“History and the Experience of Haiti”

On Sat. November 14, at the A.D. White House, the French Studies Program, with the support of the Africana Studies and Research Center and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, will host a workshop entitled: “History and the Experience of Haiti.”

Schedule:

11am: Introduction

11:15am-12:45pm Gerard Aching (Professor of Spanish, Cornell): “On Being Adequate to the Task: An Abolitionist Translates a Slave Narrative”

2:15-3:30pm Laurent Dubreuil (Professor of Romance Studies & Comparative Literature, Cornell): “Anachronism and postcolonial theory”

3:45-4:45pm Susan Buck-Morss (Jan Rock Zubrow '77 Professor in the Social Sciences, Cornell): “Haiti, Universal History and the Humanities”

5-6pm General discussion, moderated by Natalie Melas.