Public-Facing Scholarly Talks
“‘Black Land’: The History of Freedom Farms on the Canadian Prairies.” Remai Modern Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. October 24, 2024.
“Black Farms and Black Farmers Matter: The History of Black Farming on the Canadian Prairies 1872-1920.” NFUniversity (National Farmers Union Canada). February 22, 2024.
Public Webinar. “Black Canadian Literature and the Aesthetics of Spatial Justice.” Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC. March 8, 2017.
“The Futures of Black Canada.” Position as Desired Symposium. The Royal Ontario Museum. March 5, 2011.
“The Black Prairies: A History” & “The Meaning of Blackness in the 21st Century” (panel discussion), Toronto YMCA Black History Month Celebration. February 2010.
Academic Invited Talks
“Black Cowboys: Singing with the Land and Other-than-Human-Beings.” Connecting with the Ancestors Through the Archive: A Multidisciplinary Panel. Art Museum, University of Toronto, March 13, 2025.
“A Capacious Black Canadian Studies:” Research in Black Canadian Studies Roundtable. University College, University of Toronto. March 10, 2025.
“Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Black Prairies’ Multi-Species Archive.” Northrop Frye Centre, co-sponsored by Centre for Comparative Literature. February 3, 2025.
“Sites of Abundance: Tuning in to the Black Prairies Sonic Archives.” Honouring the Past, Inspiring the Future. Athabasca University Research Talks. February 6, 2025.
“Literary Sound and Critical Race Studies.” Spoken Web Futures: New Projects, Collections, Methods, Collaborations. Concordia University, November 14, 2024.
“Keynotes in Black Canadian Archives.” Archives Research Workshop. Concordia University, September 14-16, 2024.
“From Lack to Abundance: Re-Framing Black Archives in Canada”. Black History Month Provost’s Lecture, University of Saskatchewan. February 14, 2024.
“The Atlantic Networks of the Black Prairies’ Sonic Archive.” American Comparative Literature Organization. Montreal March 14-17, 2024.
Plenary Lecture, “Ethics in and Outside the Archives.” Archives Research Workshop, Montreal, October 2023.
“On the Limits of Empathy in Decolonial Pedagogy.” Roundtable title: “Honouring and Ethically Sharing Indigenous Voices as Non-Indigenous Educators: International Perspectives and Experiences” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), October 13, 2021.
“Black Prairie Archives.” University of Alberta’s Canadian Literature Centre (CLC) Brown Bag Reading Series. February 18, 2022.
“Five Theses on Black Archives.” Panel title: “Black Archives Matter.” Association of Canadian Archivists (ASA), June 10, 2021.
“Working with Black Communities in Archival Research.” Archival Research: A Best-Practices Workshop,” Simon Fraser University, February 18, 2021.
“Black Archives: Methods and Approaches.” Association of Canadian Archivists. June 9-10, 2021.
Keynote address. “The Disciplinary Intimacies of Canadian, Black and Indigenous Studies.” Annual Canadian Studies Lecture, Nottingham, UK. April 21, 2021.
“John Ware Reclaimed: A Conversation with Cheryl Foggo, Moderated by Alyssa Fearon. Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina Public Library). November 24, 2020. Virtual event streamed by the National Film Board of Canada.
“Changing the Prairie Story: Reading Black and Black-Indigenous Presences in the Prairie Archives.” (50 minutes). University of Winnipeg, October 7, 2020.
“Feasting the Future: Pow Wow and Black-Indigenous Futures” with Karyn Recollet and Megan Scribe. Ryerson University. September 22, 2020.
“Permission, Refusal, and Responsibility in Black Archives.” Keynote address co-presented with Junetta Jamerson, a community historian (90 minutes). Invited by English and Cultural Studies Visiting Speakers Committee at McMaster University. November 20, 2019.
“Black Scholarship and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Literary Culture.” Challenging Pedagogy Workshop. University of Utrecht. February 20-21, 2019.
“Black Scholarship and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Literary Culture.” Literature, Pedagogy and Decolonization Workshop. University of Toronto. November 16-18, 2017.
“Canada in us Now as an ‘Epistemology of Resistance’: Rethinking Black-Native Relations.” Harvard Center for International Affairs: “International Perspectives on African-Canadian Literature” Conference. Boston. May 1-2, 2014.
“The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty; I Wanted the World to Know: Black Activism on the Canadian Prairies in the 1960s.” York University’s Inaugural Lecture of the Research Cluster on Black Canada 13 November 2012.
“Even the structure won’t save you now”: The Urban Poetics of Sachiko Murakami’s Rebuild.” Key-note address, Bavarian-American Academy. Munich. February 27-29, 2012.
“‘some parts of this Letter I could not make out he writes for a Negro to be sent down’: Reading the Archival Records of Eighteenth-Century Black Fur Traders in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives.” Canada and Beyond Seminar, University of Huelva, Spain. May 2010.
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