Making the Home a Public Concern - Annick Maugile Flavien -- engAGE Student Speaker Series

Making the Home a Public Concern

In her research-creation project, Annick Maugile Flavien explores the “Black home” as an important site for transmission of intergenerational knowledge, belonging, and care to understand the theories that shape Black caregiving practices and brings them into conversations around ageing considerations for all elders in Canada. While she aims to highlight the home as a crucial site of agency for elders and marginalized communities, she is also acutely aware of the societal culture of confining aging to the home, the hyper surveillance of Black homes, and the housing crisis that has emphasized the precarity of ‘home’. In this talk, Annick will be speaking to the caregiving frameworks and patterns she’s uncovered from researching the ‘Black home’ and discuss the tensions that have come up in her work when faced with what it means to make the home a public concern.

The engAGE Student Speaker Series brings students and community members together to share discuss their shared interests in research on aging. This fall, graduate students studying topics related to aging are invited to give short public lectures on their work that spark discussions with community members and other students. Each session two students from diverse fields with a shared connection to aging research will be invited to speak. Talks will be followed by time for questions, discussions and networking with food provided. We hope this provides opportunities for knowledge mobilization and connection between communities. Join us on Wednesday afternoons in the ER building (6th floor)

Annick Maugile Flavien is a PhD candidate and Public Scholar at Concordia University. Her research-creation project explores the “Black home” as an important site for transmission of intergenerational knowledge, belonging, and care to understand the theories that shape Black caregiving practices and bring them into conversations around ageing considerations for all elders in Canada. Her work is informed by her experience as a caregiver to her mother and her professional experience in equity and advocacy work, where she most notably founded Concordia’s Black Perspectives Office, co-chaired the President’s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism and co-authored “These Halls of Ours: Black Student Presence and Black Montreal Youth History” in Concordia University at 50: A Collective History. She is also an awardee of the Grace Dart Knowledge Mobilization Fund in support of her to project to work on a multimedia handbook around caregiving considerations for Black Aging in Montreal shaped in collaboration with elders from the Council for Black Aging Community of Montreal, and she serves on the advisory board of the Social Determinants of Health in Ageing and Alzheimer’s research team led by Dr. Maiya Geddes at McGill University.

Contact Eric Craven at engage@concordia.ca if you have any questions.