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From: JHUDICOURTB@aol.com
The preliminary program of the Haitian Studies Association Conference is
here. The conference is October 13 to 15th those who want to attend should go to
the website www.haitianstudies.umb.edu to register. Please make hotel
reservations promptly as October is a tourist season in Massachusetts. Hotels on
registration form have shuttle buses to UMASS>
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
HAITIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
October 13-15, 2005
UNIVERSITY of MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
Campus Center
Preliminary Program
Pre-Conference Activities
Thursday, October 13, 2005
3:30 p.m.— 5:30 p.m. H.S,A, Board of Directors’ Meeting –Campus
Center
Room TBA
5:00 p.m.— 6:00 p.m. Registration -Lobby
6:00 p.m.— 8:00 p.m. President's Reception—Alumni Lounge
Hosted by TERC
Friday, October 14, 2005
8:00a.m.—9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00a.m.—9:30 OPENING REMARKS Ballroom A
Representative Marie St. Fleur, Massachusetts State House
Chancellor Michael F. Collins, University of Massachusetts Boston
Professor Robert Johnson, Chair, Africana Studies, University of
Massachusetts Boston
Professor Marie-Jose N’Zengou-Tayo, H.S.A., President, University of the West
Indies-Mona, Jamaica
Professor Marc Prou, H.S.A, Director, Co-Chair Conference Planning
Committee
University of Massachusetts Boston
Friday, October 14, 2005 9:35 a.m. – 11: 00 p.m. Ballroom A
Plenary JOURNALISM IN HAITI: RISK AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Michele Montas, Journalist Radio Haiti-Inter and United Nations
Bernard Diederich, Journalist and Author, Haiti Sun, Time Magazine
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panels 1A, 1B, & 1C
Panel 1A ENGENDERING LITERATURE
Pushpa Parekh, Spellman College
Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Alternative Mappings
Edith Wainwright, Nassau Community College
Le role de la Femme dans la Litterature Haitienne
Sharon Bell, Kent State University
The Reluctant Bride and the Groom from afar: Values concerning
Women in "Loufre the Serpent" and its variants in H F
Amy Andre, San Francisco State University
Dialogue on Haitian-American Sexuality
Panel 1B DEMOCRATIC REFORM AND TRANSITION IN HAITI
Ron Daniels, Haiti Support Project, Washington, DC
Johnny McCalla, National Coalition for Haitian Rights
Representative Marie St. Fleur, Massachusetts State House
Alix Cantave, LISC, Boston, MA.
Francois Pierre-Louis, Queens College, CUNY
Haiti: The Unending Transition to Democracy
Panel 1C ARTS IN A TIME OF TROUBLES: WHAT GOOD ARE THEY?
Moderator: Legrace Benson, Research Fellow, UCSB
Barbara Nesin, Spelman College
Lois Wilkens, Director of Troupe Makandal
Nancy Mikelson, Independent Scholar
Gage Averill, University of Toronto
Janet Anthony, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
Amy Luceen Cornish, Wake Technical Community College
Turning Outside-In: Visual Arts and Boundaries
Katherine Smith, UCLA,, Condoms and Carnival: Art Changing the Meaning of
Aids
Lunch
12:30 p.m. – 1:25 p.m.
1:30 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Panels 2A, 2B, & 2C
Panel 2A STATE OF THE RACE: COSEQUENCES OF RACE CLASS AND CULTURE:
ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE DIASPORA
Marc Prou, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jemadari Kamara, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Tony Van der Meer, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Willard Johnson, Professor Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Panel 2B Community Development Process in Greater Boston as a Model for
Haiti, CCHER, Nesly Metayer et al.
Panel 2C IMAGES LITTERAIRES DE LA VIOLENCE
Moderator: Carrol Coates, SUNY Binghamton
Panelists: Dennis Essar, Brock University
Mort et renaissance chez Roger Dorsinvile: les denières œ
uvres (1986-90)
Frantz-Antoine LeConte, City University of New York
(CUNY)
Haïti: Pulsions de violence chez Jacques Roumain
Marie-Agnes Sourieau, Fairfield University
Narration de narrations : Edwidge Danicat, archiviste de
la violence
Karen Richman and Marlene Daut
Are They Mad?: Class, Morality and Nationalism in “Tous les hommes sont fous”
2:30 p.m. – 3:25 p.m. Panels 3A, 3B, & 3C
Panel 3A PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES IN HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
IN HAITI
Dr. Venkita Suresh, CEO. Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Deschapelles
Dr. Wesler Lambert, Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante, Cange
Dr. Brigitte Hudicourt and Dr. Edith Hudicourt, Hopital de la Communauté
Haitienne, Petion-Ville
Panel 3B IMMIGRATION LAW: CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE
Moderator: Robert Johnson, Jr., Esq.,
James Woodard, Esq.
Tullio Capasso, Esq.
Johnny McCalla, National Coalition for Haitian Rights
Panel 3C HUMAN RIGHTS: JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE IN THE U.S. AND
HAITI
Anne Fuller,
Human Right violations of the Duvalier era revealed through oral history:
1969 Terror in Grand Bois
Martine Pierre-Pierre, Savannah State University
The Impact of the Interdiction Agreement on the Haitian Immigration
Experience: Can Social Work Intervene?
Jean-Phillippe Belleau, University of Massachusetts, Boston
To Destroy. Eliticide, sylvicideand paupericide: Massacres in the 20th
century Haiti
CULTURAL EVENING CELEBRATION
Wellesley College Welcomes the Haitian Studies Association
Tribute and Cultural Reception Honoring Professor Gerdes Fleurant
Wellesley College (buses provided)
6:00 – 9:30
Saturday, October 16, 2005
8:00a.m.—9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00a.m.—9:15 Welcoming Remarks:
Representative Linda Dorcena Forry,Massachusetts State House
9:15 – 10:15 Keynote Address:
Lionel Trouillot, Author and Professor, Universite d’Etat D’Haiti
10:20 a.m. – 11: 25 p.m. Panels 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D
Panel 5A HAITIAN CHILDREN AND SCIENCE LEARNING
Beth Warren, Chèche Konnen Center at TERC
Cynthia Ballenger, Chèche Konnen Center at TERC
Josiane Hudicourt-Barnes, Cheche Konnen Center at Terc
Renote Jean Francois, Boston Public Schools
Panel 5B HEALTH CONCERNS IN THE HAITIAN DIASPORA
Michele David, MD, Boston Medical Center
Paul Blanc, MD, Private Practioner
Nicole Prudent, MD, Boston Medical Center
Panel 5C HAITI: ECONOMIC and ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
Pierre Orelus, University of Massachuestts, Amherst
Haiti is Under Siege
Larissa Annoual, NYU School of Law
Prospects and Challenges for A Poverty Reduction Strategy Process in Haiti
Jean Marie Theodat , Université de Paris
Pour une politique d’aménagement concerte du territoire
Marcel Wah, Haitian Art Appraisal Society
Panel 5D TRANSFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS ADAPTATIONS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
Anna Wexler, Springfield College
Teaching Haitian Voodoo at a Community Based School of Human
Services
Nekita Lamour, Cambridge Public Schools
Toward a Theology of Urban Education: A Focus on Haitian Diasporic
Community
Mary Procopio, Michigan State University
“Haitian Classical Music, Vodou, and Cultural Identity: Werner Jaegerhuber’s
Trio for Flute, Viola and Cello”
11:30 – 12:25 Panels 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D
Panel 6A EDUCATING FOR CHANGE IN HAITI
Chairperson: Edwidge Briant, Universtiy of North Florida
Richard Gosser, St. Vincent College
Defying the Odds: Educating for changes in Rural Haiti
Roland Louis, Universite de Sherbrooke
L’enseignement supérieur en Haïti: quelques problèmes et
solution
Thomas Davies, Lee County Schools, FL
The Apperceptive Approach: Using the past to shape the Future in a Haitian
Context
Panel 6B SHAPING THE ROLE OF HAITIAN DIASPORA: SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL INVESTMENT IN HAITI IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Alice Backer, Esq., World Bank accountability in Haiti
1994-2002
Patrice Backer, Remittances, Investment & Development in
Haiti
Lynda Dykstra, Remittance to Haiti: Leveraging Migrant Transfers for Economic
Development
Millery Polyne, CUNY
Panel 6C HAITI AND HAITIANS IN POST-COLONIAL US HISTORY
Angel Adams Parham, Loyola University
Legacies of Haiti: History, Memory, and Identity in Louisiana.
Kenneth E. Carpenter
Stephen Girard: Myths and Realities
Yveline Alexis, University of Massachusetts,\
Judicial Justice? St. Domingue Slaves in Louisiana Courts
Panel 6 D BOOK EVENT: A Meeting with Authors
Charles Dupuy “Le Coin de l’Histoire”
Charlot Lucien and Marcus Plaisimond, Political caricatures as journalistic
expression (with slide presentations)
Nancy Roc “Les Grands Dossiers de Metropolis”
Lunch
12:30 p.m. – 1:25 p.m.
1 :30- 2 :25 Panels 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D
Panel 7A HAITI: HISTORICAL LESSONS LEARNED
Philip Kaisary, Warwick University
“Haiti now and then: revolutionary politics, cultural memory and C.L.R. James”
Jayne Klein, Florida International University
The First U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Mark Schuller, University of California Santa Barbara
Learning from a 200-Year Old Menage-a-Trois: Global Forces, the State, and
Civil Society in Haiti’s History
Matthew J. Smith, University of the West Indies
From Dessalines to Duvalier Revisited: A 25 Year
Retrospective.
Panel 7B MANIFESTATIONS IN VODOU in LITERATURE and the ARTS
Jayne Boisvert
Erzulie Dantor, the Fierce, Unyielding Mater Salvatoris : as Grande Da in
Canape-Vert and as Lamercie in Fils de Misère
Antoinette Pressley-Sanon
The Uses of Zombie
Panel 7C IDENTITY OF HAITIAN YOUTH IN THE DIASPORA
Charlene Desir, Harvard University
From Privileged to Problem Students: Haitian Student's Conceptions of Self in
Haitian and U.S. Schools
Lunine Pierre-Jerome, University of Massachusetts, Boston Public Schools:
Identity Development Among Low-Literacy Haitian Adolescent Newcomers:
Collective and Integrative View of the Self
Edwidge Crèvecoeur Bryant, University of North Florida: Environmental Print
and Literacy Socialization of Haitian Adults
Daphné Bruno, Howard University, The media’s influence on cultural identity
of Haitian adolescents
Panel 7 D TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES AND THE HAITIAN MEDIA
Alejandra Bronfman
The Sound of Modernity
Nick Nesbitt, Miami University
Critique, Publicity, and Autonomy in Jonathan Demme’s The
Agronomist
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan College
US Missionizing in Haiti, the Sequel: Revivals, Crusades, Video, and the
Worldwide Web
2:30 – 3:30 Panels 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D
Panel 8 A CREOLE AND HAITIAN CULTURE: VITAL TOOLS IN EDUCATING OURYOUTH IN
CREATING NEW PATHWAYS TO AN EVOLVING HAITI
M. Dejoie, Brooklyn College
J. Piquant, Brooklyn College
Nicole Rosefort, Brooklyn College
Marie Lily Cerat, Brooklyn College
Albert Valdman, Indiana University
Toward a monolingual school dictionary for Haitian Creole
Suze Mathieu, Ministère de la Condition Féminine, Kreyòl nan Demokrasi
Panel 8 B Poster Session: Working on Haiti’s Future: Small Development
Projects
Christine Low: Lekòl Kominotè Mantenwa Lagonav
Myrlande Butler: Eritaj Foundation
June Levinsohn: Literacy and Agriculture in Northern Haiti
Jean-Patrick Lucien: Empowering Children Through Sustainable Development,
Edem Foundation
Panel 8C Book Event: Meeting with Massachusetts Authors
Patrick Sylvain, Emmanuel Vedrine, Danielle Georges, Eddy Toussaint
Panel 8D POLITICS AND PEOPLE SEEN THROUGH MEDIA LENS
Chair, Leara Rhodes, University of Georgia: US Foreign Policy in Media
Coverage of Haiti
Adam John, Albright College, Past, Present, and Future: Telling the Tale of
Haiti in Martinique through the Media.
Bill Forry, Managing Editor: Boston Haitian Reporter, “Covering a Local
Haitian Community: Problems and Successes.
3:30-4:30 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION
Call to order: Marie Jose Nzengoutayo, President
Moderators: Florence Bellande Roberson, Vice President
Marc Prou, Executive Director
6:00 - 12:00
ANNUAL BANQUET AND AWARD CEREMONY
HOSTED BY AFAB (Asosyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston, the Association of
Haitian Women in Boston)
H.S.A. Award for Excellence: Raould Peck, Producer and
Filmmaker
H.S.A. Award for Service: Odette Roy-Fombrun, Educator
Award for Service to HAS: TBA
Performance by the “Ayiti Demen”, AFAB’s children’s group, and special
guest Carole Demesmin..