Named in honour of W.L. Morton, the Canadian historian and former Master of Trent's Champlain College, in 2023-24, this prestigious lecture invited Dr. Joana Joachim, Assistant Professor, Concordia University to give a public talk, free and open to all.
Dr. Joana Joachim
(Concordia University)
Between Ought and Could: self-preservation and self-care as spatial acts
Thursday February 1, 2024, 4:00 p.m.
In-person Nozhem Performance Space – Enwayaang
Free and everyone is welcome.
Joachim considers care and preservation as radical spatial acts through archival and art historical analyses, tracing the long history of Black care in sites of white colonial domination such as New France/Québec, arguing that it is inscribed in an ongoing effort to protect Black life and achieve Black liberation.
Dr. Joana Joachim is Assistant professor of Black Studies in Art Education, Art History and Social Justice. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral work, There/Then, Here/Now: Black Women’s Hair and Dress in the French Empire, examined the visual culture of Black women’s hair and dress in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, investigating practices of self-preservation and self-care through the lens of creolization as well as historical and contemporary art practices. She earned her PhD in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University. Dr. Joachim obtained her master’s degree in Museology from Université de Montréal and her BFA cum laude from University of Ottawa. Dr. Joachim’s writing has appeared in books, journals and magazines including History, art and Blackness in Canada, Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies, RACAR, Canadian Journal of History and C Magazine
Presented in cooperation between The School for the Study of Canada/ École d’études canadiennes, The Colleges of Trent University, The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies and Trent's Department of History. The W.L. Morton Lecture is named in honour of W.L. Morton, the Canadian historian and former Master of Trent's Champlain College.