Poetic JuXtice: Resilience By: Kay Tracey I am not property. I have autonomy. I am not smart for a Black girl. I am just smart. I am not a slave. Because I was born free My ancestors ran away, so I could be set free. While your life is filled with opportunities, emancipation, deregulation, and […]
Photographer: Cyrus Sundar Singh Written by: Omosalewa O. Olawoye From October 9th-October 11th, 2023, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas (York University, Canada) and l’Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Cultures (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal) hosted an interdisciplinary conference under the theme: Africa and its Diasporas’ Contributions to World […]
Date: September 14th, 2023 Time: 12:00 - 2:00pm ET Location: 314 York Lanes Register here on Eventbrite
English language version follows Le féminisme est un humanisme, avec le docteur Denis Mukwege Événement organisé par la Professeure Gertrude Mianda, ancienne directrice de l'Institut Harriet Tubman (Harriet Tubman Institue), et le Professeur James Orbinski, directeur de l’institut de santé (Dahdaleh Global Health Institute). Soutenu par Pascal Arseneau et le campus Glendon de l'Université York. Lorsqu'on a demandé à l'écrivain et philosophe V.Y. Mudimbe, de la […]
Harriet Tubman Institute International Conference: Africa and its Diasporas’ Contributions to World Civilization Dates: June 26-29, 2023 Location: l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal The Harriet Tubman Institute is going to Dakar! The Conference will be hosted at l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. HTI extends a huge thank you to our supporters, York International, The Dahdaleh […]
Dates: June 26-29, 2023 Location: l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal The Harriet Tubman Institute is going to Dakar! The Conference will be hosted at l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. HTI extends a huge thank you to our supporters, York International, The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the African Studies Program, and the Resource Centre […]
As African scholars and academics, we are deeply concerned with the crisis in Sudan. The armed conflict between the army and the state sponsored paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces continues to threaten the civilian population and the democratization process in the country. We are extremely saddened by the number of civilian causalities […]
Dear colleagues and friends, From Saturday, May 27 to Friday, June 2, York University will be hosting Congress 2023—the largest gathering of academics, educators, and policy makers in Canada—to reflect on the theme, “Reckonings and Re-Imaginings.” We are extending a special invitation to community members who may not have attended Congress before to participate this […]
Today, March 21th, the HTI marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / Ce 21 mars, le HTI marque la journée internationale pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale. Please join our Graduates Students' Caucus Conversation on how to resist racial discrimination at the University Institution on March 28th, 2023 on Zoom from […]
Written by Dr. Patricia Elaine Perkins March 13, 2023 Climate justice is a central priority of the HTI, which “focuses on the struggles in current lives of African peoples and diasporic communities to achieve social justice and covers contemporary forms of exploitation.” Africans, who make up about 17% of the global population, have contributed only […]