Winfried Siemerlingis University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, andAssociate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for The Black AtlanticReconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015; www.blackatlantic.ca;French translation forthcoming 2022). Earlier books include Canada […]
A native from Bahia, Fabio Silva, aka Fabio Cascadura, is a Brazilian-Canadian MA in History at York University. His MRP is a biographical study of the slave trader and Luso-Brazilian military officer Caetano Mauricio Machado (c.1750–1807) and his business with Bight of Benin.His interests encompass economy, ethnography and culture related to Western Africa from the […]
Collette Murray is a multi-award-winning artist-scholar, dance educator, cultural arts programmer and arts consultant. Murray pursues a Ph.D. in Dance Studies at York University focusing on dance education and anti-racist dance pedagogies. Murray’s publications, advocacy and arts research centre around cultural arts education, decolonization in the arts and education sectors, and in amplifying African diasporic […]
I am a digital historian and cultural producer whose work focuses on public scholarship, memory, Global Africa, historical slavery, and art education. I have been developing multimedia educational projects in the Global South, Digital Public History initiatives such as the Project Baquaqua. I am currently directing the UNESCO project Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of […]