Black Studies @Concordia Session III

To celebrate the launch of Concordia's Minor in Black and African Diaspora Studies in the Canadian Context - the first in Quebec - this next iteration of the year-long Speaker Series will showcase the research of Black Studies scholars at the university in a conversation moderated by our Black PhD students.

A networking session will follow. Snacks and refreshments will be served.

How can you participate? Join us in person (no registration required) or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Future Event Dates: March 13 and April 2

Past Events: October 21, November 7

Dr. Joana Joachim

Dr. Joana Joachim is Assistant professor of Black Studies in Art History and Social Justice at Concordia University. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral work, There/Then, Here/Now, examined the visual culture of self-preservation and self-care through Black women's historical and contemporary creative acts. She earned her PhD in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University working under the supervision of Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson. Dr. Joachim obtained her master's degree in Museology from Université de Montréal and her BFA cum laude from University of Ottawa. In 2025 she was appointed as Deputy-Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University.

Dr. Joachim’s scholarship has appeared in books, journals and magazines including History, art and Blackness in Canada, Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies, RACAR, Canadian Journal of History and C Magazine.

Dr. Marcella Chiromo

Dr. Marcella Chiromo is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University, with over a decade of professional experience in diverse mental health settings. She has taught for the past four years, with a focus on courses in cultural psychology. Her scholarly work and research interests are grounded in cultural psychology.

The study she will be presenting examines the acculturation experiences of adolescents of African descent in American high schools. This research centers on the perspectives of African youth while situating their lived experiences within the broader psychological literature on acculturation.

Fernanda Salgado (moderator)

Fernanda Alves Salgado is a researcher and creator from Brazil. She is currently working on her PhD in Film Studies at Concordia University, in which she investigates contemporary Black female experimental animation as sites and strategies of decolonial counternarratives, within an intersectional theoretical framework. Co-founder of the Apiário Estudio Criativo, she works as a scriptwriter and creative director, and is currently in production with the animated feature film Ana, en passant, set to be released in 2026.

Organized by Angélique Willkie, special advisor, Black Integration & Knowledges; Badewa Ajibade (PhD student) with the support of Christiana Abraham, Minor program director and the Office of the Dean, FAS.