14720: Braziel: UPDATE & Colloquium Program: "Trans-American Crossroads: Haiti and the Making of the Americas" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jana Braziel <jebraziel@amherst.edu>

February 6, 2003
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THE FIVE COLLEGE CENTER FOR CROSSROADS IN THE STUDY
OF THE AMERICAS (CISA) presents its 2002-2003
interdisciplinary colloquium:

TRANS-AMERICAN CROSSROADS:
HAITI AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAS
MARCH 6-7, 2003
Cole Assembly Room (all sessions), Amherst College

Nota Bene:
Those interested in attending should make HOTEL RESERVATIONS
as soon as possible; see below for details.

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

1:00 pm - 1:15 pm		Welcome: Opening Remarks

1:15 pm - 3:15 pm		Session I
Long-Distance Nationalism: Haiti's 10th Département
and Transborder Citizenship

Georges Eugene Fouron, SUNY-Stony Brook
Nina Glick Schiller, University of New Hampshire

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm		Coffee and Tea

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm		Session II
Haitian American Children in U.S. Public Schools:
Cultural Translations, Second Languages

"'Unthinking a Chimera': Combining Fieldwork and Literature
in U.S. 'Haitian Valleys'" by Sophia Cantave, Tufts

"'Angle se yon lang, Kreyol se lang mwen', A Look at the
Politics of Language and Intimacy among Haitian American Youth"
by Valerie Chanlot, University of Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle; Harvard

"Rethinking Success in the American Paradigm: Haitian Parents'
Transnational Adaptation in U.S. Academic Settings"
by Alexandra Celestin, Independent Scholar

"Temwen: Haitian Students Recount their School Reality from
1990-1996" by Charlene Desir, Harvard

6:15 pm - 8:15 pm		Dinner

8:30 pm - 10:00 pm			Session III

"Cette grenade dans la main du Negre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? ":
A Reading by Dany Laferriere

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

8:45 am - 9:15 am			Morning Reception: Coffee

9:30 am - 11:30 am		Session IV
Gender, Violence, Desire: Revolutionary Beginnings,
Imperialist Interventions, and the Violent Making of the Americas

"Haiti and the Making of American Empire" by Mary Renda,
Mount Holyoke College

"Gender and Sexuality in Literary Representations of the Haitian
Revolution" by Curtis Small, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

11:45 am - 1: 15 pm 		Lunch

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm			Session V
"The gods do not die":
Vodou in New "New Worlds" (Haiti, Diaspora, and Religion)

"Continuity and Change: Vodou in the Haiti and in the Diaspora" by
Leslie G. Desmangles, Trinity College

"The Promise of Applied Ethnomusicology in Third World Development:
The Case of Haiti" by Gerdes Fleurant, Wellesley College

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm			Coffee and Tea

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm			Session VI
Trans-American Literatures: Haiti and the Americas

"Hybrid Realities: Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba" by
Myriam J.A. Chancy, Arizona State University; Smith

"Dany rewrites Laferriere:  'Cette grenade ... '" by
Carrol F. Coates, SUNY-Binghamton

6:15 pm - 8:15 pm			Dinner

8:30 pm - 10:00 pm		Session IV
Viewing and Discussion:
Raoul Peck's Profit and nothing but! (2001)


For additional information about the colloquium, please contact
Jana Evans Braziel by email at jebraziel@amherst.edu, by telephone
at 413/542-8581, or by mail at 1 Johnson Chapel, AC Box #2234,
Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002.

HOTELS, TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS: Additional information may be accessed
online at the colloquium website:
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.