Reimagining Education: Black Indigenous Waterways
2025-09-30 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
This special research talk organized by the Black Research Network 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.
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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.

Weaving Connections: Extractive Colonialism in Africa & Call for Submissions: "Nature Speaks in Every Language" Poetry Exhibition
2025-11-17 15:00 - 18:00 | William G. Davis Building, 1867 Inner Cir Rd, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 1C6, Canada
Weaving Connections: Extractive Colonialism in Africa
This discussion hosted by UTM Student Association for Geography & Environment centres Extractive Colonialism in Africa, and how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and the greed for natural resources causes instability and environmental injustice (amongst many other issues) within different countries in Africa.
Date: Friday, November 7th, from 3pm to 6pm
Location: 1867 Inner Cir Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 in room DV3130
RSVP: here
Call for Submissions: “Nature Speaks in Every Language” Poetry Exhibition
This exhibition is a great way for students who enjoy writing and poetry to showcase their talents. This exhibition aims to celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity through poetry.
We are currently asking for students who are interested to submit their work to our Google Form linked below. If your work is accepted, it will be displayed for our exhibition on November 19 and 20 in MN (North Reception).
Additionally, students who submit their work will automatically be considered to have their work featured in Folia and selected poems may be featured in The Medium!
Date: Submissions due November 14th, 2025
Fill out the form: here!

Standing Together for the Land - Taking on Bill 5
2025-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Centre for Social Innovation – Suite 101 Toronto, 192 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, ON M5T 3A4, Canada
Join this film screening and public discussion hosted by Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence (LAND) and Okiniwak. Hear from Indigenous youth organizers from Attawapiskat together with allies from as we raise awareness and solidarity to protect the land, honour Treaty promises, and stop Bill 5.

Event Details
Date: Nov 18 from 7pm to 9pm EST
Location: CSI – 192 Spadina Avenue (Suite 101 Toronto, ON M5T 3A4)
RSVP: here (Tickets by donation – Space is Limited!)

About the Event from LAND
You’re invited to join Ramon Kataquapit, founder of the Indigenous Youth movement Okiniwak, and Kerrie Blaise, founder of LAND for an evening of sharing, discussion and solidarity as together, we work to stop Bill 5 and protect the Attawapiskat River.Learn about ongoing efforts against Bill 5, including grassroots organizing and litigation, and enjoy our new short film featuring faces and stories form the lands and waters in Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario where the Ring of Fire is proposed.
Follow @naturesdefence, @mahegkan, @okiniwak on Instagram!

Poetics of Water II: LA DERNIÈRE GOUTTE
2025-12-06 09:30 - 18:15 | LILLIAN MASSEY 312, 125 QUEEN’S PARK DECEMBER 6, 2025
Join the Department of Classics, Cinema Studies Institute, Department of Art History, and Centre for Medieval Studies for Poetics of Water II: La Dernière Goutte.
Date: December 6th, 2025 (9:30 AM – 6:15 PM)
Location: Lillian Massey 312,125 Queen’s Park
RSVP: Drop-in! No RSVP required
About the Event
9:30-9:45: Welcome

James Cahill and Victoria Wohl

9:45-11:00: ‘Writ in Water’: Like a Lagoon

Carol Mavor

11:15-12:30: Seeing Water: Histories of Place, Landscape, and Self

Robert Burley
Bonnie Devine
Sherry Lee (Moderator)

2:00-3:15: Talking Water: Conversations in Process

Jane Wolff

3:30-4:45: Water Gathering with Ziibii (Credit River): Decolonizing Municipal and Provincial Understandings of Lands, Parks and Rivers

Bonnie McElhinny
Giidaakunadaad (The Spirit Who Lives in High Places), Nancy Rowe

5:00-6:15: Water, Given Time

Sarah Nooter
