Dalhousie University’s Black and African Diaspora Studies (BAFD) Program, in partnership with the Pan African Council, is set to host its Black History Month Annual Liberation Dialogues Webinar on February 25, 2026, at 6pm AST/5pm EST. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Dr. Barbra Reynolds - member and former Chair of the UN Working Group on People of African Descent (WGEPAD).
Dr. Reynolds lecture will focus on the role of Black Studies in an era defined by overlapping global catastrophes—racial capitalism, ecological collapse, militarism, resurgent fascism, and the ongoing afterlives of colonialism and slavery. Drawing on historical and contemporary struggles across the African diaspora, Black Studies in a Time of Global Crises: Envisioning Emancipatory Futures for Global Africa explores how Black Studies provides the analytical tools to name systems of domination, expose their interconnections, and challenge the inevitability of crisis. At the same time, it centres Black intellectual, cultural, and grassroots traditions that imagine and practice freedom beyond the limits of the present.
This session is presented in affiliation with the Pan-African Initiative for Research (PAIR), with a brief presentation highlighting PAIR’s work and vision to be shared during the program.