Save the date! OISE's 2020 R.W.B. Jackson Lecture will feature alum and literary giant, Dionne Brand, in conversation with renowned Black studies scholar, Professor Rinaldo Walcott. Register today.

We live in challenging, some might say unprecedented political and economic times: unparalleled concentrations of wealth in fewer and fewer hands facilitated by authoritarianism and rising fascism as “ordinary people” […]

Watch webinar recording here. Title: The Interminable Catastrophe Dr. Bedour Alagraa is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African diaspora studies at the […]

Join webinar here. Title:  Racial Borders Tendayi Achiume is Professor of Law at the at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, and a research associate of the […]

“Diaspora, Humanism and the Global Project of Black Freedom,” a conversation with K’eguro Macharia, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, and Rinaldo Walcott, moderated by Christina Sharpe. Registration is free and available at […]

Join the virtual book launch for Rinaldo Walcott's ON PROPERTY on Thursday, February 25th at 7 PM EST. Rinaldo Walcott will be joined in conversation by Beverly Bain and Idil […]

Register here. This virtual International Women’s Day event brings together three passionate community-based activists in conversation to explore being antiracism feminist activists. Funded by the Women’s and Gender Studies Institute […]

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Kama La Mackerel who will read from their new book ZOM-FAM (2020, Metonymy Press). Register here. Kama La Mackerel is a […]

Join webinar here.  Title: "Chloe Cooley: Enslavement in Ontario, Settler Colonialism, Objectification, and Resistance." Afua Cooper is an award-winning scholar, artist and activist whose research on slavery, abolition, freedom, Black […]