Introduction: Dr. Michele Johnson, Director, Harriet Tubman Institute
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barrington Walker, Queen’s University
“Changing Same: Mapping Canada’s Histories of Blackness”
Ashley Irwin (University of Waterloo, English)
“Northern Geography, Southern ‘Civility”: Uncovering the White Supremacist Aims of the Canadian Opposition to Lynching in the U.S.A.”
Justin Nathaniel (York University, Political Science)
“Black Lives in Formation: Beyoncé and Cultural Production”
Kyle Prochnow (York University, History)
“African Elites in a British Colony: Exploring Race and Power in Early Colonial Gambia”
Dadrien Brown (York University, History)
“Biographies of West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade”
Bruno Véras (York University, History)
“M.G. Baquaqua: Biography, Identity, and Self-Representation”
Sheri Crawford (McMaster University, History)
“The Jamaica Constabulary Force”
Chinelo Ezenwa (University of Western Ontario, English)
“Representations and Re-Representations of Slave Memories Through Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: New Formations”
Jean A. Smith (York University, History)
“Activism By Any Other Name: An Analysis of How Slave Rebellions Have Been Reconstructed”
Tim Bryan (York University, Socio-Legal Studies)
“From Hate Crime to Carding: Examining the Contradictions and Continuities of Contemporary Policing”
Ashkan Etemadi (York University, Political Science)
“Incarceration Incorporated”
Onyekachi Nwoke (York University, Development Studies)
Rethinking Resource-Curse and Development: A Case Study of Community Perspective to Shell and Nigerian Government in Ogoniland”
Nadine Valcin (York University, Osgoode Hall Law School)
“Whitewash, or the Erasure of Slavery from Canadian History”
Danielle Brouwer (York University, History)
“De-Romanticizing the Underground Railroad: Tracing the Roots of Anti-Black Racism”
Marlene Gaynair (Rutgers University, History)
“Where’s the Beef?: Food, Politics, and Cultural Diplomacy of the Jamaican Community in Toronto”
Janelle Brady and Zuhra Abawi (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
“Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Upgrades though African Indigenous Epistemologies”
Ola Mohammed (York University, Social and Political Thought)
“’I’ll Reprogram Your Mind’: Afro-Sonic Futures in Black Popular Music”
R.C. George (York, Sociology) and Natasha Henry (York, History)
“Young, Gifted, and … Black: An Examination of Race, Space, and Academic Opportunity in the GTA”
Charlotte Henay, (York University, Humanities)
“My Grandmother’s Garden”
Adil Ahmed (Queens University, Cultural Studies)
“’We gon’ be alright’: Tracing Liberation in Black American Music and Religion: Themes of Evil, Resistance, and Redemption in D’Angelo’s Black Messiah and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly”
Sandria Green-Stewart (McMaster University, History)
“Historical Perspectives of Afro-Jamaican Medical Women During the Immediate Post-Slavery Period”
Deidre “D-Lishus” Walton (York University, Faculty of Environmental Studies)
“Afro-Past, Afro-Future: Spiritual Reclamation as Counter-Hegemonic Practice”
