9:00 – 11:30 AM • SESSION III:
EMANCIPATION AND THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION

Chair: Ayele Bekerie, Africana Studies, Cornell University

Ivy Wilson, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
“Between Nation and Empire: Toussaint Louverture and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination.”

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Department of Africology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“The Haitian Revolution in Worldwide Contexts: Cultural Factors in
National Development.”

Dorothy Désir, Independent Scholar
“Gyrating on the Hips of Gédé: Haitian Art (Re)defined.”

Discussants:
Natalie Melas, Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Jacques Coursil, Romance Studies, Cornell University

1:00 – 3:30 PM • SESSION IV:
POST-EMANCIPATION AND THE WAGES OF SOVEREIGNTY

Chair: James Turner, Africana Studies, Cornell University

Franklin Knight, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
“The Haitian Revolution and the Idea of Human Rights.”

Mimi Sheller, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
“Freedom Undone: Paradoxes of Peasant Resistance and State Control in Post-Revolutionary Haiti.”

Robert Fatton Jr., Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics,
University of Virginia
“Of Bayonets and Constitutions.”
Discussant: Locksley Edmondson, Africana Studies, Cornell University

4:00 – 5:30 PM ROUNDTABLE:
THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS

Moderator: Fouad Makki, Africana Studies, Cornell University

5:30 – 7:30 PM Reception (Africana Studies & Research Center)