The Role of Black & Indigenous Pedagogies in Shaping Global Classrooms

The Black Research Network (BRN) is a Research Conversation Series connecting University of Toronto researchers for insightful and meaningful conversations about Black-led research and leadership.

Topic: The Role of Black and Indigenous Pedagogies in Shaping Global Classrooms

How do Black and Indigenous pedagogical approaches challenge dominant educational frameworks? What does it look like to center these methodologies in global classrooms?

In the fourth installment of the BRN Research Conversation Series, join the BRN’s Black Indigenous Waterways inaugural recipients Jade Nixon (PhD candidate, Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto) and kara lynch (Associate Professor Emerita, Hampshire College) as they discuss decolonial approaches to teaching and research and how their respective work considers Black Indigenous histories and relationships.

The conversation will be followed by a Q&A session.

Please note that this event will take place virtually. Please register to attend. https://brn.utoronto.ca/event/brn-research-conversation-series-the-role-of-black-and-indigenous-pedagogies-in-shaping-global-classrooms/

About the Speaker:

Jade Nixon is a postdoctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). Her research centers Black women’s theories of gathering, place-making, and their relations with the Atlantic Ocean. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship that Black women have to a Caribbean Carnival-related gathering onboard a ship in the Atlantic called the Ubersoca Cruise. Nixon was named the BRN’s inaugural Black Indigenous Waterways Postdoctoral Fellow in 2024.

kara lynch is a New York-based artist and associate professor emerita of video and critical studies at Hampshire College. A time-based artist, lynch’s work considers autonomy for Black and Indigenous communities, specifically through re-memory, vision and movement. Through various collaborations and solo works, lynch has fostered conversations about these shared histories, mainly in the United States. She joined the BRN as its inaugural Artist in Residence (AiR) in 2024.