Slavery North invites you to the final talk in our series of three Fellow Talks in Fall 2025. Artist and scholar Camille Turner introduces her Afronautic methodology of archival interpretation.
This hybrid talk is open to students, faculty, staff, and members of the public.
Date/Time: Thursday, November 20, 2025, 2:30-3:30 PM (EST)
Location: Room 118, Ground Floor, 472 North Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, 01003
Online via Zoom:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/94136311670
Meeting ID: 941 3631 1670
Speaker: Camille Turner, Artist-in-Residence, Fall 2025
Moderator: Dr. Martha McNamara, Associate Professor of Public History & Associate Director Slavery North
Lecture: Afronautic Research: an embodied approach to the archive
Lecture abstract:
In this lecture Camille Turner shares her Afronautic methodology and embodied approach to seeking not just what is in the archives but what the land and waters remember.
Bio:
Camille Turner is an artist/scholar whose work combines Afrofuturism and historical research. Her most recent explorations confront the entanglement of what is now Canada in the transatlantic trade in Africans. She puts into practice an Afronautic methodological frame she developed to approach colonial archives from the point of view of a liberated future. Camille is a graduate of OCAD and has completed a PhD at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and most recently, a Provost’s postdoctoral fellowship at University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Turner is the recipient of the 2022 Artist Prize from the Toronto Biennial of Art and she is a participant in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Her artworks are held in museums and public and private collections including: the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Museum at University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada Council Art Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Museum London, The Wedge Collection, The Rooms, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
