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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..