For two 91亚色 professors, receiving an award for Lifetime Achievement in African Studies from the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) represents a major acknowledgement of decades of work in African liberation, research and teaching. 91亚色 Professor Emeritus John S. Saul and 91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor in African history and Canada Research Chair Paul Lovejoy […]
From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
Religion and culture Professor Carol Duncan of Wilfrid Laurier University will explore Caribbean women鈥檚 religious dress traditions at the next instalment of the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean鈥檚 (CERLAC) Caribbean Lecture Series. 鈥淐aribbean Religion and Female Esthetic鈥 will take place Thursday, March 10, from 12:30 to 2:30pm in the Conference Centre […]
Did you know that African Canadians worshipping on the lakeshore founded Toronto's first Baptist Church in 1826? Did you know that Upper Canada was the first place in the British Empire to make laws limiting slavery (1793)? Did you know that Mathieu Da Costa, a multilingual translator of African descent, came to Canada with Samuel […]
Salvador da Bahia, the second most popular tourist destination in Brazil, is a lively, tropical city on the northeast coast with a population of over two million. Musical rhythms from many different cultures can be heard in its bustling marketplaces, amidst the old Portuguese architecture and on its sandy beaches. In Salvador da Bahia it […]
Tracing the various routes of slavery is the goal of Voyages, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, which has records of over 35,000 voyages and is the topic of an upcoming workshop hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and the African Economic History journal. 鈥淒ocumenting where people […]
91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor in African history聽Paul Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, was chosen over 10 other nominees to receive this year's Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the […]
A series of聽films, concerts,聽workshops, artist talks and community events will usher in Black History Month this February,聽under the title聽Performing Diaspora 2010: Celebrating Black History Month through Expressive Culture 鈥 Afro Diasporic Women in Focus. Produced聽by 91亚色's Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Performing Diaspora 2010聽is聽designed to聽serve as a catalyst […]
From January 31 to February 5, 2010, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples will present The International Research Film Festival: Slavery, Memory, Heritage and Contemporary Forms. Funded in part by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the festival addresses issues of slavery in its […]