23686: (announce) Klaussen: Re: "Our America" (Haiti conference) at UMC -- Columbia, Missouri

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Valerie Kaussen <KaussenV@missouri.edu>

"Our America: Transnational Utopias and the Haitian Revolution in
Caribbean
                                     and  Latin American Culture"

                        November 4-5, 2004. University of
Missouri-Columbia

Conference Schedule (All sessions are free and open to the public)

Thursday November 4 (all sessions are held in the Memorial Union, North
Tower)

9:00-9:30:           Continental Breakfast (N 214/215)

9:30-9:35:             Greetings: Dr. Marvin Lewis, Professor of Spanish
and
Director
                        of the Afro-Romance Institute at the University of
Missouri-Columbia

9:35: 12:00:                Session 1 (N214/215), Moderated by Edward
Mullen,
University of Missouri-Columbia

       9:35-10:05:     "The Azuca: Haiti and Mexico." Marco Polo Hernndez
Cuevas, Emporia State University.
   10:05-10:35:    "Imagining Haiti and Revisiting the Haitian Revolution
in
Manuel Zapata
                Olivella's Chang, el gran putas." Antonio Tillis, Purdue
University.

10:45-11:30:    Plenary Session, moderated by John Zemke, University of
Missouri-Columbia
                       Plenary Speaker: Michel Degraff, MIT.
                   "Three Centuries of Transnational Utopias in Creole
Studies."

12:00-1:30:                Lunch (N 112)

1:30-1:45:         Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Richard Schwartz, Dean of the
College
of Arts and Science; and Dr. Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Chair of the Department
of
Romance Languages and Literatures.     (N214/215)

1:45-3:15:              Session 2 (N 214/215), moderated by Valerie
Kaussen,
University of Missouri-Columbia

    1:45-2:30:      Plenary Speaker: Marie-Clie Agnant, writer and
independent
scholar,
                        Montreal, Canada. "The Old Man Who Turned Into
Stone."
  2:30-3:15:      Plenary Speaker: Nick Nesbitt   , Miami University of
Ohio.
                     "The Idea of 1804."

3:15-3:45:           Coffee Break

3:45-5:30:          Session 3 (N214/215) moderated by Flore Zphir,
University
of Missouri-Columbia

3:45-4:30:      Plenary Speaker: Rgine Latortue, Brooklyn College.
                     "The Emergence of the Phoenix: Re-Imaging the Haitian
Revolution."
      4:30-5:30:      Writers Panel: Marie-Clie Agnant, Blas Jimnez and
Pedro
Prez-Sarduy.


6:00-7:30:              Dinner (N222/223)



7:45:                  Film Showing of "The Agronomist" (directed by
Jonathan
Demme).
                  Documentary of Haitian journalist and freedom fighter,
Jean
Dominique.
                  In Ellis Auditorium.


        Friday November 5 (all sessions are held in the Memorial Union,
North
Tower)

9:30-10:00:         Continental Breakfast (N214/215)

10:00-11:45:            Session 4 (N214/215), moderated by Magdalena
Garcia-Pinto,
                        University of Missouri-Columbia

10:00-10:45:    Plenary Speaker: Pedro Prez-Sarduy, Trinity College.
                   "Cumbite Para Haiti: Escritores poetas y mdicos cubanos
en
El reino de este mundo."
    10:45-11:15:    "Henri Christophe casi blanco." Juanamara
Cordones-Cook,
University of Missouri-Columbia.
      11:15-11:45:    "(Re)visions of Mackandal in Los guerrilleros
negros."
Andrea Morris, Louisiana State University.

12:00:1-30:            Lunch (N112)

1:30-3:00:          Session 5 (N214/215), moderated by Rangira Ba
Gallimore,
University of Missouri-Columbia

       1:30-2:00:      "Heris da Resistencia." Ana Beatriz Gonalves,
Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Brazil.
2:00-2:30:      "Re-writing History in Gisle Pineau." Sulagna Mishra,
Purdue
University.
       2:30-3:00:      "Transnationalism and the Nation in Glissant's
Notion of
'Caribbeanness'
                        --A Reply to Paul Gilroy." Saskia Schabio,
University
of Stuttgart.

3:00-3:30:              Coffee Break

3:30-5:30:          Session 6 (N214/215), moderated by Nicole Price,

                        University of Missouri-Columbia

3:30-4:15:      Plenary Speaker: Blas Jimnez, Pontifica Universidad
Catlica
Madre y
                   Maestra, Dominican Republic.
                    "Haitiano yo? Me Haitian?: Bsqueda de un pasado
compartido. We
                Haitians" Haitianos nosotros?: Search of a shared past."
        4:30-5:00:      "The Dominican, the Caribbean, and the African in
the
Poetry of
                        Blas Jimnez: The Call for a Cultural Awakening."
Dawn
Stinchcomb,
                      Purdue University.
        5:00-5:30:      "Myth-Making in Black and White: Haiti, the
Dominican
Republic and the
                  Ethnic Myth of 'Hispanidad'." Sheridan Wigginton,
University
of Missouri, St. Louis.

6:00-7:15:          Banquet (N/112)

:15-8:00:               Plenary Session, moderated by Mary Jo Muratore,
University of
                   Missouri-Columbia

                       Plenary Speaker: James Arnold, University of
Virginia.
                  "Refractions of the Haitian Revolution in Western
Literature."