Events & Gatherings
Karina Vernon: ‘Black Land’: The History of Freedom Farms on the Canadian Prairies
This talk focuses on the history of Black farms on the Canadian Prairies between 1872-1920 and the crucial role farms and farming have played in the freedom struggles of Black people in Canada and beyond. As this talk reveals, Black farms and Black farmers matter: farms have been key sites where Black folks have found reconnection with land, as well as healing, cooperation, and liberation for Black communities.
Admission by donation; free entry for members and youth
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
October 24 at 7:00PM
Where
Sasktel Theatre
October 24 at 7:00PM
Speaker Bio: Karina Vernon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough where she researches and teaches in the areas of Canadian and Black Canadian literature, archives, critical pedagogy, and Black-Indigenous relations. She is editor of The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology (WLUP 2020) and a companion volume, Critical Readings in the Black Prairie Archives, which is forthcoming. She is the co-editor, with Winfried Siemerling (UWaterloo) of Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Works of Art and the Politics of Relation (McGill-Queens, forthcoming), which offers a Black Canadian theory of reception and relation.