Black Studies Summer Seminar 2026 – Call for Applications

How does Black study monitor, evaluate and or evade these new powers attempting to enclose our realities within a defined containment strategy?  How do librarians, curators, scholars and artists wrestle with our new realities around the instrumentalization of generative artificial intelligence? Where does Black study go in these moments?

The Black Studies Summer Seminar <BLK-S3> is an on-campus one-week-long research-intensive seminar engaged with various themes in or connected to Black studies. Designed to produce generative and fruitful academic debates, it is focused on the professional development of PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and pre-tenure faculty with lived experience of being racialized as Black.

The next edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar will take place in Scarborough, Ontario, from May 25-29, 2026, featuring workshops, seminars, keynote lectures, and dedicated spaces for critical discussion, meaningful engagement, and gathering.

Interested participants can complete an application by Dec. 31, 2025.

Learn more about the opportunity.