Speakers
- Raven Spiratos
- McGill University, MA Candidate
Raven Spiratos is a Master’s student at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson. She received her B.A. in Art History from Concordia University in 2018. Her current research examines the representation of African-European Canadians over two hundred years from fugitive slave advertisements to contemporary art. Although scholars have documented mixed-race enslaved people in Canada (Mackey 2010) and explored the specific nature of their enslavement in Canada (Nelson 2016), Spiratos’ project will be the first to trace the visual representation of this mixed-race population across this time span. Spiratos has been awarded the Jackie Robinson Graduate Scholarship (Black Academic Scholarship Fund) and the Graduate Excellence Fellowship (McGill).