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Past Events

  • 201121Aug
    The Harriet Tubman Institute presents Summer Institute 2011 / Institut d’Été 2011 Slavery, Memory, Citizenship The Harriet Tubman Institute York University SSHRC MCRI Programme EURESCL Project (FP7 – European Commission) August 21-27, 2011 The Teaching and Research Programme of the Fourth Institut Interdisciplinaire Virtuel des Hautes Études sur les Esclavages et…
    08/21/2011 (All day)08/27/2011 (All day)
  • 201116Aug
    Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost is an archaeologist and historian with a passion for public education. She holds a PhD in the study of Race, Slavery and Imperialism from the University of Waterloo, and is an award-winning author who specializes in the study of the Underground Railroad. Her landmark biography of fugitive slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn entitled I’ve Got a Home in Glory…
    08/16/2011 – 11:3012:45
  • 201112Aug
    Áccents on Eglinton Bookstore presents… Welcome to Jamrock. If Walls Could Talk: Vigils, Murals and Street Performances in Jamaica. Honor Ford-Smith is a scholar, theatre worker and poet. She was educated in Jamaica at St Andrew High School and after studying theatre began teaching at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston. She now writes, works in…
    08/12/2011 – 19:0021:00
  • 201104Jul
    The Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora. The concept of creativity is a staple notion within liberal humanism. Closely allied to the idea of genius, the discourse of creativity has privileged the individual subject whose promethean determination and passion bring into being art, innovation, and excellence. This humanist understanding of creativity…
    07/04/2011 (All day)07/06/2011 (All day)
  • 201104Jul
    The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples studies the migrations of African peoples through internal, regional and international and transnational movements. The Tubman Institute is concerned not only with the historical movements of Africans and people of African descent but also with their contemporary experiences. Part of our mandate is to share…
    07/04/2011 (All day)07/15/2011 (All day)
  • 201126Jun
    Over the last decade, the problem of ‘modern slavery’ has moved from being a marginal concern to a mainstream issue, with overall levels of public awareness, official engagement, and specialised research all experiencing significant advances. The primary focal point of this renewed interest in questions of human bondage has been trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced…
    06/26/2011 – 09:0006/28/2011 – 17:00
  • 201121Jun
    In the last twenty years, the history of Portugal’s relationship with Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has received great attention from both Portuguese and foreign scholars and has led to the publication and translation of a considerable number of important works.
    06/21/2011 (All day)06/22/2011 (All day)
  • 201120May
    Marrakech, Morocco 20-22 May 2011 Sponsored by
    05/20/2011 (All day)05/22/2011 (All day)
  • 201118May
    Enseigner les traites, les esclavages, leurs abolitions et leurs héritages. Questions sensibles, recherches actuelles. 18,19, 20 Mai 2011
    05/18/2011 (All day)05/20/2011 (All day)
  • 201105May
    Plenary speakers / Conférenciers des séances plénières Khalid Mustafa MEDANI, McGill University, Informal Institutions and Identity Politics: The Evolving Political Economy of Transnationalism in North East Africa. Imed MELLITI, Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines, University of Tunis el-Manar, Jeunesses maghrébines: religiosité, enjeux…
    05/05/2011 (All day)05/07/2011 (All day)