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Article: Raphael Dalleo 6

Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations

Schedule, Day 2, Friday, October 22, 2010

8:00 am - Shuttle departs from the Wyndham

8:15-8:45 am - Coffee/Breakfast (Live Oak Pavilion B)

9:00-10:00 am - Keynote address (Live Oak Pavilion B): J. Michael Dash, Professor of French, New York University. “Neither France nor Senegal: Bovarysme and Haiti’s Hemispheric Identity.” Introduction by Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Florida Atlantic University

10:15-11:30 am - Panel #1 (Live Oak Pavilion B): Haiti and the Caribbean
Chair: Graciella Cruz-Taura, Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University

Matthew Casey, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Pittsburgh. “Haitian Urbanites and Trans-national Political Activism in Cuba.”

Kaiama L. Glover, Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University. “Pure Violence: White Womanhood and Haiti’s Revolutionary Narrative.”

Walteria Tucker, Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University. “Prepare, Process, Package: The Consumption of Haiti in Hispanic Caribbean Literature.”

11:45-1:00 pm - Panel #2 (Live Oak Pavilion B): Non-profit and cultural work

Rebecca Reichert, Director of Development, Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas

Gayle Williams, co-director of Digital Library of the Caribbean, Latin American and Caribbean Information Services Librarian, Florida International University

Marli Lalanne and Daby Sully, Konbit for Haiti

Nicole Toussaint-Prince and Dieunet Demosthene, Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice

1:00-2:15 pm - Lunch

2:15-3:15 pm - Keynote address (Live Oak Pavilion B): Sibylle Fischer, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University. “Missing Links: A History of Universal Rights.” Introduction by Luis Duno-Gottberg, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Rice University

3:30-5:15 pm - Panel #3 (Live Oak Pavilion B): Haiti Today. Chair: Mark Harvey, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University

Gérard Férère, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Saint Joseph’s University. “Social, Religious, and Educational Disconnects in Haitian Society.”

Diane Allerdyce, Chief Academic Officer, Toussaint L’Ouverture High School. “Educating for Democracy: A Dialogic Model for Haiti.”

Susan D’Aloia, Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University
“Post-Earthquake Volunteerism: Learning the Virtue of Haitian Resilience.”

Major Joseph M. Bernadel, Chief Operations Officer, Toussaint L’Ouverture High School. “Re-Think[ing] Haiti: Reconstruction & Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti.”

6:00-7:00 pm - Readings by Andrea Shaw, Rose Réjouis (PUMA.Creative Mobility Award winner), and Myriam J.A. Chancy

7:00-8:00 pm - Reception sponsored by PUMA.Creative

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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