2022 Conference Program – Panels
HSA 34th Annual Conference Program
Howard University and George Washington University
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 – Howard University
8:00am – 5:00pm: Check-in – Douglass Hall
8:30am – 9:45am: Saturday Session 1
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 101–LE TERRITOIRE EN PROCÈS OU LES VOIES MULTIPLES DE L’ÉCHAPPÉE
Language: Français
Moderator: Pragxède Montima (Institut français en Haïti)
• Partir ou résister? S’expatrier face à la terreur des groupes armés
Djems Olivier (Université d’État d’Haïti)
• La fabrique de nouveaux sujets politiques à l’ère du numérique
Jocelyn Belfort (CEMTI / Université Vincennes Saint-Denis (Paris 8)
• Marronnage, préservation et protection
Robinson Félix (Police Nationale d’Haïti)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 102–HAITIAN ART & DESIGN WORKSHOP
Language: English
Moderator: Irene Brisson (Louisiana State University)
• Petrouchka Moïse (Grinnell College)
• Peter Haffner (Centre College)
This will be a hands-on workshop using writing, drawing, collage, and verbal exchange to visualize the margins, centers, intersections, divisions, borders, and entanglements that describe the landscape of Haitian art and design. Some general questions that will be addressed in the workshop and moving forward: • To design shared experience, how will the community of scholar-artists engaged in this project be defined? Who is included and excluded depending on the mode and location of engagement? • What communication strategies will be needed to ensure that Haitian art and design scholarship or projects are being seen by who they are meant to be seen by? • How can this gathering connect with other initiatives in the realm of Haitian art and design to identify and amplify the synchronicities between projects? This workshop is an opening conversation among people committed to supporting creative practices working from marginal locations including Haiti and the Afro-Caribbean which have offered “the possibility of radical perspective from which to see and create, to imagine alternatives, new worlds” (hooks 20).
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 103–MARRONNAGE, TRACES ET MÉMOIRES : CONSTRUCTION DE L’IDENTITÉ CULTURELLE (ROUNDTABLE)
Language: Français
Moderator: Joseph Sony Jean (Bureau National d’Ethnologie (BNE) – Universitéd’État)
• Jean Junior Théodore (Université d’État)
• Assedius Belizaire (Université d’État)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 105–MARRONAGE AND THE HAITIAN “IMAGINAIRE”: MIGRATION, IDENTITY, KNOWLEDGE, RELIGION
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Maria Beliaeva Solomon (University of Maryland, College Park)
• An Enviromental Mawonaj: Un-Silencing the Eco-Feminist Imagination in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Love, Anger, Madness
Samantha Schifano (SUNY-University at Buffalo)
• Motherhood as Marronage: Labor, Creation, and the Youwès in Beaudelaine Pierre’s You May Have Your Suitcase Now
Lena Taub Robles (California State University, Bakersfield)
• The Migrative Marronage of Women’s Identities
Michaëlle Vilmont (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Marronnage, Vodou, and the Art of Knowing: Jacques Roumain’s “La montagne ensorcelée”
Paulin Toutché (SUNY-University at Buffalo)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 106–EKSPERYANS DWE SÈVI NOU LESON: DECOLONIZING HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
Language: English
Moderator: Melinda Miles (Haiti Response Coalition)
• Patris Tardieu (Ayiti Analytics)
• Job Joseph (Haiti Response Coalition)
• Pierre Noël (Haiti Development Institute)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 107–DECOLONIZING HEALTH AND PROMOTING WELL-BEING OF HAITIANS
Language: English
Moderator: Marie Guerda Nicolas (University of Miami)
• Bon Sante (Good Health): Factors Influencing PrEP Utilization Among Haitians andHaitian Americans in Miami, FL
Candice A. Sternberg (University of Miami)
• Cerebrovascular Disease Among Haitians
Judith Seme (West Coast University)
• Understanding Cultural and Social Influences in Cervical Cancer Prevention Behaviors among Haitian Women in Haiti and in the United States
Dominique Guillaume (Johns Hopkins)
• What Links can be Made from Narratives of Migration and Self-perceived
Mental Health? A Qualitative Study with Haitian Migrant Women
Tyra Montour (Texas A&M University)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 114–MARRONAGE AS A SITE OF SELF AND COMMUNITY AFFIRMATION
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Abdel Mouncharou (Howard University)
• Les stratégies de mobilité des haïtiens et haïtiennes au Mexique – une formede marronnage contemporain ?
Catherine Bourgeois (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
• The workplace as a site of resistance: marronage in the garment assembly sector?
Aida Roumer (Frankfurt University & University of London)
• Envisioning a World of Healing, Justice, & Liberation: A Pathway to GlobalMarronage & Revolutionary Solidarity
Katherine Jenkins Djom (Independent Scholar)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 208–MARRONNAGE, EDUCATION ET DURABILITÉ
Language: Français
Moderator: Linda Silim (Howard University)
• Economie des territoires : la Gouvernance des acteurs associatifs du département du Centre haïtien
Ruth Myrtho Casséus (Université Quisqueya)
• Pourra-t-on un jour espérer avoir une cohabitation harmonieuse entre les deux langues officielles d’Haïti ?
Johnny Laforêt (Princeton University)
9:45am – 10:00am: Opening Remarks
10:00am – 11:15am: Saturday Session 2
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 101–LAND AND RURAL MARRONAGE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Sarah Davies Cordova (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Maroon Remappings and Manioc Roots in Abbé Delahaye’s Florindie
Isabel Bradley (Duke University)
• Plaidoirie pour la mise en valeur des patrimoines touristiques souterrains en Haïti : Cas de la grotte Marie Jean à Port-à-Piment de 2010 à 2020
Jonel Benjamin
• Dèyè mòn gen mòn : Géographie et histoire dans la colonisation et la résistance haïtienne
Sarah Lancaster (Mount Holyoke College)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 102–MEN NAN MEN FILMS (FILM SCREENING WITH Q&A)
Language: Kreyòl
Director: Rachelle Salnave with Q & A
Against the backdrop of the second most disastrous Earthquake in Haiti & a global pandemic, a South Florida based organization and Arts Institute based in Jacmel commissioned three Haitian filmmakers to create short documentaries on the theme of what solidarity represented for them. All three short documentaries have a total running time of 35 minutes followed by a Q&A with all 5 creators.
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 104–THE UNENDING POLITICAL CRISIS
Language: English
Moderator: Robert Fatton (University of Virginia)
• Alex Dupuy (Wesleyan University)
• Bob Maguire (George Washington University)
• Chip (Henry Frank) Carey (Georgia State University)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 205–GENDER, DAP PIYANP SOU TÈ (LAND GRABBING) AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AS SITES OF RESISTANCE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Marylynn Steckley (Carleton University)
• Land grabbing [Dap piyanp sou tè dechoukaj] and food security in Northern Haiti Today
Walner Osna (University of Ottawa)
• Food Sovereignty, Nutrition and the Hope for Local Food Systems
Lindsey Alcy (Carleton University)
• Gender, Prejudice and Land in Haiti
Joshua Steckley (University of Toronto)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 105–A CALL TO ART (WORKSHOP)
Language: English
Moderator: Jose Zelaya
• Wael Qattan
In the spirit of the nèg mawon’s call to revolution, we open with Philomé Obin’s 1940s call to art. Obin’s Cap-Haïtien school launched an art movement, elevating daily joys with historical triumphs. He would innovate how paintings were exhibited in Haiti and successfully compel museums, including NY’s MoMA and Amsterdam’s Stedelijk, to showcase Black Art excellence. We engage with subsequent Haitian movements and American artists who heeded Obin’s call. Our conversation is designed to address and workshop curatorial strategies that present artists inspired by Obin’s call, artists who challenge institutional art-world boundaries, celebrating Black epistemologies.
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 106–HAITIAN REVOLUTIONARY FICTIONS: ANTHOLOGY, TRANSLATION, AND PEDAGOGY
Language: English
Moderator: Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University)
• Marlene L. Daut (Yale University)
• Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut)
• Marion C. Rohrleitner (University of Texas-El Paso)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 107–GLOBAL/LOCAL TRANSFORMATIONS– ADDRESSING FAILURES OF HUMANITARIAN AID IN HAITI
Language: Kreyòl
Moderator: Jessica Hsu (Independent Scholar)
• Jamesky Blaise (l’Hôpital Saint Antoine)
• Ilionor Louis (Université d’État d’Haiti/Sant Egalite)
• Sabina Robillard (Tufts University)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 113–MUSICAL MARRONAGE
Language: English
Moderator: Nadege Nau (University of South Florida)
• Leo Brouwer and Franz Casséus: Caribbean Fugue or Musical Marronage
Paul Miller (Vanderbilt University)
• Maroonage, Music and Memory: Haitian Freedom and Feminist Practices
Magda Desgranges (Marist College)
• American Folklorists, Haiti, and the Politics of African Diaspora Folk Music in the 1930s
Roman Chacon (New York University)
• From Slam Poet to Author to Media Personality: Jean d’Amérique as a Voice of Resistance
George MacLeod (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 114–MARRONNAGE ET PHILOSOPHIE DE LIBERTÉ
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Mulry Mondélice (Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean)
• Le marronnage comme proto-modernités alternatives au proto-capitalisme
Caleb Mac Bernard Dorce (Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis)
• Une approche décoloniale du marronnage comme philosophie de la liberté
Primo Omane (Université Paris Est Créteil)
• Literary Marronage :Haitian Romanticism and Transatlantic Crossings
Maria Beliaeva Solomon (University of Maryland)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 208–MARRONAGE/MAWONAJ KÒM REZISTANS
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Laura Wagner (Independent scholar)
• Marronage as Resistance and its Contemporary Legacy
Charlot Lucien (University of Massachusetts)
• Marronage as Praxis: The Uses of the Haitian Revolution as Past/Present/Future Black Freedom Struggle
Marshall Smith (Swarthmore College)
• Mawonaj politik
Gédéon Louis (Université d’État d’Haïti et l’Université de Port-au-Prince)
• Mawonaj, nòm ibanistik ak pwodiksyon vil ann Ayiti
Lefranc Joseph (Université d’État d’Haïti & CHARESSO – Centre haïtien de recherche en sciences sociales)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 211–CREATIVE MARRONAGE AND HAITIAN FREEDOMS: ARTS, PRACTICES, POSSIBILITIES
Language: English
Moderator: Ryan Joyce (Ohio State University)
• The Verb ‘Marronner’: Césaire, Depestre, and Creative Marronage
Ryan Joyce (Ohio State University)
• “Vagabondage” as a Form of “Marronage” in Louis-Philippe Dalembert’s Latest Novels
Stève Puig (St. John’s University)
• A Woman Called Destiny: Liberation and Marronage in the Lorraine Hansberry Papers
Marina Magloire (University of Miami)
• Pearls and Paper: Fabiola Jean-Louis’s Visual Tropes of Fragility
K. Adele Okoli (University of Central Arkansas)
DOUGLASS HALL: 110–MARRONAGE AS PRAXIS: KONBIT, PEDAGOGY, AND SELF-CARE–
Language: English
Moderator: Cécile Accilien (Kennesaw State University)
• Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (Utretch University)
• Christian Flaugh (SUNY-University at Buffalo)
• Cae Joseph-Masséna (University of Miami)
• Cécile Accilien (Kennesaw State University)
• Valérie K. Orlando (University of Maryland, College Park)
11:30am – 12:45pm: Luncheon / Keynote address
Dr. Jemima Pierre, UCLA “Fugitives of Empire: Haiti and the Paradoxes of Marronage” (Blackburn Ballroom)
1:00pm – 2:15pm: Saturday Session 3
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 102–MAROONS TAKE CHARGE: THE INDEPENDENT KINGDOM OF HAITI AND THE RETURN OF COLONIALIST MARRONAGE
Language: English
Moderator: LeGrace Benson (Arts of Haiti Research Project)
• Monuments to Marronage: Their Free Nation; Return of Colonialist Marronage
LeGrace Benson (Arts of Haiti Research Project)
• Documenting the Monuments
Antonio Marcelli (Independent Scholar)
• Creation of Statues and Fortress Monuments
Frederick Mangonès (ISPAN)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 103–MAROON(NING) METAPHORS OF HAITIAN MOTHERHOOD: INDIGENEITY, REVOLUTION, AND THE POTOMITAN TODAY
Language: English
Moderator: Lucy Swanson (University of Arizona)
Discussant: Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown University)
• Finding Cécile Fatiman in Contemporary Literature
Lucy Swanson (University of Arizona)
• Staging Indigeneity: Historical Filiation and Theater
Erika Serrato (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
• Potomitan, Métaphore Prison: Maternal Loss and Mourning in Quand il fait triste Bertha chante by Rodney Saint-Éloi & Je vivrai d’amour pour toi by Evains Wêche
Nathan Dize (Oberlin College)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 211–MARRONAGE FÉMINISTE CONTEMPORAIN: LUTTES POUR L’ÉGALITÉ ET LA DÉMOCRATIE
Language: Français
Moderator: Sabine Lamour (SOFA/Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Danièle Magloire (Kay Fanm)
• Alexandra Cenatus (University of Florida)
• Celia Romulus (Université York)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 104–THE LEGACY OF MAROONAGE AS STRATEGYAGAINST OPPRESSION AND EXPLOITATION
Language: English
Moderator: Nahum Jean-Louis (University of Global Health Equity Haiti)
• Adler Camilus (University of Global Health Equity Haiti)
• Nadège Bélizaire (University of Global Health Equity Haiti)
• Kobel Dubique (University of Global Health Equity Haiti)
• Reginald Fils-Aimé (University of Global Health Equity Haiti)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 113–REVOLUTION, DECOLONIZATION AND MARRONAGE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Gregory Pierrot (University of Connecticut)
• Comparing Mawonaj and Takiya
Jean-Philippe Belleau (University of Massachusetts Boston)
• Rethinking Commodification: Haitian Maroons and the Origins of the FrenchRevolution
Gregory Smaldone (Johns Hopkins University)
• Haitian Studies As Epistemic Mawonaj
Philippe Marius (CUNY College of Staten Island)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 114–THE INTER-SPACE: MARRONAGE AS INTERDEPENDENT + INTERDISCIPLINARY + INTERGENERATIONAL
Language: English
Moderator: Fadil Cantave (Massachusetts College of Art & Design)
• Charlene Desir (NOVA Southeastern University)
• Gerdes Fleurant (Gawou Ginou Foundation)
• Patrick Bellegard-Smith (Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin)
• Carole Berotte Joseph (CUNY – Retired Community College President)
• Alix Cantave (Kellogg Foundation)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 212–DIASPORIC MARRONAGE
Language: English
Moderator: Regine Jackson (Morehouse College)
• Decolonial nativism: A History of Haitians and anti-Haitianism in the Bahamas
Llana Barber (SUNY Old Westbury)
• Because Makandal Is a Hero: Mawonaj on Stage in Haiti and New York
Lois Wilcken (La Troupe Makandal, Inc.)
• Performing Mawonaj Haitijuanense: Haitian Blackness and Resistance in Tijuana
Katherine Steelman (UC San Diego)
• Building a Sustainable Ayiti: The Role of the Haitian Diaspora
Marie Guerda Nicolas (University of Miami)
2:30pm – 3:45pm: Saturday Session 4
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 102–HAITI, THE ANTHROPOCENE, AND THE KRIZ KONJONKTIRÈL
Language: English
Moderator: Gina Athena Ulysse (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Mimi Sheller (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
• Mark Schuller (Northern Illinois University/Université d’État d’Haiti)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 103–PÈP AYISYEN SE LAFIMEN NOU YE (WORKSHOP)
Language: English
Moderator: Nic Aziz
• Lori Martineau
The goal of this expressive arts workshop is to explore our past in order to inform the mental and emotional dissonance in our present. Using 3 key events in Haitian history, we will examine if they have contributed to our current day cultural practice of mawonaj. The group will brainstorm words that define mawonaj. These words will be recorded by facilitators. Each participant (10-15 maximum) will respond to prompts given by the facilitators using art materials. PROMPT 1 When someone asks you about your heritage, how does it feel to say, “I am Haitian”? If you are not Haitian, what attracts you to Haiti or Haitian people? PROMPT 2 For 4,745 days our ancestors waged war on anyone wanting to keep us enslaved. Imagine Independence Day. How did your ancestors feel? If your ancestors were not Haitian, what do you imagine they believed about this new nation? PROMPT 3 At the time of our independence, our West African ancestors had their own food, customs, art, music and beliefs that shaped the society around them. They also had their own religion, what we now call Vodou. How do you describe Vodou? What is it or how do you feel about it? PROMPT 4 We have had so many twists and turns in Haitian politics. When you think about the current state of our government, what are some of the things that impact its functioning or non functioning?
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 105–HAITI AND ANTI-SLAVERY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC WORLD
Language: English
Moderator: Celucien Joseph (Indian River State College)
• The Haytian Abolition Society, 1836-1840
Brandon Byrd (Vanderbilt University)
• “After God and virtue, there exists nothing more heavenly than the voices of women:” Haitians’ Writings in the British Foreign and Anti-Slavery Society Archives
Bianca Dang (University of Washington)
• Revolutionary Intimacies: The Power of the Flesh and the Erotic in Visual Imaginaries of Haitian Revolutionary Women
Arselyne Chery (University of Virginia)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 106–REPRÉSENTATIONS DU MARRONNAGE ET LUTTE FÉMININE
Language: Français
Moderator: Jennifer Boum Make, Georgetown University
• Les racines historiques du mouvement féministe haïtien
Sabine Lamour (Université d’État d’Haïti)
• La figure des héroïnes dans le marronnage entre invisibilité et héritage patriarcal
Johanne Louis (INAGHEI)
• Les femmes marronnes à Saint-Domingue : Entre silence et réhabilitation
Mislor Dexai (Université d’État d’Haïti)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 107–LITERARY MARRONAGE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Chelsea Stieber, Catholic University
• Le roman haïtien: une histoire de marronnage dans le paysage francophone.
Chadia Chambers-Samadi (Hawaii Pacific University)
• Writing as Marronage: Literary Liberation in Frankétienne’s Mûr à crever
Lindsey Meyer (Emory University)
• Alexis: le rêve obsessionnel pour Haïti ?
Frantz-Antoine Leconte (Kingsborough/City University of New York)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 113–ECONOMIES OF MARRONAGE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Petroucha Moises (Grinnell College)
• Entrepreneuriat féminin et littératie financière: Les marchands de fruits et de légumes à travers l’aire métropolitaine de Port-au-Prince
Hubermane Ciguino (Université Quisqueya), Bénédique Paul (Université Quisqueya)
• Marronage as resistance: A study in Haitian entrepreneurship
Howard Jean-Denis (Pepperdine University)
•Kapasite popilasyon Viktim Tranbleman de tè 12 Janvye 2010: Là Pou Kontinye Viv Malgre Depa ONG Yo
Ilionor Louis (Université d’État Haïti)
DOUGLASS HALL ROOM 212–EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTITY THROUGH MARRONAGE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Carole Berotte Joseph
• Mawonaj in Education: Learning as Fugitivity in Haiti
Diane Hoffman (University of Virginia)
• Les jeux traditionnels et les pratiques ludiques contemporaines d’Haïti comme espaces et moments partagés du marronnage d’antan et d’aujourd’hui.
Theophilo Jarbath (Université d’Ottawa)
4:00pm – 5:15pm: Plenary 1: GEOGRAPHIES OF MARRONAGE (Blackburn Ballroom)
Moderator: April Mayes
• Marronage as Belonging: Notions of Citizenship Among Naturalized Second-Generation Haitians in The Bahamas
Ermitte Saint Jacques (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• “Haitijuana”: Haitian Diaspora at the Crossing of Temporary Protected Status and Anti-Blackness in the US-Mexico Border
Amanda Pinheiro (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• From Neg Mawon to 400 Mawozo: Racial Capitalism and the Disenfranchised Armed Men in Haitian History
Felix Jean-Louis III (UC Irvine)
7:00pm – 9:30pm: HSA Banquet at Yours Truly, DC
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 – George Washington University
7:00am – 8:00am: Check-in
*** SPECIAL ONLINE SESSIONS FOR HAITI-BASED SCHOLARS ONLY ***
8:30am -9:45am: Sunday Virtual Session 1A
MARRONNAGE : RÉSISTANCE ET IMAGINAIRE COLONIAL
Language : Français
Moderator : Djems Olivier (Université d’Etat D’Haïti)
• Le marronnage : entre culture de résistance et construction identitaire haïtienne
Leo D. Pizo Bien-Aimé (Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Essai d’interprétation deleuzienne et marxiste du marronnage. Devenir-mineur entre lignes de fuite et l’imaginaire colonial
Adler Camilus (Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health et Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Toussaint Louverture, le Bois-Caïman et les Marrons de la Liberté
Jacques de Cauna (CNRS et Université de Pau)
• Le marronnage : géniteur de la radicalisation du projet de liberté occidentale
Pierre Valery Beliard (Université Grenoble Alpes/France)
8:30am – 9:45am: Sunday Session 1B
GWSPH 200A–INVESTIGATING HEALTH AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN HAITI
Language: English
Moderator: Kobel Dubique (Zanmi Lasante/Partners In Health)
• Sexual gender-based violence (SGBV) in Haiti
Wesler Lambert (Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health)
• COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and determinants of hesitancy in Haiti
Maurice Junior Chery (Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health)
• Knowledge, attitudes, and practices: COVID-19 in Rural Haiti
Kobel Dubique (Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health)
GWSPH 300A–POTE KOLE NAN ESPAS PIBLIK NIMERIK FAS AK KLIMA ENSEKIRITE/COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL PUBLICS IN A TIME OF ENSEKIRITE (INSECURITY)
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Jean Mozart Féron (Université Laval/Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Chelsey Kivland (Dartmouth College)
• Natasha Swiderski (McMaster University)
• Lynn Selby (Independent Scholar)
GWSPH 400A–EXCAVATING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE OF HAITI: RECENT INSIGHTS ON HAITI’S ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
Language: English
Moderator: Joseph Sony Jean (Leiden University)
• The Haitian past and present through the scope of archaeological research
Marc Joseph (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Dondon: A Suitable Landscape for Marronage
Camille Louis (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Deepening the multi-layered landscapes of Haiti
Joseph Sony Jean (Leiden University)
• Archaeology and French Colonial Coffee Plantations in Saint-Domingue
Gabriela Martinez
GWSPH 400A–APPORT DES FEMMES DANS LE DOMAINE DES SCIENCES EN HAÏTI : LE CAS DE L’UNIVERSITÉ QUISQUEYA
Language: Français
Moderator: Ketty Accou-Balthazard (Université Quisqueya)’
• Haïti, entre problèmes politiques et questions sanitaires : plaidoirie pour la mise en valeur d’une médecine traditionnelle
Raymonde Raymond (Université Quisqueya)
• Impact du changement climatique sur la survenue de maladies vectorielles émergentes et réémergentes
Daphnide St.-Louis (Université Quisqueya)
• Analyse qualitative des conséquences sanitaires de l’exposition des enfants au plomb (de 0 à 7 ans)
Ammcise Apply (Université Quisqueya)
GWSPH 500A–MANMAN M VOYE M PEZE KAFE: REFLECTIONS ON FOOD, CUISINE, AND HEALING FROM THE SHORES OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Language: English
Moderator:Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Haitian Girlhood: Home Economics, food, and Recipe Books Under François Duvalier
Ayanna Legros (Duke University)
• Twa Fey, Twa Rasin: Music and Culinary Traditions in Haiti
Yanick St. Jean (Northwest Arkansas Community College)
• From the Margins to the Center: Redesigning the Culinary Identity of Haiti and its Diasporic Communities
Stephan Berrouet-Durand (Haitian Culinary Alliance)
GWSPH 500B–LA CONTRIBUTION DU MARRONNAGE A LA LIBERTÉ
Language: Français
Moderator:Lilly Cerat (Brooklyn College)
• Le marronnage : géniteur de la radicalisation du projet de liberté occidentale
Rodady Gustave (Independent scholar)
• La nature transhistorique de l’esclave marron et sa subsistance dans la société haïtienne
Jonel Gustave (Independent scholar)
GWSPH 600A–EMBODIED MARRONAGE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Nathalie Pierre (Howard University)
• Le concubinage, mode de planification familiale et l’institution du marronnage
Woudy Vedrine (Université de Strasbourg et Université d’État d’Haïti)
• “Kou w vle men nan mwen”: Haitian Women’s Labor Songs as Marronage during the U.S. Occupation, 1915-1934
Shelby Sinclair (Princeton University)
• Beyond Solitude, The Womanly Art of Marronnage: A Diachronic Inquiry about Female Maroon Practices in Guadeloupe
Stéphanie MELYON-REINETTE (Independent scholar)
GWSPH 600B–MARRONNAGE IN RELIGIOUS SPACES IN HAITI AND THE DIASPORAf
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Charlene Desir (Nova Southeastern University)
• Creolophone Women’s Fugitive Speech: Bizango hums and vocal transformations
Elizabeth McAlister (Wesleyan University)
• African Diasporic Consciousness and Haitian Vodou’s Lexical Field
Benjamin Hebblethwaite (University of Florida)
• Être élève protestant dans une école congréganiste à Port-au-Prince
Lewis A. Clormeus (Université d’État d’Haïti)
9:45am – 11:00am: Sunday Concurrent Session 2
*** SPECIAL ONLINE SESSIONS FOR HAITI-BASED SCHOLARS ONLY ***
9:45am – 11:30am: Sunday Virtual Session 2
MARRONNAGE ET CONSTRUCTION DE L’IDENTITÉ CULTURELLE
Language : Français
Moderator: Guerline Joseph (Haitian Bridge Alliance)
• Jean Junior Théodore (Université d’État)
• Assedius Belizaire (Université d’État)
• Joseph Sony Jean (Bureau National d’Ethnologie (BNE) – Universitéd’État)
GWSPH 200A–LE MARRONNAGE COMME RELATION SPATIALE
Language: Français
Moderator: Kenrick Demesvar (Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Représentation de l’esclavage dans l’aire métropolitaine de Port-au-Prince: une étude du Marché de la Croix-des-Bossales
Jean Mozart Féron (Université Laval/Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Les lieux de marronnage dans l’ancienne colonie française de Saint-Domingue:
Un pan d’histoire et de mémoire méconnu
Kenrick Demesvar (Université d’État d’Haïti)
• Le Bahoruco, prolongement du Massif de la Selle: zone de marronnage du XVI ème au XIXème siècle.
Alexa Voss (University of Bonn)
GWSPH 300A–MARRONAGE, PERFORMANCE, COLLABORATION: SURFACING SILENCED PASTS TO BUILD BLACK FUTURES IN DURHAM, NC, AND JÉRÉMIE, HAITI
Language: English
Moderator: Dasha Chapman (Kennesaw State University)
• Crystal Eddins (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
• Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire (Tahomey)
• Aya Shabu (Whistle Stop Tours & Village of Wisdom)
GWSPH 400A–INTERNATIONAL OBSTACLES TO HAITI’S STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Language: English
Moderator: Chip Carey (Georgia State University)
• International Rights and Domestic Repression in Haiti
Mulry Mondélice (Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean)
• Haitian Women and New Forms of Marronage
Isabelle Clerié (Devoir de Mémoire)
• International Organizations and Unsuccessful Political Development in Haiti
Jean-Pierre Murray (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
• International Support for Sultanism and Repression of Marronage
Chip Carey (Georgia State University)
GWSPH 500A–MARONNAGE, ART & ARCHITECTURE
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Irene Brisson (Louisiana State University)
• Invisibilisation des femmes dans la statuaire publique du Champs de Mars à Port-au-Prince
Lus-Herna Rosimar (Université Laval)
• Représentation de l’esclavage dans les Antilles aux 18ème et 19ème siècles
Sterlin Ulysse (Université d’État d’Haïti)
• The Architecture of Freedom: The Vernacular Houses of Haiti
Vincent Joos (Florida State University)
• Awe Inspiring Makandal–Artists and Visual Narratives of Revolutionary Zeal from Saint-Domingue
Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson (African American Museum and Library at Oakland)
GWSPH 500B–MARRONAGE, SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND DISASTER
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: François Pierre-Louis (Queens College, CUNY)
• Intelligence économique territoriale et gestion des déchets ménagers dans la zone métropolitaine de Port-au-Prince
Gassendy Calice (Université Quisqueya)
• Mawonaj Kòm Fòm de Rezistans Fas ak Èd Entènasyonal: Ka Komin Abriko nan Grandans
Roseline Lamartinière (Université d’Etat d’Haïti), Heather Prentice-Walz (Universityof California Santa Barbara)
• Mawonaj in local disaster response
Mark Schuller (Northern Illinois University and Université d’Etat d’Haïti)
GWSPH 600A– REPRESENTATION OF THE NÈG MAWON
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Benjamin Hebblethwaite (University of Florida)
• Toussaint Louverture, le Bois-Caïman et les Marrons de la Liberté
Jacques de Cauna (CNRS et Université de Pau)
• Essai d’interprétation deleuzienne et marxiste du marronnage. Devenir-mineur entre lignes de fuite et l’imaginaire colonial
Adler Camilus (Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health et Université d’État d’Haïtï)
• Between Fascism and Black Lives Matter: the Political Lives of the Marron Inconnu
Claire Payton (University of Virginia)
GWSPH 600B–MAWONAJ, GANG AND INSECURITY
Language: Multilingual
Moderator: Marie Guerda Nicolas (University of Miami)
• Criminal Biopower and New Forms of Marronage
Ciro Incoronato (Duke University)
• Construction identitaire des jeunes et stratégie de marronnage de la population vis-à-vis des gangs armés en Haïti.
Peterson Noncent (Independent Scholar)
11:00am – 11:15am: Break
11:15am – 12:15pm: Plenary 2 Religion as a Site of Marronage (GWSPH 101)
Moderator: Elizabeth McAlister
Bertin Louis (University of Kentucky)
Crystal Eddins (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Celucien Joseph (Indian River State College)
GWSPH 101–12:15-1:15pm: HSA Business Meeting/ Town Hall (with lunch)
1:30pm – 2:30pm: ES Mentoring Tea: Spilling the Tea