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DESCRIPTION:Join us in the celebration of another year of Black History Mon
 th at ɬ�﷬!\n\nBlack History Month at ɬ�﷬ 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 Uni
 versity Libraries and Department of History and Classical Studies in the F
 aculty of Arts.\n\nBlack History Month 2024 Keynote Lecture\n\nThursday\, 
 February 8\, 2024\n	5 PM – 8 PM\n	Elizabeth Wirth Music Building | Tanna Sch
 ulich Hall | 527 Sherbrooke Street West\n\nThe 2024 Keynote Lecture will f
 eature 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 A
 fro-Indigenous Futures. This event will be livestreamed and recorded here 
 for guests to tune in virtually.\n\nClick here to register.\n\nMeet the Ke
 ynote Speaker\n\nMelanie J. Newton is an Associate Professor of History at
  the University of Toronto\, where she teaches Caribbean and Atlantic Worl
 d History. Her publications include The Children of Africa in the Colonies
 : Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation (Baton Louis
 iana State University Press\, 2008)\; “Returns to a Native Land? Indigenei
 ty and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean” (Small Axe\, vol. 41\, 
 July 2013\, pp. 108-122) and “Counterpoints of Conquest: The Royal Proclam
 ation of 1763\, the Lesser Antilles and the Ethnocartography of Genocide\,
 ” William and Mary Quarterly\, vol. 79\, no. 2\, April 2022\, 241-282. \n
 \nAt the University of Toronto\, she has served in various administrative 
 roles\, including Director of the Caribbean Studies Program and Chair of t
 he Faculty of Arts and Science Academic Appeals Board. She bgean a three-y
 ear term as Associate Chair (Graduate) of the Department of History at the
  University of Toronto in July 2022. From 1996-98 she served as youth repr
 esentative on the Barbados Constitution Review Commission\, which recommen
 ded that Barbados move from its status as a constitutional monarchy to a r
 epublic. The government of Barbados took up the commission's recommendatio
 n in 2021. She is co-chair of the City of Toronto's Community Advisory Com
 mittee on the renaming of Dundas St. \n\nKeynote Lecture Abstract\n\n'This
  lecture draws on Barbadian thinker Kamau Brathwaite to historicise the Ga
 rifuna and Maya peoples’ struggles to redefine their relationships with th
 e post-plantation or ‘arrivant’ states of the Anglophone circum-Caribbean.
  The survival strategies of Indigenous Antilleans\, Africans and their des
 cendants created a terraqueous space of revolutionary relationality in the
  early colonial Caribbean. This posed a constant threat to imperial author
 ity and defied the racial taxonomies on which European imperial systems of
  governance in the Atlantic World depended.\n	\n	The analysis in this lectur
 e situates these struggles at the heart of five centuries of imperial stat
 ecraft\, which have produced the settler states of North America\, practic
 es of violent state-driven Black and Indigenous erasure in continental Lat
 in America and the embattled\, fragmented and precarious forms of arrivant
  sovereignty that followed independence in the Caribbean. I argue for the 
 fundamental importance of these Afro-Indigenous\, circum-Caribbean stories
  to any full historical account of Black and Indigenous relationalities an
 d experiences with white supremacist\, settler and neo-plantocratic govern
 ance in the Americas and the Atlantic World. These histories of Afro-Indig
 enous Caribbean co-presence\, negotiation and place making are a necessary
  point of return from which to imagine a more hopeful future based on repa
 ratory governance in the face of ongoing\, state-driven\, colonial practic
 es of systemic anti-Black and anti-Indigenous violence.'  \n\n \n
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LOCATION:Tanna Schulich Hall\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, M
 ontreal\, H3A 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Black History Month 2024 Keynote Lecture
URL:/equity/channels/event/black-history-month-2024-ke
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