How do we gather with a praxis of care? 

The 2025 iteration of the Black Studies Summer Seminar considers ways of being together while asking; what do we owe each other in this constellation of Black study?   

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. This year’s Black Studies Summer Seminar will take place in Kingston, Ontario, from June 9-13, 2025, 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:

• Respond to this question in a maximum of 500 words: How do you plan on holding and supporting the person studying beside you?
• The names of two references familiar with your work
• An updated C.V.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until March 10th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.

Please submit applications via this Google form.

Covered by <BLK-S3>: 

• On-campus housing will be provided to participants for the week.
• Daily breakfast 

Participant Responsibilities:

• Travel arrangements to and from Kingston, Ontario
• Lunch, dinner, and additional meal costs