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Article: Raphael Dalleo 5

Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations

Schedule, Day 1, Thursday, October 22, 2010

8:00 am - Shuttle departs from the Wyndham

8:15-8:30 am - Coffee/Breakfast (Live Oak Pavilion B)

8:30-9:00 am - Opening Remarks (Live Oak Pavilion B)

9:00-10:45 am - Panel #1 (Live Oak Pavilion B): Saint-Domingue in the Hemisphere. Chair: Kristen Block, Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University

Robert Taber, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Florida. “Haiti and the Americas to 1789: Colonialism, Trade, and Creolization.”

Adam Rockenbach, Masters Student in History, California State University, Long Beach. “The Haitian Revolution amongst Anti-Abolitionists in Cuba, Jamaica, Louisiana, and South Carolina.”

Meagan Foster, Doctoral Candidate in English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “‘Not of common origin’: Race, Class and Nationality in Abolitionist Representations of Toussaint Louverture.”

Sara Fanning, Assistant Professor of History, Texas Woman’s University. “The Marketing of Haiti.”

11:00-12:45 pm - Panel #2 (Live Oak Pavilion B): Haitian Narration. Chair: Elena Machado Sáez, Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University

Jeff Karem, Associate Professor of English, Cleveland State University. “Haitian Literary Responses to the U.S. Occupation.”

Melissa Sande, Doctoral Candidate in English, State University of New York, Binghamton. “Cultural Memory for the Political Present: Examining Marie Chauvet's Love in the Aftermath of Haiti's Earthquake.”

Patricia Saunders, Associate Professor of English, University of Miami. “Who’s On Top?: The Steady Diet of Fucking, Power and Pleasure in Dany Laferrière’s Heading South.”

Alessandra Benedicty, Assistant Professor of Caribbean and Francophone Literatures, City University of New York. “Negation of Time and Place: Haitian Narratives’ Interrogation and Reworking of Surrealist Topography in the Works of Gary Victor and Michelange Quay.”

12:45-2:00 pm Lunch

2:00-3:00 pm - Peace Studies keynote address (Live Oak Pavilion B): Myriam J.A. Chancy, Professor of English, University of Cincinnati. “A Marshall Plan for a Haiti at Peace: To Continue or End the Legacy of the Revolution.”. Introduction by Carla Calargé, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Florida Atlantic University

3:15-5:00 pm - Panel #3 (Live Oak Pavilion B): The Circulation of Vodou
Chair: Sika Dagbovie, Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University

Bertin M. Louis, Jr., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “Haiti’s Pact with the Devil: Bwa Kayiman, Haitian Protestant Views of Vodou and the Future of Post-Earthquake Haiti.”

Lindsay J. Twa, Assistant Professor of Art, Augustana College (SD). “Alexander King’s Magic Island: an Artist’s Journey to and from Haiti.”

Heather Russell, Associate Professor of English, Florida International University. “Vodou Principles and Literary Theory: Narrative, Nation, and Form.”

Donna Aza Weir-Soley, Associate Professor of English, Florida International University. “Metres Dlo’s daughters: African Religious tropes in the work of African Diaspora Women Writers.”

5:00-6:00 pm - Reception

6:00-8:15 pm - Viewing of film (Senate Chambers of the Student Activities Center): Viewing of Eat, For This Is My Body followed by a discussion with filmmaker Michelange Quay

8:30 pm - Shuttle pick up

With:
Patricia Saunders, Rose Myriam Rejouis, lara stein pardo, Elena Machado Sáez, Raphael Dalleo, PUMAVision, Andrea Shaw
Contributions
Mark Coetzee 
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