Decentering
the Field of
Black Studies
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Opening conference – Stéphane Martelly
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
Panel 3 – Black studies outside university
Zaka Toto, Taking Black Studies out of the university. Reflections on the approach of the journal Zist and the collective la « Fabrique décoloniale »
Marie-Yemta Moussanang, Politicizing black diasporic experience and practices, research and the circulation of knowledge
Dorothy Williams, Teaching Black history in Montreal (Black historical presence): the need for interdisciplinary inquiry
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
Panel 5 – Thinking diasporic circulatio
Nathanael Pericles, Migration through the expression “m pati” in Haiti
Amzat Boukari-Yabara, Walter Rodney and the pan-African reading of black studies