2018
Celebrating the Battle of Vertières poster
Celebrating the Battle of Vertières
Beyond Vertières: A Decolonial History of the Haitians
Friday, November 16, 2018
3–5 p.m.
Brooklyn College Library
Second exhibition of the Haitian art exhibit "Beyond Vertières," with introductory remarks by Dr. Michael Phillippe Lerebours.
6–8 p.m.
Gold Room, sixth floor,
Brooklyn College Student Center
2705 Campus Road
"A Decolonial History of the Haitians." lecture by Professor Jean Casimir, Ph.D., sociologist, State University of Haiti, former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Haiti to the United States of America from 1991 to 1997.
Reception catered by Nadege Fleurimond.
Performing Haiti / Haiti in Performance poster
Performing Haiti / Haiti in Performance
Monday, October 1, 2018
2:15–3:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Omise'eke Tinsley is associate professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and the 2018–19 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University. In Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature (2010) and Ezili’s Mirrors: Black Queer Genders and the Work of the Imagination (2018), Tinsley's research emphasizes that creative queer and feminist theorizing has a long, transnational history. Her work also commits to imagining black feminist futures in the African Atlantic.
Gina Athena Ulysee is a feminist artist-academic-activist and self-described post-Zora interventionist. She is the author of numerous articles, essays, and creative works. Her latest publication, Because When God Is too Busy: Haiti, Me & THE WORLD (2017), is a collection of photographs, poetry, and performance texts. This book was long listed for a 2018 PEN Open Book Award. She is a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist and writer, originally from Detroit. She has premiered 50 original performance art works around the world, a trilogy of diaspora grief works after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Her memoir in performance art, Swallow the Fish, was named by Entropy a "Best Non-Fiction Book of 2017." Her forthcoming book, Experiments in Joy, engages race, performance, and collaboration. She serves on the faculty in the M.F.A. Creative Writing and B.F.A. Critical Studies program at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Panel Discussion: Music and the (Re)making of Identities in the Diaspora: Comparative Study of Haitians & Dominicans
Panel Discussion: Music and the (Re)making of Identities in the Diaspora: Comparative Study of Haitians & Dominicans
Thursday, September 6, 2018
6–8:45 p.m.
Penthouse, seventh floor, Brooklyn College Student Center, Penthouse
2705 Campus Road
The CUNY Haitian Studies Institute, while celebrating its second anniversary, cordially invites you to a panel discussion on "Music and the (Re)making of Identities in the Diaspora: Comparative Study of Haitians & Dominicans."
The panel discussion, co-sponsored by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, will be followed by a musical performance. Food and soft drinks will be served.
Moderator
Jean Eddy Saint Paul, sociologist, director of the CUNY-wide Haitian Studies Institute
Panelists
- Essud Fungcap, a former lead vocal of Magnum Band
- Andre Veloz, Dominican-American singer specialized in Bachata
- Alix "Buyu" Ambroise, known as one of the best Haitian saxophonists ever
- Enriquillo Tejada, known as the frontman of Los Clarinetes Magicos
- Alix Pascal, a well-known guitarist and performer
La Revolution Haitienne dans L'imaginaire Occidental: Occulation, balanisation, et trivialisation by Claudy Delne
Conversation and Book Signing of La Révolution Haïtienne dans L'imaginaire Occidental: Occulation, balanisation et trivialization, 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
6–8:30 p.m.
Gold room, sixth floor, Student Center
Welcome Remarks
- Jean Eddy Saint Paul (founding director of CUNY Haitian Studies Institute)
Presenter
- Claudy Delne (author)
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Presentation and Book Signing of Rose-Mercie, by Maggy Belin (a novel of the first U.S. occupation of Haiti 1915–34)
Presentation and Book Signing of Rose-Mercie, by Maggy Belin (a novel of the first U.S. occupation of Haiti 1915–34)
Organized by the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute and co-sponsored by Rezo Nodwes and Haiti Futur
Thursday, May 10, 2018
6–8:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Welcome Remarks
- Jean Eddy Saint Paul (founding director of CUNY Haitian Studies Institute)
Presenter
- Maggy Belin (writer)
The History of Literature And Literature of Haitian History
The History of Literature and Literature of Haitian History
Organized by the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute
Friday, April 27, 2018
3–5 p.m.
Occidental Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
Welcome Remarks
- Jean Eddy Saint Paul (founding director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute)
Panel
- Lyonel A. Trouillot (Haitian novelist and Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
- Pierre Buteau (professor of history and president of the Haitian Society for History, Geography and Geology)
Politics of Immigration in U.S. Today
Politics of Immigration in U.S. Today
Organized by the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program in co-sponsorship with the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
Moderator
- Carolina Bank Munoz, Professor, Department of Sociology
Panel
- Edwidge Danticat (2017–18 Hess Scholar in Residence)
- Stephanie Delia (CUNY Citizenship Now lawyer)
- Thamara Jean (2018 Rhodes Scholar)
