2024 McGill Equity Team Events

Join us in the celebration of another year of Black History Month at McGill!

Black History Month at McGill is organized by the Equity Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic). The 2024 edition will feature two main events in partnership with our University Libraries and Department of History and Classical Studies in the Faculty of Arts.

See the full details of McGill Equity Team Events

Black History Month 2024 Opening Ceremony

Thursday, February 1, 2024
5 PM - 8 PM
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building | Tanna Schulich Hall | 527 Sherbrooke Street West

The 2024 Opening Ceremony will feature a performance by Montreal Steppers, a local performance collective, followed by a talkback panel discussion about the performance and Black art and culture more broadly. The talkback panel discussion will be moderated by Wellysanè Minyangadou Ngokobi and will include Professor Alex Blue VProfessor Angélique Willkie, and Kayin Queeley. 

Learn more here and register here.

Black History Month 2024 Keynote Lecture

Thursday, February 8, 2024
5 PM – 8 PM

Elizabeth Wirth Music Building | Tanna Schulich Hall | 527 Sherbrooke Street West

The 2024 Keynote Lecture will feature Professor Melanie J. Newton, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto who will deliver a lecture titled, This Mess of a Colonial Legacy”: Revolutionary Relationalities, Arrivant Statehood and Afro-Indigenous Futures. This event will be livestreamed and recorded here for guests to tune in virtually.

Learn more here and register here.

Black History Month 2024 McGill Black Community Gathering

Tuesday, February 20, 2024
12 PM - 3 PM
University Centre | 3rd Floor | The Ballroom | 3480 McTavish Street

The 2024 McGill Black Community Gathering is organized by the Equity Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) in collaboration with the Black Students' Network of McGill (BSN), the McGill African Students Society (MASS), and the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU). It is an opportunity for all Black students, staff, and faculty members to join us for lunch and to connect, celebrate, and create community.

Learn more here and register here.

Indigenous Winter Speaker Series x Black History Month 2024

Monday, February 19, 2024
2 PM - 4 PM
Leacock Building | Room 232 | 855 Sherbrooke Street West

As part of the Winter Indigenous Speaker Series and Black History Month 2024 at McGill, the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Equity Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) are proud to collaborate for a joint event, welcoming Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Assistant Professor of the University of Victoria for a talk titled, A Feminist Geography is an Indigenous Geography. All are invited to attend the lecture, which will be followed by a Q&A period and a catered reception. For more information about the event, please contact indigenousinitiatives [at] mcgill.ca.  

Register here.

For more information about the events or Black History History Month at McGill, please contact Shanice Yarde at shanice.yarde [at] mcgill.ca.

Black History Month 2024 McGill Black Community Gathering poster

Black History Month 2024 McGill Black Community Gathering

Tuesday, February 20, 2024
12 PM - 3 PM
University Centre | 3rd Floor | The Ballroom | 3480 McTavish Street

The 2024 McGill Black Community Gathering is organized by the Equity Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) in collaboration with the Black Students' Network of McGill (BSN), the McGill African Students Society (MASS), and the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU). It is an opportunity for all Black students, staff, and faculty members to join us for lunch and to connect, celebrate, and create community.

Black History Month 2024 Keynote Lecture poster

Black History Month 2024 Keynote Lecture

Thursday, February 8, 2024
5 PM – 8 PM

Elizabeth Wirth Music Building | Tanna Schulich Hall | 527 Sherbrooke Street West

The 2024 Keynote Lecture will feature Professor Melanie J. Newton, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto who will deliver a lecture titled, This Mess of a Colonial Legacy”: Revolutionary Relationalities, Arrivant Statehood and Afro-Indigenous Futures. This event will be livestreamed and recorded here for guests to tune in virtually.

Poster of Dr. Smiles

Winter Indigenous Speakers Series x Black History Month 2024 Presents Dr. Deondre Smiles

Monday, February 19, 2024
2 PM - 4 PM
Leacock Building | Room 232 | 855 Sherbrooke Street West

As part of the Winter Indigenous Speaker Series and Black History Month 2024 at McGill, the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Equity Team in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) are proud to collaborate for a joint event, welcoming Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Assistant Professor of the University of Victoria. His talk, titled A Feminist Geography is an Indigenous Geography will be delivered on Monday, February 19th from 2 PM – 4 PM in Room 232 of the Leacock Building. All are invited to attend the lecture, which will be followed by a Q&A period and a catered reception. For more information about the event, please contact indigenousinitiatives [at] mcgill.ca.  

Black History Month 2024 Opening Ceremony poster

Black History Month 2024 Opening Ceremony

 

Thursday, February 1, 2024
5 PM - 8 PM
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building | Tanna Schulich Hall | 527 Sherbrooke Street West

The 2024 Opening Ceremony will feature a performance by Montreal Steppers, a local performance collective, followed by a talkback panel discussion about the performance and Black art and culture more broadly.


McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.


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