Overview Join the CanAfro Research Institute for the official virtual launch of the Daily ABR dashboard Date and Time Tuesday, September 29, 2026 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Toronto Time Online Event About This Event The official virtual launch of our first Daily ABR Tracker Dashboard. This milestone project was made possible through generous funding received … Continue reading Black Data Sovereignty: Launching the Daily ABR Tracker Dashboard
Category: Black Scholarship
June 17, 2026 Five research teams have received funding through a joint initiative supported by the University of Toronto’s Black Research Network (BRN), the Office of the Vice-President, International and the University of the West Indies (UWI). New collaborations tackling climate resilience, public health and artificial intelligence to improve daily life are among the projects … Continue reading BRN, U of T and University of the West Indies fund research on climate resilience, health and AI
How do gender, race and non-citizen status shape labour conditions – and experiences of invisibility?At the upcoming BRN Research Symposium, Julie-Ann M., a PhD Student at the Women & Gender Studies Institute | University of Toronto will present the talk: "From the Margins to the Fields: Making Women Migrant Farm Workers Visible."McCausland’s doctoral research examines … Continue reading Black Research Network Research Symposium
Lahoma Thomas is the only Canadian to win Oxford's inaugural Early Career Researcher First Book Prize By: Savara Khokhar March 13, 2026 Long before Lahoma Thomas became a scholar, she was a child sitting beside her grandmother in the Caribbean, surrounded by women talking about their lives, their communities and the challenges they faced. Those … Continue reading TMU prof wins international prize for book on Black women and political power
Photo: Professor Natalie Wood, centre, with colleagues and guests at William Peyton Hubbard Atrium naming event, February 5, 2026. March 13, 2026 George Brown Polytechnic professor and researcher Natalie Wood has been awarded the Michael Baptista Essay Prize by York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). Wood, a professor in the Social Service Worker program and co-designer of the Black Futures Research Institute, … Continue reading George Brown Professor Natalie Wood wins Michael Baptista Essay Prize
The University of Toronto (U of T) and its Black Research Network, and the University of the West Indies (UWI) are supporting collaborative research initiatives through a Joint Call for Proposals. U of T and The UWI are committed to the positive impact that universities can have through international partnerships and, through this Call, are … Continue reading U of T and The UWI: Joint Call for Proposals
Kaeleigh Lewis from Kingston, Jamaica, has an impressive record of volunteerism and community service. Kaeleigh Lewis joins a growing community of exceptional Caribbean students pursuing degrees at McMaster with the support of Chancellor Nicholas Brathwaite’s PETNA Foundation. February 19, 2026 Incoming international student Kaeleigh Lewis has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Nicholas and … Continue reading Jamaican student awarded prestigious Brathwaite Scholarship to join McMaster Engineering
December 29, 2025 | Neil Armstrong/Gleaner Writer Dr Hyacinth Simpson, a Jamaican-Canadian associate professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has been named a 2025-2026 Massey College Visiting Scholar and is pleased that her work aligns with the prestigious honour. Simpson is among three faculty members, who are … Continue reading Massey College Fellowship to allow professor to complete major projects
Call for Papers: 50th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) ConferenceThe Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) invites submissions for its 50th Annual Conference, to be held in Kingston, Jamaica, June 1–5, 2026, under the theme:Caribbean Vibes and Vibrations: Culture, Identity, and Development in Transformative TimesKey Dates:Submission Deadline: December 31, 2025Notification of Acceptance: January 2026The conference welcomes proposals … Continue reading Call for Papers: 50th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Conference
Colleagues at IYARIC, a peer-reviewed, graduate student-run journal at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto have requested that we help distribute their recent Call for Papers. The publication platforms Black, Caribbean, and Indigenous voices and scholarship. The IYARIC Journal has a current call for abstracts for their 2026 … Continue reading Call for Papers: IYARIC