Enduring Questions, New Methods: Haitian Studies in the 21st Century
Please join our colleagues in English, French, Haitian Kreyòl, History, and Latin American Studies as we rethink challenges and opportunities for research and teaching in Haitian Studies. The full program is below. For more information on sessions and topics, please visit http://enduringquestions.net [1].
THURSDAY, 12 APRIL
4:00-5:30PM, Minor Hall 110 – Haiti and the Digital Humanities [2]
Nathan H. Dize, Julia Gaffield, Marlene L. Daut
– moderated by Kaiama L. Glover
5:45PM, Clark 107 – Welcome Remarks
Deborah McDowell
6:00-7:30PM – Building Programs for Haitian Studies in the United States [3]
Cécile Accilien, Laurent Dubois, Claudine Michel, Jean Eddy Saint-Paul
– moderated by Robert Fatton, Jr.
7:30PM – Reception
FRIDAY, 13 APRIL
9:30-11:00AM, Minor Hall 110 – Politics and Intellectual History [4]
Jean Casimir, Sara Johnson, Délide Joseph, Matthew Smith
– moderated by Marlene L. Daut
COFFEE
11:15AM-12:30PM – Translating Haitian Literature [5]
Kaiama L. Glover, Deborah Jenson, Nadève Ménard
– moderated by Njelle Hamilton
LUNCH
2:00-3:30PM – Thinking Vodou: Faith, the Archive, the Law [6]
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Colin Dayan, Christina Mobley, Kate Ramsey
–moderated by Gina Athena Ulysse
COFFEE
3:45-5:00PM – Haitian Kreyòl [7]
Michel DeGraff, Mariana Past, Jacques Pierre
– moderated by Christina Mobley
5:00-5:30PM Closing Remarks