Date/Time: Thursday 4th - Friday 5th April 2019

Venue: Armstrong Building 1.06

Haitian Studies has undergone a dramatic growth in the Anglophone world over the past thirty years. Much of this work has been done by North American scholars. Considering Haiti’s long and complicated relationships with European countries including France, Great Britain, and Germany, this symposium aims to bring new perspectives to the field by drawing together European-based scholars and practitioners. We welcome participants from various backgrounds, including museum professionals and volunteers, academics, curators and teachers in higher education, as well as artists and other practitioners.

Programme:

Thursday 4 April:
9:00 Welcome and registration
9:15 Welcome: Hannah Durkin & Vanessa Mongey
9:30-10:40 Session 1: Geographies
Nadine Baggioni “Haïti : un espace subalterne au cœur de la mondialisation”
Tabitha Mcintosh “Mapping the Kingdom of Haiti in Europe: digital possibilities and perspectives”
Wendy Asquith and Leah Gordon “Geographies of Port-au-Prince”
10:40-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-12:00 Session 2: Haiti & the World
Florian Kappeler “Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in the German-speaking World”
Jack Webb “Haiti in the British Imagination”
Ulrike Mühlschlegel “Haiti and the multilingual Caribbean: archives, data, sources”
12:00-13:00 Keynote Kate Hodgson “Songé St Domingo or Forget Haiti: Trans- imperial connections, national legacies”
13:00-14:30 Lunch break: lunch on your own
14:30-15:50 Session 3: Gender
Fiona de Hoog Cius “Female complicity in child slavery”
Raphael Hoermann “Gendered Representations of Haitian Revolutionary Heroism in Black Atlantic Culture”
Nicole Willson “Unmaking the Tricolore: Catherine Flon, Material Testimony and Occluded Narratives of Female-Led Resistance in the Haitian Revolution”
16:00-17:00 Keynote Anja Bandau “French popular theater of the 1790s and the transatlantic Representation of the Haitian Revolution”

Friday 5 April:
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:30 Session 4: Representations
Christian Høgsbjerg “The Haitian Revolution - a ‘bourgeois revolution’?”
Jonas Ross Kjærgård “European Interventions in the Transatlantic Print Culture of the Haitian Revolution: Dubroca and Rainsford”
Rachel Douglas “Moving Images of Haiti: Beyond Disaster Narratives”
10:30-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:50 Session 5: The 21st century
Andrea Steinke “Assemblages of Intervention: aid workers in Haiti”
Antony Stewart “Blan Andeyo: Being Haiti’s advocate in a far-away land”
John Cussans “Vodou 2.0: Countering Popular Misconceptions of Vodou for the 21st Century”
12:00-13:00 Keynote Leah Gordon “Haitian Art: multiple ideologies between the altar, the museum and the market place”

13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Discussion forum: future initiatives