Painters and Brooklyn College Librarians at the "Celebrating the Battle of Vertieres" art exhibit.
Haitian Studies Institute
Event
Conversation and Book Signing of "La Revolution Haitienne dans L'imaginaire Occidental: Occulation, balanisation, et trivialisation" by Claudy Delne (Port-au-Prince: Editions de l'Universite d'Etat d'Haiti, 2017)
Organized by the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Gold room (6th Floor), Brooklyn College
Welcome Remarks
- Jean Eddy Saint Paul (Founding director of CUNY Haitian Studies Institute)
Presenter
- Claudy Delne (author)
Origin
The CUNY-HSI is an academic unit aimed to encourage and support studies on Haiti and Haitians living abroad. The institute’s main commitment is to engage in analysis and research to better understand policies and projects girded toward Haiti and the Haitian community, and policies that link scholarship programs on Haiti to social actions impacting the lives of Haitian populations and other racial and ethnic communities.
Haitian Creole for Native Speakers: HACR 203
New course offering at Medger Evers College, CUNY
Open to students who have Creole as a native language.
This course presents the fundamentals of writing and reading for students whose knowledge of Haitian Creole is limited to spoken communication. Emphasis is put on writing, reading skills and the distinctions among various levels of dialect and language. It is designed to enhance students’ four abilities to communicate in a language: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Saturdays, 11:20 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Learn More
Professor Maria-Luisa Ruiz, Chair
World Languages and Cultures Department
MLRuiz@mec.cuny.edu
718.270.4958
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