CFP's on H-Haiti

Discussion published by Claire Payton on Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Call for Seminar Participants: "Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History"

Laurent Dubois, Jalane Schmidt, and Louis Nelson invite applications from UVA faculty and graduate students, faculty from other universities, practitioners of public history, curators, and Charlottesville community members to join “Reimagining the American Landscape” an Andrew Mellon Foundation funded seminar hosted by the University of Virginia through the 2022-23 academic year.”

Discussion published by Anita Lundberg on Saturday, April 2, 2022

CFP special issue 'Tropical Materialisms: poetics, possibilities, practices

Special Issue Theme: Tropical Materialisms: poetics, possibilities, practices

Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate preconceived notions about the world - from built and natural environments to the fabric of time-and-space.[i] 

Recent Discussion

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Friday, October 14, 2022

As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself, by Michel DEGRAFF

As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself

Oct. 14, 2022, 5:01 a.m. ET

Students on the first day of school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Credit...Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  • By Michel DeGraff

Discussion published by Chelsea Stieber on Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Announcement: Two most recent biennial issues of the Revue de la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie (RSHHGG)

Two biennial issues of the Revue de la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie (RSHHGG) have recently been published. 

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Vodou Probably Isn’t What You Think, by Nadege GREEN

Vodou Probably Isn’t What You Think

The religion has been maligned for much of its history. But some Haitian Americans are reclaiming the narrative through their own journeys with spirituality.

By Nadege Green

Alain Pierre-Louis (far right) leads a ceremony for the Vodou lwa Agwe in Miami. (Woosler Delisfort)

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Monday, June 13, 2022

The depiction of the second presidency of Jean-Betrand Aristide: An Open Letter to the New York Times Regarding Haiti

The depiction of the second presidency of Jean-Betrand Aristide

An Open Letter to the New York Times Regarding Haiti

8 JUNE 2022

By journalists who covered Haïti during the 2001 to 2004 era

Submitted to AlterPresse on June 4, 2022

Announcements

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Thursday, December 9, 2021

RSVP for Responsive Roots: Vodou Beats Across the Waters, a virtual conversation about Haitian Vodou inspirations and the roots of musical responses to social upheaval

 

RSVP for Responsive Roots: Vodou Beats Across the Waters, a virtual conversation about Haitian Vodou inspirations and the roots of musical responses to social upheaval

You’re invited to Responsive Roots: Vodou Beats Across the Waters, a virtual conversation about Haitian Vodou inspirations and the roots of musical responses to social upheaval on Tuesday, December 7, at 10AM ET.

Discussion published by Adam Goodheart on Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship (four months, $20,000 + housing)

The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship. The Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship supports work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. Candidates with a U.S.