BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260412T094247EDT-5839GuopEA@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260412T134247Z DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public\; registration is man datory via this link.\n\nFeaturing three scholars from diverse disciplinar y backgrounds\, this Black History Month roundtable organized by the McGil l Institute for the Study of Canada will explore perspectives and approach es to Black Studies with a particular emphasis on its uniqueness in the Ca nadian context.\n\nThe roundtable will be followed by a Q&A and a receptio n.\n\nDavid Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018) and Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013\, winner of the 2014 C asa de las Americas Prize). He is editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (20 18) and You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. Ja mes (2009). He has produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcast ing Corporation’s Ideas on C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon\; and recently se rved as a consultant for the CBC television’s Black Life: Untold Stories d ocumentary series. He currently teaches in the Humanities\, Philosophy\, a nd Religion Department at John Abbott College and is a Lecturer in the McG ill Institute for the Study of Canada.\n\nSarah Riley Case is an Assistant Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law. Her research and teach ing focus on slavery and the law\, Critical Race Theory\, Black life\, col onialisms\, arts\, and the natural world. Before joining McGill\, she was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Glob al Law and Policy. She served as a Special Advisor to the UN Independent E xpert on Human Rights and International Solidarity.\n\nDr. Riley Case’s pu blications include Looking to the Horizon: The Meanings of Reparations for Unbearable Crises\, To Protest for Black Life during the Pandemic: Resist ance and Freedom in a Settler State\, Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd\, and “T houghts of Liberation“ with Nataleah Hunter-Young in Canadian Art. \n\nDr. Riley Case collaborates with people working toward racial\, regional\, an d ecological justice in the international system\, academic communities\, legal clinics\, and across social movements\, including by mixing law\, hi story\, ethics of daily living\, and the arts.\n\nWendell Nii Laryea Adjet ey (Nii Laryea Osabu I\, Atrékor Wé Oblahii kè Oblayéé Mantsè) is Assistan t Professor\, Department of History and Classical Studies\, of post-Recons truction U.S. and African Diaspora history and William Dawson Chair.\n\nDr . Adjetey is working on his second and third book projects on warfare and African-led abolitionism on the Gulf of Guinea Coast\, and revolutionary B lack organizing and state repression in the United States and Americas\, r espectively.\n\nDr. Adjetey’s first book is Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: Th e Making of a Pan-African North America (UNC Press\, Jan. 2023). For his t eaching\, Dr. Adjetey was awarded McGill University's H. Noel Fieldhouse A ward for Distinguished Teaching\, and the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching.\n\nThe event will be livestreamed via this link.\n DTSTART:20240207T210000Z DTEND:20240207T230000Z LOCATION:Leacock 232\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 85 5 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Historical Approaches to Black Studies: roundtable discussion URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/misc/channels/event/historical-approaches-black-s tudies-roundtable-discussion-344743 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR