14497: Braziel: Colloquium Announcement: "Haiti and the Making of the Americas" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jana Evans Braziel <evans_braziel@hotmail.com>

January 17, 2003

Dear Bob:

As the organizer for the 2002-2003 Colloquium, "Trans-American Crossroads:
Haiti and
the Making of the Americas," I am writing to ask if you will please post and
circulate the
colloquium annoucement below.

Sincerely yours,

Jana

Jana Evans Braziel
CISA Five College Fellow
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
Amherst College
1 Johnson Chapel
AC Box #2234
Amherst, MA  01002
Office: (413) 542-8581
Fax: (413) 542-2141
jebraziel@amherst.edu


PLEASE POST AND CIRCULATE

The Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA)
will hold its 2002-2003
colloquium, TRANS-AMERICAN CROSSROADS: HAITI AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAS,
from March 6-7, 2003 in the Cole Assembly Room at Amherst College, MA.  The
interdisciplinary
colloquium will explore the historical, cultural, literary, and political
import of Haiti within the Americas
over the last two centuries since the General Slave Revolt of 1791 in
colonial Saint Domingue and the
establishment of the Republic of Haiti in 1804.

Keynote Lecturers include:
Sophia Cantave, Tufts
Valerie Chanlot, Institut du Monde Anglophone, University of Paris-Sorbonne
Nouvelle;
     Teaching Fellow, Harvard
Myriam J.A. Chancy, Senior Editor of Meridians: feminism, race,
transnationalism; Associate
     Professor of English, Arizona State University
Alexandra Célestin, Harvard
Carrol F. Coates, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Charlene Désir, Harvard
Leslie Desmangles, Trinity College
Gerdès Fleurant, Wellesley College
Georges Eugene Fouron, SUNY-Stony Brook
Dany Laferrière, writer
Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke
Nina Glick Schiller, University of New Hampshire
Curtis Small, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

For additional information about the colloquium, please email Jana Evans
Braziel at
jebraziel@amherst.edu or check the colloquium website at
http://www.amherst.edu/~jebraziel/CISA_Colloquium_2003.html

For information about the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of
the
Americas, visit http://www.fivecolleges.edu/

This event is generously sponsored by Five Colleges, Incorporated; the
Center for
Crossroads in the Study of the Americas; The Corliss Lamont Lectureship for
a Peaceful
World fund at Amherst College; the Departments of English, Women and Gender
Studies,
and American Studies at Amherst College; the Office of the Dean of Students
at Amherst
College; the Departments of Communication, English, Women's Studies, and
French and
Italian Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst; the Departments
of French,
Afro-American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Anthropology at Smith
College; the
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College; and
the Department
of American Studies at Mount Holyoke College.






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