Reimagining Education: Black Indigenous Waterways
How do Black and Indigenous pedagogical approaches challenge dominant educational frameworks? What does it look like to centre these methodologies in global classrooms?
Topic: Reimagining Education: Black Indigenous Waterways
This special research talk will spotlight inaugural recipients of the BRN’s Black Indigenous Waterways Fellowship, Jade Nixon (New York University Provost’s Faculty Fellow) and kara lynch (Associate Professor Emerita, Hampshire College). Nixon and lynch will share insights into their fellowship work, exploring decolonial approaches and how their respective practices engage with Black Indigenous histories and relationships.
The conversation will be followed by a Q&A session.
This event will take place virtually. Please register to attend.
Note: This workshop will be recorded and available on our BRN Resources page.
About the speakers:
Jade Nixon (she/her) is Afro- and Indo-Caribbean. She is currently a New York University Provost’s Faculty Fellow. Before she joined NYU, she was the inaugural Black and Indigenous Waterways Research Fellow and completed her PhD at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She was born and raised outside of the Caribbean region, in a city on the outskirts of Tkaronto, and on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Lake Ontario, one of what the Anishnaabe call the Five Freshwater Seas, held her close when she lived far away from the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Now living in Lenapehoking, she has the joy of calling the islands home.
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.
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