16803: Rice: Friday, October 3rd, NYU: " Haiti and the Hemisphere: 1804-2004" Conference (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Laura Rice <laura.rice@nyu.edu>


Haiti and the Hemisphere: 1804-2004
Friday, October 3, 2003
Hemmerdinger Hall
The Silver Building for Arts and Science (formerly the Main Building)
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY

The focus of this one-day conference is both historical and contemporary.
Speakers will consider both Haiti’s revolutionary origins in the Hemisphere
and its present relationship with the nations of the Americas.  The event is
jointly sponsored by the Haiti Program of Trinity College, whose Director,
Bob McGuire, will serve as one of the coordinators of the conference.   The
one-day event will include a keynote address and a morning panel whose
speakers will examine Haiti’s historical relationship with the Americas.
The afternoon session will feature four additional speakers who will treat
issues relating to present US policy on Haiti, as well as explore, as
mentioned, Haiti’s complex connections to its regional neighbors.


9:30 - 10:30 am	Keynote Address: Hon. Colin Granderson, Deputy Secretary
General, CARICOM, “Haiti: The Unfulfilled Promise”

10:45 am - 12:45 pm
Panel I: Historical relations with the Hemisphere

-Ada Ferrer, New York University, “The Haitian Revolution in Cuba”
-Michele Wucker, World Policy Institute, New School, “Haiti and the
Dominican Republic”
-Chris Bongie, Queens University,  “Broken Statues on my Tongue: The mulatto
legend and Derek Walcott’s Haitian Trilogy”
-Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University, “Keeping Haiti in the fold: U.S.
Interventions in Haiti 1915-1944”
              Moderator: Robert Maguire, Trinity College, Washington DC

1:00 -2:00 pm
	Lunch & Presentation of Trinity Haiti Program Website
	by Robert Maguire

2:30 - 4:30 pm
Panel II: Current Hemispheric Policy

-Robert Fatton, University of Virginia, “Haiti - The Unending Search for
Compromise.”
-Robert Maguire, Trinity College, Washington, DC, “U.S. Policy Toward Haiti:
Engagement or Estrangement”
-Canute James, Financial Times & University of the West Indies, “Haiti and
its Neighbors: Un Uncertain Affair”
-Albert Ramdin, Organization of American States, Haiti and the OAS
Moderator:  Michael Dash, New York University

4:45 - 5:00 pm	  Closing remarks

This conference is free and open to the public and lunch will be provided,
but seating is limited and registration is required.  To register, please
call 212-998-2130 or visit
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/africana/events-set.html (see upcoming events)
to download the registration form.


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Haiti Bicentennial Project: 2003-2004
A Celebration of Haitian Independence
presented by the Africana Studies Program
and the Institute of African-American Affairs
at New York University

To celebrate and commemorate the Haitian Revolution and the bicentennial of
the nation’s independence, the Institute of African-American Affairs and
Africana Studies Program at New York University plans a series of events
that will engage Haiti’s historical and contemporary significance on the
global scene.  Extending the academic year 2003-2004, the Haitian
Bicentennial Program will feature: a film festival, a conference, a writer’s
series, an artist-in-residence program, and graduate and undergraduate
courses thematically organized on Haiti.

While often referred to as the stepchild of the French Revolution, the
significance of the Haitian Revolution, in world-historical terms, is
astounding.  It succeeded in establishing the first independent black nation
and represents the second successful anti-colonial struggle in this
hemisphere.  Additionally, Haiti’s impact on culture, history, spiritual
belief systems and religious practices, politics, and economies throughout
Europe, North, South and Central America, and the Caribbean, both
historically and contemporarily, is incalculable.  It is our intention
during this year-long celebration to provide the intellectual and
institutional space to consider, reflect upon, and analyze:

*  Haiti's revolutionary beginnings
*  Haiti’s historical relationship with the Americas
*  Current U.S. policy on Haiti
*  The effects of Duvalierism
*  The literary, cinematic, and scholarly production of Haiti’s new
trans-national community

Located in one of the world’s most culturally diverse cities, and itself a
major intellectual and cultural institution, NYU is well-suited to host the
range of activities intended to center Haiti in the minds of New York’s
scholarly, artistic, and popular communities during the academic year
2003-2004.

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Laura Rice
Associate Director
Institute of African-American Affairs
New York University
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269 Mercer Street, Suite 601
Mail Code: 0846
New York, NY  10003
Phone: 212-998-2134
Fax: 212-995-4109
E-mail: laura.rice@nyu.edu


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