Charmaine's News
Thursday, December 5th, 2019:
Noah Leve, He Should Have Known Better
*regarding Justin Trudeau brownface and blackface scandal
Video
November 2019:Â
"There's Something about You!," Blue Metropolis Contest for Anglophone Students
Video
Thursday, November 14th, 2019:
"Forum explores the brutality of Slavery,"Share
Article
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019: 3:30pm (Eastern Daylight time)
"The Stream," Al Jazeera
Website
Video
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019: 12:00pm to 1:00PM
"Blackface: People who did it too," CBC, Ontario Today
Audio
Friday, September 20th, 2019:
" 'It never went away': Canada's Troubling History with Blackface," The Globe and Mail
Article
Friday, September 20th, 2019:
"How Justin Trudeau's blackface scandal may hurt his re-election - or not," ABC News
Article
Thursday, September 19th, 2019:
"Many Photos albums in the basement likely fneatureblackface pics - says McGill professor," CTV Montreal - 5pm News
Video
ThursDay, September 19Th, 2019:
"Trudeau Apologies for brownface image," Daybreak Montreal with Ainslie MacLellan
Audio
Thursday, September 2019:
"Justin Trudeau's Painful blackface past a teachable moment: observers," CFJC Today, The Canadian Press
Article
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Lecture: "Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Canada"
Bard Graduate Center, NYC, USA
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
Contact: academicevents@bgc.bard.edu
Website
Wednesday, August 7, 2019:
Media: "The Growing Field of Black Canadian Studies," University Affairs
Article
Tuesday, July 9 to Friday, July 12, 2019:
Conference Paper: "he has the ends of both his great toes frozen off’: Enslaved Fugitives in the Canadian Winter†Arctic Voices Conference, Riddu Riddu Festival, Norway
Website
Wednesday, June 25, 2019:
Media: "Students from Davis Academy issue list of demands to the MFA," Boston Globe
Article
Friday, April 26, 2019:
Podcast: Episode 3.27 "Killjoy Survival Kits," Secret Feminist Agenda
Podcast
Wednesday, April 10, 2019:
Media: "Canadian Slavery" CBC Quebec City
Audio Recording
Wednesday, April 10, 2019: 7:30pm
Lecture/Conversation with Webster: "Exploring Slavery through the Fugitive Slave Archive"
Exhibition
Wednesday, february 27th, 2019: 10:30am to 12:00pm
Lecture: " 'of a remarkably downcast Countenance, and a black and copper coloured mixt Complexion': Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Canada," NGC Lecture Series 2018-2019, Â National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Lecture
Thursday, February 14th, 2019: 10:00am
Media: "Canadian Slavery" CJAD News Talk Radio Montreal - Elias Makos Show
Audio Recording
Sunday, February 10th, 2019: 7:30pm
Lecture: "Exploring Canadian Slavery Through the Fugitive Slave Archive" Herr Lecture, Underhill Lecture Hall, McKinnin Centre, Burman University, Lacombe, Alberta
Lecture
MOnday, February 4tH, 2019: 7pm
Lecture: " 'he...had meditated an attempt to get on board a ship...bound to Newfoundland': The Limits of the tern Refugees for Enslaved Africans in Canadian Fugitive Slave Advertisements" Moody-Hamilton Atlantic World Lecture Series, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Thursday, January 31st, 2019: 5:00pm
Book Launch: "Towards and African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, Resistance" (Concord, On: Captus Press, 2019)
Paragraphe Bookstore, 2220 McGill College Blvd. (corner of Sherbrooke St. West), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Book
Monday, January 28th, 2019
"Edmonia Lewis," What's Her Name Podcast
Webpage with interview
Friday, january 25th, 2019
"Canadian Slavery Historian to Speak in Lacombe," Red Deer Express
Article
Wednesday, february 27th, 2019: 10:30am to 12pm
Lecture: "Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Canada,"
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa): NGC Lecture Series 2018-1019
NGC Lecture Series 2018-2019
Sunday, September 2nd, 2018
"Double Whodunnit," Fake or Fortune?, S07E04, BBC
Video
Thursday, June 28th & Friday, June 29th, 2018: 9:00PM TO 10:00PM
Canada' Slavery Secret: The Whitewashing of 200 Years of Enslavement, CBC Radio One
Article with Links
Monday, May 28th, 2018
"Black Cemeteries Force Us to Re-Examine our History with Slavery," The Walrus
Article
Saturday, April 14th, 2018: 10:30am to 6:30pm
Symposium: "Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body"
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met
Saturday, April 7th, 2018: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
"Slavery, Race, and Representation: Charmaine A. Nelson and Andrew Hunter in Conversation"
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Doris McCarthy Gallery
Thursday, April 5th, 2018: 4:00TO 6:00pm
"Enslaved Females in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia and Quebec:
Examining the Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive"
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room, 35 Quincy Street , Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Harvard
Monday, March 12, 2018
Black Lives Rooted #3 - Podcast
Produced by Liz Ikiriko with Andrew Hunter
Interview
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
"Prof Teaching Harvard Students about Slavery in Canada," Share, 15 February, vol. 40,
no. 45
Article
Monday, February 12th, 2018
"What does Art History Reveal about Racism Today?" Road to 200, McGill Alumni
Video and Article
Monday, February 5th, 2018
"Thinking Beyond Black History Month," Connecting with Society, Social Science and Humanities Research council of Canada
Article
FebruarY 2018
"Should a University bear the name of a Slave Owner?" Blog Voice, HuffPost
Video
Sunday, December 10th, 2017
The Sunday Edition, with Michael Enright - CBC Radio, "A Little-Told History of Canadians as Slave Owners, not just slave rescuers"
Fall 2017
"A Unique Record of Slavery," McGill News: Alumni Magazine
http://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/s/1762/news/interior.aspx?sid=1762&gid=2&pgid=1855
Friday, October 27, 2017
"Episode 3: The Secret Life of Birchtown," The Secret Life of Canada
https://passport2017.ca/articles/episode-3-secret-life-birchtown
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
"Speaker provides chilling reminder of Canadian Slave History," The Brock News
https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2017/10/speaker-provides-chilling-reminder-of-canadian-slave-history/
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
"Slavery in Canada," The Natasha Hall Show, CJAD 800 AM News - Talk Radio
Thursday, September 14, 2017
"15 Professors of the Year 2017," The Harvard Crimson
http://www.thecrimson.com/topic/15-interesting-professors-2017/
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-charmaine-nelson/
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
"Harvard research on Nova Scotia slavery ads aims to broaden understanding of history," CBC News Nova Scotia
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/harvard-research-slavery-ads-newspapers-nova-scotia-1.4287485?cmp=rss
Audio Recording
Thursday, September 7, 2017
News in Brief: "Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery," Canadian Art
http://canadianart.ca/news/news-in-brief-unearthing-the-visual-culture-of-canadian-slavery/
Monday, September 4, 2017
"McGill Professor introducing Canada's Slave History at Harvard," The Montreal Gazette
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-professor-introducing-canadas-slave-history-at-harvard
Friday, September 1, 2017
"Undergrads at Harvard will study Canadian Slave History this fall thanks to a professor from McGill," University Affairs
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/undergrads-harvard-will-study-canadian-slave-history-fall-thanks-professor-mcgill/
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
"Bay Removes Jefferson David Plaque," CTV News Channel
https://www.facebook.com/CTVNewsChannel/videos/1517890241605635/
Friday, July 21, 2017
"The Canadian Narrative about Slavery is Wrong," The Walrus
https://thewalrus.ca/the-canadian-narrative-about-slavery-is-wrong/
July 2017
Charmaine Nelson, Up Close: Young Black Women Making Canada Better, CBC Radio
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/upclose/charmaine-nelson-1.4180766
Tuesday to Saturday, 13-17 June 2017
Collegium for African American Research (CAAR), Diasporic Encounters, Subjectivities in Transit: Race, Gender, Religion, and Sexualities in the African Diaspora; The University of Malaga, Facultad de Filosofa y Letras, Malaga, Spain
Conference Paper: Unfree (Im)mobility: Reading Travel as Resistance in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Fugitive Slave Advertisements of Nova Scotia and Quebec
conference website
conference program
Monday, 24 April 2017
Book Review: Charmaine A. Nelson, "Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica," London and New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2016. 416 pp., 16 colour plates, 26 b/w illus. Cloth $149.9, ISBN: 9781409468912; reviewed by Renee Ater http://www.racar-racar.com/r_ater_nelson_2017.html
Thursday, 25 May, 2017
"Charmaine Nelson to bring Black Canadian History to Harvard," McGill - Arts News
https://www.mcgill.ca/arts/node/6317
Sunday, 2 April 2017
"How Can Men Support Women Under the Trump Administration," POPSUGAR
https://www.popsugar.com/news/How-Can-Men-Support-Women-Allies-43356715
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
"Roundtable: Cash's Bundle: Fugitive Slave Advertisements, Clothing, and Self-Care," The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History
https://earlyamericanists.com/2017/02/14/roundtable-cashs-bundle-fugitive-slave-advertisements-clothing-and-self-care/
Monday, 13 February 2017: 6:30pm
"The Untold Story of Slavey in Canada and Montreal," Roundtable Discussion, McGill University, Law Faculty, Moot Court, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal (entrance free)
http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2017/02/the-untold-story-of-slavery-in-canada-and-montreal/
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Jeff Tuxworth Interview with Prof. Charmaine A. Nelson, Vibe 105 FM
https://soundcloud.com/vibetalks/jeff-tuxworth-interviews-dr-charmaine-nelson