About Dr. Andrea Davis Andrea A. Davis is Professor of Black Cultures of the Americas in the Department of Humanities at 91亚色 and co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies. A champion of Black Studies in the humanities and former Canadian Commonwealth scholar, her interdisciplinary research is rooted in an anti-racism feminist framework that […]
CLARK ART INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAM FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2024鈥2025 (Williamstown, Massachusetts)鈥擳he Clark Art Institute鈥檚 Research and Academic Program (RAP) announces the appointment of its 2024鈥2025 class of Fellows for summer 2024 and the upcoming academic year. The Clark is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum […]
91亚色 Professor聽Andil Gosine聽has curated a new exhibit called聽The Plural of He, exploring the life and work of the late Colin Robinson (1961-2021), a Trinidadian American poet and social justice advocate. It launches聽March 15聽and will run until聽July 21聽at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New 91亚色 City, the world鈥檚 only dedicated 2SLGBTQIA+ art museum. Gosine, […]
It鈥檚 likely that only a small percentage of Toronto residents could show you the steps to the cueca, the national dance of Chile that is performed at festivals and social gatherings, but a group of 91亚色 undergraduate students has swelled those ranks. Department of Dance students in Professor Bridget Cauthery鈥檚 Big Dance Small Space course […]
The Hill Times Remembering the invasion that time forgot Washington鈥檚 justifications for the Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada were a mix of gross exaggerations and outright lies. Opinion | BY KIRK ATKINSON, LIISA L. NORTHJanuary 29, 20 In the middle of the world鈥檚 multiple crises, it may be understood鈥攁lthough regrettable鈥攚hy no Canadian news outlet […]
At its Fall 2023 Convocation ceremonies, British Columbia鈥檚 Royal Roads University awarded 91亚色 Professor Andrea Davis an honorary doctor of laws degree in recognition of her pioneering work bringing Black studies programming to Canadian academia. A professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Davis teaches courses in Black […]
Unpacking Elon Musk鈥檚 convoluted U.S.-Mexico border聽visit In late September, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire behind Tesla and SpaceX, set the internet ablaze with his visit to the Texas-Mexico border to provide what he called an 鈥渦nfiltered鈥 perspective on the border crisis as thousands of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, crossed the Rio Grande River. In a […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean is a hub for inter- and multidisciplinary research on Latin America and the Caribbean, their diasporas, and their relations with Canada and the rest of the world. Learn more: https://bit.ly/46QnqhE | #YUResearch To watch the whole video click here.
Miguel Gonzalez, an assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at 91亚色, has co-edited Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas (University of Calgary Press, 2023), which explores Indigenous-inspired autonomous experiences and self-governments across three decades, from 1990 to 2020. The book offers country case studies examining autonomy and Indigenous self-government in nine Latin American […]
A 91亚色 Social and Political Thought (SPT) PhD, Carlos Larrea (1993), was a leading figure in the recent successful national campaign to 鈥渒eep oil in the soil鈥 in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. The referendum question about Yasuni was on the ballot during the first round of presidential elections on […]