Réinterpréter la Révolution haïtienne et ses Répercussions culturelles, 1804-2004
15-18 Juin 2004
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
PROGRAMME
Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks, 18042004
1518 June 2004
Faculty of Humanities and Education
Department of Liberal Arts
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Venue: Learning Resource Centre
Provisional Programme
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 WalcottHackshaw, Dr Martin Munro)
12 noon 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm 3.00 pm Parallel sessions
Session A: The Revolution and Caribbean Histories
Bridget Brereton (University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Hé St Domingo, songé St Domingo: Haiti and the Haitian Revolution in the Political Discourse of NineteenthCentury Trinidad
Martin Munro (University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Petrifying myths : Lack and Excess in Caribbean and Haitian History
Lloyd Best: title to follow
Session B: History, art and place
Cécile Accilien (Portland State University)
Haitian History Through Art: The paintings of Ulrick Jean-Pierre
Patricia Mohammed (U.W. I. St. Augustine)
The Sign of the Loa
Greg A. Beckett (University of Chicago)
The Past in the Present: History, Memory, and Postcolonial Legacy at Habitation Leclerc (Haiti)
Arnaldo E Valero (Instituto de Investigaciones Literarias Gonzalo Picón Febres, Merida, Venezuela)
El rostro imaginado: Representaciones pictóricas de la comunidad haitiana
Session C: The Revolution and Africa
Edmond Mfaboum (Paris)
La réception de la révolution haïtienne auprès de lélite 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 4.00 pm Tea
4.00 pm 5.30 pm Parallel sessions
Session A: Revolution, Race and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Sibylle Fischer (New York University)
Black Jacobins? Universalism and its Limits in the Revolutionary Constitutions of Haiti
Georges Fouron (Stony Brook University, NY/Haiti)
Theories of race and the Haitian revolution
Juan Antonio Hernández (University of Kentucky)
Hegel, los cimarrones y los zombies: a propósito de Hegel and Haiti de Susan Buck-Morss.
Session B: Reinterpreting Heroes I : Toussaint Louverture
Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
The travelling revolutionary: twentieth-century translations of Toussaint Louverture
Birgit Lahaye (Nelly-Pütz-Berufskolleg, Germany)
Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution: Intertextuality, Fictionalization and Ideology
E. Anthony Hurley (Stony Brook University, NY)
Césaire's Toussaint Louverture: A Revolution in Question
Session C: Repercusiones en América Latina
Alejandro E. Gómez (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas)
La Capitanía General de Venezuela en tiempos de la Revolución Haitiana
Marco Morel (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
Personnages, idées et stratégies de la peur : « lhaïtianisme » et des modèles politiques atlantiques au Brésil (1810 1835)
Valeria Coronel (New York University)
Ilustración, esfera pública plebeya y descolonización. Lazos entre Eugenio Espejo, Francisco de Miranda, y la revolución Haitiana
6.00 pm 8.00 pm Official Opening: UWI ViceChancellor the Honourable Rex Nettleford and UWI St Augustine Principal, Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie
Followed by cocktail reception at Principals residence.
9.00 pm Shuttles return to hotels
Wednesday, 16 June 2004
9.00 am 10.30 am Parallel sessions
Session A: Historical Literature and Literary History I
Elizabeth WalcottHackshaw (U.W.I. 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 B: Lost Promises: Politics, Economics and Resistance
Matthew J. Smith (University of the West Indies, Mona)
History, Myth, and Meaning in Haitis Second Revolution: Reinterpreting the Revolutionary Movement of 1946
Valerie Youssef (University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Bat teneb - Beating back the darkness: Haitian womens description of their own resistance
Claire de Bourg (Trinidad)
Haitian Women: the Backbone of the Informal Economy
Session C: Perspectivas cubanas
Odette Casamayor (Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS], Paris)
Entre la admiración y el recelo : Haití y los haitianos en algunas obras narrativas cubanas
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
10.30 am 11.00 am Coffee
11.00 am 12.30 pm Parallel sessions
Session A: Writing Diaspora I
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
Hillary Scott (Florida International University)
Writing Memory: Connection and Community in the Literature of the Haitian Diaspora
Session B: Folk Culture and Resistance
MarieLinda TavernierLouis (San Francisco S.U.)
Vodou and the Revolution
M. Thomas J. Desch-Obi (Baruch College, CUNY)
Koup Tet: Afro-Haitian stick fighting and the Haitian Revolution
Lucien Maurepas (Université Montpellier III/Haïti)
Changement social, crise culturelle et revendications paysannes en Haïti: pour un relèvement de l'homme et de la culture haïtiens à l'ère du 200e anniversaire de l'indépendance
Session C: Education and the Revolution
Sandra Gift (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 (Laurelton, NY)
Using Art to Interpret and Teach the Haitian Revolution
12.30 pm 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00pm 3.30 pm Parallel sessions
Session A: Writing Diaspora II
Brenna Moremi Munro (University of Virginia)
Edwidge Danticat: Haiti's Migrant Letters
Elizabete Vasconcelos (University of Georgia)
Mothering Memory: (Re)memory in Edwidge Danticats Breath, Eyes Memory and Farming of Bones
Joelle Vitiello (Macalester College, MN)
Traces of the Revolution in Contemporary Fiction
Session B: New Worlds Apart: The United States and Haiti I
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 Sansays Secret for America
Session C: Reinterpreting Heroes II
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 LOuverture by Jacob Lawrence
Gislaine BucherMiloch (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 A: Anténor Firmin, Race and Anthropology
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Rhode Island College)
Anténor Firmin, Pioneering Anthropologist, PanCaribbeanist, and PanAfricanist: His Legacy and Continuing Relevance
Ghislaine Geloin (Rhode Island College)
De De LÉgalité 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 Haitis Humanist Thinkers: The Examples of Anténor Firmin and Jean Price-Mars
Session B: Historical Literature and Literary History II
Alex-Louise Tessonneau (Université de Paris VIII)
Nouveau regard sur la literature haïtienne des premiers temps de la république
Amy Reinsel (University of Pittsburgh, PA)
Haïti entre gloire et désespoir : La subjectivité nationale dans la poésie romantique dOswald Durand
Pamela Toner (University of Central Florida)
Harvesting Independence: Roumains Masters of the Dew
Session C: Haiti and the Dominican Republic
JeanMarie Théodat (PanthéonSorbonne Paris I/Haiti)
Haïti et la République Dominicaine : une île pour deux
Nicole Roberts (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.
Lesley Feracho (University of Georgia)
(Dis)Associated Identities: Independence and National Identity in the Haitian and Dominican Arts
10.30 am 11.00 am Coffee
11.00 am 12.30 pm Parallel Sessions
Session A: New Worlds Apart: The United States and Haiti II
Kathleen Gyssels (University of Antwerp)
La Révolution haïtienne vue par un Américain: Un crapaud transpercé à une lance dans Le Soulèvement des Ames Madison SmarttBell
Virginia Stewart (Roanoke College VA)
Bartleby, Babo, and Baby Budd: Haitis Presence in Herman Melvilles Killer B Novellas
William Scott (New Mexico State University)
Revolutionary Acts of Translation: Language and Freedom in Guy
Endores Babouk (1934)
Session B: Alejo Carpentier and the Revolution
Robert Robertson (filmmaker and composer, Kings College, London)
The Kingdom, an Opera about the Haitian Revolution
Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín (Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University)
Carpentier and Montero: Caribbean Heirs to Haitis 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 C: The Revolution, Rights and Wrongs
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 lhomme
JeanRobert 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 AfroCaribbean Political Thought
12.30 pm 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm 4.00 pm Featured speaker session: J. Michael Dash, Maximilen Laroche and Laënnec Hurbon
4.00 pm shuttles return to hotels
7.00 pm shuttles leave from hotels to Crews Inn, Chaguaramas.
7.30 pm 9.30 pm Dinner at Crews Inn, Chaguaramas
10.00 pm shuttles return to hotels
Friday, 18 June 2004
9.00 am 10.30 am Parallel sessions
Session A: Theatre, Heroes, and the Revolution I
MarieAgnès Sourieau (Fairfield University, CT)
Limaginaire dessalinien dans le théâtre de Trouillot, Placoly et Métellus
Elvire JeanJacques Maurouard (Paris IV/Haiti)
Monsieur Toussaint : Héros centripète
J. MaeLyna Beaubrun (University of Montreal)
Lévolution du grand mythe de Toussaint Louverture
Session B: New Worlds Apart: The United States and Haiti III
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 C: European Repercussions
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 the Revolution
Wendy Sutherland (Grinnell College, IA)
Immanuel Kants Hierarchy of Skin Color in Heinrich von Kleists Die Verlobung in San Domingo
10.30 am 11.00 am Coffee
11.00 am 12.30 pm Parallel Sessions
Session A: Theatre, Heroes, and the Revolution II
Max Dorsinville (McGill University/Haiti)
Silence and the Haitian Revolution: Dadiés Iles de Tempête
Alvina Ruprecht (Carleton University, Canada)
Toussaint and Delgrès on stage: Reconfiguring the Dead Among the Living as Reenactments of History in the Performance Space.
Travis Weekes (St Lucia)
The Fires Shadows: Derek Walcott and The Haitian Revolution
Session B: New Worlds Apart: The United States and Haiti IV
Philip Edmondson (The George Washington University, Washington, D.C)
To Plead Our Own Cause: The St. Domingue Legacy in the Antebellum African American Press
Keith Cartwright (University of North Florida, Jacksonville)
Recreolizing Swing: Saint-Domingue Refugees in the Govi of New Orleans.
Nathalie Dessens (University of ToulouseLe Mirail)
De Saint-Domingue à la Nouvelle Orléans: les influences culturelles d'une communauté de réfugiés
Session C: C.L.R. James and the Revolution
Jerome Teelucksingh (University of the West Indies, St Augustine)
Through the eyes of a non-Haitian: The Impact of CLR James The Black Jacobins
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. Jamess 1936 play on the Haitian Revolution
12.30 pm 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm 4.00 pm Haitian authors round table: LouisPhilippe Dalembert, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens and Évelyne Trouillot La Révolution et/ou lavenir de la literature haïtienne
4.00 pm shuttles return to hotels
6.30 pm shuttles leave hotels for campus
7.30 pm 9.00 pm Derek Walcott presents excerpts from his Haitian plays and Aimé Césaires La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
9.00 pm 10.30 pm Reception and close of conference
10.30 pm Shuttles return to hotels