The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Faculty of Humanities & Education
Department of Liberal Arts
Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its
Cultural Aftershocks, 1804 2004
15-18 June 2004
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
The Learning Resource Centre
UWI, St Augustine
Schedule
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 1: THE REVOLUTION AND CARIBBEAN HISTORIES
Moderator: Vishnudat Singh
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 NineteenthCentury 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
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
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: REVOLUTION, RACE AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Moderator: Randolph Hezekiah
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 5: RE-INTERPRETING HEROES I: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE
Moderator: Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
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 6: REPERCUSIONES EN AMÉRICA LATINA
Moderator: Ramón Mansoor
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: «l'haïtianisme» 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
5:15 p.m. 6:15 p.m. Visit to the Eric Williams Collection, Main Library
6.30 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 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
Elizabeth WalcottHackshaw (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
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
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
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
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
Yves Lejean (Haiti)
Language and Education in Haiti from 1804 to 2004
SESSION 12: EDUCATION AND THE REVOLUTION
Moderator: Jeannette Morris
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
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
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
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 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 16: ANTÉNOR FIRMIN, RACE AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Moderator: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
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 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
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)
National Subjectivity in the Romantic Poetry of Oswald Durand
Pamela Toner (University of Central Florida)
Harvesting Independence: Roumain's Masters of the Dew
SESSION 18: CROSSING BORDERS: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES, RESISTING TYRANNIES
Moderator: Marie-José N'Zengou-Tayo
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
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: Lancelot Cowie
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: LOST PROMISES: POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND REVOLUTIONS
Moderator: Marie-Annick Gournet
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 JeanBertrand Aristide's Downfall: Comparative Analysis and Implications
12.30 pm 2.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm 4.00 pm
FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION
Moderator: Charles Forsdick
J. Michael Dash, Maximilen Laroche and Laënnec Hurbon
4.00 pm Shuttles return to hotels
7.00 pm Shuttles leave from hotels to Crew's Inn, Chaguaramas
7.30 pm 9.30 pm Dinner at Crew's Inn, Chaguaramas
10.00 pm Shuttles return to hotels
Friday 18 June 2004
9.00 am 10.30 am Parallel sessions
SESSION 22: THEATRE, HEROES, AND THE REVOLUTION I
Moderator: Alvina Ruprecht
MarieAgnès Sourieau (Fairfield University, CT)
L'imaginaire 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)
L'évolution du grand mythe de Toussaint Louverture
SESSION 23: NEW WORLDS APART: THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI III
Moderator: Keith Cartwright
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: EUROPEAN REPERCUSSIONS
Moderator: Martin Munro
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
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
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 Reenactments 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
Kera Washington (Brown University)
The Influence of Haitian Immigrants on North American Music
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 27: CLR JAMES AND THE REVOLUTION
Moderator: Ian Robertson
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
LouisPhilippe 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 presents excerpts from his Haitian plays and Aimé Césaire's La Tragédie du Roi Christophe
9.30 pm 11.00 pm Reception and Close of Conference
11.00 pm Shuttles return to hotels