OCT 21: Black Studies Inauguration: Celebrate the launch of the Black Studies Program
The Black Studies Program at Queen’s University will be launching throughout 2022-2023 with a series of screenings, conversations, and celebrations.
Join us Friday, October 21, 2022 from 5:30 pm – 10 pm at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for:
Introductory remarks and greetings from Associate Vice-Principal (Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation) Jan Hill, Vice Dean Lynda Jessup, and Principal Patrick Deane.
A poetry reading by Lillian Allen
A conversation between Stephanie Simpson, Beverley Mullings, Kristin Moriah, and Rachel Goffe about the past, present, and future of Black Studies at Queen’s
The premiere of the short film, “Black Studies is…”, which was conceived by the Black Studies Program Group and produced by Katherine McKittrick. The film features Ibram X. Kendi (Boston University), Syrus Marcus Ware (McMaster), Carole Boyce Davies (Cornell), David Chariandy (SFU), Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt), Ashon Crawley (University of Virginia)) and many other anti-racist activists, artists and intellectuals from around the world responding to the prompt, “Black Studies is…”. The film’s soundtrack is by Vijay Iyer, who was voted 2022 Pianist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. Post-screening discussion with faculty, pre-doctoral fellows and post-doctoral fellows in Black Studies (Joseph Kangmennaang, Kesha Fevrier, Jennifer Leath, Bianca Beauchemin, Tari Ajadi, Sefanit Habtom, and Nataleah Hunter-Young).
A DJ set by DJ Grumps
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Please contact BLCK@queensu.ca for further information.
OCT 22: Kingston Book Launches: Celebrate new books and research in Black Studies
The Black Studies Program at Queen’s University will be launching throughout 2022-2023 with a series of screenings, conversations, and celebrations.
Join us from 11 am – 2 pm on October 22 at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre for the Kingston book launches of:
- The Long Road Home: Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompson
- Abolitionismus: Ein Reader, edited by Vanessa Thompson and Daniel Loick
- Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation by Daniel McNeil
Copies of A is for Acholi by Juliane Okot Bitek will also be available to buy at the event.
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Please contact BLCK@queensu.ca for further information