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Restitution & Reparation: An Invitation to Respond to HSA’s Call (Apr. 1, 2025)
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Date & Time: April 1, 2025; 4-5pm EDT/ 1-2pm PDT (Zoom)
In this webinar, HSA Conference Planning committee members will reflect on the preparation of the 37th annual conference call for proposals. Panelists will discuss the theme of restitution and reparation from multiple perspectives and demystify the submission and review process for emerging scholars. Please join us for the first of many conversations to mark the bicentennial of the 1825 indemnity.
For guidance on preparing abstracts, please also consult the recording of a 2023 Abstract Writing Workshop: Emerging Scholars Workshop: Writing Successful Abstracts.
This event will have live interpretation (Krèyol) available.
Panelists:
Regine Jackson
Vice President & Conference Program Committee co-chair
Dr. Regine O. Jackson is currently the Dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division and Professor of Sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the 2022 President of HSA, Chair of the 33th Annual Conference Program Committee in 2021, Chair of the HSA Biennial Book Prize in 2017, and HSA Board Secretary from 2014 – 2016. Jackson specializes in Haitian migration and diaspora studies, sociology of race and place; American immigration, and spatial inequality.
Darlène Dubuisson
HSA Board Member & Conference Program Committee co-chair
Darlène Dubuisson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests and teaching span political and legal anthropology, activist and engaged anthropology, Black feminist anthropology, Black intellectual histories, migration and transnational studies, and speculative fiction and visual culture.
Her work combines analyses of Black radicalism, feminism, social and political movements, imagination, migration and diaspora, and crises and futures. Her primary geographic focus is Haiti, the wider Caribbean and Latin American region.
Crystal Eddins
HSA Board Member
Crystal Eddins is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and holds a Dual Major PhD in African American & African Studies and Sociology from Michigan State University. Her areas of research and teaching include the African Diaspora, Social Movements and Revolutions, Race and Ethnicity, Women and Gender, and Atlantic World slavery. Her book, Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution (2021), is an interdisciplinary case study that explores the relationship between ritual life, collective consciousness, and marronnage before the Haitian Revolution. Eddins has published other research articles in the Journal of Haitian Studies, Gender & History, the Journal of World- Systems Research, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. She is currently developing a second project tentatively titled Black Queens of the Atlantic World, exploring enslaved women’s power, reproduction, and resistance in eighteenth-century British and French Caribbean colonies.
Felix Jean-Louis
HSA Board Member
Felix Jean-Louis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine. He is a historian of Haiti by birth and in training. He also studies the African diaspora, Caribbean, African American, and Afro-Francophone histories. His research connects Haiti and Haitian to the larger currents of the African Diaspora. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Exporting the Revolution: Haitian Internationalism in the Age of Global Blackness, 1890-1944 that explores the role Haitian elites played in the various organizations and programs that defined the notion of the African Diaspora. In it, he describes the Haitian elite males as central figures that espoused the notion that unity makes strength and urged moments across the Atlantic toward solidarity in the face of the divisions that threatened to divide the larger group.