26228: Jonassaint: Fwd: Colloquium on Haiti, Syracuse University September 23rd (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Reply-To: Jean Jonassaint <jonj1996@duke.edu>

Haitian Letters and Visions of the Future
A Day-Long Colloquium

Major U.S. and Canadian-based scholars and writers gather in Syracuse
to evoke the place of literature in Haiti?s future

Syracuse University
Bird Library room 1916

September 23, 2005

Morning Session: 9:30 am-12:30 pm
Opening remarks
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University

Haiti in the World?s Literary Imagination
Jean Jonassaint, Syracuse University

Sex and Politics in Haitian Texts: Translating Alexis with Edwidge
Danticat
Carrol Coates, Binghamton University

Writing in the Face of Violence and Devastation
Rachelle Charlier Doucet, Wilfrid Lourier University

Imagining a Future for Haitian Culture and Society
Maximilien Laroche, Université Laval

Afternoon Session 2:30 pm ? 4:30 pm
A reading and conversation featuring

Myriam Chancy

Dany Laferrière

Georgette Schmidt, Moderator
American Association of Teachers of French in Central New York

Closing Reception 5:00 pm
This program is organized by the Latino-Latin American Studies Program;
the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; the
Department of African American Studies, the Haitian Students
Association and the American Association of Teachers of French.

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