Vritual Fellow Talks
Amanda Trager, October 19, 2022, 1-2 p.m. ADT.
Since founding and NSCAD’s Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art & Community Engagement Dr. Charmaine Nelson has delivered diverse presentations and media interviews examining the history of slavery in Canada.
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Issue 1, September 2021
Issue 2, Fall 2021
Issue 3, Winter 2022
Issue 4, Spring/Summer 2022
Upcoming events
Emily Draicchio: Virtual Fellow Talk
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
noon – 1 p.m. ADT
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84824014428
Passcode: VMd66k
Emily Draicchio shares her progress on locating, documenting, and analysing slave quarter sites in New Brunswick’s Loyalist Landscape (moderated by Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson).
Amanda Trager: Virtual Fellow Talk
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
1-2 p.m. ADT
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84380040339
Passcode: Y43BFA
Amanda Trager shares her journey into the world of Portuguese-born enslaved black female Marie-Josèph Angélique and the French-born white indentured servant Claude Thibault through experimental film practice (moderated by Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson).
For accessibility inquiries or for details to join the webinars by phone, email theinstitute@nscad.ca
Past events
Virtual Fellows’ Talks and Panels
Tyshan Wright, April 20, 2022
Fragments of Slavery from the Archives and British – Chris J. Gismondi, April 13, 2022
Black History Month Fellows Panel, February 15, 2022
Dressing for the Resistance: Style as Amour Among Black Canadians. Jason Cyrus – January 18, 2022
Freedom is No Game. Tonya “Sam’Gwan” Paris – December 14, 2021
The Canadian Press on “quant à ce qui concerne Bahia”: White fear, Racism and the International News Coverage of the Muslim African slave rebellions. Bruno R. Véras – December 2, 2021
Dr. Nelson’s presentations and workshops
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast presented by the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York City – April 28, 2022
Slavery North: Excavating Canadian Slavery and Other Un(der)studied Sites – March 31 – April 2, 2002
The Precariousness of Freedom: Slave Resistance as Experience, Process, and Representation presented by the University of Windsor Office of the Vice-President, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – March 21, 2022
‘She commonly wears a Handkerchief round her Head’: Expanding and Complicating the Concept of Creolization for the study of Transatlantic Slavery presented by the 2022 Vickers-Verduyn Annual Lecture in Canadian Studies – March 10, 2022
Neoclassicism, Race and Empire presented by The Oxford research Centre in Humanities – March 2, 2022
“He ‘is supposed to have with him forged Certificates of his Freedom, and Passes’: Slavery, Mobility, and the Creolized Counter-Knowledge of Resistance” presented by the African Studies Students’ Association of McGill – February 24, 2022
“He ‘is supposed to have with him forged Certificates of his Freedom, and Passes’: Slavery, Mobility, and the Creolized Counter-Knowledge of Resistance” presented by the MSVU Research Office as part of its Black and Indigenous Speaker series – February 4, 2022
“She commonly wears a handkerchief round her head” presented by the Humanities Research Group at the University of Windsor – October 26, 2021
Unravelling the Mystery: Edmonia Lewis and Bute presented by the Mount Stuart Trust – October 22, 2021
Confronting exclusion and redefining heritage goals presented by the National Trust for Canada Conference – September 30, 2021,
*N.B. This was a paid registration ($75 for students – more information here)
What former enslaved people celebrated in 1834 with slavery’s demise in the British Empire presented by NS Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage – August 10, 2021
A Conversation with Charmaine Nelson presented by the Thomas Moore Institute – May 28, 2021
A Hidden History: Slavery in Canada – May 14, 2021
Grappling with the Colonial Archive: An Introduction to Canadian Slavery – March 2, 2021
Graduate Student Panel on Transatlantic Slavery – February 25, 2021
Media interviews
CBC Mainstreet (July 25, 2022) – Charmaine Nelson on enslaved people, economics, and resistance
CBC Mainstreet (July 21, 2022) – How one woman’s love for her children defied the system of slavery: Part 2
CBC Mainstreet (July 20, 2022) – What resistance looked like for enslaved people in Canada: Part 1
CBC Mainstreet (July 19, 2022) – How accusations of ‘grooming’ are being used once again to discredit and divide public opinion against Black and queer people in particular
CBC Mainstreet (April 1, 2022) – Students discuss the ‘Slavery North, The Visual Culture of Slavery’ exhibit at the Anna Leonowens Gallery
CBC Radio One (August 1, 2021) – Emancipation Day and confronting Canada’s history of slavery
The Coast (July 29, 2021) – What Canada’s first Emancipation Day means