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” clamor for change. This panel draws on Caribbean and Black radical traditions in order to explore our political moment and how we think and organize […]

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 University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Alagraa received her PhD from the department of Africana Studies at Brown University in the Spring of 2019, and […]

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 African Center for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is also the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of […]

“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 this link.

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 Abdillahi. Tune in live for a discussion, reading, and a Q&A. You could win a copy of the book! The event will be streamed on […]

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 (WGSI) Community Knowledge Alliance Fund, and hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Dept. Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough. Speakers: Beverly […]

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 Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, community-arts facilitator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Kama’s […]

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 education, and women studies across Canada has made her a leading figure in African Canadian studies. Her book, The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story […]