How does Black study monitor, evaluate and or evade these new powers attempting to enclose our realities within a defined containment strategy?  How do librarians, curators, scholars and artists wrestle with our new realities around the instrumentalization of generative artificial intelligence? Where does Black study go in these moments?

The Black Studies Summer Seminar <BLK-S3> is an on-campus one-week-long research-intensive seminar engaged with various themes in or connected to Black studies. Designed to produce generative and fruitful academic debates, we are focused on the professional development of Ph.D. candidates, Postdoctoral Fellows, and pre-tenure faculty with lived experience of being racialized as Black. The next edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar will take place in Scarborough, Ontario, from May 25-29, 2026, featuring workshops, seminars, keynote lectures, and dedicated spaces for critical discussion, meaningful engagement, and gathering.

The Black Studies Summer Seminar honours the field’s radical interdisciplinarity by centering collaboration, co-creation, and experiential learning. It brings together Black artists and scholars at the intersection of imagination and academic trajectories, necessitating alternative modalities of knowledge production and the intramural.

We ask interested participants to complete an application by submitting the following:

• In a maximum of 500 words provide your thoughts on either of the following questions; "How does Black study monitor, evaluate and or evade these new powers attempting to enclose our realities within a defined containment strategy? How do librarians, curators, scholars and artists wrestle with our new realities around the instrumentalization of generative artificial intelligence? 
• The names of two references familiar with your work
• An updated C.V.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until December 31st, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.

Please submit applications via this Google form