Schedule

Welcoming

Dr. Demetres Tryphonopoulos

Chair Brandon University Organizing committee

Dr. Afua Cooper, Chair, BCSA Committee

Frank Tacan  Sioux Valley Dakota Nation

Ras Rico and Friends – African drummers

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Keynote:  Dr. Barrington Walker

Blacks and Social Order in North America’s Urban Landscape

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Session 1 – Sites of Memory

Penning Possibilities: The Black Press in Canada’s Discourse

Presenter:

The Church Bulletin – Seeds of a Maritime’s Black Press?

Panelist: Claudine Bonner

“What? A black-press in 19^th Century Canada? What?”

Presenter: Boulou Ebanda de B’beri

A Moveable Archive: History, Memory and the Black Abolitionist Press in Canada

Presenter: Nina Reid Maroney

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Moderator

Barbara Hamilton-Hinch

Session 2 –  Education

(a)   This history of Black Nova Scotians advocating on behalf of their children’s education began with the first provincial Education Act of 1811

 Presenter: Kenneth Fells

(b)  The Mdw Ntr Pan-African Educational System as Foundation for Sankofa for Black Students’ Success in Canada: Perspectives of indigenous African Elders

Presenter:  Osholene Oshobugie

(c) The Black Student Manifesto

      Presenter: Shelby McPhee

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Moderator Wesley Crichlow

Session 3 – Labour

(a)   Motherhood and Teaching in Jamaica: A Modified Life History Approach

Presenter:  Coralee Thomas

(b)  “Sticking with the Bunch”: The International   

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Alberta

Presenters: Jennifer Kelly, Alleson Mason

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Moderator

Desmond Miller

Session 4 – Music/Orality/Performance

(a)   Beautiful Game Theory

Presenter:  Kevan Cameron

(b)  Live from the Afrikan Resistance!

Presenter:   Eluned Jones

Louis Riel Dining Room

Moderator

Demetres Tryphonopoulos

Lunch/ Networking Break

BCSA Ratification Meeting

Session 5 – Literature & Biography

(a)   Creaolising the Canadian Canon: Canadian Literature and Caribbean Cultural Inclusion

Presenter:  Lisa Tomlinson

(b)   On snow banks and other problems: recuperating 19thC Black Canadian texts

Presenter:  Jennifer Harris

(c) Moses Stevenson: A Black Soldier in the Great War

 Presenter:   Candina Doucette

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Moderator

Whitney French

Session 6 – Blackness/Indigeneity Health & Wellness 

a)    Decolonizing Approaches to Inuit Community Wellness: Conversations with Elders in a Nunavut Community – Presenter:  Candice Waddell

b)    Forced Relocation and Mental Health: Cases of Africville and Reserve Living

Presenter: Lois Stewart-Archer

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Moderator

Idil Abdillahi

Session 7 –Policing, Justice & the State –3 presentations

(a)   Uncover the perceptions members of the African Nova Scotian community have of the police in Digby, Nova Scotia – Presenter: Jessica Bundy

(b)  A Bad Rap’- The Use of Rap Lyric Evidence against Young Black Men in the Canadian Criminal Justice System – Presenter:  Ngozi Okidegbe 

(c)    Surveillance Capitalism and Violence Against Black Women  Presenter:   Judy Grant

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Moderator

Wes Crichlow

Session 8 –African Studies

(a)   What does it mean to be ‘African’?

Presenter:  Firoze Manji

(b)   Africa’s Children Return! Fidel, Cuba and Africa  –  Presenter: Isaac Saney

(c)   Essay on the characterization of the pre-colonial

 economy of the kingdom of Kongo: A two-step heuristic approach

Presenters:  Marina Mavungu Ngoma, Jean-Paul K. Tsasa

Louis Riel Dining Room

Moderator

Charles Quist Adade

Session 9 – Collaboration/Cross-cultural Allegiance

(a)  Steel Pan on the World Stage

Presenter:   Shaqq Hameed

(b)  Distant Relatives: Towards the Creation of a Shared Problem Solving Mechanism: Indigenous & Afro-Caribbean Collaboration

Presenter:  Vonique R. Mason-Edwards

(c)   The Rhythms of a Shared Pulse: Performing Inclusivity Across Winnipeg’s Indigenous and Black Communities Presenter:  Lesley Glenning

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Moderator

Whitney French

Session 10 – Black Feminism, Queer Politics and African Canadian Leadership

Black Consciousness Heteronormativity and the Sexual Politics of Black Leadership in Toronto: A Commentary

Presenter: Wesley Crichlow

Mercy for Their Children: A Feminist Reading of Black Women’s Maternal Activism and Leadership Practices

Presenter: Erica Lawson

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Moderator

Tamari Kitossa

Session 11 – Immigration & Identity

(a)  Naturalization in Upper Canada: Who is in and who is out. – Presenter:  Guylaine Pétrin 

(b)  The Black Presence in Canada – The Making of the Canadian Mosaic – Presenter: Channon Oyeniran

(c)  Africentric Schooling, Multiculturalism, and Education in Canada – Presenter:  Alleson Mason

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Moderator Wesley Crichlow

Session 12- Mental Health

(a)   Every/day: Quilting the Black Diaspora – Presenter:

Desmond Miller

(b)   Black Life under The Weather – Presenter:  Cornel Grey

Louis Riel Dining room

Moderator

Amal Madibbo

Session 13 – Education as Resistance II

(a)   Where do We Go from Here? Black Homeschooling as a Form of Epistemological Resistance

Presenters:  Natasha Henry

(b)   “Respect for Respect”: Building Community with Students as Pedagogy and Preservation for Black Educators

Presenters: Rosalind Hampton & Annisha LaShawna Sealy

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Moderator

Aleeson Mason

Session 14 – Black Experience

(a)  A CONVERSATION ABOUT BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIPconversational format with the focus on a project I created called ONYX which is a framework that takes an economic approach to building strong Black communities. ONYX creates businesses that are sustainable, socially conscious, and unapologetically Black

Presenter: Kimani Peter

(b)  Social Network: Strategy for strengthening future settlement and integration for Blacks in secondary tiers in Canada Presenter:  Fobete Dingha

(c)   The Black “Banker Ladies”: Creating economic solidarity through economic collectives

Presenter:  Caroline Shenaz Hossein

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Moderator

Idil Abdillahi

Session 15 – African Canadians & Incarceration

Blackening Injustice Behind Bars: A Panel on African Canadians and Incarceration in Canada –

Slavery’s Afterlife: Canada’s Black Incarceration Problem

Panelist: Anthony Morgan

“This should be called prison profanity hour:” creative prison resistance on the Black Power Hour radio show

Panelist: El Jones

Black Like Me: On Being a Black Female Criminal Defense Lawyer in the Trenches in Winnipeg

Panelist: Zilla Jones

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Moderator

Barbara Hamilton-Hinch

Conference Banquet

Dr. Gervan Fearon, President, Brandon University

Keynote Speaker: Afua Cooper

Entertainment:  Mauritian Band and Dancers

Session 16 — Exploring Antiblackness

(a)   Contemporary Canadian Blackface, Slaveability, and Anti-Black Libidinal Economy – Presenter:  Philip S.S Howard

(b)  The Term & Discourse of “Hispanic” is Racist: Anti-Black and Anti-Indigenous  Resistance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presenter: Andrea Vásquez Jiménez

(c)   Racial Profiling in Canada: How “Visible Minorities” are Rendered Dangerously Visible for Racial Profiling

Presenter: Charles Quist-Adade

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Moderator

Demetres Tryhponopoulos

Session 17 – Black Studies at York University

Black Studies in Canada: At A Point of High Danger

Panelist: Sam Tecle

Tuning in to “The Way We Groove”: Sounding Out Black Canada Panelist: Ola Mohammed

Where, Oh Where, is Black Bett?: Locating Enslaved Africans on the Ontario Landscape

Panelist: Natasha Henry

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Moderator Carl James

Session 18 – Resistance in Education

a)     What it means to be a Black student in Canadian higher education

Presenter:  Brieanne Berry-Crossfield

b)    BlackOnCampus Black Liberation Collective Canada: Resisting anti-Black racism in Education

Presenter:  Black Liberation Collective Canada

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Room 1-54

Moderator

Charles Quist Adade

Session 19 – Slavery

(a)  Lord Dalhousie and Dalhousie University at the Intersection of Race and Slavery

Presenter:  Afua Cooper

(b)  Slavery in Annapolis and Digby Counties 1750-1800  – Presenter:  Candina Doucette

(c)   James Douglas and Languages of Blackness

Presenter Adele Perry

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Moderator

Jennifer Kelly

Session 20 – -Theorizing Blackness/Indigeneity

(a)     “Black Reconstruction and Canadian Settler Colonialism.”

Presenter:   Owen Toews

(b)   Neocolonial Education and Intellectual  Development: A Situated Knowledge as a Cure for Internalized Oppression

Presenter:   Bagwiza Jackie Uwizeyimana

(c)    Property and Propriety: Nuance and phenomenology of an African Canadian academician

Presenter: Tamari Kitosa:

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Moderator

Alleson Mason

Session 21 – – Health and Well-Being

(a)   Emerging Health Risks of Blacks Around Lake Shores in Africa: A Case of Uganda

Presenter:  Valerie Namaganda

(b)   An Exploration of Women of African Ancestry Surviving Racism in Nova Scotian

Presenter: Barb Hamilton-Hinch

Louis Riel Dining Room

Moderator

Whitney French

Session 16 – Activism/Resistance –

(a)  Nation Time! The African Nova Scotian Struggle for Self-Determination and the Canadian State – The Case of the Black United Front – Presenter: Isaac Saney

(b)  Black people’s collective knowledge of a Canadian university in Québec: An anticolonial, critical race analysis

Presenter: Rosalind Hampton

Louis Riel Dining Room

Moderator

Barbara Hamilton-Hinch

Session 23 –  Theorizing African Canadian Leadership

African Canadian Leadership and Collaboration with Whites within Predominantly White Institutional Structures

Presenter: Philip S. S. Howard

Black Leadership and White Logic: Paradoxes, Contradictions and Conflicts

Presenter: Carl E James

African Canadian Leadership and the Metaphoricality of ‘Crisis’:  Toward Theorizing, Research, and Practice

Presenter: Tamari Kitossa

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Moderator

Isaac Saney

“Opportunities and Challenges: Immigration in a Small Prairie Town

Panelists: Eliana Osorio Vasquez, Sandra Fernandez Mesa, Mia Bastien, Naty Delbridge

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Moderator

Patti Harms

Keynote Panel: Black Lives Matter

Panelists: Cicely-Belle Blain, Sandra Hudson,   Amina Abawajy

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Dr. Steven Robinson, Vice-President Academic & Provost

*** Conference Wrap Up***

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