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Friday, February 27, 2026
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
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Mapping legacies, making futures: Caribbean pedagogies through reparatory justice (part 2)
Speaker(s)
Tesfa Peterson (Graduate student member of the Caribbean Studies Working Group)
Cost
This event is free.
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Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room 629
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Pedagogical Insights from Caribbean Studies Series
Caribbean Studies cuts across mountains, shorelines, bodies of waters, and boundaries. It pulses through postcolonial intellectual formations, grounding concepts such as liberation, maroonage, and the plantation.
What does Caribbean Pedagogies offer us – as a community of scholars, students, and lifelong learners? Caribbean pedagogies disrupts colonial inheritances of the past and recovers insights for the future. Caribbean pedagogies range from the precise to the poetic. Caribbean pedagogies speak to everyday experiences as well as the longue durée of time that shape how we move in the world. Caribbean pedagogies is expansive. It does not limit our lives, relationships, and experiences to the margins. In short, Caribbean pedagogies teaches to think about curriculum and its impact, far-reaching and far-seeing, within and without the academy.
Join us for a series of three workshops where we share Caribbean-based teachings. We hope you will sift through ideas with us and also find some useful suggestions for your own pedagogical practice.
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This workshop uses the UCL Legacies of British Slavery database and the Grenada/Trevelyan case to explore how Caribbean pedagogies can disrupt colonial inheritances while nurturing expansive, future-looking forms of learning. Participants will work with a guided mapping activity, locating Grenada on the UCL database, tracing the Trevelyan family’s compensation after emancipation, and identifying their contemporary presence in Britain, to illuminate the longue durée of plantation economies, accumulation, and dispossession. We will then connect these findings to the CARICOM 10-point plan for Reparatory Justice, thinking together about why genealogies of wealth, land, and racialized violence remain central to anti-colonial curriculum building today.
The workshop asks: How can mapping, archival research, and digital tools ground us in relational, communal spaces of learning? What does it mean to teach opacity, inheritance, silence, and accountability? How might educators approach reparatory justice not simply as a political demand but as a pedagogical orientation—one that is ethical, imaginative, and anchored in everyday Caribbean life?
Audience: Undergraduate/Graduate students and Caribbean/Black faculty or Caribbean working group members
Facilitator bio
Tesfa “Aki” Peterson
I am a public humanities researcher and community-based scholar whose work centers Caribbean history, feminist postcolonial thought, and participatory storytelling. As a student in the PhD Humanities program at Concordia University, my current project traces the life and legacy of Helen Louise Langdon Norton Little, a woman born in LaDigue, Grenada in the late nineteenth century, whose life connected Grenada, Montreal, and the American Midwest. Helen Little was active in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Montreal and was the mother of eight children, including civil rights leader Malcolm X.
Grounded in community knowledge and Caribbean feminist and postcolonial perspectives, my work asks how public humanities can preserve and honor lives that have been marginalized by colonial archives, while creating inclusive, intergenerational spaces for learning in both Grenada and the diaspora. Since 2020, I have collaborated with the Institute for People’s Enlightenment in the Grenadian village of LaDigue to organize lectures, storytelling sessions, and public conversations that center local voices and oral histories. Additionally, the project also extends to Montreal through an oral history and ritual storytelling podcast documenting Grenadian women’s community organizing. Across storybooks, podcasts, workshops, and public events, my work models a decolonial public humanities rooted in care, collaboration, and community memory.