Testimony: Visual and Embodied Gateways to Black Histories

As part of Black History Month, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute is proud to host three events exploring the theme of Testimony: Visual and Embodied Gateways to Black Histories.

The series includes:

• The Unreadable Archives: The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, an Enslaved African in the American South, a distinguished lecture with Dr. Mbaye Lo of Duke University
• Screening of the documentary Our Dance of Revolution: The History of Toronto’s Black Queer Community, followed by a discussion with the film’s director Phillip Pike
• Witnessing Gestures: Spatial aspects of Black Visualities in the Cinematic Image, a distinguished lecture with Dr. David Herman, Jr. of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University

Co-hosted by the Department of History and the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. The events will take place on Zoom and are free and open to all. To learn more and register, visit the individual event links.