Celebrate Black History Month at the Regent Theatre: From the Ancient to Modern – Placing Africa at the Centre of our History
On Thursday, February 8, ºÚÁÏÍø’s Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, the university’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging office, and the Carpenters Union, Local 397, will present From the Ancient to Modern – Placing Africa at the Centre of our History.
Hosted at the Regent Theatre, the event will celebrate Black History Month with a reception, entertainment and food from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by a discussion from 7 to 8:30 p.m. This free event is open to the public. It will take place in person and will also be livestreamed online.
Following the reception, there will be a conversation between Howard French, Professor and author of Born In Blackness: Africa, Africans and Modernity, and Dr. Wesley Crichlow, FSSH Professor and critical race theory scholar. Together, they will deconstruct the historical erasure and unrecognized role that Africa has played in the making of the ‘modern world.’
