financing African Cities: Infrastructure, Land Management & Markets
CFP Deadline: July 16, 2023
Conference Date: December 10-17, 2023
Location: Nairobi, Kenya and Virtual
Contact: Co-president, Prof. Huhua Cao (caohuhua@uottawa.ca).
Call for Papers pdf attached.
We are pleased to introduce you to the International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCCASU), which has been well established among UN-Habitat and several Canadian universities since 2015. As an international think-tank, ICCCASU brings together researchers, academics and representatives from government and industry for in-depth discussions on cities and urbanization to promote the dissemination and implementation of UN 2030 SDGs and the New Urban Agenda adopted in 2016. Moving beyond the traditional practices of North-South or South-South cooperation, ICCCASU fosters an international triangular dialogue among African countries, Canada and China, which together account for over 30% of the world’s urban population.
We have been consistently holding conferences every two years (Ottawa 2015; Yaoundé, Cameroon 2017; Chengdu, China 2019; Montreal 2021), and our next conference (ICCCASU5) is to take place December 10-17, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. This conference is titled Financing African Cities: Infrastructure, Land Management & Markets, as we address these challenges in search of innovative solutions and best practices to support a more sustainable, productive, and equitable urban future for Africa. Our current call for submissions is open until July 16, 2023 and we would like to invite your colleagues and students to participate in our conference in person or online.
Please find our attached call for contributions, ICCCASU development path, as well as May newsletter to learn more about us and our upcoming conference. You may also find more details at icccasu.org. We invite you to share this information within your networks as we believe this may be of interest to your institute/centre.
News, Updates, Publications
HTI Member Patrick Mbullo Owuor Recipient of The Wenner-Gren Grant Award!
Gr. CONF-918, Owuor, Patrick (York U.) "Hydrocolonialism: The politics and poetics of water infrastructure, the environment, and health," Workshop Grant, $20,000, approved on March 8, 2023.
This proposed two-day Hydrocolonialism workshop takes a multidisciplinary approach and brings together scholars from several disciplines to interrogate the nexus between water infrastructure projects, the environment, and health. Drawing from anthropological insights, the workshop will act as a disciplinary nexus connecting the fields of anthropology, climate change, health, and new media (visual anthropology). The purpose of this multidisciplinary approach is to cultivate greater involvement of decision-makers and the larger population. In addition, we aim to create broadly conceived advocacy tools to advocate for more equitable and sustainable infrastructure project outcomes.
Patrick is a biocultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the biological and environmental impacts of infrastructure. His work lies at the intersection between culture, biology, and the environment. Patrick’s dissertation project, Dams, and Displacements: Biosocial Impacts of the Thwake Multipurpose Dam Construction on Women in Makueni County, Kenya, examined the psychosocial, nutritional, and physical health impacts of dam construction on women in Makueni County, Kenya. Patrick has a long-standing commitment to collaborative and community-based participatory research, where he has been involved in numerous public health interventions seeking to address global health issues, including health disparities in contemporary marginalized populations and global health. Patrick is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at York University Canada, where his research focuses on the ethics of biobanking in clinical trials in East Africa.
Congratulations Patrick!
HTI Member Lorne Foster leads the Black Canadian National Survey
The Black Canadian National Survey, led by Professor Lorne Foster in partnership with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, finds that Black Canadians see workplaces as the epicentre of racial discrimination and unfairness.
Lorne Foster is Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA). He holds the York Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies & Human Rights (Tier 1). As the Director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), Dr. Foster oversees the leading university-based survey research centre in Canada. He is past Academic Director, of the York Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC); and the inaugural Chair, Race Inclusion and Supportive Environments (RISE). In his university service, he currently serves as the Chair of the Community Safety Council (CSC); and is a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights (PACHR). Dr. Foster is also the Director of the Diversity & Human Rights Certificate (DHRC), which he established in partnership with the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA). This initiative is the first academic-industry partnership sponsored by a regulatory organization.
Read the full YFile story here.
Tubman Events
Dakar Conference Cancellation
Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas (Université York, Canada/York University, Canada), in collaboration with L'Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Cultures (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal), we would like to inform you that the conference ('Africa and its Diasporas' Contributions to World Civilization/ Les contributions de l'Afrique et ses diasporas à la civilization du monde') which was scheduled from June 26-29, 2023 in Dakar, Senegal, has been canceled due to the political crisis in the country.
Given the recent surge in violent protests in Dakar, which damaged the UCAD campus where the conference was scheduled, the committee has regrettably canceled our conference to ensure participants' safety and security.
We encourage participants to provide the letter attached to airlines for flight reimbursements, as the current situation is beyond our control.
We sincerely regret any inconvenience caused by this unexpected circumstance. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for being so understanding.
On the behalf of the organizing committee,
Dr. Gertrude Mianda
Director, Harriet Tubman Institute /Directrice, Institut Harriet Tubman.
Upcoming York Events and News
Check in next week for upcoming York events and news!
Other Events & Opportunities
Call for Youth Participants: Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is currently recruiting youth participants for one of its research studies, "Discrimination, ableism and racism hurt but inclusion can heal: 'Listening to the intersectional lived experiences of youth with disabilities and co-creating solutions'. This study focuses on understanding the diverse lived experience of youth with disabilities and particularly how disability intersects with race, ethnicity and/or gender. This study is for youth aged 15-29 years old who has a disability and identifies as belonging to a racial, ethnic or gender minority group. They should be able to communicate in English or with the help of an interpreter (can be provided by the study upon request). This study is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Holland Bloorview Kimel Family Opportunities Fund.
Read more here.
Posters attached.
Taste of Ghana
Date: October 20th - October 30th, 2023.
Location: North of Ghana and in a farm-stead and off-grid mini village in the Eastern village
Contact: Abena Offeh-Gyimah abenaoffeh@gmail.com
This is a special 10 day event that will take place in the breathtaking and stunning landscape in the North of Ghana and in a farm-stead and off-grid mini village in the Eastern village.
This event will highlight the art of natural food processing of the Guruni culture and of sub-tropical sustainable practices and hand-crafted delicacies. Accommodation will be provided in beautiful local vernacular homes with private rooms, built with mainly natural local resources, giving an incredibly natural and contemplating setting and environment.
From October 20th-25th, we will be in the northern part of Ghana, learning and being immersed in:
1. sorghum beverage making
2. Millet Maasa
3. Dawadawa
4. Koose (bean fritter)
5. Toubanni (steamed beans)
6. Kooko (fermented millet porridge)
7. Pottery (local bowl-making)
9. Market Visit and tour
10. Organic Farm, indigenous seeds, and MORE
Then from October 25th to October 30, we will be in the eastern region of Ghana, learning and being immersed in:
1. Herbal Medicine for Broken Bones, Malaria, Typhoid, FLu, and MORE
2. Cacao Bar/Ball from scratch handcrafted
3. Coconut Milk from scratch handcrafted
4. Peanut Butter from scratch handcrafted
5. Q & A and much more!
It is 10 days of informative, practical, and leisurely experience among a group of beautiful people eager to learn more about indigenous culture, nature, and the land.
https://www.asaase.net/event-details/taste-of-ghana-from-north-to-south-20th-30th-october
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to connect with Abena, or visit the link above for more information.
News, Updates, Publications
Denis Mukwege spurs grads to endeavour for peace
“An internationally recognized and decorated medical doctor, Mukwege began his career just as York’s Faculty of Health grads did, with endless potential, ambition and only a vague conception of what the future would hold. Mukwege spoke to the graduating class about the courage of the medical staff at his hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the resilience of the patients who are treated there, and the challenges of the Congolese people who continue to endure violence on a daily basis.”
“In addition to the convocation ceremony at York’s Keele Campus, Mukwege attended a commemorative dinner at Glendon College, hosted by Principal Marco Fiola, Professor Gertrude Mianda and fellow Nobel Prize-winner Professor James Orbinski. The event also included 75 members of Toronto’s Congolese community.
The event marked many firsts for York University, being the first time that two Nobel Prize laureates had been hosted at Glendon College, and the first time that Toronto’s Congolese community had gathered there to welcome an esteemed countryman.”
Read the full YFile story here.
Tubman Events
No Tubman events this week, check in next week for updates!
If you would like to book a room or host an event with or at Tubman, contact tubman@yorku.ca.
Upcoming York Events and News
Research Commons: York Research Chair Information Session
Date: July 19, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Zoom (register here)
Please contact Andrew Castillo (drewcast@yorku.ca) with any questions about this event.
The Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) unit is hosting a York Research Chairs (YRC) Information Session in conjunction with the launch of the 2023-24 competition. The YRC program mirrors and complements the Canada Research Chairs program and recognizes researchers who have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship and have made, or are poised to make, substantial contributions to research leadership. Led by Dr. Mark Roseman, Director of SIRI, the session will provide an overview of the nomination process. It will also highlight changes to this year’s competition and provide guidance for developing an effective nomination package. While the session is designed primarily for administrators of the program at the Faculty level, interested applicants are welcome to attend. Please note Faculties will undertake their own internal nomination processes outside of the VPRI process.
Other Events & Opportunities
Call for Papers: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Date: 23-24 October 2023
Location: SOAS / University of London
Organisers: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Esteban Salas, Wayne Dooling
Please send an abstract of 300 words plus a short bio to
mr28@soas.ac.uk, pelckmans@hum.ku.dk, es34@soas.ac.uk, wd2@soas.ac.uk
by 17 July 2023.
Decisions will be communicated by 31 July 2023.
Abstracts can be sent in English, French or Portuguese.
Some funding might be available to support travel and accommodation for those who do not dispose over their own funding.
Download full call of papers here
The aim of the symposium is to re-explore the very idea and concept of resistance to slavery in a cross-regional comparative perspective. Debates about collective forms of resistance to slavery in Africa appear to have faded in the face of a focus on individual agency and everyday resistance. By depicting especially complex individualised trajectories of agency within the ‘kinship continuum’ (Miers & Kopytoff 1977), research has tended to lose sight of resistance and the fundamental oppressive and violent nature of slavery. We aim to highlight the complex relations between the individual and the collective in their response to the institution of slavery - whether as social system, form of labour, or mode of production.
Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies: Politics of Turbulent Waters: Reflections on Ecological, Environmental and Climate Crises in Africa
Date: Tuesday, June 27
Time: 11am EST
Location: DT 1723 Carleton University and Online
May
News, Updates, Publications
HTI Members at Congress
Emilie Jabouin – “Talking ‘Mental Health’: Black Men’s Suicides Alongside Mrs. Bradford’s House of Pleasure.”
Date: May 29, 10:30am - 12:00 ET
Location: Vanier College – VC 001
Dr. Ruth Murambadoro - Untold Stories of Doing Research in the Periphery: Reflections from the Global South
Date: May 30, 10:00am ET
Association: Canadian Association of African Studies
Location: Vanier College VC 104 (Hybrid)
Debbie Ebanks Schlums
May 30, 2023, 1:30-3:00pm ET - Building and Animating Archives to Give Voice to Communities: A Roundtable Discussion
May 31, 2023, 10:30am-12:00pm ET – Debbie Ebanks Schlums (York) and Adrian Kahgee (visual artist) – “Shtaataahaa! Raatid! Everything is already here! Archipelagic Mnidoo-Worlding with Odeimin Runners: From Turtle Island to the Caribbean.” *INSTALLATION*
Collette Murray - Un loc' de riddims in meh body
Date: May 30, 4:00pm ET
Association: Black Canadian Studies Association
Location: Founders College FC 109
Dr. Gertrude Mianda - (Études des femmes et de genre) : « Féminisme africain dans l’espace francophone et la perspective décoloniale »
Date: May 30, 2023
Time: 3:00 – 6:00pm ET
Location: York Hall A-100, Campus Glendon
Dr. Damilola Adebayo - Frederick William Dove and African Economic Thought in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
Date: May 31, 1:00pm ET
Association: Canadian Association of African Studies
Location: Vanier College VC 115
Are you a Tubman member presenting at Congress 2023?
Please let the Tubman Coordinator, Rebecca, know! Send an email or fill out this form.
Complimentary Congress community passes for Black and Indigenous members
A special invitation is extended to community members who may not have attended Congress before to participate this spring. Organizers have put together a rich suite of open programs, including 4 Big Thinking lectures with Black and Indigenous speakers, 20 professional development workshops in Career Corner, and over 200 other open programs and exhibitions.
To attend open programs, you will need to register as a community attendee, but this year the cost of community passes will be waived at registration for Black and Indigenous community members. Community members are students, faculty, educators, friends, family, and members of the public who are only attending open programs. The link to register is available here: https://fhss.swoogo.com/23-registration-inscription/begin. Please make sure you select the correct registration type for complimentary registration if this applies to you.
A sample list of open programs you may be interested in is attached, as well as a list of exhibitions that will run throughout the week. This is only to give you a sense of the range. There are many more. You can find a complete list of open programs at Congress along with room locations and other details here: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2023/events-calendar.
Tubman Events
Gathering Space for Black Scholars at HTI Throughout Congress
Stop by for some refreshments and a quiet space to study. We are open from 9:00am – 4:00pm daily.
Dakar Conference Program is Available on our Website
Dates: June 26-29, 2023
Location: l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Conference Program is now available! View it here.
The Harriet Tubman Institute is going to Dakar! The Conference will be hosted at l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. HTI extends a huge thank you to our supporters, York International, The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the African Studies Program, and the Resource Centre for Public Sociology.
Upcoming York Events and News
Reflecting on Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada
Date: Monday, May 29, 2023
Time: 1:30-3:00pm ET
Location: Osgoode Hall 2001
Refreshments will be provided.
Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures
Date: May 31st, 2023
Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm ET
Location: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University.
The event will feature two distinguished Indigenous researchers and communicators, Candis Callison (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse at UBC) and Deborah McGregor (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice at York), along with award-winning author and activist Naomi Klein (Professor of Climate Justice at UBC). They will discuss how Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing can make the threat our planet faces from climate change, and ways of confronting it, matter to broader publics both inside and outside the university
A reception will follow outside the Hall, from 5-6:30pm.
There is also a zoom option for those unable to attend. To register click here. BUT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, PLEASE DO PLAN TO ATTEND IN PERSON!
ALL ARE WELCOME!
We are looking to hire a Grant Writing Assistant as part of the Indigenous Climate Leadership and Self-Determined Futures project. The project is administered through the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages and supported by York University’s Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Cluster fund. The candidate would be supervised by Dr. Martha Stiegman, Associate Professor in EUC. The job description is attached.
Applicants must be a current YorkU undergraduate student and be eligible for the Workstudy program. Eligibility criteria can be found here: https://sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs
We are looking to hire ASAP.
CIKL: Hiring | Seed Sovereignty Gathering – Grant Writing Assistant
Good afternoon,
We are looking to hire a Grant Writing Assistant as part of the Indigenous Climate Leadership and Self-Determined Futures project. The project is administered through the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages and supported by York University’s Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Cluster fund. The candidate would be supervised by Dr. Martha Stiegman, Associate Professor in EUC.
Applicants must be a current YorkU undergraduate student and be eligible for the Workstudy program. Eligibility criteria can be found here: https://sfs.yorku.ca/work-study-programs
We are looking to hire ASAP.
Thank you!
Nathalie
Other Events & Opportunities
2023 CAAS CONFERENCE
The Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) will hold its 2023 conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences from May 29-June 1, 2023 at York University in Toronto, Canada. Conference registration must be completed through the Congress 2023 portal. For more information on how to register, Congress registration fees and more, please visit the Congress 2023 website.
The CAAS Greeting table is located at Vanier College (VC) 114.
View the Program here.
News, Updates, Publications
Congress Presentations by HTI Members
Emilie Jabouin – “Talking ‘Mental Health’: Black Men’s Suicides Alongside Mrs. Bradford’s House of Pleasure.”
Date: May 29, 10:30am - 12:00 ET
Location: Vanier College – VC 001
Dr. Ruth Murambadoro - Untold Stories of Doing Research in the Periphery: Reflections from the Global South
Date: May 30, 10:00am ET
Association: Canadian Association of African Studies
Location: Vanier College VC 104 (Hybrid)
The terms ‘periphery’ and ‘margins’ have been interchangeably used in most scholarship on and about rural Africa to denote a space and locality that is less civilized than the “center”. Though considered underdeveloped, less modern, and innovative in comparison to urban settings, these normative depictions of the ‘periphery’ have proven problematic for critical scholars who challenge the bias of studying African societies from a Western gaze. In this paper, we draw from our experiences of performing participatory research with communities in rural South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe to provide new ways of thinking about the ‘periphery’ aside from the ‘core’. We borrow from Glückler et al’s (2022) relational definition of periphery as position as opposed to locality, to distinguish the positionality of the researcher and research community in shaping meanings derived from interactions within space. While the absence of amenities common in urban settings may make the ‘periphery’ a less desirable site for research and much is assumed about rural life in Africa, the paper highlights the complexities of conducting research with communities in the ‘periphery’ as well as opportunities. We conclude that doing research with peripheral communities requires building strong relationships, exercising compassion, mutual respect, and trust to ensure for a meaningful research process.
Collette Murray - Un loc' de riddims in meh body
Date: May 30, 4:00pm ET
Association: Black Canadian Studies Association
Location: Founders College FC 109
Drawing on her commissioned art exhibition in the 2023 Black and Free project, Murray unpacks “Un loc’ de riddims in meh body”, a visual movement journey amplifying how a dancing body in geopolitical spaces across the Afro-diaspora can exist, claim, and sustain nuances of being in dance practices. Using archive, lived experience, dance photography, and performance, Murray decolonizes the conversation on blackness and freedom with performance arts research of an Afrodescendant (Canadian-born) linking an excavated, transatlantic past to contemporary practice. Five new artworks connect to tradition, culturally significant practices, and intellectual discourse as ways a melaninated, dancing body liberates. What is centered are some West African music-dance systems and dance practices of Caribbean communities impacted by the British Slave trade that sustained and thrived in creative joy.
Dr. Damilola Adebayo - Frederick William Dove and African Economic Thought in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
Date: May 31, 1:00pm ET
Association: Canadian Association of African Studies
Location: Vanier College VC 115
In March 1909, Frederick William Dove (1863-1948), a Sierra Leonean lawyer, politician, and businessman, wrote an article for the Nigerian Chronicle to make a case for privatizing the state-owned electricity station in Lagos. In his article, he argued, among other things, that the colonial government was apathetic about the poor state of energy supply in Lagos because it was not responsible to ‘shareholders’. Dove’s article is the first documented call by an African to privatize a public enterprise in colonial Africa.
This paper situates Dove’s ideas within a broader history of nineteenth and early-twentieth-century African economic thought. Scholars have analyzed the intellectual life of Western-educated “liberated Africans” (Africans rescued from slave ships by the British navy after the 1807 abolition) in Lagos. However, the emphasis has been on the racial, cultural, political, and literary ideas produced by this elite group. Not much is known about the economic dimensions of African intellectual history during this period. This is despite the fact that educated liberated Africans (and their descendants, including Dove) had been involved in economic activities (as lawyers, doctors, journalists, merchants, and farmers) and had organized protests against harsh colonial policies since the 1860s.
Through a critical study of Dove’s biography and ideas on electrification, this paper argues that late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Africans did not only react to colonial policies (as many scholars have argued) but also proposed alternative visions of economic development in their writings. An analysis of the similarities between Dove’s reasons for privatization in 1909 and ongoing debates on energy privatization in Nigeria also suggests that early-twentieth-century African economic ideas have present-day implications.
Are you a Tubman member presenting at Congress 2023?
Please let the Tubman Coordinator, Rebecca, know! Send an email or fill out this form.
Complimentary Congress community passes for Black and Indigenous members
A special invitation is extended to community members who may not have attended Congress before to participate this spring. Organizers have put together a rich suite of open programs, including 4 Big Thinking lectures with Black and Indigenous speakers, 20 professional development workshops in Career Corner, and over 200 other open programs and exhibitions.
To attend open programs, you will need to register as a community attendee, but this year the cost of community passes will be waived at registration for Black and Indigenous community members. Community members are students, faculty, educators, friends, family, and members of the public who are only attending open programs. The link to register is available here: https://fhss.swoogo.com/23-registration-inscription/begin. Please make sure you select the correct registration type for complimentary registration if this applies to you.
A sample list of open programs you may be interested in is attached, as well as a list of exhibitions that will run throughout the week. This is only to give you a sense of the range. There are many more. You can find a complete list of open programs at Congress along with room locations and other details here: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2023/events-calendar.
Tubman Events
Dakar Conference Program is Now Available
Dates: June 26-29, 2023
Location: l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Conference Program is now available! View it here.
The Harriet Tubman Institute is going to Dakar! The Conference will be hosted at l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. HTI extends a huge thank you to our supporters, York International, The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the African Studies Program, and the Resource Centre for Public Sociology.
Upcoming York Events and News
Department of Politics: [Re]imagining A Gendered Political History of Zimbabwe, Dr. Ruth Murambadoro
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm ET
Location: Zoom (virtual)
RSVP: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcOiqrTwiE9cdzNT6nW4MFYEGGqPhpUjH
Department of Politics: Race in International Political Economy: A Broad look at the Western Hemisphere, Dr. Tamanisha John
Date: Friday, May 26, 2023
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm ET
Location: Zoom (virtual)
RSVP: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdeCvqT0pHdYth9ZHW7RpYBCOTzF7HXiM
Reflecting on Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada
Date: Monday, May 29, 2023
Time: 1:30-3:00pm ET
Location: Osgoode Hall 2001
Refreshments will be provided.
Other Events & Opportunities
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African Cultural Studies
The Department of African Cultural Studies at UW-Madison in the United States seeks a postdoctoral fellow for the academic year 2023-2024 to pursue research in African Cultural Studies with a focus on francophone West Africa, the Maghreb, and/or the Caribbean.
Learn more here:
News, Updates, Publications
Are you a Tubman member presenting at Congress 2023?
Please let the Tubman Coordinator, Rebecca, know! Send an email or fill out this form.
Complimentary Congress community passes for Black and Indigenous members
A special invitation is extended to community members who may not have attended Congress before to participate this spring. Organizers have put together a rich suite of open programs, including 4 Big Thinking lectures with Black and Indigenous speakers, 20 professional development workshops in Career Corner, and over 200 other open programs and exhibitions.
To attend open programs, you will need to register as a community attendee, but this year the cost of community passes will be waived at registration for Black and Indigenous community members. Community members are students, faculty, educators, friends, family, and members of the public who are only attending open programs. The link to register is available here: https://fhss.swoogo.com/23-registration-inscription/begin. Please make sure you select the correct registration type for complimentary registration if this applies to you.
A sample list of open programs you may be interested in is attached, as well as a list of exhibitions that will run throughout the week. This is only to give you a sense of the range. There are many more. You can find a complete list of open programs at Congress along with room locations and other details here: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress/congress-2023/events-calendar.
Missed an event? Watch recorded events on our YouTube Channel(s)
The Harriet Tubman Institute’s YouTube Channel can be found here with most past events from the 2022-2023 academic year. There is a second YouTube account with recordings from previous years. We are trying our best to regain access to this account and amalgamate the videos! Thank you for your patience.
Tubman Events
Harriet Tubman Institute International Conference: Africa and its Diasporas’ Contributions to World Civilization
Dates: June 26-29, 2023
Location: l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
The Harriet Tubman Institute is going to Dakar! The Conference will be hosted at l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. HTI extends a huge thank you to our supporters, York International, The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the African Studies Program, and the Resource Centre for Public Sociology.
Upcoming York Events and News
Latin American Studies at The University of Toronto and CERLAC present: Creative Resistance in Schools during the Pandemic: A View from the Peruvian Andes by Cristóbal Suárez Guerrero
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm ET
Location: In-person: Jackman Humanities 318 – In Spanish, with interpretation to English. Register through Eventbrite.
Remotely: online via Zoom – In Spanish only. Register through Zoom.
About the Presentation:
This talk presents pedagogical innovation projects illustrating the creative and socially committed response of teachers in the Apurimac region of Peru upon the closure of schools during the C-19 pandemic. The closure, which lasted nearly two academic years, devastated formal education in the country. It also revealed a series of old and new problems in places like the Peruvian Andes. The initiatives presented in this talk, rather than applying a norm, a rule or an algorithm, have faced the complexity of their classrooms from their pedagogical praxis to offer an innovative response to the question: how to continue educating when poverty is endemic and a new pandemic hits a community already lacking resources? What can we learn from the teachers of Apurimac who are committed to educating their students despite old and new challenges?
About the Presenter:
Cristóbal Suárez-Guerrero (Mollebamba, Apurimac, Peru) is professor of Education and School Management at the University of Valencia and a member of the research group on cultural pedagogies (CREARI) at the same university. His research focuses on digital pedagogy, pedagogical innovation and cooperative learning, digital competence and culture in education, and digital humanities.
Special Umeme Flashpoint roundtable on the Crisis in Sudan
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Time: 11am-1pm ET
Location: Dunton Tower 1723 (Hybris), Carleton University and Online
Register here: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocuCurTopGNHK--Fj5bEde4R4L0v77UdT#/registration
Since, the December 2018 Uprising, the Sudanese people have been struggling for freedom, peace, and justice, attempting to carry out a democratization process and transition to a civilian-led government. One of the major obstacles is the reform of the army and the merger of the different military groups into one national armed force.
While each party of the conflict bears full responsibility for the killing of innocent civilians, however, as scholars, this proxy war, at its core, forces us to reflect on the ongoing effects and legacies of (neo)colonialism and the challenges of decolonization in Africa. These reflections are not only on politics and international relations, but also on digital information as the Internet and social media are grounds for such conflicts, crises, and struggles.
Research Commons Upcoming Workshops
1. CIHR Project Grant - May 17, 2023 from 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
2. SSHRC Insight Grant - May 24, 2023 from 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the City Institute: Governance of Urban Inequality During and After COVID-19
Date: Wed. May 24
Time: Noon ET
Reflecting on Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada
Date: Monday, May 29, 2023
Time: 1:30-3:00pm ET
Location: Osgoode Hall 2001
Refreshments will be provided.
This book launch and panel brings together migrant justice academics to discuss the intersections of health and well-being, employment conditions, security of presence/citizenship status, and transnational labour migration in the context of the global health pandemic, as discussed in Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada (2023). Taking this book as a starting point, and offering critical reflections on its findings, presenters will explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers, addressing the effects of COVID-19 and government interventions to curb its transmission. Building on their respective fieldwork in Quebec, Ontario, Atlantic Canada, and British Columbia, panelists will cover such topics as social isolation and confinement, housing, care, and public health with attention to dynamics in both rural and urban spaces.
Chair:
Luin Goldring (York University)
Panelists:
Susana Caxaj (University of Western Ontario)
Jill Hanley (McGill University)
Adam Perry (St. Francis Xavier University)
Eloy Rivas-Sanchez (Athabasca University)
Book Authors:
Leah F. Vosko (York University)
Tanya Basok (University of Windsor)
Cynthia Spring (York University)
Co-Sponsors:
Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies
Global Labour Research Centre
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
Other Events & Opportunities
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African Cultural Studies
The Department of African Cultural Studies at UW-Madison in the United States seeks a postdoctoral fellow for the academic year 2023-2024 to pursue research in African Cultural Studies with a focus on francophone West Africa, the Maghreb, and/or the Caribbean.
Learn more here: