Toward Community-Centered Reference.

Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. In-Person. November 8, 2024. 

Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials.

Invited Speaker. ARMA International. Virtual. March 28, 2024.

Toward Community-Centered Reference.

Invited Speaker. Library and Archives Canada. Virtual. March 8, 2024.

Toward Community-Centered Reference.

Association of Canadian Archivists. Virtual. November 2, 2023.

Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials.

Invited Speaker. Library and Archives Canada. Virtual. February 17, 2023.

Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials.

Invited Speaker. Library and Archives Canada. Virtual. February 10, 2023.

Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials.

Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference. Virtual. June 8, 2021.

Healing with Archives: A Conversation with Melissa J. Nelson.

Invited Speaker. Colloquium Series. University of British Columbia School of Information. In-Person. September 19, 2024.

Rethinking Archival Tools: Catalogs, Finding Aids and Descriptions.

Invited Speaker. Black Community Archives and Libraries Summer Seminar. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Virtual. June 14, 2024.

Archiving Culture Through Hair and Beauty in Black Canadian Community. In Conversation: Ehiko Odeh & Melissa J. Nelson. 

Invited Speaker. DesignTO. In-Person. February 2, 2024.

Black Dreams & The Archives.

Melissa J. Nelson, Désirée Rochat, Elizabeth Shaffer, and Aaron T. Francis. Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference. Virtual. June 12, 2024.

Memory Work, Mediated Technologies & Make Believe. 

Melissa J. Nelson & Zakiya Collier. Invited Speaker. Calling the Conjurers: An Otherwise Symposium for Technologies of Black Life and Study. Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis. In-Person. May 24, 2024.

Engagement and Teaching with Data. 

Melissa J. Nelson, Laura Estill, Meghan Landry, Gretchen Rudham, Victoria Moten, and Cortnie Belser. Invited Speaker. Library and Archives Canada. May 9, 2024.

Digital Archives and Ethics of Care. 

Melissa J. Nelson, Cait McKinney and Gracen Brilmyer. Invited Speaker. Crossing Fonds. OCAD University, Simon Fraser University & Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. In-person. April 27, 2024.

Changing Landscapes, New Directions. 

Melissa J. Nelson, Dr. Rico Chapman, Dr. Kathy Moscou, and Dr. Cheryl Thompson. Invited Speaker. Black Digital Humanities Symposium. Black Digital Humanities Lab at Jackson State University Department of Art and Theatre & the Diversity Working Group at the University of Toronto. Virtual. April 12, 2024.

Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon. 

Melissa J. Nelson, Tonya Sutherland-Stewart, and Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon. Invited Speaker. Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries, Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto Libraries & York University Libraries. Virtual. February 6, 2024.

“Why didn’t you think of us?” A Conversation Between Archivists and Black Researchers. 

Melissa J. Nelson, Matthew Fells, Katrina Cohen-Palacios, Aaron T. Francis, Anthony Gebrehiwot, and Andrea Fatona. Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA): Artists and Archivists in Dialogue. Black Creative Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University. In-person. September 21, 2023.

Activating Archives and Anniversaries.

Melissa J. Nelson, Lopez Matthews and Sean Smith. Invited Speaker. Mary Ann Shadd Cary in the Here and Now Symposium. Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research. Penn State University Centre for Black Digital Research. Virtual. October 2, 2021.

Reflecting and Imagining Visions for Archival Education. 

Melissa J. Nelson, Carmen Miedema, Karen Ng, Tomoko Shida, Danielle Allard, Greg Bak, Gracen Brilmyer, Jennifer Douglas, and Karen Suurtamm. Invited Speaker. Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference. Virtual. June 9, 2021.

Reparative Description: Confronting Anti-Blackness in Archives.

Invited Speaker. University of Toronto Faculty of Information. INF2104H Archives and Community. Virtual. November 20, 2024. Instructor: Jessica Lapp.

Reparative Description: Confronting Anti-Blackness in Archives.

Invited Speaker. University of Toronto Faculty of Information. INF1331H Archival Arrangement and Description. In-person. March 27, 2024. Instructor: Jennifer Grant.

Reparative Description: Confronting Anti-Blackness in Archives.

Invited Speaker. McGill University School of Information Studies. INFS 607 Organization of Information. Virtual. October 16, 2023. Instructor: Gracen Brilmyer.

Ethics of Care: Inclusive Description in Archives.

Invited Speaker. York University Department of Communications & Media Studies. CMDS 2210 Race, Racism & the Image. In-person. September 27, 2023. Instructor: Desirée de Jesus.

Reparative Description in Archives.

Invited Speaker. University of Toronto Faculty of Information. MSL2230H Nature & Culture: Histories of Heritage Interpretation in North America. In-person. March 16, 2023. Instructor: Alexandra Kim.

Reparative Description in Archives.

Invited Speaker. McGill University School of Information Studies. INFS 607 Organization of Information. Virtual. October 7, 2022. Instructor: Gracen Brilmyer.