14567: Davis: FW: "Haiti and the Making of the Americas," Amherst March 2003 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Karen F. Davis <kdavis@marygrove.edu>
From: 	Colleen Vasconcellos [mailto:colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu]


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.