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.”
"Un/Making Graphic History:
BD and Narratives of Resistance in French" Call for Papers
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]
EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Papers
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)
“Today is Juneteenth. If I had anti-racist education, I would know more about what that actually means.”
8 JUNE 2022
By journalists who covered Haïti during the 2001 to 2004 era
Submitted to AlterPresse on June 4, 2022
Congratulations to Jennifer L. Palmer, recipient of the 2021 Histoire sociale / Social History Best Article prize, for her article “‘She persisted in her Revolt’: Between Slavery and Freedom in Saint-Domingue,” 53, no. 107 (2020).
The article will be freely available on Project MUSE for the duration of the year.
Find it here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757131
The citation from the Prize committee:
May 25, 2022 Dr. Celucien Joseph
Day 24 in Haitian Heritage Month: The “Indemnity” of 1825: The Haitian Receipts
Last weekend, the New York Times published an extraordinary investigation into one of history’s most odious debts: the payments Haiti made to French slaveholders in return for recognising its independence. The idea of compensating slaveholders for the loss of ‘their property’ – i.e.
Ex-correspond de l'Associated Press en Haïti, auteur de deux ouvrages, The Big Truck That Went By : How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, qui traite du tremblement de terre de 2010, et, plus récemment, de Gangsters of Capitalism : Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire, Jonathan M Katz partage son analyse de la série d’articles du New York Times.
By Jon ALLSOP
EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
The Caribbean literature collective Kwazman Vwa would like to invite you to join us
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.
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.
MECHANISMS OF REPRESSION AND REFORM
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