Tuesday 15 June
2004
9.30 am –11.30 am Registration
11.30 am –12 noon Informal Welcome,
Dr Ian Robertson,
Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education,
` Dr
Elizabeth Walcott–Hackshaw,
Dr
Martin Munro
12 noon –1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm –3.00
pm Parallel
sessions
SESSION 1: THE REVOLUTION
AND CARIBBEAN HISTORIES
Moderator: Brinsley Samaroo
Auditorium A
Bridget Brereton (The University of the West Indies,
St Augustine)
“Hé St Domingo, songé St Domingo”: Haiti and the Haitian
Revolution in the Political Discourse of Nineteenth–Century Trinidad
Martin Munro (The University of the West Indies, St
Augustine)
Petrifying myths: Lack and Excess in Caribbean and Haitian History
Lloyd Best (Trinidad & Tobago Institute of the
West Indies)
Haiti: A Problem of Classification in the Schema of Plantation
Economy
SESSION 2: HISTORY, ART
AND DANCE
Moderator: Carolyn Williams
Auditorium B
Patricia Mohammed (The University of the West Indies,
St Augustine)
The Sign of the Loa
Arnaldo E Valero (Instituto de Investigaciones Literarias ‘Gonzalo
Picón Febres,’Merida, Venezuela)
El rostro imaginado: Representaciones pictóricas de la comunidad
haitiana
Celia Carey Weiss (University of California, Riverside)
Kreyol Steps and Moving Words: Re-Choreographing the Revolutionary
Peasant in Port-au-Prince
SESSION 3: THE REVOLUTION
AND AFRICA
Moderator: Maximilien Laroche
Auditorium C
Edmond Mfaboum (Paris)
La réception de la révolution haïtienne auprès
de l’élite intellectuelle africaine, francophone
Lieve Spaas (Kingston University, UK)
Fighting for independence in Haiti and the Congo
Kahiudi Claver Mabana (UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados)
Jacques Roumain et le roman africain francophone. Retour aux sources
et repères mythiques
3.00 pm –3.30 pm Tea
3.30 pm –5.00 pm Parallel sessions
SESSION 4: RE-INTERPRETING
HEROES I: TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE
Moderator: Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Auditorium B
Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
The travelling revolutionary: twentieth-century translations of Toussaint
Louverture
Renée Larrier (Rutgers University)
Toussaint Louverture’s Sword: Artifacts and the Power
of Representation
E. Anthony Hurley (Stony Brook University, NY)
Césaire's Toussaint Louverture: A Revolution in Question
SESSION 5: REVOLUTION,
RACE AND PHILOSOPHY
Moderator: Randolph Hezekiah
Auditorium A
Georges Fouron (Stony Brook University, NY/Haiti)
Theories of race and the Haitian revolution
Michele Alexandre (University of Memphis)
Towards a More Nuanced Haitian Ethic of Resistance
Juan Antonio Hernández (University of Kentucky)
Hegel, los cimarrones y los zombies: a propósito de “Hegel
and Haiti”de Susan Buck-Morss
SESSION 6: REPERCUSIONES
EN AMÉRICA LATINA
Moderator: Marie-José N’Zengou
Tayo
Auditorium C
Alejandro E. Gómez (Universidad Simón
Bolívar, Caracas)
La Capitanía General de Venezuela en tiempos de la Revolución
Haitiana
Valeria Coronel (New York University)
Ilustración, esfera pública plebeya y descolonización.
Lazos entre Eugenio Espejo, Francisco de Miranda, y la revolución
Haitiana
5:15 p.m. –6:15 p.m. Visit
to the Eric Williams Collection, Main Library
OR
Book
Launch: Rhoda Reddock, Caribbean Masculinities, Social
Sciences Lounge.
6.30 pm –8.00 pm Official
Opening: UWI Vice–Chancellor the
Honourable Rex Nettleford and UWI St
Augustine Principal, Dr Bhoendradatt
Tewarie
Followed
by cocktail reception at Principal’s
residence.
9.00 pm Shuttles
return to hotels
Wednesday
16 June 2004
9.00 am –10.30 am Parallel sessions
SESSION 7: HISTORICAL LITERATURE
AND LITERARY HISTORY I
Moderator: Edwidge Danticat
Auditorium A
Elizabeth Walcott–Hackshaw (The University of
the West Indies, St Augustine)
Lahens’Revolution or the Words Within
Rachel Douglas (University of Edinburgh)
An Aborted Miracle: The Significance and Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution
in Frankétienne's H'éros-chimères
Évelyne Trouillot (Haiti)
La révolution haïtienne dans la fiction: Absente ou méconnue?
SESSION 8: THE REVOLUTION,
RIGHTS AND WRONGS
Moderator: Lloyd Best
Auditorium B
Daniel Atchebro (UN Working Group on
People of African Descent, Geneva)
La Révolution haïtienne de 1804 ou le chaînon
manquant de la doctrine des droits de l’homme
Jean-Robert Lafortune (Miami/Haiti)
The Success of the Haitian Revolution in 1804 –Threat
or Opportunity for the West?
Neil Roberts (University of Chicago
The Concept of Freedom in Afro-Caribbean Political Thought
SESSION 9: PERSPECTIVAS
CUBANAS
Moderator: Nicole Roberts
Auditorium C
Graciela Chailloux Laffita (Casa de Altos Estudios “Don
Fernando Ortiz”Universidad de La
Habana)
Revolución en Haití y “miedo al negro”en
Cuba
Elzbieta Sklodowska (Washington University, St Louis)
El imaginario haitiano en la narrativa breve de Antonio Benítez
Rojo
Raimundo Gomez Navia (Cuba)
Adrien Sansaricq: Un luchador por la libertad de Haití en
el siglo XX
10.30 am - 11.00 am Coffee
11.00 am –12.30 pm Parallel
sessions
SESSION 10: WRITING DIASPORA
I
Moderator: Joëlle
Vitiello
Auditorium A
H. Adlai Murdoch (University of Illinois –Urbana)
Mapping Haitian Transnationalism: Migration and the Writing of Haitian
Identity
Jana Evans Braziel, (University of Cincinnati)
Daughters of Défilée, Daughters of Dyaspora: Edwidge
Danticat's Alterbiographic Narratives of Ayiti-Nation and Diaspora
Ayodele Hippolyte
A Literature in Exile: Marie Chauvet and Dany Laferrière
SESSION 11: FOLK CULTURE,
LANGUAGE AND RESISTANCE
Moderator: Laënnec
Hurbon
Auditorium B
M. Thomas J. Desch-Obi (Baruch College, CUNY)
“Koup Tet:”Afro-Haitian stick fighting and the Haitian Revolution
Yves Lejean (Haiti)
Language and Education in Haiti from 1804 to 2004
SESSION 12: EDUCATION AND
THE REVOLUTION
Moderator: Jeannette Morris
Auditorium C
Sandra Gift (The University of the West Indies, St
Augustine)
The Haitian Revolution: Contemporary Challenges for Educators
Nadève Ménard (Trinidad/Haiti)
Where do we go from here? Going beyond the revolution in the Haitian
curriculum
Ella Turenne (Columbia University)
Using Art to Interpret and Teach the Haitian Revolution
12.30 pm –2.00 pm Lunch
2.00pm –3.30 pm Parallel sessions
SESSION 13: Writing Diaspora
II
Moderator: H. Adlai Murdoch
Auditorium A
Joelle Vitiello (Macalester College, MN)
Traces of the Revolution in Contemporary Fiction
Brenna Moremi Munro (University of Virginia)
Edwidge Danticat: Haiti's Migrant Letters
Paula Morgan (The University of the West Indies, St
Augustine)
“Where Nightmares are Heirlooms”: Violence and
Female Subjectivity in Danticat’s Fiction
Patricia Ismond (The University of the
West Indies, St Augustine)
Haitian Poetics –Haitian Politics: the Works of Edwidge
Danticat
SESSION 14: NEW WORLDS
APART: THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI I
Moderator: Glenn Harris
Auditorium B
Edward E. Baptist (Cornell University)
Hidden in Plain View: The Evasion of Haiti in the Historiography of
the United States
Edward White (Louisiana State University)
Vested Interests: An American Merchant Looks at Haiti
Michael J. Drexler (Bucknell University PA)
Novel History: Haiti, Horrors, and Leonora Sansay’s Secret for
America
SESSION 15: RE-INTERPRETING HEROES II
Moderator: E. Anthony Hurley
Auditorium C
Jorge Victoria Ojeda (Archivo General del Estado de
Yucatán, México)
Juan Francisco: La Interpretación de una Historia no Contada
de la Revolución
Carolyn Williams (University of North Florida, Jacksonville)
The Haitian Revolution and a North American Griot: The Life of Toussaint
L’Ouverture by Jacob Lawrence
Gislaine Bucher–Miloch (Lycée Frantz Fanon,
Trinité, Martinique)
Toussaint mythe ou mythisation?
3.30 pm Shuttles
from campus to hotels
6.15 pm Shuttles
from hotels to campus
7.00 pm –9.00 pm Readings
and commentaries from Derek Walcott and
Edwidge Danticat followed by reception,
Social Sciences Area
10.00 pm Shuttles
return to hotels
Thursday
17 June 2004
9.00 am –10.30 am Parallel sessions
SESSION 16: ANTÉNOR
FIRMIN, RACE AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Moderator: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Auditorium A
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Rhode Island College)
Anténor Firmin, Pioneering Anthropologist, Pan–Caribbeanist,
and Pan–Africanist: His Legacy and Continuing Relevance
Ghislaine Geloin (Rhode Island College)
De De L’Égalité des races humaines, Anténor
Firmin à la Conférence panafricaine de 1900,
Benito Sylvain : deux champions haïtiens de la cause
des Noirs
Richard Lobban (Rhode Island College)
Anténor Firmin and Egyptology
Gérarde Magloire-Danton (New York University)
The Haitian Revolution, Memory and Haiti’s Humanist Thinkers:
The Examples of Anténor Firmin and Jean Price-Mars
SESSION 17: HISTORICAL
LITERATURE AND LITERARY HISTORY II
Moderator: Dany Laferrière
Auditorium B
Amy Reinsel (University of Pittsburgh, PA)
National Subjectivity in the Romantic Poetry of Oswald Durand
Ginette
Adamson (Wichita State University)
Le traitement
des héros de l’histoire d’Haïti
dans le théâtre de Jean Métellus
Pamela Toner (University of Central Florida)
Harvesting Independence: Roumain’s Masters of the Dew
SESSION 18: CROSSING BORDERS:
CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES, RESISTING TYRANNIES
Moderator: Bridget Brereton
Auditorium C
Nicole Roberts (The University of the West Indies,
St Augustine)
Haitian and Dominican e/migration and the (re)construction of national
identity in the poetry of the 3rd generation.
Elizabeth Jones (Tulane University)
Labor’s Revolution Betrayed? Twentieth Century Haitian
Labor Practices in Revolutionary Context
Valerie Youssef (The University of the West Indies,
St Augustine)
Bat teneb - Beating back the darkness: Haitian women’s description
of their own resistance
10.30 am –11.00 am Coffee
11.00 am –12.30 pm Parallel Sessions
SESSION 19: NEW WORLDS
APART: THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI II
Moderator: Mervyn Alleyne
Auditorium A
Kathleen Gyssels (University of Antwerp)
La Révolution haïtienne vue par un Américain: “Un
crapaud transpercé à une lance”dans Le
Soulèvement des Ames Madison
Smartt-Bell
Virginia Stewart (Roanoke
College VA)
Bartleby, Babo, and Baby Budd:
Haiti’s Presence in Herman Melville’s “Killer
B”Novellas
William Scott (New Mexico
State University)
Revolutionary Acts of Translation:
Language and Freedom in Guy Endore’s Babouk (1934)
SESSION 20: ALEJO CARPENTIER
AND THE REVOLUTION
Moderator: Graciela Chailloux
Laffita
Auditorium B
Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti/Paris)
Le Noir: victime, martyr et agent de la Révolution
chez Carpentier
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín (Wilkes Honors College,
Florida Atlantic University)
Carpentier and Montero: Caribbean Heirs to Haiti’s Revolutionary
Legacy
José Antonio Figueroa (Georgetown University)
C.L.R. James, Carpentier y los conflictos políticos contemporáneos
de América Latina: implicaciones de las visiones de la revolución
haitiana para la Colombia contemporánea
SESSION 21: EUROPEAN REPERCUSSIONS
Moderator: Martin Munro
Auditorium C
Karen Racine (University of Guelph, Canada)
Revolution and Redemption: Images of Haiti in the British Press (1793-1820)
Iain Fraser Grigor (author and researcher, Scotland)
Scotland and Haiti: the Search for Duncan Stewart
Wendy Sutherland (Grinnell College, IA)
Immanuel Kant’s Hierarchy of Skin Color in Heinrich von Kleist’s “Die
Verlobung in San Domingo”
12.30 pm –2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm –4.00 pm
FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION
Moderator: Charles Forsdick
Main Auditorium
J. Michael Dash, Maximilen Laroche and Laënnec
Hurbon
4.00 pm Shuttles
return to hotels
Free evening
Friday
18 June 2004
9.00 am –10.30 am Parallel
sessions
SESSION 22: THEATRE, HEROES,
AND THE REVOLUTION I
Moderator: Alvina Ruprecht
Auditorium A
Marie–Agnès Sourieau (Fairfield University,
CT)
L’imaginaire dessalinien dans le théâtre de Trouillot,
Placoly et Métellus
J. Mae–Lyna Beaubrun (University of Montreal)
L’évolution du grand mythe de Toussaint Louverture
SESSION 23: NEW WORLDS
APART: THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI III
Moderator: Keith Cartwright
Auditorium B
Glenn Harris (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
The Haitian Revolution and Black American Perspective
Suzanne Michele Schadl (Roanoke College VA)
“Was he in Harmony with the Prevailing Fetish”?: Black Abolitionists
from the United States and Contradictory Images of Haiti: 1845-1889
Millery Polyné (City University of New York,
College of Staten Island)
African Americans, Haitian Exiles and the Effects of Duvalierism, 1957-1964
SESSION 24: LOST PROMISES:
POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND REVOLUTIONS
Moderator: Marie-Annick
Gournet
Auditorium C
Matthew J. Smith (The University of the West Indies,
Mona)
History, Myth, and Meaning in Haiti’s ‘Second Revolution’:
Reinterpreting the Revolutionary Movement of 1946
Claire de Bourg (Trinidad)
Haitian Women: the Backbone of the Informal Economy
Claude Beauboeuf (Université de Quisqueya, Haiti)
The Haitian Revolution and Jean–Bertrand Aristide’s
Downfall: Comparative Analysis and Implications
10.30 am –11.00 am Coffee
11.00 am –12.30 pm Parallel Sessions
SESSION 25: THEATRE, HEROES,
AND THE REVOLUTION II
Moderator: Marie-Agnès
Sourieau
Auditorium A
Lucie Pradel (Université des Antilles et de
la Guyane)
Foukifoura ou le délire subversif: Frankétienne
en scène
Alvina Ruprecht (Carleton University, Canada)
Toussaint and Delgrès on stage: Reconfiguring the Dead Among
the Living as Re–enactments of History in the Performance Space.
Travis Weekes (St Lucia)
The Fire’s Shadows: Derek Walcott and The Haitian Revolution
SESSION 26: NEW WORLDS
APART: THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI IV
Moderator: Millery Polyné
Auditorium B
Keith Cartwright (University of North Florida, Jacksonville)
Recreolizing Swing: Saint-Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New
Orleans.
Nathalie Dessens (University of Toulouse–Le Mirail)
De Saint-Domingue à la Nouvelle Orléans: les influences
culturelles d'une communauté de réfugiés
Bruce Paddington (University of the West Indies, St
Augustine)
Haiti: Voodoo and Zombies at the Movies
SESSION 27: CLR JAMES AND
THE REVOLUTION
Moderator: Ian Robertson
Auditorium C
Steven James (N.Y.C.C.T., C.U.N.Y.)
Voodoo Socialism: CLR James and Revolutionary Folk Culture
Victor Figueroa (Wayne State University, MI)
A Kingdom of Black Jacobins: C.L.R. James and Alejo Carpentier on the
Haitian Revolution
Michelle Stephens (Mount Holyoke College)
Black Revolution and Dramatic Form: C. L. R. James’s 1936 play
on the Haitian Revolution
12.30 pm –2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm –4.00 pm
HAITIAN AUTHORS’ROUNDTABLE
Moderator: J. Michael Dash
Main Auditorium
Louis–Philippe Dalembert, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens
and Évelyne Trouillot
“La Révolution et/ou l’avenir de la literature haïtienne”
4.00 pm Shuttles
return to hotels
7.00 pm Shuttles
leave hotels for campus
8.00 pm –9.30 pm Derek Walcott directs scenes from The
Haitian Earth
9.30 pm –11.00 pm Reception and Close of Conference
11.00 pm Shuttles
return to hotels
