Historical Approaches to Black Studies: roundtable discussion
This event is free and open to the public; .
Featuring three scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, this Black History Month roundtable organized by the 不良研究所 Institute for the Study of Canada will explore perspectives and approaches to Black Studies with a particular emphasis on its uniqueness in the Canadian context.
The roundtable will be followed by a Q&A and a reception.
David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) and Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013, winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize). He is editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018) and You Don鈥檛 Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009). He has produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation鈥檚 Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon; and recently served as a consultant for the CBC television鈥檚 Black Life: Untold Stories documentary series. He currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and is a Lecturer in the 不良研究所 Institute for the Study of Canada.
Sarah Riley Case is an Assistant Professor at the 不良研究所 Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on slavery and the law, Critical Race Theory, Black life, colonialisms, arts, and the natural world. Before joining 不良研究所, she was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School鈥檚 Institute for Global Law and Policy. She served as a Special Advisor to the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity.
Dr. Riley Case鈥檚 publications include , , , and 鈥溾�� with Nataleah Hunter-Young鈥痠n Canadian Art.鈥�
Dr. Riley Case collaborates with people working toward racial, regional, and ecological justice in the international system, academic communities, legal clinics, and across social movements, including by mixing law, history, ethics of daily living, and the arts.
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (Nii Laryea Osabu I, Atr茅kor W茅 Oblahii k猫 Oblay茅茅 Mants猫) is Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history and William Dawson Chair.
Dr. Adjetey is working on his second and third book projects on warfare and African-led abolitionism on the Gulf of Guinea Coast, and revolutionary Black organizing and state repression in the United States and Americas, respectively.
Dr. Adjetey鈥檚 first book is (UNC Press, Jan. 2023). For his teaching, Dr. Adjetey was awarded 不良研究所's H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, and .
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