Welcome and introductions

Opening lecture

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PANEL 1 - Black methods and methodologies

• Philippe Néméh-Nombré, Black poetics to learn to say kuei : black studies for thinking about decolonial relations in Quebec
• Diahara Traoré, The importance of spirituality in African epistemologies: Implications for research with black communities
• Amal Madibbo, Black ontology against the coloniality of research
• Joana Joachim, Experience in teaching black studies in art history

Reception

Panel 2 - Black studies and university

• Simplice Ayangma Bonoho, African studies in Canada from the beginning to the present: the case of Quebec
• Rose Ndengue, Demasculinizing black studies: black feminist and transnational perspectives on the decolonization of knowledge
• Pascale Caidor, Integrating the knowledge and perspectives of Black communities at the Université de Montréal

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PANEL 3 - Black studies outside university

• Marie-Yemta Moussanang, Politicizing black diasporic experience and practices, research and the circulation of knowledge
• Zaka Toto, Taking Black Studies out of the university. Reflections on the approach of the journal Zist and the collective la "Fabrique décoloniale''
• Dorothy Williams, Teaching Black history in Montreal (Black historical presence): the need for interdisciplinary inquiry

Lunch

PANEL 4 - Working with and through black studies

• Leslie Touré Kapo, The quiet encroachment of ordinary black in Montreal
• Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Adopting a Blackcentric approach to social work in Quebec: Challenges and prospects
• Désirée Rochat, Tracing the community roots of Black Studies in Montreal: for an engaged pedagogy and a grounded body of information

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PANEL 5 - Thinking diasporic circulation

• Nathanael Pericles, Migration through the expression “m pati” in Haiti
• Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Walter Rodney and the pan-African reading of black studies
• Virginie Belony, Transmission of duvalierist post-memory and identity construction among second-generation Haitians in Quebec.