This year’s Black History Month program will focus on Black Educators and Black Education. Click on the title for each event for more information, and register using the RSVP links.
EVENTS
The Harriett Tubman Institute: Opening Ceremony
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024
Time: 2 PM
Location: Resource Centre 314 York Lanes, York University, 4700 Keele St
REDDI Mini Series: Acknowledging and Addressing Racism
Date: Monday, February 5, 2024
Time: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: Online
This workshop will help participants gain an understanding of how to recognize racism, how it can manifest, and what its impacts are. Participants will learn about strategies to address barriers to inclusive spaces and become familiar with relevant tools, policies, and legislation within the York context.
Capoeira workshop with Professora Lang Liu
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Time: 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM (EST)
Location: YH170 – across from Glendon Cafeteria
Come discover the Brazilian martial art that started as a form of resistance for enslaved peoples: Capoeira talk and workshop by Professora Lang Liu. All welcome!
Negative Rights: Racial segregation and the law in twentieth-century Brazil
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Time: 1:30 PM (EST)
Location: Online
Professor Jerry Davila, author of “Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization” and “Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945” will be sharing his new research on racial segregation and the law in Brazil. All are welcome! Talk sponsored by the Glendon History Department’s Albert Tucker Fund.
Discover the figures and movements of the black resistance with Professor Rose Ndengue (In French)
Organized by Salon francophone at Glendon
Date: Monday, February 12, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (EST)
Location: B111
Potluck at the Salon francophone
Date: Monday, February 12, 2024
Time: 4:30 – 6 PM (EST)
Location: B111
Come and savor a Variety of Dishes from countries in Francophone Africa!
REDDI Mini Series: Black Inclusion: Historic and Current Efforts to Dismantle Anti-Black Racism
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Time: 1 PM – 2:30 PM (EST)
Location: Online
This session will follow the birth and development of anti-Black racism both globally and locally, and the historic and on-going efforts to dismantle it. Through case-studies and scenarios, participants will be offered tools and examples of how to respond to anti-Black racism in effective and sustainable ways.
Presentation: “Does Unconscious Bias Training Work?“
With Dr. Shirley Anne Tate, Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Organized by CERREC (Caucus d’équité raciale de York/Glendon’s Race Equity Caucus).
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Time: 3-5 PM (EST)
Location: Room YH 172
This is a hyflex event. Registration link to participate on Zoom below.
The REDDI Mini Series: Do the Work: Intervening on Racism
Date: Monday, February 26, 2024
Time: 10 AM – 11:30 AM (EST)
Location: Online
Please note that we strongly recommend participants to have attended at least one of the other REDDI workshops before attending this session.
This workshop will be highly participation-based and ask attendees to design strategies and practice tools to intervene in moments of racial discrimination, harassment, and microaggressions. Prior familiarity with these concepts is recommended.
REDDI Mini Series: Black Inclusion: Reconnaître et aborder le racisme (FR)
Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Time: 10 AM – 11:30 AM (EST)
Location: Online
This workshop will help participants understand how racism manifests itself, and what its impacts are. Participants will discover strategies to remove barriers to inclusive spaces and practice interrupting racist comments. Please note that this workshop will be in French.
Visiting Speaker to Talk about Race and the Law in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Time: 1:30 PM – 3 PM (EST)
Location: across from Glendon Cafeteria or Zoom
Professor Jerry Dávila, author of Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, will give a talk about his new research entitled “Negative Rights: Racial Segregation and the Law in Twentieth-Century Brazil.” All are welcome, please register if you would like the zoom link, otherwise you are welcome to come in person!