CSA 2016 41st Studies Association Conference Day 2 Tuesday, 7 June 2016

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TUESDAY - 7 June 2016 8:00 AM H. Adlai Murdoch, Tufts University Hegel, Haiti, and the Inscription of Diasporic Blackness Registration and Administrative Matters MARTES Inscription et questions administratives / Irline François, Goucher College Registro y asuntos administrativos Haunting Capital, Legacies and Lifelines Enskripsyon ak administration Regine Michelle Jean-Charles, College Sujets et assujetties : Les femmes esclaves dans Rosalie

MARDI 8:00 AM - 8:10 AM l’infâme et Humus / Encuentros / Rasanblaj / Encounters / Rencontres (1) H2 Marriott Kolibri Terrace Opening Session G 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Exiles and/or Migrants: Representation, Testimony, Marriott Ayizan 1 and Experience Egzile ak/oubyen Imigran: Reprezantasyon, Temwayaj ak Ek- TUESDAY TUESDAY Opening Session 2: Louvri Bayè pou "Migrations of Afro- speryans Caribbean Spirituality" Exilios y/o emigrantes: representación, testimonio y experi- Séance d'ouverture: Louvri Bayè pou "Migrations de la spiritu- encia alité afro-caribéenne" Sesión de apertura 2: Louvri Bayè pou "Migraciones de la espir- Chair: Juliette Storr, State University itualidad afro-caribeña" Media’s Portrayal of the Haitian : Integration or Isola- tion Chair: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Oneil Hall, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus M. Jacqui Alexander, University of Toronto Border restrictions: Jamaican social media perception of Cay- Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique, University of Haiti man Erol Josue, Directeur général du Bureau National d'Ethnologie BNE Ayanna Jessica Legros, New York University Agustín Laó-Montes, University of Massachusetts Radio Song: Haitian exiles in &

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex Morning Break 3/Pause café 3/ Receso matutino/ Poz ‘Are we not men’: Names, Animals and Haitian Migrations to kafe 3 the

H Sessions 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM H3 Marriott Kowosol

FILM TRACK - Forward Home H1 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm A PREZANTASYON FIM - Forward Home

Dialectical Representations of Haitian Identities in His- SESIÓN DE CINE- Retorno a Casa tory Lisa Wickham, CaribbeanTales

G - L Reprezantasyon dyalektik idantite ayisyen atravè listwa Representaciones dialécticas de las identidades haitianas en la historia H4 Marriott Ayizan 3

Chair: Micheline Rice-Maximin, Swarthmore College Haiti: Then and Now “Dialectical Representations of Haitian Identities in History” Ayiti: Nan tan lontan ak jounen jodi a Haiti: Antes y Ahora SESSIONS 4 TUESDAY Chair: Leslie Alexander, The Ohio State University Sue Ann Barratt, Institute for Gender and Development Stu- “Fear of a Black Republic: African Americans and the Struggle dies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus for Haitian Independence, 1816-1862” I’m an Authentic Dougla: Dougla Constructions of Ethnic Sub- jectivity Celucien Joseph, Indian River State College “Le Mal d’Haïti: Roots of Haiti’s Economic Woes, Underdevelo- Aleah Ranjitsingh, CUNY Brooklyn College, City University of /

pment and Dysfunctional Civil Society” New York (CUNY) MARDI I'm an Authentic Dougla: Dougla Constructions of Ethnic Sub- Curtis Austin, The Ohio State University jectivity Legacy of Blackness: Haitian Military Strategy, Armed Struggle and the Black Power Movement H8 Marriott Aizan 1 / MARTES Bertin Louis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Negotiating Boundaries: The Nation-State and its Invi- The Haitian Diaspora of : An Alternative View sible Subjects Negosyasyon fwontyè: Leta-Nasyon ak sitwayen envizib li yo H5 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm B Négocier les frontières: l'État-Nation et ses sujets invisibles

Humanitarian Discourses in the Caribbean Daphne Lamothe, Smith College Diskou imanitè nan Karayib la ’No Voyage is Seamless’: Locating Humanity and Abjection in Discursos humanitarios en el Caribe Thirsty

Chair: Christine Duff, Carleton University Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University “Living Outside the Boundaries: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Audra Diptee, Department of History, Carleton University Women’s Literature” L’enfance et les discours humanitaires dans les Caraïbes Carol Bailey, Westfield State University Kevin Edmonds, Political Science, University of Toronto “Cultural Performances and the Question of Belonging: The Legalised Looting: An Analysis of the Clinton Family in Hait Case of Caribana”

David Meinen, Carleton University Winnifred Brown-Glaude, The College of (In)Security, Liberal Humanitarianism, and the Pacification of “Neoliberal Selves: Race, Gender and Skin Bleaching in Haiti Jamaica.”

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Melting Pots and Racial Discourses in the Americas Spirituality as a Weapon of Resistance "Bouyon sosyal" ak diskou sou ras an Amerik Espirityalite yon zam pou rezistans Crisoles y discursos raciales en las Américas La espiritualidad como arma de resistencia

Chair: Yvonne Fabella, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies

Interracial Marriage and Colonial Authority in Saint Domingue Assessing the Impact of Haile Selassie's Trip to the Caribbean SESSIONS in 1966 Masonya Bennett, International University Rastafari: A continuing tradition of African Spirituality as a Exchanges and Intersections of Blackness in the New South Liberating Tool

Frank F. Scherer, York University Imani Tafari-Ama, University of the West Indies

From Indio to Chino: An Archaeology of Orientalist Discourse in Spirituality as a Tool of Resistance for Notable African Heorines G - L Cuba

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Arthur Newland, University of the West Indies I2 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm B Boukman, Rastafari and Vodun: Distinctiveness and Continuity Circulating Identity, Authenticity, and Caribbean Con- Clinton Hutton, University of the West Indies sciousness The : Its Historical Significance in Defining Sikilasyon idantite, otantisite ak konsyans karayibeen an MARTES

/ the Modern World Circulación de la identidad, de la autenticidad y de la con- ciencia caribeña H11 OMRH Conference Room Jocelyn Stitt, University of Michigan Caribbean Migrations: Transnational Connections The Visual in the Autobiographical: Mapping and Sexual Citi- MARDI Migrations caribéennes: connexions transnationales zenship / Migrasyon karayibeyen: lyenaj transnasyonal Migraciones caribeñas: enlaces transnacionales Maydi Estrada Bayona, U.H. Universidad de La Habana Ursula Lambert: Emancipacion, prejuicio e interculturalidad en Chair: Ifeona Fulani, New York University Cuba When Home Has Gone Abroad Ivan Roksandic , University of Winnipeg TUESDAY TUESDAY Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Ryerson University Migration and Exchange in Early Circum-Caribbean Electronic Migrations: Transnational Classrooms, Virtual Col- laborations and Online Idleness Elena Machado-Saez, Bucknell University La Bodega goes to Broadway: In the Heights and Transcultural Kezia Page, Colgate University Latinidad Presentation Untitled I3 Marriott Kolibri Terrace I Sessions 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM Cultural Representations and Creative Engagements I1 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm A Reprezantasyon kiltirèl ak Angajman Kreyatif Representaciones culturales y compromisos creativos Caribbean on the move: Citizenship, Mobility, State Politics -USA Chair: Ivette Romero, Marist College Karayib an mouvman: Sitwayènte, mobilite, Politic deta "The Kingdom of this World": Scapegoats, Poisons, and Lafrans-Etazini Healing Haiti El Caribe en movimiento: Ciudadanía, movilidad y política de Estado Francia-EEUU Antonia MacDonald, St. George's University Coming after Walcott. Vladimir Lucien’s Sounding Ground Chair: Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus, Independent Researcher Stewart, Roanoke College Contexte migratoire caraïbéen de l’ère amérindienne à la Babo's Speaking Silence: Haiti's Presence in Melville's Benito période esclavagiste Cereno

George Fouron, Africana Studies Department (AFS)Faculty Sophie Pappenheim, University of California, Santa Cruz Director, SUNY, NY Angola peas, Congo cane: The Gardens of Simone Schwarz- “Outsiders within, insiders without”: Junctures and disjunc- Bart G - L tures within Haiti’s transnational space

Justin Daniel, Directeur du CRPLC, Université Antilles, Marti- nique Citoyenneté dans les Antilles françaises: Politique française vis -à-vis des Haïtiens SESSIONS 6 TUESDAY I4 Marriott Ayizan 1 PERFORMANCE Y ARTES VISUALES: Estéticas de la muerte y el poder y usos de sus imágenes (parte 2) Haiti - Dominican Republic: Migration, Citizenship, Po- litical Crisis Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Ayiti - Repliblik Dominikèn: Migrasyon, Sitwayènte, Kriz politik Death is a Festival: Afro-Atlantic Funeral Processions and the Haiti, República Dominicana: Migración, ciudadanía y crisis Multiple Iterations of Dancing for the Dead in Paramaribo, /

política Suriname MARDI

Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University Katherine Smith, New York University Unequal Development and the Labor Question in Haiti and the Gede Beyond Haiti: Depicting the Dead of Others Dominican Republic Petrina Dacres, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Perform- / MARTES Carolle Charles, Baruch College, City University of New York ing Arts Haiti, Mirror or Flipside? The construction of race, nation and The Aestheticisation of Death in Jamaican Art citizenship in the Dominican Republic Jerry Philogene, Dickinson College Rachelle Doucet, Independent Scholar, Activist Dead Citizen, Social Death, and the Strategic Power of the The Ruling TC-168-13 and the crisis between Haiti and the Image Dominican Republic. Kyrah Daniels, Harvard University Robert Fatton, The University of Virginia Mirrors as Mortuary Arts: Fragments of Glass, Flashes of Spirit Living in the Periphery of the Periphery: Haiti and the Domini- can Republic I7 Marriott Kowosol

I5 Marriott Ayizan 2 Shifting Discourses of Sexuality in the Global Caribbean Chanjman nan diskou sou seksyalite nan Karayib la Haitian Vodou, Identity, Aesthetics, and Sexuality Evolución de los discursos sobre sexualidad en el Caribe global Vodou ayisyen, idantite, estetik ak seksyalite Vudú, identidad, estética y sexualidad en Haiti Chair: Krystal Ghisyawan, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad Chair: Alexandra Cenatus, University of Florida Migrant narratives: The returning gay Diaspora and sexuality Vodou and Haiti’s Gender Construction discourses in Trinidad

Paul Mocombe, The Mocombeian Foundation/West Virginia Nikoli Attai, University of Toronto State University Their Pride, Their Imperialism The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globali- zation Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University Mujer y demás: Genderqueering Caribbean migration William A. Tringali, Bridgewater State University The Divine Protection of Erzulie Freda: Queerness and Vodou I8 Marriott Ayizan 3

SESSIONS Nixon Cleophat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Staging a New “Créolité”: Katherine Dunham’s circum- Vodou Aesthetics: The Ground of Survival & Liberation in Haiti Atlantic World Mizansèn de yon nouvo tip de kreyolite : apwòch Katherine I6 OMRH Conference Room Dunham sou ansanm Atlantik la La puesta en escena de una nueva creolidad: El mundo circum-

PERFORMANCE & VISUAL ARTS: The Aesthetics of Death atlántico de Katherine Dunham G - L and the Power and Uses of its Image (part II) SPEKTAK AK LA VIZYÈL: Estetik Lanmò e Pouvwa ak itilizasyon imaj yo (dezyèm pati) 7

Chair: Elina Djebbari, King's College London Chair: Neri Torres,The University of the West Indies From Caribbean to West African Dances: Katherine Dunham Ago Oricha: con el Permiso de los Orichas and Negritude in 1960s Mariana Goycoechea, CUNY Graduate Center Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King's College London Ancestral Mothers and Lwa in Elsie Augustave's The Roving MARTES

/ The Bahiana of : in the Imagination of Katherine Tree Dunham Marsha Jean-Charles, Cornell University Madison Moore, King's College London “Ou sé Kat Identitem san Ou Cheri’m Pa Existé”: Passage, Nos- SEDUCED: Sweat, Sexiness and the Dancing Creole Body, from talgie, a Black Feminist Citizenship in Dyaspora Art MARDI Katherine Dunham to Beyonce / Marshall Smith, Cornell University Leyneuf Tines, King's College London Everything Scatter: The Idea of Haiti in Circum-Caribbean Cul- Activating the kinesthetic imagination: Katherine dunham, tural Production yanvalou and the solar plexus J2 OMRH Conference Room I10 Digicel 6th Floor Conference RmC TUESDAY TUESDAY Beyond Language Barriers and Caribbean Writers Re- Atelier - Corps médium sponses Taller - Cuerpo Medium Malgre diferans lang yo, ekriven Karayibeen reponn a sosyete Workshop -The Body as Medium yo Más allá de las barreras linguísticas, los escritores caribeños Chair: Jephthé Carmil, Ph.D Student Université de 7 - responden a sus sociedades Beaux-arts de Nantes Chair: Annie Paul, SALISES, UWI Pascale Obolo, Revue Afrikadaa Numéro 7 Writing in (and out of) the Caribbean

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM LUNCH Silke Jansen, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) Lunch 2 / Comida 2 / Déjeuner 2 / Lontch 2 Négocier la différence à travers le langage

I11 Marriott Kowosol Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University Marley and Kingston: Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven PERFORMANCE Y ARTES VISUALES: Contacto 4º Lat N; 53º Killings Long O, otro sueño americano. PERFORMANCE & VISUAL ARTS: Contact 4º -Lat N; 53º Long O, Travis Weekes, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College another American Dream. The Making of a Creole City PERFORMANCE ET ARTS VISUELS: Contact 4º lat. N, 53º long. O; un autre rêve américain J5 Marriott Kolibri Terrace

Marcela Landazábal Mora, Doctorat Student in Latin- From Street Bands to "Boat People": Haiti and the Pro- american studies at UNAM (México) duction of Space Depi Timoun lari jiska "Boat People": Ayiti e pwodiksyon espas De las pandillas callejeras a los Balseros: Haití y la producción

G - L J Sessions 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM de espacio J1 Marriott Ayizan 3 Chair: Jeffrey Kahn, University of California, Davis Afro-Caribbean Spiritual Beliefs and Representations at Sea: Boat Migration and the Limits of the Smuggler Kwayans ak reprezantasyon afro-karayibeen Trope Creencias espirituales y representaciones afro-caribeñas SESSIONS 8 TUESDAY Mathilde Perivier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences J. Brent Crosson, University of Texas, Austin Sociales (EHESS Paris) Obeah is/as Science Beyond the Stereotype of Street Disorder: Creation and Reor- dering of Place and Territory in Bann a Pye and Bann Rara Per- J8 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm B formances Politically Committed Intellectuals in the Caribbean /

Lynn Selby, University of Texas, Austin Entèlektyèl angaje politikman nan Karayib la MARDI Landscapes of Popular Politics in Port-au-Prince Before and Los intelectuales caribeños comprometidos After the Earthquake Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University Chair: Paul B. Miller, Vanderbilt University New Pentecostal Spiritual Geographies Modern Convergence: Firmin, Douglass, Martí and the Môle- Saint-Nicolas / MARTES J6 Marriott Ayizan 2 Patti Marxsen, Independent Scholar/Writer Féminisme Haïtien, Représentations hégémoniques et Jacques Roumain & Langston Hughes: A Haitian-American Gouvernementalité Friendship Feminismo Haitiano: Representaciones hegemónicas y go- bernabilidad Estherine Adams, University of Guyana Haitian Feminism: Hegemonic Representations and Governa- Sydney King [Eusi Kwayana]: The Genesis of a Guyanese Politi- bility cian

Chair: Sabine Lamour, UEH- Paris 8 Jorge Emilio, Universidad de la Habana Femmes, ONGs et gouvernementalité en Haïti Enrique Camejo Argudín and the Cuban diplomacy in Haiti on the 1940s Célia Romulus, Université Queen's Imaginaires hégémoniques de féminités haïtiennes J9 Digicel 6th Floor Conference RmC

Denyse Côté, Université du Québec en Outaouais Space Invaders: The Caribbean in the Black American Le mouvement féministe haïtien face à l'aide et aux représen- Radical Imagination. tations occidentales Anvayisè espas: Karayibeen yo nan imaginasyon radikalism Ameriken Nwa a J7 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm A Los Invasores del espacio: Los caribeños en el imaginario negro radical estadounidense On the Matter of Knowing in Afro-Caribbean Religions Sou sijè konesans nan relijyon Afro Karibeen Chair: Robyn Spencer, Lehman College Sobre la materia del conocimiento en las religiones afro- Black Power Tricontinentalism in the US and the Caribbean caribeñas Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University Chair: Funlayo E. Wood, Harvard University "A Haitian Negro of High Attainments”: Haiti and Haitians in From Kola to Coco: Obi and Knowing Across the Waters the Transnational Imaginings of Home in the Universal Negro

Improvement Association SESSIONS Khytie Brown, Harvard University Sweetness, Spirits and the Senses: Somatic Knowing in Jamai- Russell Rickford, Cornell University can Revival Zion Religion “Black Americans and Guyana in the 1970s: Seductions of the Nation-state” Lisa Osunleti Beckley-Roberts, Jackson State University

Elders Can See Sitting What Children Can't See Standing: Ways Annette Palmer, Morgan State University G - L of Gaining Knowledge in Lucumi Evangelism, Resistance, and Identity in Nineteenth Century Trinidad

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J10 Marriott Ayizan 1 Chair: Erin MacLeod , Vanier College Queering Carnival: Soca and Safe Spaces in Jamaica Why Haiti Needs New Narratives Por qué Haití necesita nuevas narrativas Douglas-Wade Brunton, University of Michigan - Ph.D. Poukisa Ayiti bezwen yon nouvo narativ Student MARTES

/ No Scene - An Ethnography of Musical Identity Chair: Regine Ostine Jackson, Agnes Scott College The social function of public scholarship Laura Barrio-Vilar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Nadève Ménard, École Normale Supérieure of Université d’État Carnival Performativity as the Solution to Caribbean Politics d’Haïti MARDI The practice and politics of translation Karina Smith, Victoria University / Claiming Caribbean Space: re-creating carnival in Melbourne, Régine Jean-Charles, Boston College Australia A black feminist intervention K4 Marriott Ayizan 3 Gina Ulysse, Wesleyan University Response to Critic Interrogating Political Economies of Caribbean Sexuali- TUESDAY TUESDAY ties - Part Two K Sessions 3:55 PM - 5:10 PM Interrogando las economías políticas de las sexualidades cari- beñas - Parte 2 K1 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm A Kesyonman sou ekonomi politik seksyalite karayiben - Dezyèn pati Caribbean Identities and Transnational Poetics Idantite karayibeyen ak powetik transnasyonal Chair: Keith McNeal, University of Houston Identités caribéennes et poétiques transnationales Queer Refugeeism and the Political Economy of (Im)Mobility In and Out of Trinidad and Tobago Chair: Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University The Coloniality of by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University Circuitos transnacionales en la escritura diasporica queer Collaborating with J-FLAG: Documenting Untold Stories of Boricua Resilience and Resistance Through Film

Tania Sairi Gómez Hernández, Universidad Nacional Ary Gordien, Paris Descartes University Autónoma de México (UNAM) The Paradoxical Popularization of Gay Social Identity in French Aproximaciones a la diferencia y la alteridad en el Caribe West Indian Contexts

Julio Gonzalez-Ruiz, Spelman College Mark Padilla, Florida International University Transnacionalismo, hibridación cultural e identidades domini- The LGBT Policy Vacuum for Drug Addiction and HIV Services in canas en (trans)formación: Cristo Rey. Una isla, dos mundos the Dominican Republic (2013) K5 Marriott Courtyard Pergola Flor Pagan, University of El bilingüismo poético de Tato Laviera y la identidad puertorri- LITERARY SALON (1) / SALON LITERARIO (1) / SALON LIT- queña TÉRAIRE (1) G - L

K2 Marriott Kolibri Terrace Chair: Andrea Shaw, Nova Southeastern University

Carnival, Space Making, Politics, and Music Lisa Allen-Agostini, Institute for Gender and Develop- Kanaval, kreyasyon espas, politik ak mizik ment Studies Carnaval, producción del espacio, política y música G&Ts and Rita Bloody Marley SESSIONS 10 TUESDAY Zahra Gordon, Individual/Poet Bettina Ng'weno, University of California, Davis Rainy Season Travelling ideas: Thinking Michel-RolphTrouillot Beyond the Caribbean Fatimah Jackson-Best, University of Giving Voice to Avril: Caribbean Women and Mental Illness K8 OMRH Conference Room

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James Noël Migratory roots and routes of music of the Caribbean MARDI diaspora Pascale Monnin Raíces migratorias y caminos musicales en la diáspora del Ca- ribe K6 Digicel 6th Floor Conference RmC migratwa ak chemen mizikal dyaspora karayibeen an / MARTES Living in Precarity: Resilience and moral community in Chair: Meagan Sylvester, The University of the West Indies, Cuba’s Oriente St. Augustine Campus Viv nan prekarite: Rezilyans ak moral kominotè nan Oriente Breaking the Rules at Carnival Time : Narratives of Resistance Cuba in Trinidad’s Carnival Music Vivir en la precariedad: Resistencia y comunidad moral en el Oriente de Cuba Chanzo Greenidge, Independent Researcher Diamond Minds- Documenting 50 Stories of Caribbean Migra- Chair: Kristina Wirtz, Western Michigan University tion and Transnationalism Reconsidering socio-lismo under socialismo in Cuban Carnival Helene Zamor, The University of the West Indies, Cavehill Hanna Garth, University of California-Irvine Campus, Barbados Food Access, Skin Color, and Inequality in Santiago de Cuba The popularity of Konpa Music

Grete Viddal, Tulane University K9 Marriott Kowosol Unruly Revolutionaries: Cuba’s Haitian Diaspora and the So- cialist Project Round-Table - Re-consecrating Popular Soundscapes: When the Lakou Goes Digital Matthew Casey, University of Southern Mississippi Mesa Redonda - Nueva consagración de los espacios sonoros Moral Economies of Work, Food and Love in the Twentieth populares: Cuando el Lakou se hace digital Century Cuban Sugar Industry Tabwonn - Re-konsakre espas sonò popilè yo: Kan Lakou a vin K7 Marriott Ayizan 1 digital

Michel-Rolph Trouillot et la critique caribéenne de l'an- Chair: Manolia Charlotin, Oumfo / The Media Consortium thropologie Kwaze Tanbou: Haiti’s Sonic Ambassadors and the Evolution of Michel-Rolph Trouillot y la crítica caribeña de la antropología the Drum in Digital Soundscapes Michel-Rolph Trouillot and the Caribbean critique of anthropo- logy Ayinde Jean-Baptiste, Oumfo

The DJ as Ountogi: Ancient technologies re-sound SESSIONS Chair: Espelencia Baptiste, Kalamazoo College The Caribbean as Critique: Michel Rolph Trouillot's Sabine Blaizin, OyaSound Anthropology The Future Ginen World of OyaSound

Co-Chair: Maud Laethier, URMIS-IRD

G - L Jhon Picard Byron, Université d'Etat d'Haiti ichel Rolph Trouillot,lecteur de Jean Price-Mars

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K10 Marriott Ayizan 2 Ryan Jobson, Yale University Deepwater Sovereignty: Offshore Extractivism and Postcolonial Tourism, Celebrities, and Piracy in Contemporary Ca- Statecraft in Trinidad and Tobago ribbean Discourses Turismo, celebridades y piratas en los discursos caribeños ac- L2 Marriott Ayizan 3 MARTES

/ tuales Tourism, selebrite ak pirat nan diskou kontanporen Karayib la Assessing the Impact of Haile Selassie's Trip to the Car- ibbean in 1966 Chair: Faith Smith, Brandeis University Evaluando el impacto del viaje de Haile Selassie al Caribe en 1966 MARDI Anita Waters, Dennison University Evalye enpak vwayaj Haile Selassie nan Karayib la an 1966 / Morality and Maritime Robbery in Caribbean Public History Chair: Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies Valerie Kaussen, University of Missouri Assessing the Impact of Haile Selassie's Trip to the Caribbean Swashbuckling Humanitarianism in Haiti: Disaster Capitalism in 1966 and Celebrity Scott Parker, Sierra College TUESDAY TUESDAY Sheri-Marie Harrison, University of Missouri The Torch of Wisdom Aloft: Haile Selassie and Afro- Celebrities and Samolans or the Hollywood Jet-set and the Repatriation Making of a Nation Jahlani Niaah, University of the West Indies Leah Rosenberg, University of Florida The Significance of Haile Selassie's visit to Haiti, Trinidad and A Pirate’s Daughter: Rethinking Piracy, Nation, & Jamaican Jamaica Literature” Jake Homiak, Smithsonian Institute 5:10 PM - 5:20 PM The Lion Steps forth: The unprecedented State Visit of Haile Afternoon Break 2 / Receso Vespertino 2/Pause Café/ Selassie to the Caribbean Poz kafé 2 Trojean Burrell, University of the West Indies, Mona L Sessions 5:20 PM - 6:35 PM The Significance of Haile Selassie's visit to Haiti, Trinidad and L1 Marriott Ayizan 2 Jamaica

After Disenchantment: Rethinking Caribbean Political L4 Marriott Kowosol Concepts Tras el desencanto: Repensando los conceptos políticos en el FILM TRACK - Black and Cuba Caribe SÉANCE CINÉMA-VIDEO - Black and Cuba Apre desepsyon: Repanse konsèp polititk yo nan Karayib la PREZANTASYON FIM : Nwa e Kiba

Chair: Yarimar Bonilla, Robin Hayes, The New School

Louis Philippe Romer, New York University L5 Marriott Kolibri Terrace

G - L Island of Disenchantment: sovereignty and the affective heu- ristics of failure in Curaçao Haitian Migrants: Challenges, Categorization, and Re- building Eman Morsi, New York University Migrantes haitianos: Desafíos, categorizaciones y reconstruc- Marooned Nation: Trope Reversals in Alberto Pedro Torriente’s ción play Manteca Imigran ayisyen: defi, kategorizasyon ak rekonstriksyon

SESSIONS 12 TUESDAY Chair: Karen Flynn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ecos de Revolución: Recordar en las literaturas haitianas Race, the state, and Haitian women in Rezonans revolisyon: rafrechi memwa nan literati ayisyen

Hyacinth Miller, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Marsha Jean-Charles, Cornell University "Transnational Migration and Haitians in the : A “Ou sé Kat Identitem san Ou Cheri’m Pa Existé”: Passage, Nos- Demographic Report" talgie, /

a Black Feminist Citizenship in Dyaspora Art MARDI Terry Ann Jones, Fairfield University Migrants, Refugees, and the Politics of Immigrant Categoriza- Marshall Smith, Cornell University tion Everything Scatter: The Idea of Haiti in Circum-Caribbean Cul- tural Eliezer Marcellus, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey- Production / MARTES From Ashes to Recovery: The Haitian Diaspora and the Rebuil- ding of Haiti L9 Marriott Ayizan 1

L6 Marriott Courtyard Pergola The International Reach of Afro-Caribbean Religious Roots Narrating the Haitian Diaspora El alcance internacional de las raíces religiosas afro-caribeñas Narrando la diáspora haitiana Ekstansyon entènasyonal rasin relijyon Afro karayibeen yo Detaye dyaspora ayisyèn la Chair: LeGrace Benson, Journal of Haitian Studies Chair: Laura Lomas, Rutgers University Newark Vodou and White Southern Cultures: Parallels and Conjunc- tions Mara de Gennaro, ICLS Columbia University and Gallatin School Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, Southern University at The Transnationalist Art of Narrating a Massacre Museum Studies Program African Makandal's Pharmacopeia of Revolt Sophie Mariñez, Borough of Community College The Quisqueya Diaspora: The Emergence of Latina/o Literature Toni Pressley-Sanon, Eastern Michigan University from Hispaniola A wedding in Haiti: Ezili, Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Josée Valcourt, Rutgers University-Newark L10 Digicel Conference Room A The Hibiscus Project Caribbean Representations and Art Forms L7 Marriot Foyer Reprezantasyon karayibeen ak fòm atisitk Représentations caribéennes et formes artistiques PERFORMANCE Y ARTES VISUALES: Korimakao Presenta: "Memorias del cieno" Chair: Yanick St Jean , NorthWest Arkansas Community Col- PERFORMANCE & VISUAL ARTS: Korimakao Presents: lege (NWACC) "Memories from the Mire" Transnational Hispaniola: Counter-frame: response to repre-

PERFORMANCE ET ARTS VISUELS: Korimakao présente: sentations of Haiti in the Dominican Republic SESSIONS "Mémoires de la boue" Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA Yander Roche, Conjunto Artístico Outer Spaces: Caribbean Arts Beyond Earth

L8 Digicel 6th Floor Conference Rm B Doris Posch, New York University/US, Film Academy Vienna,

University of Vienna/Austria G - L Reverberating (R)evolutions: Re-membering in Haitian Moving Images/Imaginaries of Haiti and de-Westernizing Film Literatures Cultures

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Tamara Stevens, Bridgewater State University Rencontres - Association des Universitaires et Écrivaines Car- Caribbean Folklore: Sustaining the Future Through Tales of the ibéennes (ACWWS) Past Rankont - Asosyasyon Fanm Pwofesè ak Ekriven Karayib (ACWWS)  Association of Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars

MARTES 6:30 PM

/ Gingerbread Houses Tour with ACURIL & FOKAL (ACWWS) – Marriott Restaurant La Sirène Vizit Kay jinjèbrèd ak ACURIL & FOKAL  Haitian Studies Association (HSA) – Marriott Ayizan Ter- Visite des maisons de style Gingerbread avec ACURIL et FOKAL race  Small Axe Celebration – Marriot Courtyard Pergola (meet in Marriott Lobby, sign up at Secretariat)  Transnational Hispaniola Group – Marriott Foyer

MARDI / 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Meet & Greet - Association of Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars (ACWWS) Encuentros y Saludos - Asociacion de las Profesoras y Escritoras Caribenas (ACWWS) TUESDAY TUESDAY

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