Hybrid Launch: The Black Professors Podcast   Monday, February 10th, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

 Opening night Monday, February 10th, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST (10:00am – 11:00 am MST)

 Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship Mills Library (First Floor), 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 (Also available virtually)

 Executive Producers Dr. Selina Mudavanhu & Dr. Motilola Akinfemisoye-Adejare

 Refreshments will be served

Event Description

This event is the official launch of the Black Professors Podcast, a project that started in a Zoom room as a conversation between two strangers who had been introduced to one another by a mutual colleague and mentor (Prof. Bukola Salami) in the summer of 2023.

Since this initial meeting, the founders and executive producers of the podcast, Dr. Selina Mudavanhu (Communication Studies & Media Arts, McMaster University) & Dr. Motilola Akinfemisoye-Adejare (African Studies Program, University of Calgary) have become well acquainted as they interviewed several senior Black professors in Canada with the support of students working as research and production assistants.

The podcast has received immense support from colleagues in the Pulse Lab at McMaster University and the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster Library. The podcast has also received generous funding from the Arts Research Board, McMaster University.

At the launch, Black students will be in conversation with Drs. Mudavanhu and Akinfemisoye-Adejare who will discuss the criticality for the production of the Black Professors Podcast.

Code of Conduct

The Sherman Centre and the McMaster University Library are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for its presenters and participants. As a participant in this session, you agree to support and help cultivate an experience that is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive, as well as free of harassment, discrimination, and oppression. We reserve the right to remove participants who exhibit harassing, malicious or persistently disruptive behaviour. Please refer to our code of conduct webpage for more information.