Decentering
the Field of
Black Studies

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Opening conference – Stéphane Martelly


Panel 2 – Black studies and university

Simplice Ayangma BonohoAfrican studies in Canada from the beginning to the present: the case of Quebec

Rose NdengueDemasculinizing black studies: black feminist and transnational perspectives on the decolonization of knowledge

Pascale CaidorIntegrating the knowledge and perspectives of Black communities at the Université de Montréal


Panel 3 – Black studies outside university

Zaka TotoTaking Black Studies out of the university. Reflections on the approach of the journal Zist and the collective la « Fabrique décoloniale »

Marie-Yemta MoussanangPoliticizing black diasporic experience and practices, research and the circulation of knowledge

Dorothy WilliamsTeaching Black history in Montreal (Black historical presence): the need for interdisciplinary inquiry


Panel 4 – Working with and through black studies

Leslie Touré KapoThe quiet encroachment of ordinary black in Montreal

Alicia Boatswain-KyteAdopting a Blackcentric approach to social work in Quebec: Challenges and prospects

Désirée RochatTracing the community roots of Black Studies in Montreal: for an engaged pedagogy and a grounded body of information


Panel 5 – Thinking diasporic circulatio

Nathanael PericlesMigration through the expression “m pati” in Haiti

Amzat Boukari-YabaraWalter Rodney and the pan-African reading of black studies