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Diahara Traoré
Diahara Traoré is a professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Social Work. Her research interests focus on emancipatory group intervention, non-Western epistemologies in social work, group work in Black communities, and the place of religion and spirituality in social work. Her work focuses on cosmologies, beliefs and practices within African communities in Quebec, gendered knowledge within these communities, and their implications for social work training and research. As a socio-anthropologist, she attaches great importance to narratives and orality. Her aim is to develop practices and knowledge that promote the emancipation and inclusion of marginalized groups, by valuing critical perspectives.
Catherine Larochelle
Catherine Larochelle has been a professor in the Department of History at the University of Montreal since 2018. She is the author of the books Marie-Louise et les petits Chinois d’Afrique (Mémoire d’encrier, 2024), School of racism. A Canadian History – 1815-1930 (University of Manitoba Press, 2023) and L’école du racisme. La construction de l’altérité à l’école québécoise (1830-1915) (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021). A member of the Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales, editor of the journal Histoire Engagée (www.histoireengagee.ca) and trustee of the Fondation des archives et du patrimoine religieux du Grand Montréal, her current research focuses on the history of the Œuvre de la Sainte-Enfance in Canada. She has a passion for theory, and is interested in ways of writing and transmitting Quebec’s history so that it remains relevant in the 21st century.
Philippe Néméh-Nombré
Philippe Néméh-Nombré is assistant professor at Saint Paul University’s Élisabeth Bruyère School of Social Innovation. His research focuses on Black political thought, cultures, poetics and ecologies, the possibilities of relations between Black and indigenous liberatory perspectives, and critical methodologies. He is the author of Seize temps noirs pour apprendre à dire kuei (2022) and Improviser le reste: études noires, risques poétiques, relationalité décoloniale (forthcoming, 2024). He is also a member of the black symposium organizing committee.
Ariane Marcheterre-Pina
Ariane Marcheterre-Pina is a master’s student in history at the Université de Montréal. Her interests include the formation of Black communities in present-day Ontario. She is particularly interested in the plurality of approaches and institutions that supported Black education in Canada West. She is currently working on the commitment and practices of Black women’s work as educators in segregated schools for Black people in 19th-century Canada West. Ariane is actively interested in the methodological issues and challenges raised by research based on fragmentary bodies of sources that have played a role in the historical gaps concerning African-Canadians.Ariane Marcheterre-Pina