9:00 AM • Opening Remarks
Biddy Martin, Provost, Cornell University

9:10 – 9:20 AM • Welcoming Remarks

Salah Hassan, Acting Director, Africana Studies & Research Center
Brett de Bary, Director, Society for the Humanities

9:20 – 9:30 AM • Introductory Remarks

Fouad Makki, Conference Coordinator, Africana Studies & Research Center

9:30 – 12:00 PM • SESSION I:
THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION AND NEW WORLD SLAVERY

Chair: Robert Harris, Vice Provost and Professor, Africana Studies, Cornell University

Robin Blackburn, Department of Sociology, Essex University and Historical Studies, New School University
“The Haitian Revolution and the Narrative of Progress.”

Julius S. Scott, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Saint-Domingue and the Revolutionary Imaginary of the 1790s: The Case of Sasportas.”

Carolyn Fick, Department of History, Concordia University
“The Haitian Revolution and the Rights of Man: Slave
Emancipation, Citizenship and the Emerging Nation.”

Discussant: Margaret Washington, Department of History, Cornell University

2:00 – 4:30 PM • SESSION II:
THE BLACK JACOBINS AND THE MODERN WORLD

Chair: Viranjini Munasinghe, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Laurent Dubois, Department of History, Michigan State University
“Louverture, Dessalines, and the Quest for Sovereignty.”

Winston James, Department of History, Columbia University
“Vindicating the Negro Race: Haiti and Toussaint
Louverture as Symbols in 19th and 20th Century Black
Political Thought.”

Dale Tomich, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University
“Saint-Domingue a disparu, mais Haiti n’est pas encore:
Victor Schoelcher and the Haitian Revolution.”

Discussant: Edward E. Baptist, Department of History, Cornell University

4:30 – 6:30 PM Reception (Society for the Humanities)

7:00 – 8:30 PM Edwidge Danticat,
Award-winning novelist, Reading and Book Reception
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall