About this Event
Join us for the 5th edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar at the University of Toronto for a series of talks about the place and role of Black Studies as we collectively face evolving systems of digital capture. This hybrid event will take place in person at the Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library and on Zoom.
Stanley H. Griffin is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in Archival and Information Studies in the Department of Library and Information Studies (DLIS) respectively at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica Campus. He holds a BA (Hons.) in History, a PhD in Cultural Studies (with High Commendation), from the Cave Hill Barbados Campus of The University of the West Indies, and an MSc in Archives and Records Management (Int’l), University of Dundee, Scotland.
His research interests include Multiculturalism in Antigua and the Eastern Caribbean; the Cultural Dynamics of intra-Caribbean migrations; Archives in the constructs of Caribbean culture; and Community Archives in the Caribbean.
His publications notably include Decolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader (Litwin 2018), and Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory (Routledge, 2022) co-edited works with Jeannette Bastian and John Aarons. Stanley is active on the executive of several academic, heritage, and archival professional societies, including the Caribbean’s archival association, CARBICA, and is a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion and the Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, City University of New York (CUNY).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 120 Saint George Street, Toronto, Canada
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