What's Happening in Black Canadian Studies | College of Arts

What's Happening in Black Canadian Studies

Have you ever wondered where research can take you...

Research contributed by BLCK faculty, Dr. Deirdre McCorkindale and Dr. Jade Ferguson, provided inspiration and content for the City of Guelph's 2024 artist-in-residence, HAUI's film installation - Aunt Harriet

Aunt Harriet is a meditative moving portrait exploring introspection, healing, and aging. Set against the backdrop of rural Ontario, it deepens the memory of Black lives, bridging past and present – history and myth. 

  • The full exhibition can be seen at the Stratford Perth Museum, from October 11th 2025 until January 2026.
  • The world festival premiere will take place in November at the Guelph Film Festival.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 
Winter 2026 registration is open! Things to look out for:

BLCK*2020 Black Research Methodologies

With Dr McCorkindale, you will examine the methodologies and method-making of a range of Black scholars, artists, and writers, who disrupt disciplinary projects and normative knowledges. illuminate narratives of Black life, and humanity, and think about the possibilities of liberation.

 

BLCK*3010 Experiential Learning in Black Studies

Dr. Ferguson leads this capstone course for students. It will involve a community-engaged learning (CEL) project or experiential learning (EL) placement in the surrounding community of Guelph/Wellington County. The CEL project or EL placement will focus on some dimension of community involvement that complements the courses completed for the minor.

Register now on Webadvisor.

Interdisciplinary Lounge - MCKN 050

Room 050 on the ground floor of MacKinnon is currently available for BLCK minors. 

The room has restricted access and is also available to book by student clubs in the department. Please reach out to artsidp@uoguelph.ca if you are curious to know more. 

Declaring the BLCK minor.

If you would like to add the BLCK minor to your degree, more information can be found here. 

To declare the BLCK minor, you need to complete the Undergraduate Schedule of Studies Change Request Form

 

 

BLCK on (and off) campus!

A selection of happenings in our courses, along with what your profs are up to when you don't see them.
 

 

 

 

  • In April, Dr. McCorkindale gave a lecture on community-engaged research at the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society and Black Mecca Museum as part of the Office of Teaching and Learning's Roadmaps to Reconcilitation and Reparations initiative to build meaningful community engagement with Indigenous and Black communities. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Congratulations to Dr. George and their co-organizers for an excellent conference:  Black Futurities Conference: We Listen and We Don't Judge (Black Studies Edition), in Toronto! Visit the Black Futurities Archive to learn more.

 

If you have anything coming up that you would like to share, reach out to dept admin, Marie Ann via artsidp@uoguelph.ca