An Evening of Conversation With Charmaine Nelson

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The Thomas More Institute is pleased to announce our upcoming webinar, an evening of conversation with Professor Charmaine A. Nelson. The interview will focus on Professor Nelson’s recent research on the often-ignored history and contemporary impacts of slavery in Quebec via archives such as fugitive slave advertisements.Charmaine Nelson will be interviewed by Shernaz Choksi and Joseph Vietri of the Thomas More Institute on Friday the 28th of May from 7 to 9 p.m. EST on Zoom.

Register using the following Zoom link to RSVP and receive updates: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_oJRwHSGzTdSsRh5Hrun2Zg

Registration is required, and the event is free of charge. A Q&A with the audience will follow the interview.Founded in 1945, Montreal’s Thomas More Institute (TMI) has for 75 years been providing adults of all ages opportunities to cultivate their curiosity about wide-ranging questions rooted in a variety of fields. TMI is a secular, liberal arts academic institution that offers university-level discussion courses as well as other opportunities for lifelong learning. Our discussions differ from the lectures offered elsewhere as group members are invited to participate collaboratively in a process of shared inquiry and reflection.

Charmaine A. Nelson is a Professor of Art History and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University in Halifax, CANADA where she is also the founding director of the first-ever institute focused on the study of Canadian Slavery. Prior to this appointment she worked at McGill University (Montreal) for seventeen years. Nelson has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery, Race and Representation, and Black Canadian Studies. She has published seven books including The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2007), Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (2016), and Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance (2018). She is actively engaged with lay audiences through her media work including ABC, CBC, CTV, and City TV News, The Boston Globe, BBC One “Fake or Fortune,” and PBS “Finding your Roots”. She blogs for the Huffington Post Canada and writes for The Walrus. In 2017, she was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University.