Virtual Campus Visits for Associate Professor of Black Feminist Histories and Thought Candidates

The Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC cordially invites you to the following talks in conjunction with our search for an Associate Professor of Black Feminist Histories and Thought:

Note: Undergraduate students will also have the opportunity to meet with each candidate. If you are interested in joining, please register here.

All talks will take place via Zoom. Please register here and the meeting details will be emailed to you in advance of the session.

Dr. Karen Flynn

Karen Flynn is an Associate professor in the Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario, in 2003. Dr. Flynn’s areas of specialization include Black feminism, Black Canadian health care workers, migration and mobility, and popular culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Black Pacific: The African Diaspora in East Asia (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press).

 

Teaching talk: “Who’s afraid of the inner city? Urban Imaginings of Race and Placemaking”

Tuesday, January 26, 2020 at 2:00pm on Zoom

 

Research talk: “I’m a dark skin lady with dreadlocks”: Race, Travel and Discursive Activism”

Wednesday, January 27, 2020 at 10:00am on Zoom

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Dr. Tanya L. Saunders

Tanya L. Saunders is an Associate Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at University of Florida. Their scholarly foci are in the areas of Queer Afro-Latinx Studies, Black Feminist and Queer Studies, Epistemologies of the Global South, Race, Gender and Sexuality, and Critical Race Theory. They utilize Black Feminist and Queer methodologies as their primary lens of analysis. Dr. Saunders holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Master of International Development Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. They are currently completing an book manuscript tentatively entitled Estéticas do Bapho: Queering Black Brazilian Artivism and Rethinking Politics of Liberation. In the manuscript, they theorize Afro- Brazilian sexual-dissident-as-subject’s artivism, to address the specificity of the gender identities of the artivists, and their implications for theorizing Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic genders and sexualities in the Americas. They have begun preliminary research for their third book project in which they analyze the non-binary Orisha Obatalá/Oxalá, from various locations across the Diaspora via Candomblé (Brazil), Lucumí (Cuba/North America) and traditional Yoruba religion (Nigeria), to rethink Black genders and sexualities across the diaspora.

Teaching talk: Theorizing Kuirlombismos and Black Liberation Across the Diaspora: Thinking Black Feminist Artivism in Brazil

Thursday, January 28, 2020 at 2:00pm on Zoom

This demo will be an advanced undergraduate/graduate level talk. Please read the following two relatively short texts in advance, if possible:

https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/december2020/documents/CRGS_14_Pgs211-232_TNascimento_black%20lgbtqi%20poetry-FINAL.pdf

https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/december2020/documents/CRGS_14_Pgs43-52_Barros_Oliveira_BlackSapataoTranslationPractices-final.pdf

 

Research talk: Black Feminist Epistemologies as Decolonial Praxis for Human Liberation: Notes from the Americas

Friday, January 29, 2020 at 10:00am on Zoom

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Dr. Nikoli Attai

Nikoli Attai is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently working on his first book manuscript titled Queer Liberation? Human Rights, Homoimperialism and Community-making in the Anglophone Caribbean. Currently under external review with Rutgers University Press, it interrogates the work being done by activists and non-governmental organizations in the Anglophone Caribbean and Toronto, Canada, and theorizes that current queer human rights interventions fail to adequately address the deeply complicated ways that queer people negotiate and resist homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination in the region. Dr. Attai’s research and teaching focus on transnational feminism, Black queer studies, transgender studies, and transnational sexuality studies, with a particular focus on the Global South. He has taught classes on transnational sexualities and Caribbean women writers at the University of Toronto.

Teaching talk: Black Feminist Realities

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 10:00am on Zoom

This demo is envisioned as a module in an introductory or level two Black feminist studies course at UTSC. Students would have already learned and read about the histories and politics of first and second wave feminist movements in WSTA01H3 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies. They would have also read chapters one and two of Patricia Hill Collin's book titled Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge, 2000).

 

Research talk: Beyond Human Rights: Sexual Alterity and Queer Politics in the Anglophone Caribbean  

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 10:00am on Zoom