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The importance of preservation has come into sharper relief with the continual transformations in digital cultures and the algorithmic shifts that mediate how we access the present and the past. Questions about the Black archival impulse in contemporary life have, thus, become a central question in recent scholarship, like the double issue on "Black Archival Practice" in The Black Scholar and RACAR's (Revue d'Art Canadienne Canadian Art Review) issue, salt. For the Preservation of Black Diasporic visual histories." Yet, Black memory practices remain unbounded by disciplines and academic institutions. Indeed, thinking about restoration and recovery is itself a collective project, a way of honouring the many modes of Black history-making.

With this in mind, the 3rd edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar Presents three free, public, online keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field of Black studies whose work sits at the edges and intersections of Black memory practices, archival studies, and acts of preservation.