Wilfrid Laurier's Office of the Associate Vice-President: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is pleased to invite you to "Black Intellectual Life in the Post-EDI University," our second instalment of the Lamine Diallo EDI Speaker Series for 2025-2026, featuring a panel organized in collaboration with the University of Waterloo's Pan African Initiative for Research and its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism, and the Black Researchers of Southwestern Ontario (BRSO).
This panel explores how Black scholars are situated within Canadian universities, and why the research they do is critical for the contemporary global world. “Black Intellectual Life and the Post-EDI University” brings together Black scholars across multiple disciplines from the Universities of Waterloo, Laurier and McMaster to think together about these and other questions. Refusing the idea that knowledge can be contained within the discrete borders of individual universities, these scholars gather as an act of Black intellectual community to consider what it means to teach and do research in a shifting social, political, and academic landscape.
This event features Dr. Naila Keleta Mae, Dr. Maurita Harris, and Dr. Dalon Taylor as panelists; Dr. Shaunasea Brown as moderator; and Dr. Alpha Abebe as a respondent.
This hybrid event will take place at the Paul Martin Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University and via Zoom webinar on March 5, 2026.
To register:
- If you would like to attend the luncheon and panel in person, please register using this Qualtrics link by February 27th.The luncheon will begin at 1:30 pm.
- If you would only like to attend virtually, please click here to register. The virtual panel will begin at 2:30 pm.