Haitian Studies Association

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Embodying In/Betweenness Afro-Caribbean Arts and Cultures (Oct. 8, 2023)

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Dancing the Sacred Crossroads: Embodied Arts of Haiti (Oct. 6, 2023)

Friday October 6, 7pm

Ray Charles Performing Arts Center

Morehouse College

Uniting the KOSANBA conference theme of Kalfou and the HSA theme of Ayiti se tè glise, this program presents the wisdom of the Haitian performing body as itself a crossroads and portal for transformation, navigation, and stability within in/stabilities. The evening centers embodied knowledge and the Haitian Kreyòl concept of kase (or “break”) in a reframing of our understandings of Haitian artistry and sacred ritual, Haiti and diaspora, crisis and resiliency. Internationally-known performers, scholars, and spiritual leaders consider the kase across multiple dimensions: dance, song, drumming, film, scholarly text, and discussion.

PRESENTER BIOS

Master drummer Daniel Brevil grew up in Vodou tradition in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, accompanying his father to Vodou ceremonies, becoming an in-demand drummer in the process. He furthered his knowledge at Haiti’s prestigious Ecole Nationale des Arts on the way to becoming musical director to Haiti’s premiere Folkloric dance troupes and collaborating with a who’s who of Haitian and American artists. Since living in the United States, Brevil has become an accomplished drum teacher, artistic director, composer, arranger, and performer with Rara Tou Limen, We All Break, and at educational, arts, and community-based institutions around the country.

Dasha A. Chapman is an interdisciplinary dancer-scholar whose research, teaching, curation, and performances engage a nexus of African diaspora and Caribbean theory, critical dance and performance studies, ethnography, and queer/gender studies. Dasha’s current monograph, Grounding Practice: Dancing Haiti on Tè Glise, centers the community-[re]building work of Haitian dancers following the 2010 earthquake. Her other writing appears in The Black ScholarJournal of Haitian Studies, The Dancer-Citizen, Dance ChronicleTheatre Journal, and in “Nou Mache Ansanm: Queer Haiti Performance and Affiliation,” a special issue of Women & Performance she co-edited with Erin Durban and Mario LaMothe. Dasha co-convenes the following transdisciplinary initiatives: Haitian Sexualities Working Group, Afro-Feminist Performance Routes, and Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective. In her artistic work, Dasha collaboratively develops place-based performances with Haitian and American artists that activate histories, spaces, and dis/orientations. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. Currently, Dasha is Assistant Professor of Dance Studies at Kennesaw State University, and previously taught at Davidson College, Five College Dance/Hampshire College, and Duke University.

Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire is an Houngan (Vodou priest) and Haitian Artist who strongly believes in the use of the performing arts to trigger social change. He has trained in African and Afro-Haitian performing techniques, as well as in classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance. Sebastien has worked with many artists internationally, and travels to teach, choreograph, and collaborate with artists throughout the U.S., the Caribbean, and West Africa. He is the founder of the AfrikAyiti Project, and always wishes to promote Africa together with Haiti in sharing his culture wherever he teaches or performs. His commitment to cultural sustainability is mirrored in his work with his organization Tahomey, which employs and networks small scale cacao farmers in rural Haiti.

Linda Isabelle Francois Obas is an internationally known Haitian Artist, Choreographer, Dancer, Performer. She started her professional career at Artcho in 1991. She learned from great dance professionals: Jeanguy Saintus, Jean René Delsoin, Gerard Florestal, Lena Blou, Bob Powers and Kathryn Sullivan to name a few. She has worked during her many years of professional experience on Classical techniques, Latin dance, jazz, traditional Haitian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-contemporary, modern, improvisation, and choreographic composition. Various audiences from foreign countries have appreciated the choreographies performed by Linda: Europe (Paris, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Upper Normandy), Japan (Tokyo, Nagano, Fukuyama), USA (New York, Ohio, Miami, Boston, Minnesota, Washington, Chicago) , The Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados), Africa(Benin).

Today, as CEO of Xpression Ayiti Linda’s signature resides in promoting the beauty of Haitian Culture in a contemporary style base on Haitian traditional dances. She works more deeply on the performing arts in general with other artists of great fame such as Yole Derose, Paula C. Pean, Erol Josue. In 2017, she laid foundations for a cultural center project, which aims to be a space for the exchange of professionals from different artistic fields: dance, singing, theater, visual arts, etc. Furthermore Linda started a new form of teaching called Thera-LakAy using the tools of Haitian Spirituality and Traditional Dances to yield toward a therapeutic and holistic approach making it a more immersive experiment for the mind, body and soul.

Dr. Yanique Hume is a multifaceted scholar, dancer and choreographer with extensive research expertise and specialization across the Americas and the African Diaspora. As a tenured academic from the Caribbean with extensive regional and international experience, she has secured expertise and contribution to the Caribbean intellectual tradition operating from the disciplines of cultural anthropology and performance studies. Dr. Hume’s research experience and teaching areas include: religious and performance cultures of the African diaspora, Caribbean thought, popular culture, migration and diasporic identities. As a multilingual researcher, her fieldwork experience in dance forms and sacred arts are centered in Caribbean and Latin America, especially Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Suriname, Brazil and Colombia. In applied research, her work has focused on the creative industries and cultural policy; migration and tourism; museological production and management. Dr. Hume is the co-editor of Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013); Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016); and Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean (2018). Dr. Hume is the recipient of grants from the Social Science Research Council, the International Development Research Centre, Ford Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. As a professional dancer and choreographer, she has worked with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, L’Acadco United Caribbean Dance Force, and Danza Caribe of Cuba. Her choreography draws on over 25 years of training in Afro-Caribbean dance with specializations in Haitian, Jamaican and Cuban movement vocabularies. Dr. Hume brings additional competencies in dance and theatre production management; grant writing, budget analysis, project/program evaluation and contingency planning; directing international cultural exchange projects across different linguistic territories within the Caribbean and Latin America. She is proficient in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Kreyol and Jamaican Patwa.

 

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Emerging Scholars Committee Message to Conference Attendees


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The Emerging Scholars committee is dedicated to the development and support of new generations of scholars of Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. We coordinate mentorship events and advocate for the particular concerns of students and emerging scholars with the association.

Emerging as a scholar is an ongoing process and we welcome participation from all self-identifying emerging scholars. Those programs which are restricted to current students (undergraduate and graduate) are labeled as such.

Call for Graduate Student Volunteers

The Haitian Studies Association seeks 6 volunteers (compensated with reduced registration)  to assist with running our 35th Annual Conference, “Ayiti Se Tè Glise: Im/Migration, Movement & In-Betweenness” in Atlanta, Georgia, October 5-8th, 2023 at the historical campus of Morehouse College.

Apply HERE

Emerging Scholars Conference Events

We are happy to announce the following Emerging Scholars centered events during the conference:

Thursday, October 5, 5:00PM – 5:30PM

Emerging Scholars Meet & Greet

Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center (see on-site signage for exact location)

Friday, October 6, 12:45PM – 1:45PM

Emerging Scholar Luncheon 

A luncheon to foster meaningful exchanges between established and emerging scholars, creating an environment that encourages open dialogue and collaborative learning.

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Reminder the reservations with the HSA negotiated rate at Hyatt must be made by September 15, 2023.

Reminder

Emerging Scholar & Michel Rolph Trouillot Award Applications

DEADLINE EXTENDED 16-September

Questions? 

Email: emergingscholars@haitianstudies.org

Opportunities

Université d’État d’Haïti – Appel à communication (15 sept 2023)

Université d’État d’Haïti (UEH)

Institut d’Études et de Recherches Africaines d’Haïti (IERAH) /

 Chaire UNESCO en Histoire et Patrimoine de l’Université d’État d’Haiti (CUHP-UEH)

92, Lafleur Ducheine. Angle Avenue Christophe, Port-au-Prince. Haïti. HT-6112


COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL

14, 15 et 16 novembre 2023

Contribution d’Haïti à l’émancipation des peuples

(Lutte globale contre l’esclavage et la colonisation)

Sous la direction : Dr Watson Denis

Historien et professeur d’histoire et de relations internationales à l’Université d’État d’Haïti. Ancien coordonnateur du programme de Maîtrise en Histoire, Mémoire et Patrimoine de l’Université d’État d’Haïti et auteur de nombreux travaux (ouvrages et articles spécialisés).

INTRODUCTION

Sous le patronage du Rectorat de l’Université d’État d’Haïti et du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et des Cultes, l’Institut d’Études et de Recherches Africaines d’Haïti (IERAH) et la Chaire UNESCO en Histoire et Patrimoine de l’Université d’État d’Haïti (CUHP-UEH), en partenariat avec l’Académie Diplomatique Jean Price Mars et la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie (SHHGG), organisent un Colloque international sur la Contribution d’Haïti à l’émancipation des peuples (Lutte globale contre l’esclavage et la colonisation). Ce colloque aura lieu en format hybride, en ligne et sur place au local du Campus Henri Christophe de Limonade (CHCL), et se veut multidisciplinaire (faisant appel particulièrement aux Sciences-Sociales et Humaines, entre autres : l’histoire, l’anthropologie, l’ethnologie, la sociologie, les études littéraires, l’histoire de l’Art, la philosophie, la politique, l’économie, etc).

Appel à communication

Upcoming Events

Kosanba 2023 Colloquium XIV (Oct. 5th-8th, 2023)

Kalfou, the crossroads, stands as a majestic symbol uniting the cosmovision of several intersecting Africana religious systems and spiritual practices. As an emblem, it encapsulates the idea of chance, fate, possibilities and the passage of time, uniting the realms of the visible and invisible in the past, present and future. At the crossroads, we greet those who are just beginning their life’s journey and we accompany those who are transitioning to the ancestral realm. The kalfou offers a powerful intersection in which people convene, exchange ideas, and gather strength in collectivity.

KOSANBA’s 14th Conference, Pan-Africanism at the Kalfou: Vodou & Africana Religions at the Crossroads, encourages exploration of Pan-Africanism, the belief that all people of African descent share common interests and should be unified in their political, socio-cultural, and spiritual ventures. Examining Pan-Africanism as a crossroads urges us to consider the relational politics existing between African religious traditions and their cultural communities.

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Conference Program – Sessions Program

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SESSION 1: Friday 8:30AM-9:45AM

LA MIGRATION ÉTUDIANTE EN FRANCE ET AU CANADA
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
 • “Ayiti Tè Glise”, entre imaginaire migratoire et « pinga » du retour – Charly Camilien Victor
 • Les causes de l’immigration des étudiants haïtiens et leur devenir. Une étude sur les étudiants haïtiens en France. – Jeff Justin
 • Étudiants versus travailleuses : les relations au sein des couples des étudiants internationaux haïtiens au Canada – Jean Nephetaly Michel
 • La migration étudiante, point aveugle du débat sur l’immigration haïtienne : Essai d’analyse de la relation entre mobilité étudiante et fuite des cerveaux – Omane Primo & Sarah-Djine Abraham


L’ALTÉRITÉ, L’IDENTITÉ ET L’ENTRE-DEUX
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
 • Le phénomène hybride et de l’entre-deux des migrants haïtiens en France : entre esthétisme communautaire et mode d’habiter – Junior Chery
 • Revendication d’une identité nationale dans l’altérité : cas de la chanson ‘Kay blan’ de l’artiste Wendy – Ludia Exantus
 • Influencer les communautés haïtiennes pour créer des entreprises : liens tissés, plateformes numériques, aux valeurs haïtiennes – Howard Jean-Denis
 • Alter – Native Modernities – Eddy Souffrant

KEY FACTORS IN MOTIVATING MIGRATION
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
 • L’instabilité politique et économique : facteur déterminant du phénomène migratoire en Haïti de 1987 à nos jours. – Fritz-Ony Dorce
 • Migration et Politique – Jameson Leopold
 • Haïti Nécropolitique : le corps piégé dans la politique du tè glise. – Erickson Jeudy
 • Ayiti se tè glise une traduction de quête d’identité et citoyenneté politique de la diaspora haïtienne en terre étrangère – Gédéon Louis

AYITI SE TÈ GLISE: TRADUCTIONS EN RECHERCHE D’UN CONCEPT
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
 • Transnational Carceral Regimes and Punitive Anti-communism: The Creation of the Totalitarian Carceral State in Haiti – Willie Mack
 • Haïti sous l’emprise des bandes armées ou le défi de se déplacer dans des « territoires perdus » – Djems Olivier
 • Hyper-Anarchy, Haiti, and Academia – Jean-Philippe Belleau
 • Will the UN Imposed Sanctions Help Restore Democracy in Haiti? – François Pierre-Louis

MODALITÉS DE LA MIGRATION ET DE LA MONDIALISATION
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
 • L’expérience migratoire et le désir des haïtiens et haïtiennes de partir du pays exprimé par « lèm pati ». – Nathanael Pericles & Nathanie Pericles
 • Développement économique d’Haïti dans le contexte de la globalisation – Darline Edmé
 • Significations sociales de la monnaie dans la migration haïtienne au Brésil : Le réal brésilien versus le dollar américain – Jhon-Kelly Monace

A RETROSPECTIVE: HSA AT 35!
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
MODERATOR: Robert Fatton
• Leslie Desmangles
• Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
• Alex Dupuy
• Claudine Michel
• Carolle Charles (Baruch College)
• Kathleen Balutansky (Saint Michael’s College)

SESSION 2: Friday 10:00AM-11:15AM

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP: ACCESS, FEASIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
• Natália Marques da Silva
• Petrouchka Moïse
• Stephanie Chancy
• Laura Wagner


FILM: ALLER SIMPLE/ONE-WAY TICKET
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
• Regianld Junior Louissaint
Documentary [45min]
Au début des années 2000, ces comédien.n.e.s constituaient la relève du théâtre en Haïti. Pourtant, un jour, ils ont tout abandonné derrière eux en migrant au pays de l’Oncle Sam. Pourquoi ont-ils fait ce choix? Est-ce qu’ils ont cessé de croire en leur art? Migrer n’est pas synonyme de déserter… Dans l’intimité de leur nouvelle vie, ces artistes révèlent une réalité connue mais peu narrée !
Il s’agit d’un fil tourné à New York, New Jersey et Boston en 2021 et présenté pour la première fois en Haïti cette même année.


LANG KREYÒL LA NAN ENTERÈ PÈP AYISYEN AN.
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
MODERATOR: Michel DeGraff
Entegrasyon akselere lang kreyòl la nan domèn medikal nan enterè pèp ayisyen an – Frenand Léger
 • Du Programme de Scolarisation Universelle Gratuite Obligatoire (PSUGO) aux inégalités scolaires en Haïti – Athalie Lindor
 • Pratik lekti, yon mwayen kle pou ede imigran Ayisyen emansipe – Joseph Georges

LE DÉVELOPPEMENT RÉEL D’HAÏTI FACE AUX IDÉES ET ACTIONS DÉCOULANT DE L’INSTABILITÉ DANS L’ESPACE HAÏTIEN
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
MODERATOR: James Philippe Michel
L’instabilité au sein de l’espace haïtien – Abram Belizaire
Le développement réel au regard d’Haïti d’aujourd’hui – Pierre Robenson Duval
La construction d’un avenir meilleur en Haïti – Domingue Miracle

ART AND THE POLITICS OF NEO-COLONIALISM AND NEO-IMPERIALISM
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
 • Haitian Art Exiled: The Spoils of Colonialism – LeGrace Benson
 • Waters of the Abyss: Fabiola Jean-Louis’s Afro-future architectures of spirit and freedom in the Global South – K. Adele Okoli
 • Rosignòl ak Kòwòsòl : Ayiti, Art, and Archival Constellations – Magda Desgranges
 • Abjection in the Visual Art of Firelei Baez – Maria de Jesus Cordero

INTIMACIES, LUMINOSITIES: THEORIZING TRANSNATIONAL HUMANITY AND QUEERNESS IN HAITI AND BEYOND
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
 • Homosexual Transnational Space: Intimate Cross-Border Relationships Among Gay Men in Haiti and Their Migrant Partners in the United States, Canada, and France – Carlo Charles
 • Transnational Parahumanity in Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée – Lindsey Meyer
 • Inside Looking Out: On(line)tology and Virtual Bodies in Emmelie Prophète’s ‘Les Villages de Dieu’ (2020) – Robert Sapp
 • Not a Mere Question of Luminosity’: Queer Nocturnal Resistance, Belonging, and Escape in Haiti – Ryan Joyce

SESSION 3: Friday 2:00PM-3:15PM

MET FANM SOU OU: POLITICAL COURAGE AND HAITIAN FEMINIST THOUGHT
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
 • La gémellité”marassa” haïtienne : une H/histoire identitaire ? – Sarah Davies Cordova
 • Suzanne Bélair dite Sanite: Incarnation du courage politique – Sabine Lamour


THE COMPULSION TO MOVE AND THE NEED TO STABILIZE: HAITIAN IM/MOBILITIES IN THE AGE OF EMPIRES
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
Im/mobilities as In/securities: US Immigration Policy Toward Haiti in Historical Context – Jennifer Greenburg
Tijuana Borderlands: The Gendered Experiences of Haitian Migrant Women in Mexico – Natasha Swiderski
Pakou migratwa sitwayen Ayisyen kap mande azil nan Kebèk – Jean Mozart Féron
Temwayaj ekspè pou defann ansyen prizonye dorijin ayisyen kont depòtasyon : Konvansyon Kont Tòti a ak rezilta nan espas tranzitwa – Lynn Selby

HAITI: A NATION OF ARTISTS
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
• Jacquil Constant
Documentary [50min]
In January 2010, Port-u-Prince, Haiti, was struck by an 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed over 200,000 people. This tragic event devastated Haiti and highlighted its people’s resilience and strength. Although much was lost for many in the earthquake, creatives utilized available resources to generate uplifting art. If Western perspectives on Haitian art have historically rendered ‘naïve’ and ‘primitive’ the country’s creative production, then this feature documentary project challenges such negative ideals and showcase Haiti’s vast artistic talents.

NEW CURRENTS IN CROSS-DISCIPLINARY HAITIAN AND DOMINICAN STUDIES
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
MODERATOR: Megan Jeanette Myers
Same Island, Same Stars: Using a Children’s Story to Promote Respect and Understanding among Haitian and Dominican Children – Josiane Hudicourt-Barnes
Borderwaters: Conversing with Fluidity at the Dominican-Haitian Border – Kyrstin Mallon Andrews
Reorienting the Gaze: Redefining Dominican and Haitian Identities in Women’s Literature of Catastrophe – Danielle Dorvil
Words as Markers: Violence on and at the Border – Megan Jeanette Myers

LIVABLE WORLDS: HAITI, BLACK FEMINIST ECOLOGIES, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS OF CARE
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
MODERATOR: Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Chache Lavi: Blueprints of a Black Feminist Decolonial Ecology in Haitian Fiction – Savannah Bowen
Repositories of Indigenous Knowledges: Situating Rural Haitian Women in Black Feminist Geographies – Natasha Joseph
Shifting River Geographies: Place-Making of Intersectional Vulnerabilities and Eco-Feminist Afterlives in Haiti – Crystal Felima

SESSION 4: Friday 3:30PM-4:45PM

MIGRATIONS INTERNATIONALES HAÏTIENNES : LIEUX, FLUX ET CONTEXTES D’UNE DISPERSION
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
MODERATOR: Margarita Vargas
• Rébecca Cadeau
• Felipe Barrientos
• Jeannot Doccy


HOW (NOT) TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN HAITI
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
• Jack Newell
Documentary [90min]
HOW (NOT) TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN HAITI documents Tim Myers, a well-intentioned US-American contractor as he embarks on the construction of a school in rural Haiti following the earthquake of 2010. The seemingly straightforward project is soon entangled in an exploration of globalization, white privilege, and cultural exchange, evolving into a deeper reckoning of race and power. Subverting the typical NGO film, filmmakers follow the story of the school through a byzantine network of multimillion dollar NGOs and foreign interests. Woven throughout with expert interviews providing crucial context, the film ultimately questions how documentary itself plays a role in these intractable global problems.

HAÏTI DANS LE MONDE
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
Perspectives from Feminist Communication Studies – Manoucheka Celeste
Perspectives from Literary Studies – Nadève Ménard
Perspectives from Anthropology – Pierre Minn

WOMANHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP IN HAITI AND DYASPORA: LES FORMES DE MARRONNAGE PENDANT LES TEMPS DE INSTABILITÉ
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
 • L’institution du concubinage, une identité au cœur de la mobilité haïtienne/ migration – Vedrine Woudy
 • Migrants allophones et genre : Implication des mères célibataires haïtiennes issues de l’immigration dans l’accompagnement scolaire de leurs enfants. – Estant Rose Laure
Instabilité socio politique en Haïti et fuite des cerveaux : Une autre forme de Marronnage – Gessica François
Instabilité socio politique en Haïti et fuite des cerveaux : Une autre forme de Marronnage – Paul Evens Bernard

FROM THERAPY TO URBAN PLANNING: LANDSCAPES OF HEALTH AND CARE IN HAITI
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
 • Prensip Minokan: Vodou Ayisyen as an inherently decolonial trauma-informed and somatic therapeutic framework – Kay Thellot
 • Accélération de l’étalement urbain au Morne-l’Hôpital dans le contexte post-séisme de 2010 en Haïti, en examinant particulièrement le cas du quartier de Ti-Savann. – Mackenson Jean
 • Urban – Rural Migration in Haiti: The Lived Experiences of Haitian Earthquake Survivors with Acquired Physical Disabilities – Kapriskie Seide
 • Recovering the Trust of a Nation: Revisiting Fanon in the Fight for a Cholera-free Haiti – Xiomara Jean-Louis

CENTERING 1526: AFRICANA STUDIES AND PAN-AFRICAN HISTORICAL RECIPROCITY BETWEEN GULLAH-GEECHEE AND HAITIAN NATIONAL IMAGINATIONS
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
MODERATOR: Sam Livingston
African American Emigrationism among Gullah-Geechee people – Karcheik Sims-Alvarado
Haitian and Gullah-Geechee Social Contracts, a Comparative Analysis – Casey Phanor
Haiti and its import in Africana Studies – Greg Carr

SESSION 5: Saturday 8:30AM-9:45AM

THE ROLE OF HAITIAN AMERICANS IN THE RISE OF HAITI
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
MODERATOR: Ronald Cetoute
• Saurel Quettan
• Rhalf Rho
• Semline Singleton
• Roudelyne Jean


LA MIGRATION HAÏTIENNE AU BRÉSIL : UN REGARD CROISÉ ENTRE INTERDISCIPLINARITÉ ET DÉCOLONIALITÉ
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
MODERATOR: Jhon-Kelly Monace
La migration haïtienne à l’ère de la mondialisation – Mardochée Ogecime
La difficile Intégration des Haïtiens sur le marché du travail brésilien – Jhon-Kelly Monace
Les politiques publiques brésiliennes, genre et race face à la migration haïtienne – Angetona Dorgilus
La question identitaire des enfants haïtiens au Brésil – Judette Jean Baptiste Monace

LA QUÊTE D’UNE VIE MEILLEURE AU COEUR DES MOUVEMENTS MIGRATOIRES DES HAÏTIENS,NES
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
MODERATOR: Josèphe Winnie Pierre-François
La problématique du travail en Haïti – Alin Barbier
Stratégies des haïtiens-nes par rapport aux activités génératrices de revenus – Frantzso Alexandre
L’alternative des haïtiens-nes face aux problèmes de revenus. – Claudy Debrosse

DES PROJETS MIGRATOIRES À UNE DIVERSITÉ D’EXPÉRIENCES DE L’ENTRE-DEUX : REGARDS CROISÉS
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
MODERATOR: Jocelyn Belfort
La longue traversée : migration des Haïtiens de l’Amérique latine vers les USA. – Jean-Carlot Milien
• Rony Mercon
Les diplômés haïtiens en France : entre intégration et déclassement – Mayens Mesidor

THE EMBODIED HISTORY OF VODOU SONGS AND PRAYERS
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
MODERATOR: Benjamin Hebblethwaite
The Memories within Haitian Voices: Vocality and Ritual Mounting in Haitian Vodou – Collin Edouard
The Songs of Sèvis Ginen: Historical and Linguistic Analyses of Haitian Vodou – Benjamin Hebblethwaite
The Prayer of Ginen: Haitian Vodou’s Sweet Journey Back Home – Lois Wilcken

IMMIGRATION ET MIGRATION DES PROFESSIONNELS QUALIFIÉS DES UNIVERSITÉS HAÏTIENNES
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
MODERATOR: Ketty Balthazard-Accou
Causes et facteurs contribuant à l’émigration des professionnels qualifiés des universités haïtiennes – Guerlande Bien-Aimé
Les crises, les femmes et la production scientifique en Haïti : une exploration – Jean-Jacques Cadet
La mobilité des étudiants haïtiens : une recherche de valorisation professionnelle ou une fuite face à la situation difficile en Haïti ? – Raymonde Raymond
Documentaire « Moi aussi j’ai osé » – Jasmine Cesars

SESSION 6: Saturday 10:00AM-11:15AM

AUTHOR MEETS READERS, RÉGINE MICHELLE JEAN-CHARLES: LOOKING FOR OTHER WORLDS: BLACK FEMINISM AND HAITIAN FICTION
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
MODERATOR: Crystal Felima
• Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
• Natasha Joseph
• Savannah Bowen
• Gina Athena Ulysse
• Kyrah Malika Daniels


HOW HAITIANS AND OTHER BLACK IMMIGRANTS CAN AND ARE BUILDING INTERSECTIONAL POWER IN THE UNITED STATES
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
MODERATOR: Guerline Jozef
• Fatou-Seydi Sarr
• Patrice Lawrence
• Amaha Kassa
• Ola Osaze

MUSIC ON THE MOVE! RE-IMAGINING HAITIAN MUSICAL BORDERS.
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
MODERATOR: Nadege Nau
• Grete Viddal
• Richard Morse
• Darianna Videaux Capitel
• And Members of RAM of Haiti

CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION IN HAITIAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
 • Impact du Vodou sur la conception et la mise-en-œuvre des politiques publiques du développement en Haïti – Gassendy Calice
 • Undressing the Zonbi at Ofouno: The Ambivalence of Violence in Haitian Charismatic Christianity – Lenny Lowe
 • Preaching from a Conch Shell: A Theological Reimagination of Bwa Kayiman – Sarah Menard

CONTEXTUALIZING SENSES-OF-BELONGING: LANGUAGE, ETHNOGRAPHY, SOCIOLOGY IN THE LONG 20TH CENTURY
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
 • Le paysage linguistique d’Haïti : une étude de cas de 4 départements – Johnny Laforêt
 • From Birds of Passage to Coming of Age – Carolle Charles
 • L’aventure identitaire haïtienne dans le contexte québécois et canadien aux détours des années 2020 – Gina Lafortune
 • Bénito Sylvain, Ethnography, and the Fieldwork of Black Vindicationism – Bastien Craipain

THE ARCHIVE’S IMPACTS: POLITICS & AFFECTS
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
 • A Creole Monarchy: King Henri I of Haiti and the Development of a Caribbean Political Ideology – Bryton Chain
 • Fashion as Archive: Digital Explorations of Contemporary Haitian Design – Siobhan Mei & Jonathan Square
 • Gina Athena Ulysse’s Remix of Empire and Affective Resonances: A Cosmological Decipherment of the Colonial Archive – Leyneuf Tines
 • Impact of Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Speaking Latin American Press on Haitian Migrants Today – Evelyne Laurent-Perrault

SESSION 7: Saturday 11:30AM-12:45PM

TI DIFE BOULE SOU FEMINISM AYISYEN – LEÇONS DU MOUVEMENT FÉMINISTE HAÏTIEN
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
MODERATOR: Célia Romulus
• Sabine Lamour
• Mamyrah Prosper
• Alexandra Cénatus
• Danièle Magloire


HAITIAN DIASPORAS IN CHILE, BRAZIL, AND MEXICO
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
 • Keeping the Black Radical Tradition: The Case of Haitian Migrants in Chile – Pascal Dafinis
 • “Haitian Not Welcome” in Chile: The Story of a Sticker, or Who Speaks when Racism Speaks in Latin America – Jose Navarro-Conticello
 • The Art of Life at the Border: Conviviality and the Cultural Production of the Haitian Community in Tijuana, Mexico – George MacLeod

FORCED TO FLEE, DRIVEN TO THRIVE: HOW HAITIANS MAINTAIN THEIR DÉBROUILLARDISE MENTALITY TO NAVIGATE LEAVING HAITI AND LIFE ABROAD
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
MODERATOR: Darlie Gervais
• Macollvie Neel
• Garry Pierre-Pierre
• Vania André

POLITICAL THEORY, LEGAL IMPACTS: CITIZENSHIP & BELONGING
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
 • There’s no such thing as a Haitian Bahamian – Charmane Perry
 • Denationalization and Statelessness: An Exploratory Case Study Assessing the Impact of Dominican Republic Judgment TC 168-13, the Effects of Naturalization Law 169-14, and the International Community’s Involvement – Ernst Pierre Vincent
 • Lessons Learned for The Coherence of International Law from European and North American Approaches to Humanitarian Migration as Protection – Mulry Mondélice
 • Searching for a Place to Live and Belong: US Immigration Policies and Haitian Migration in the Mexican Northern Border (2023) – Catherine Bourgeois

MEDIATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF HAITI ACROSS THE 20TH CENTURY: RHETORICS, CINEMA, AND GAMING
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
 • Kreyòl gade, kreyòl konprann: A Multilingual Catalog of Haitian Cinema – Meaghan Coogan & Laura Vargas Zuleta
 • Replaying Revolt: Revolutionary Icons Between History and Myth in ‘Assassin’s Creed’ – Lucy Swanson
 • Representing Haiti: Maya Deren’s Rhetoric in Mid-century Popular Medias – James Reed
 • The Transition of Vodou Lore to Digital Platforms – Analysis of Indigenous Archetypes through Role-Playing Game (RPG) Design – Petrouchka Moïse
 • Fuego en la Frontera: Blackness and Borders in North American Comics – Katherine Steelman

BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS: HAITIAN POLITICAL THEORY AND RESISTANCE
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
 • We Shall Not Succumb!: Haitian Resistance and Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic – Sébastien Byron
 • Haiti and the African Union: The Critical Effect of a Deep-rooted Relationship – Lyndsay Hercule
 • La Révolution haïtienne : de la décolonialité à la construction d’une autre Haïti – Walner Osna

SESSION 8: Saturday 3:15PM-4:30PM

DIGITIZING THE SACRED ARTS OF A VODOU TEMPLE: PRESERVING PATRIMONY
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 148
MODERATOR: Lewis Clormeus
• Lewis Clorméus
• Jean-Daniel Lafontant
• Elizabeth McAlister


DOING DIASPORA’: MIGRATION AND ‘HAITIAN DIASPORIC CONSCIOUSNESS’ IN THE USA
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 150
 • Haitians in Chicago and their lived experience of Transnationalism – Daniel Joseph
 • Magical Migration: “Doing” Diaspora Among the Haitian Vodou Community of Miami – Aurélien Davennes
 • Twa Kabes: Anchor Baby, Green Card Baby, Miracle Baby – Marie Nadine Pierre
 • The Cultivation of Haitian Diasporic Consciousness in the United States – Alexandra Cenatus

LITERARY NARRATIVES OF DYASPORA: ALEXIS, CHAUVET, DANTICAT, OLLIVER, AND PIERRE-DAHOMEY
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 152
 • Narratives of Intergenerational Migration: Different Times, Different Spaces – Joëlle Vitiello
 • Construction et destruction dans le contexte de mouvements migratoires chez Émile Ollivier (‘Passages’) et de Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey (‘Rapatriés’) – Lisa Brunke
 • Displaced Authors and Wandering Characters in Jacques Stéphen Alexis and Marie Vieux Chauvet – Jocelyn Franklin
 • Navigating Our History: A Tidalectic Reading of Edwidge Danticat’s “Krik? Krak! and Breath, Eyes, Memory” – Roodmerlynn Pierre

TRANSPAYSEMENT’: PERFORMANCES AS NEGOTIATIONS OF DYASPORA
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 342
 • Masques et marasa comme métaphores: L’équivoque de la gémellité dans “Les Jumelles de la rue Nicolas” d’Évelyne Trouillot – Jason Herbeck
 • Performing Diaspora: Examining the Sociopolitical Stakes of Performing Diaspora in the Haitian Compas Festival – Neud’s Saint-Cyr
 • Les nouveaux migrants haïtiens: entre dépaysement et transpaysement – Caleb Mac Bernard Dorce

ANCHORING DIASPORA TO SLIPPERY TERRAIN: DYASPORA, MIGRATION AND THE AMERICAS
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 354
 • Etre migrant haïtien en transit au Mexique : Entre l’obligation de résider et l’espoir de gagner l’El Dorado (Etat-Unis d’Amérique) – André Yves Pierre & Efterna Kernensie Sterling
 • La migration haïtienne au Brésil de 2010 à 2020 : Clandestinité, législation et accueil – Elioth Pierre Paul
 • The Prospects of Brazil and Chile in Haitian Mobilities – Karen Richman
 • Anchoring Diaspora to Slippery Terrain: The Ambiguity of Citizenship for Haitians in The Bahamas – Ermitte Saint Jacques

TERAPIS DEZÒD- CREATING METHODS TO HEAL – HOME: A RESEARCH CEREMONY OF 5
ROOM: Walter E. Massey Leadership Center 356
MODERATOR: Charlene Désir
• Pascale Denis
• Fanya Jabouin
• Michele Semerit Strachan

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Emerging Scholars Café (Sept. 15, 2023)



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The Emerging Scholars Committee would like to invite you to its next Emerging Scholars Café on september 15, 2023 at 3:00 pm East on Zoom.

We welcome Dr. France Neff, to present on the topic “Haitian Immigrant Families view of Acculturation: An interpretive phenomenological Analysis”; Dulanda Saintcyr, degree in Political Science & African American Studies on the topic “Political engagement, Black liberation”; and  Marcea T. Daiter PhD student interdisciplinary Studies:Concentration in Humanities and Culture, on the topic “Ritual, Spirituality, Modernity, and Creativity”.

We also welcome Dr. Regine O. Jackson as a commentator for this panel. Presentations will be in English and will be followed by a discussion in all three languages (English, Creole, French). We look forward to your attendance.


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Emerging Scholars Café

The Haitian Studies Association (HSA) is pleased to announce the creation of a space for discussion and exchange dedicated primarily to emerging researchers. If you have a research project in progress or have completed your first major research project within the last two years, you are invited to present your research, your proposal, or preliminary results, or the methodological, epistemological, and ethical challenges in your experience as an emerging researcher. If you meet the following eligibility criteria, please complete the form. The Emerging Scholars committee will contact you.

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Conference

Conference Program – Conference Schedule at a Glance


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THURSDAY – OCTOBER 5TH


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9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
CHECK IN, REGISTRATION, COFFEE
LOCATION: Motorola Lobby, Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
ARCHIVES RESEARCH CENTER TOUR
LOCATION: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center
Archives Research Center Tour, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center (Pre-conference event)

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE MARTIN LUTHER KING INTERNATIONAL CHAPEL TOUR
LOCATION: Morehouse College Martin Luther King International Chapel
Morehouse College Martin Luther King International Chapel Tour

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM


FRIDAY – OCTOBER 6TH


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8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
CHECK IN, REGISTRATION, COFFEE
LOCATION: Motorola Lobby, Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
PLENARY
LOCATION: Bank of America Auditorium. Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center
Plenary with Dr. Leslie Alexander

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
CATERED BUFFET LUNCH (ALL) & EMERGING SCHOLARS LUNCHEON
LOCATION: Bank of America Auditorium. Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center
Catered Buffet Lunch (all) & Emerging Scholars Luncheon, Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

4:45 PM – 5:15 PM
VODOU FLAGS GALLERY WALK AND KOSANBA CLOSING
Vodou Flags Gallery Tour and Kosanba Closing

5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION WITH HEAVY HORS D’OEUVRES
LOCATION: Ray Charles Performing Arts Center
Anniversary Reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres, Ray Charles Performing Arts Center

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
DANCE PLENARY PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: Ray Charles Performing Arts Center
HSA & KOSANBA Dance Plenary Performance featuring Dr. Yanique Hume, Dr. Dasha Chapman, Jean-Sébastien Duvilaire and Linda Isabelle François, Ray Charles Performing Arts Center (Open to the greater Atlanta Community with sponsorship by the Green Family Foundation)
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SATURDAY – OCTOBER 7TH


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8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
CHECK IN, REGISTRATION, COFFEE
LOCATION: Motorola Lobby, Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
CATERED LUNCH & BUSINESS MEETING
LOCATION: Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center
Catered Lunch & Business Meeting, Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
WORKING GROUPS MEET & GREET

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
BANQUET & AWARDS CEREMONY


SUNDAY – OCTOBER 8TH

9:15 AM – 2:30 PM
ZUCKERMAN MUSEUM OF ART AT KSU
HSA’s Sunday events will take place at Kennesaw State University’s Zuckerman Museum of Art in relation to the exhibition {UNDER}flow, which features works by five Afro-Caribbean artists: Josué Azor, Firelei Báez, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, David Antonio Cruz, Didier William. The day will include a gallery tour, panel discussion, lunch, and a talk by one of the artists!

Shuttle service will be provided from Hyatt Regency Atlanta to KSU in the morning. For departures, shuttles for the hotel and airport will depart KSU twice, once at lunch time and again following the Cruz lecture.
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9:15 AM – 9:15 AM
BUS FROM CONFERENCE HOTEL TO KSU ZMA
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Shuttle service will be provided from Hyatt Regency Atlanta to KSU in the morning.

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
COFFEE AND EXHIBITION WALK THROUGH
LOCATION: Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA)
Coffee and {UNDER}flow Exhibition Walk Through: (Special exhibition celebrating the work of five Caribbean artists: Josué Azor, Firelei Báez, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, David Antonio Cruz and Didier William) Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
GALLERY TOUR AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH HSA SCHOLARS
LOCATION: Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA)
Gallery Tour and Roundtable Discussion with HSA scholars

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
CATERED LUNCH
LOCATION: Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA)
Catered Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: DAVID ANTONIO CRUZ
LOCATION: Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA)
Visiting Artist Lecture: David Antonio Cruz (public event hosted by KSU in association with Atlanta Art Week)

12:30 PM – 12:30 PM
BUS FROM KSU ZMA TO CONFERENCE HOTEL & AIRPORT
LOCATION: Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA)
Transportation will be provided at two different times (12:30pm and 2:30pm) to accommodate participants needing to leave before the close of the event.

2:30 PM – 2:30 PM
BUS FROM KSU ZMA TO CONFERENCE HOTEL
LOCATION: Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA)
Transportation will be provided at two different times (12:30pm and 2:30pm) to accommodate participants needing to leave before the close of the event.


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Call For 2023 HSA Award Nominations

The Haitian Studies Association is seeking nominations for several 2023 awards. The Awards Committee is specifically interested in recognizing current and former members of the Haitian Studies Association.

The Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the following awards:

  • Award for Excellence: This award honors a person or organization for their years of stellar contributions to the scholarship, literature, arts, or culture of Haiti.
  • Award for Service: This award recognizes a person or an organization for their years of dedication and service to the Haitian Studies Association, the field of Haitian Studies, or the people of Haiti.
  • Award for Lifetime Achievement: This award recognizes a person who, during their lifetime, has made extraordinary contributions to the field of Haitian Studies and the Haitian Studies Association.

For the Awards for Excellence, Service and Lifetime, please submit a nomination letter to awards@haitianstudies.orgThe nomination letter should highlight the nominee’s scholarship, history of service to Haitian Studies or HSA, or/and the advancement of Haiti.

The deadline to submit nominations is September 15, 2023. The Awards Committee and HSA Board will review the submitted materials. All nominations and materials are kept confidential. Please send any questions/comments to: awards@haitianstudies.org

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Call for Michel-Rolph Trouillot Fund Applications (Sept. 15, 2023)

Appel HSA pour les demandes de bourses Michel-Rolph Trouillot (15 septembre 2023)

Apèl HSA pou aplikasyon pou bous Michel-Rolph Trouillot (15 septanm 2023)


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The Emerging Scholars Committee of the Haitian Studies Association invites applications for the following 2023 award. Award recipients will be honored at the 35th Annual HSA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia from October 5-8, 2023.

The following applications are due by September 15, 2023 for emerging scholars, based in Haiti and internationally:

The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Fund was started in 2012 to broaden participation in the Haitian Studies Association among academics, researchers, artists, intellectuals, and professionals who are based in Haiti and who do not have the possibility of traveling to the conference without financial assistance.

Due to the current barriers to securing visas from the US Embassy, for 2023 the Michel-Rolph Trouillot award will temporarily prioritize Haitian scholars based in Haiti or studying abroad as international students who have a visa or are otherwise able to travel within or to the United States to participate in the conference.

Criteria:

Priority will be given to applicants who meet the following criteria:

  • Lack of other financial resources, which prevents them from participating in the HSA colloquium.
  • Their main residence is currently in Haiti OR (2023) Haitian nationals studying abroad as international students
  • Their work goes along with the theme of the HSA conference.
  • They are attending the HSA conference for the first time.
  • They are interested in a future participation with HSA.
  • They submitted an individual or one-session proposal to the HSA.

Application process:

1. Write a personal essay (500 words) that answers the following questions:

    • Who are you? What are your institutional or organizational affiliations?
    • How do you plan to participate in the conference? For example, as a member / participant of a session or roundtable? Or as an active member of the audience who has a particular interest in activities or topics discussed during the colloquium?
    • How will the conference help you? If you are part of an organization, how will the conference facilitate the initiatives of that organization?

2. A 100-250-word biography

3. Complete and submit application form

Deadline is September 15, 2023, 11:59pm EST

 

Conference, Emerging Scholars, News

Call for Emerging Scholar Award Applications (Sept. 15, 2023)

Appel HSA pour les demandes de bourses de chercheurs émergents (15 septembre 2023)

Apèl HSA pou aplikasyon pou bous chèchè emèjan (15 septanm 2023)


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The Emerging Scholars Committee of the Haitian Studies Association invites applications for the following 2023 award. Award recipients will be honored at the 35th Annual HSA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia from October 5-8, 2023.

The following applications are due by September 15, 2023 for emerging scholars, based in Haiti and internationally:

HSA established the Student and Emerging Scholars’ fund during the 2006 conference. Since 2008, the HSA board has earmarked $1000 annually to support student research and participation in our annual conference.

Two scholarships ($500 each) may be applied toward travel and accommodation expenses incurred for attending an HSA conference and/or presenting a specific research project concerning Haiti and/or the Haitian diaspora.

Deadline to apply is September 15, 2023, 11:59pm EST

The award is intended to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend HSA’s annual conference and present their research.

Eligibility:

  • Full-time student
  • Minimum GPA of 3.5 (or equivalent, for example B, 87.5/100)
  • Demonstrate proof of past or current research on subjects related to Haiti and/or the Haitian diaspora

Application Process:

  1. A copy of the abstract of the proposal submitted for the upcoming HSA conference
  2. A brief essay (500 words) describing your commitment to pursuing Haitian Studies
  3. A 100-250-word biography
  4. Contact information for one (1) Haitian studies scholar who can serve as a mentor for the student. (name, title, email)
  5. Contact information for one (1) scholar familiar with the applicant’s work who will serve as a reference. (name, title, email)
  6. Unofficial transcript

Students awarded with this scholarship will be asked to submit a copy of their final conference papers to HSA by the final day of the conference at the following address: EmergingScholars@haitianstudies.org

 

Opportunities

Stanford University – Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies (Oct. 1, 2023)

Work type: University Tenure Line

Location: Stanford University

Categories: School of Humanities & Sciences

The newly-formed Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University is searching for scholars who research and teach in the field of Caribbean Studies, to be appointed at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. The term of appointment is expected to begin on September 1, 2024. Applications will be accepted through October 1, 2023.

We welcome applications from candidates who concentrate on the broadly defined oceanic and land-based Caribbean region – encompassing the diverse array of cultural and linguistic legacies that mark the region – in the humanities and the arts. Applicable fields may include, but aren’t limited to: history; literary, cultural, media or film studies; anthropology; linguistics; music; religious studies; philosophy; environmental humanities; art history or visual studies; or interdisciplinary studies.  We are focused on identifying exceptional scholarship rather than looking for a specific thematic or disciplinary specialization.

The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment and will be expected to teach and advise students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Applicants must have demonstrated a commitment to effective teaching and mentoring and the ability to maintain a world-class research trajectory. Applicants should also demonstrate their capacity for interdisciplinary thinking and institution-building to contribute to the growth of DAAAS.

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General Conference Information

In order to assist participants and attendees, we have put together this document to help you prepare.

Note: This page will be updated as we get more information.

Conference Theme

Ayiti se tè glise illuminates the notion that Haiti is an eternally shifting landscape. Haitians continuously move within their nation and also migrate to diasporic spaces. This adage also alludes to conflicting paradigms for Haitians in and beyond Haiti as they negotiate various cultural identities and navigate their liminality. 


Conference Registration

Conference registration is open. Presenters and attendees must register in order to participate and attend the conference events. The final deadline for all presenters to register is September 15th. Anyone who is not registered by September 10th will be removed from the program.


Conference Program


Scholarships & Awards Nominations


Emerging Scholars Committee Message to Conference Attendees

The Emerging Scholars committee is dedicated to the development and support of new generations of scholars of Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. We coordinate mentorship events and advocate for the particular concerns of students and emerging scholars with the association.



Conference Location

The HSA Conference will be held in person in Atlanta, Georgia October 5-8th, 2023 at the historical campus of Morehouse College. The Conference itself will be at Morehouse on October 5-7th, with additional programming on the morning of October 8th at Kennesaw State University (shuttle transportation will be provided between the conference hotel and KSU).


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Also, HSA will be held jointly with Kosanba this year (founded in 1997, Kosanba is the scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou and Africana religious traditions). Kosanba will meet prior to the HSA conference also at Morehouse College on October 4th (with additional panels held in conjunction with HSA on October 5th). Additionally, there will be a number of other related events in Atlanta during the conference.


Accommodations

To ensure both safety and convenience for our members, we are glad to report that the Hyatt Regency Atlanta will serve as our hotel headquarters, offering a rate of $195 (plus taxes) for the nights on Oct 4th and Oct 5th and a rate of $189 (plus taxes) for Oct 6th and 7th. The rate is per night for a room with two queen beds; the hotel will charge $25 extra per person for triple or quadruple occupancy.

Note that the block of rooms reserved for HSA is more limited than in other years due to a large business conference happening in Atlanta the same weekend. Therefore, we recommend that you book your hotel at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta as soon as possible; the rooms will go fast.

We have also negotiated a special rate the Hyatt Place Atlanta/Downtown which is 3 minutes walking distance from the Hyatt Regency for additional rooms.

Please note that this special rate is only guaranteed until September 14th. 


Travel & Transportation in Atlanta

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the principal public transport operator in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The hotel is approximately two miles from Morehouse College, accessible via MARTA (5-minute walk to the train). MARTA will also take you from the airport directly to a station located at the Hyatt Regency.


Letters of Acceptance & Visa Support

Acceptance emails were sent out on June 18th and are considered the formal letter of acceptance and invitation to the conference. The acceptance emails also included signed PDFs in both English & French if they are needed.

HSA policy on Visa request – Each participant is responsible for securing any visa they may need to enter the United States whether directly or in transit through another country. Unfortunately, HSA is not in a position to assist with visa interviews or intervening with the embassy on your behalf. Nor are we in a position to ask that your appointment date be changed.

We are able to provide a letter to the US Consulate indicating your participation at the conference if your paper has been accepted. Those who noted in their abstract that they needed a visa should have received the support letter on June 26th. If you are a presenter and need one, please let us know.

 

Opportunities

Re-situer et restituer Haïti : Nouvelles connexions (9 oct 2023)


Note: This is not an H.S.A. event. We are simply sharing the word. 


Appel à Communication (PDF)

Les propositions de contribution sont à envoyer par mail jusqu’au 09 octobre 2023 à l’adresse suivante : resituerhaiti.colloque2024@gmail.com.

Le colloque aura lieu les 04 et 05 avril 2024 dans l’ampli MR002 de la Maison de la recherche de l’université Paris 8.


« Dire Haïti et sa littérature autrement, c’est se demander, à travers les mots de ses écrivains et de ses écrivaines, quel éclairage peut apporter aujourd’hui au monde francophone, sinon au monde tout court, l’expérience haïtienne », déclare l’écrivaine haïtienne Yanick Lahens dans sa leçon inaugurale de la chaire annuelle des Mondes Francophones (2018-2019) au Collège de France. Ce colloque s’inscrit, à l’instar du propos de Lahens, dans une urgence de dire Haïti autrement. Urgence de « dire » et « autrement » pour tenter de sortir le pays de l’économie à la fois du silence et de la diffamation qui entoure le discours sur lui depuis le succès de la révolution haïtienne qui abolit l’esclavage et mit fin au colonialisme français sur l’île caribéenne.

Le silence, théorisé par l’anthropologue Michel-Rolph Trouillot dans son livre Silencing the past (1995), présent de façon plus manifeste dans les rapports d’Haïti avec la France se dévoile, entre autres, par une absence notoire de l’histoire haïtienne dans l’histoire française –la révolution haïtienne reste encore le tabou qu’un infime nombre de manuels scolaires français osent subrepticement braver (Brière, 2017) –et par une prise en compte précaire de la littérature haïtienne dans l’enseignement général des lettres (Chemla, 2019). La diffamation quant à elle peut être perçue historiquement à travers les rapports des métropoles coloniales qui évoquent les contorsions révolutionnaires à Saint-Domingue dès les premiers moments de la révolte des esclaves caractérisée par sa « sauvagerie » (Middelanis, 1996 ; Hurbon, 2009) et la littérature, notamment dans la littérature états-unienne blanche du XIXe siècle qui peint Haïti comme le berceau de l’obscurité et de la barbarie (Dash, 2016). La diffamation est également perceptible au présent dans les médias (Saint-George, 2017). On observe ainsi une réactualisation du regard colonial par une représentation qui tente d’enfermer le pays dans les extrêmes entre “carte postale” et “cauchemar” (Lahens, 2021), de reproduire les stéréotypes de l’anti-haïtianisme et d’ignorer les enjeux géopolitiques et économiques qui vont à la rencontre de la situation actuelle en Haïti. Malgré une augmentation importante depuis les années 2000 –le haitian turn (Joseph, 2012 ; Bandau, 2013) – des études sur Haïti et sa littérature et un nouvel intérêt marqué à l’ère des études postcoloniales, on est encore loin d’un regard et d’une politique décolonisés sur le pays. Le silence et la représentation problématique d’Haïti, que la France partage avec d’autres puissances de ce monde, situe le pays au loin, le confine dans son espace insulaire et isolé, presque de l’autre côté de l’humanité (modernité, cf. Mignolo, 2011). Il s’établit là une distance factice qu’il convient de désamorcer.

Les publications récentes qui abordent la question tout autant passée sous silence de la “dette” de l’indépendance, (cf. Henochsberg, 2016 ; Dorigny et al., 2021 ; Gamio et al., 2022) et le colloque « Haïti : littérature et civilisation » (2019) au Collège de France précédé quelques mois plus tôt par la leçon inaugurale de Yanick Lahens mais aussi les références récurrentes à la révolution haïtienne dans le dernier blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda forever (cf. Haitian Times, 2022 ; Varsity, 2022), sont des pas qui témoignent dudit désamorçage déjà en cours. Cette évolution passe par les études littéraires et culturelles, ainsi que par des productions artistiques qui non seulement repositionnent Haïti dans l’histoire globale mais touchent également à la question de la restitution.

Suivant cette perspective, notre colloque tente de re-visiter le rôle d’Haïti et sa civilisation dans l’histoire et au présent, de questionner les angles sous lesquels ils sont souvent présentés et d’ainsi faire “habiter” le pays reprenant là le mouvement de pensée qui traverse la contribution de Laënnec Hurbon au colloque du collège de France et qui a inspiré le Festival Haïti-Monde de 2022 à Paris. Pour ce faire, ce colloque s’intéresse à la situation d’Haïti dans les Amériques, notamment dans l’espace caribéen, mais aussi à ses liens avec d’autres espaces dans le monde comme l’Afrique, le Moyen-Orient ou l’Europe (p.ex. avec l’Allemagne, cf. Pestel, 2019). Il aspire à re-penser la situation d’Haïti et de la littérature haïtienne afin de placer Haïti et l’étudier dans un contexte plus pertinent pour la complète considération de ses complexités historiques, politiques, linguistiques, culturelles et littéraires. Le colloque cherche aussi à questionner les circulations, connexions et influences de cette première littérature anticoloniale en se penchant sur son rôle dans l’espace littéraire d’aujourd’hui et d’une littérature-monde (Le Bris, 2007) ou plutôt qui s’amplifie. Il n’est pas ici question d’étudier « l’apport » d’Haïti comme s’il s’agissait d’un simple objet d’étude, mais bien d’évoquer ses connexions, ses relations et, par conséquent, la façon dont elle participe à l’espace historique, littéraire et politique de la France, de la Caraïbe, des Amériques et du monde.

Ce colloque se veut pluridisciplinaire. L’on souhaiterait associer les travaux de chercheurs en histoire, en sciences sociales, en littérature, en études culturelles et même cinématographiques. Le colloque s’organise autour de deux idées directrices : la re-situation et la restitution d’Haïti qui sont donc les grands axes dans lesquels doivent s’inscrire les propositions de communication.


Axe I : Re-situer Haïti

Cet axe problématique approche Haïti comme un agent de l’histoire mondiale (cf. Boucheron, 2017). Il s’agit ici de penser Haïti avec ses connexions multidirectionnelles, complexes et torturées afin de mettre en question les récits d’isolation et d’insularité (Wargny, 2008) et de rendre plus visible son influence. Cette dernière pourrait être étudiée, d’une part, sur les plans littéraire et philosophique pour mettre en lumière la participation d’Haïti et des Haïtiens à l’évolution des idées et des lettres et, d’autre part, sur le plan historique. Néanmoins, cet axe ne se restreint pas à la re-situation d’Haïti dans le passé, mais il se propose au même titre de décrire ses relations (géo)politiques et économiques contemporaines, par exemple en abordant les interférences entre politique nationale et relations internationales, en analysant les interventions des puissances globales dans la politique nationale ou en étudiant les liens d’Haïti avec d’autres États.

Les propositions dans cet axe pourront s’organiser autour, mais pas uniquement, des perspectives de discussion suivantes :

  • Pratiques artistiques des luttes mémorielles et identitaires, la littérature et l’art haïtiens comme espace de performance de ces luttes ;
  • Tracé des impacts de la pensée et de la littérature haïtiennes dans les études post et de-coloniales ;
  • Étude du monde et des questions de mondialisation à partir du cas d’Haïti ;
  • Rôle et présence des Haïtiens et des personnes d’origine haïtienne dans l’histoire (p.ex. pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale);
  • Contextualisation d’Haïti dans le carrefour des changements géopolitiques actuels ;
  • Questionnement de la circulation et de la réception des lettres francophones et créolophones haïtiennes ;
  • Analyse de la participation d’Haïti à l’identité caribéenne globale ;
  • Relations musicales, théâtrales, artistiques.
  • Histoire médicale, études religieuses, anthropologiques, etc. ;
  • Cadre ou contexte conceptuel pour l’écriture haïtienne contemporaine ;
  • Rôle de la communauté internationale dans la politique haïtienne ;
  • Représentation et situation de la population haïtienne ; mouvements sociaux et politiques ;
  • Appréciation et réception de la révolution haïtienne dans l’histoire et la littérature haïtienne contemporaines.

Axe II : Restituer Haïti

En 2003, le président haïtien Jean-Bertrand Aristide énonce pour la première fois le mot “réparation” dans le contexte des relations Haïti-France. Le terme restitution revient, lui, plus populairement en France avec la publication du « Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle » de Felwine Sarr et Bénédicte Savoy en 2018. Tous les deux mots, réparation et restitution, ont comme condition commune la reconnaissance (en tant qu’acte symbolique et juridique), et cet ensemble d’idées constitue des étapes indispensables sur le chemin vers de nouvelles relations (Mbembe, 2018) après le colonialisme. Ainsi, cet axe problématique questionne le passé dans ses rapports de pouvoirs et l’impact de ces derniers dans le présent. Il interroge les stratégies et revendications mises, et à mettre en œuvre pour “réparer” les injustices dudit passé (matérielles, politiques, épistémologiques) et réinventer des relations plus égales et justes. Ci-dessous, une liste, non-exhaustive, de quelques pistes de réflexion à aborder dans cet axe :

  • Les relations Haïti-France, Haïti-Europe, Haïti-Amérique, etc. ;
  • L’impact de la dette de l’indépendance dans l’histoire, l’évolution et la situation actuelle d’Haïti (politique d’austérité) ;
  • La question de la corruption dans la politique du pays et le rôle des pays étrangers dans ce cadre (Duvalier, Aristide, Suisse, France) ;
  • L’examen des politiques actuelles envers Haïti et leur rapport avec le passé ;
  • La politique d’enseignement face à la Révolution haïtienne en particulier et l’histoire d’Haïti en général dans l’espace francophone ;
  • La restitution d’objets culturels, immatériels (par ex. la figure du zombi) et matériels (objets d’art) volés et restitués (le cas des États-Unis) ;
  • L’analyse de l’idéologie de l’anti-haïtianisme et de ses répercussions.

Modalités de contribution

Les propositions de contribution sont à envoyer par mail jusqu’au 09 octobre 2023 à l’adresse suivante : resituerhaiti.colloque2024@gmail.com. Les résumés doivent être d’une longueur de 300 mots maximum et accompagnés d’un titre (même provisoire) et d’une courte notice bio-bibliographique. Les propositions seront évaluées par un comité scientifique et les réponses concernant les sélections seront envoyées dès le 15 novembre 2023. Le colloque aura lieu les 04 et 05 avril 2024 dans l’ampli MR002 de la Maison de la recherche de l’université Paris 8.