Past Event

The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies invites you to attend the 2022 Annual Vickers-Verduyn Lecture in Canadian Studies!

This year’s lecture is entitled, ” ‘she commonly wears a Handkerchief round her Head’: Expanding and Complicating the Concept of Creolization for the study of Transatlantic Slavery”  will be delivered by Professor Charmaine A. Nelson.

ABSTRACT

Creolization defines the cataclysmic social upheavals wrought by the lethal power imbalances of cross-racial contacts imposed under European imperialism and the institutionalization of Transatlantic Slavery in the Americas. For the enslaved African, creolization always occurred under duress and reflected the cultural prohibitions, material deprivation, immobilization, surveillance, and violence imposed by the white slave owning classes. Departing from more conscribed definitions, which focus on tropical plantation regions, this lecture argues for an expansion of the concept in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration. Eschewing the normative focus on language and music, this lecture instead centres Canadian Slavery as well as art and visual and material cultures, as both outcomes and practices, in an exploration that considers the ways that the enslaved navigated systemic oppression and cultural deprivation to retain and practice their cultures.

Bookmark this event and join us for an engaging lecture!

More information here.

Zoom Details:
Link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/94152841916 
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