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Thursday 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm - Panel Session 1

BLACK INTERNATIONALISM AND RADICAL INTERNATIONAL POLITICS [91, 90, 67]
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• “Haitian Flag Day is Black History”: Locating Bahamian Identity within a Shared Diasporic Heritage of the Haitian Revolution
   Ermitte Saint Jacques (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

• Brothers in Arms : Haitian Solidarities and Contributions during the Dominican Revolution of 1965
   Franchesca Campos (University of Pittsburgh)

• Imagining Haiti, Fighting Imperialism: Black Nationalist Women’s Writing in the Negro World During the U.S. Occupation, 1915 – 1934
   Katharina Weygold (Brown University)

REPARATIONS AS TRANSFORMATION: CLIMATE JUSTICE, MIGRANT JUSTICE, AND THE PROJECT OF REPAIR FOR HAITI [85]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: Ellie Happel (NYU School of Law)
• Gabrielle Apollon (NYU Law)
• Sienna Merope-Synge (NYU Law)
• Nixon Boumba (American Jewish World Service)

HAITIAN EPISTEMOLOGIES AND PRACTICES OF REPAIR [35, 81, 77] Hybrid Session
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• Decolonizing Global Health Knowledge in Haiti: Toward Epistemic Reparations through Postcolonial and Foucauldian Critique
   Ammcise Apply (Binghamton University)

• Challenging the Colonial Classroom: Mobile Technology, Haitian Epistemologies, and the Remaking of Instructional Practices
   Alexandra Morgan-Kisarale (New York University)

• A Radical Queer Black Feminist Approach to Improved Quantitation of Lost Opportunity Cost of Haitian Indemnity Payments
   Jovan Julien (Georgia Institute of Technology)


Friday 9:00 am – 10:15 am: Panel Session 2

"RÉSISTANCE ET RÉPARATION : CORPS, ÉCOLOGIE ET ÉCONOMIE DANS LES RÉCITS HAÏTIENS" [12]
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MODERATOR: Apolline Lagarde (University of Maryland)
"Son regard, arme de lutte dans La Dance sur le volcan"
   Hamdia Braimah (University of Maryland)
"Brasaj économique et rasanblaj culturel : Les Madan Sara comme archétype de la résilience haïtienne"
   Daniel Guerrero Hernandez (University of Maryland)
"Dette écologique et réparation narrative : Les savoirs haïtiens contre l'écocide colonial"
   Apolline Lagarde (University of Maryland)

THE PATH TO VISUAL AND CULTURAL REPARATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE [46]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: Petrouchka Moise (Grinnell College)
Coding "Beyond Provenance"
   Princess Alexander (Grinnell College)
Connecting the Haitian Diaspora Through Public-Facing Designs
   Cadence Chen (Grinnell)
Digital Restitution through Critical Cataloging & Design
   Vivian Finch (Grinnell College)

CENTERING WOMEN NAVIGATING HAITI [37, 22, 49]
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• Women's bodies as lost territories, Erasure of Haitian Women during crisis time
   Catheline Desire (University of Miami Florida)

• Survivance and Repair in Haitian Girlhood Narratives
   leyla chery (Cambridge University)

• Can the Subaltern be Archived? Radio Haiti and Healing Social Relationships
   Randy Pierre

GRASPING TO COLONIALITY: FRANCE AND THE FIRST STEPS OF THE INDEMNITY [5,14, 20] Hybrid Session
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• Rançon de l’indépendance d’Haïti (1825) : mécanisme d’instauration de la colonialité par la France
   Walner Osna (Université d'Ottawa)

• : Henry Christophe’s refusal to pay reparations to France;Boyer's Reparations
   LeGrace Benson (Independent scholar)

• Alexandre Pétion, foreign agents, and the defense of Haitian sovereignty, 1806-1818
   Martha van Bakel (Freie Universität Berlin)


Friday 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Panel Session 3

THE HAITIAN ELITES: VILLAINS OR VICTIMS? [26]
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MODERATOR: Darlene Dubouisson (University of California, Berkeley)
• Darlene Dubuisson (University of California, Berkeley)
• Alex Dupuy (Wesleyan University)
• Jean-Philippe Belleau (University of Massachusetts Boston)
• Philippe Marius (CUNY)

TEMWAYAJ: AN EXPLORATION OF INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE THROUGH THE WISDOM OF HAITIAN ELDERS [83]
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MODERATOR: Kimberlee Lalane (A.S.I.L.I. Collective at University of Massachusetts Boston)
• Niara Carrenard (A.S.I.L.I. Collective at University of Massachusetts Boston)
• Sherryn Luma (A.S.I.L.I. Collective at University of Massachusetts Boston)
• Sahelanda Gelin (A.S.I.L.I. Collective at University of Massachusetts Boston)

SOLIDARITÉ ET ENGAGEMENT DES DIASPORAS HAÏTIENNES À TRAVERS LES FRONTIÈRES, UN LAKOU TRANSNATIONAL [9]
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• Lyns-Virginie Belony (Université de Montréal)
• Christ Mao David Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM))
• Magdalee Brunache (University of Toronto)
• Jeffney Ferdin (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM))

MIGRATION AND DIASPORA CIVIC ENGAGMENT [43, 63]
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• Migration et investissements immobiliers en Haïti
   Hubermane Ciguino (Université Quisqueya/CREGED)

• Civic Engagement in the U.S. Haitian Diaspora: A Case Study of the Association of Haitian Professionals
   George MacLeod (St. Mary's College of Maryland)

COLONIALISME ET RÉPARATIONS [34, 33, 40] Hybrid Session
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• 1825 : Comment résister en migration pour la restitution et réparation ?
   Léo D Pizo BIEN-AIMÉ (Paris Cité)

• La restitution et réparation : un devoir moral et historique face à l'injustice et à l'extorsion coloniales
   Wilgens Exil (Federal University of Espirito Santo)

• D’un certain usage de la mémoire de l'expérience coloniale/esclavagiste pour la restitution et la réparation
   Jhon Picard Byron (Université d'Etat d'Haiti)


Friday 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm: Panel Session 4

REPAIRING THE FUTURE: BLACK FEMINIST RESTORATION, DECOLONIAL LINGUISTICS, AND HAITIAN GRASSROOTS RECLAMATIONS [13]
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MODERATOR: Amy Jones (University of Maryland, College Park)
Restoring the Self and Reimagining the Future Through Haitian Epistemology
   Amy Jones (University of Maryland, College Park)
Trickster Linguistics: Decolonizing Pronouns through Hoodoo and Vodou Epistemologies
   Taylor Lewis (University of Maryland, College Park)
The NGO Paradox: How Foreign Aid Undermines Haitian Self-Determination
   Dramane Bationo (University of Maryland, College Park)

THE HAITIAN DIASPORA AND THE COMPLEXITY OF GLOBAL BLACK SOLIDARITIES [24]
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MODERATOR: Llana Barber (University of Minnesota)
"The Plantation is Everywhere": African American Solidarity with Haitian Refugees, 1978-1995
   Naiya Edwards (Morgan State University)
"Help Bring Harmony to our Community": Haitians and Black Americans in New York City and the Korean Grocer Boycott"
   Willie Mack (University of Missouri)
Nativism and the Carceral State in the Decolonizing Bahamas
   Llana Barber (University of Minnesota)

RÉPARATION ET RESTITUTION DANS DES TEXTES LITTÉRAIRES ET NON LITTÉRAIRES AFRICAINS : L’ANGLE AFRICAIN ET PANAFRICAIN [47]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: VIVIANE UETTO (MOREHOUSE COLLEGE)
• GNAKA LAGOKE (LINCOLN COLLEGE)
• VIVIANE UETTO (MOREHOUSE COLLEGE)

FARMING AND THE CREOLE PIG: RURAL REPARATIONS [29, 59, 52]
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• The Capitalist Environment and the Eradication of the Creole Pig
   Peter Wassell

• The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss
   Dudley Alexis (Epyllion Studio), Alexandra Cenatus (Maryland Humanities)

• Emotional Toll of Parental Farmwork: Voices of Haitian Farmworkers’ Children in the United States
   Beatrice Pierre (University of Florida), Tracy Irani

CHALLENGES TO SOVEREIGNTY: INTERNATIONAL NON GOVERNMENTAL INTERVENTION [25, 61, 72] Hybrid Session
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• CARICOM and the Failure of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT)
   Francois Pierre-Louis (Queens College CUNY)

• Reparations in the Republic of NGOs
   Mark Schuller (Northern Illinois University)

• Negative Health Risk Factors in Haitian Charcoal Cooking; Initial Field Research
   Kevin Adair Hineline (Illinois State University), Nel-Ange St Cyr (Université du Québec à Rimouski)


Saturday 9:00 am – 10:15 am: Panel Session 5

KREYÒL NAN INIVÈSITE NAN ETAZINI: ETID KA SOU TWA INIVÈSITE, DUKE UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AK PRINCETON UNIVERSITY [11]
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MODERATOR: Johnny Laforet (Princeton University)
Kreyòl nan Duke University
   Jacques Pierre (Duke University)
Kreyòl nan The University of Chicago
   Gerdine Ulysse (The University of Chicago)
Kreyòl nan Princeton University
   Johnny Laforet (Princeton University)

WOUKOUKOU POU TWA MAPOU KI TONBE: REMEMBERING THE WORK AND LEGACY OF DANIELLE LEGROS GEORGES, FRANKÉTIENNE AND ANTHONY PHELPS [30]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: Cecile Accilien (University of Maryland)
• Anne Marie Francois-Hurley (Arcadia University)
• Patrick Sylvain (Simmons University)
• Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (University of Amsterdam)
• Michaëlle Vilmont (Duke University)

CARIBBEAN LIVES IN THE 19TH CENTURY [74]
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MODERATOR: Chelsea Stieber (Tulane University)
• Julia` Gaffield (The College of William & Mary)
• Marlene Daut (Yale University)
• Christina Davidson (University of Southern California)
• Chelsea Stieber (Tulane University)

COLONIALITY AND INDEMNITY IN THE HAITIAN NOVEL [57,68, 86 ]
ROOM:
• Fiction as Resistance in Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey’s "Combats"
   Eliana Vagalau (Loyola University Chicago)

• Madness as Ruse in Le livre d'Emma
   Joslyn Gardner (Emory University)

• Thinking Debt, Thinking Its Symbolic Power over the Haitian Subject as an Epistemic Being: Silence, Coloniality, and the Idea of a Haitian National Novel
   Lorvens Aurelien (Columbia University)

BREAKING THE SILENCE AND RECLAIMING NARRATIVES OF REPAIR [3, 75, 73] Hybrid Session
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• Briser le silence. Écrire et commémorer les grandes déportations haïtiennes de 1802-1803
   Peraut Marcandria (Université de Corse, Université des Antilles, Maison française d'Oxford)

• Narrative Reparation: Re-Portraying Haiti in the context of International News Media
   Evens E. Lange

• Commodity Circulation, Hyper-Consumption, and Transnational Justice in Un Alligator nommé Rosa
   Chloe Hamer (Independent Scholar)

INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERPRETATIONS OF REPAIR [70, 23] Hybrid Session
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• Twa fèy, twa rasin: Reclamation of Vodou in Milady Auguste’s Sur les traces de Man Bonne
   Meaghan Coogan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• The Sphinx’s Riddle: Prismatic Translation and Environmental Reparation in Hadriana dans tous mes rêves
   Shao-Chi Ou (University of Oregon)


Workshops 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Workshops

KNOWING OTHERWISE: QUEER EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AND THE CREATIVE WORK OF REPAIR - A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION [89]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: Dasha Chapman (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Cécile Accilien (University of Maryland College Park)
• Siobhan Meï (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Jonathan Square (Parsons School of Design)
• Ryan Joyce (The Ohio State University)

ATELYE SOU GID DEVLOPMAN KOMINOTE AKSÈ SOU VALÈ AK PRENSIP KONBIT [100]
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MODERATOR: Cassandra Jean François (Gwoup Konbit / Konbit San Pou San)
• Louino Robillard (Gwoup Konbit)
• Joseph Jethro Sereme Sereme (Gwoup Konbit)
• Patrick Honore (Gwoup Konbit)

RESTITUTION IN ACTION: COMMUNITY DEFENSE, LEGAL ADVOCACY, AND THE RIGHT TO REMAIN [103]
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MODERATOR: Darlène Dubuisson (UC Berkeley)

PEDAGOGICAL BRASAJ: SHARING SYLLABI, MODULES, AND BEST PRACTICES [36]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: Alessandra Benedicty (University of Amsterdam)

LAW AND LITERATURE: INTERPRETATIONS OF REPARATIONS (HYBRID) [16, 18, 79] Hybrid Session
ROOM:
• Pourquoi Haiti doit reclamer restitution de la rancon de l'Independance?
   Fritz Deshommes (Comité National Haitien pour Les Restitutions et Reparations)

• Reparasyon and Metabolic Reading: Toward a Haitian Ethics of Interpretation
   Nicolas NOE (Indiana University Bloomington)

• “Bovarysme” Revisited: Indebtedness, Cultural Nationalism and Political Economy in Haitian indigénisme
   Christopher Bonner (Texas A&M University)


Saturday 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm: Panel Session 6

BETWEEN SOVEREIGNTY AND REPAIR: CURATING HAITIAN ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE [71]
ROOM:
MODERATOR: Petrouchka Moïse (Grinnell College)
• Siobhan Meï (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Jonathan Square (The New School)
• Nathan Dize (Washington University in Saint Louis)

AGRIBUSINESS, CLIMATE, AND RESTITUTION [62,66]
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• SHADA: An Ecological Swindle in Search of Reparations
   Lois Wilcken (La Troupe Makandal)

• The Institutionalization of Extraction: The Ransom of 1825 and the Economic Trajectory of Postcolonial Haiti
   Carl-Henry Cadet

THE UNFORGETTABLE MAN: THE LEGACY OF RICHARD BRISSON AND QUEER HAITIAN RESISTANCE [78]
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• Katherine Steelman (MiraCosta College)
• Laura Wagner (Independent Scholar)

SOUND, RITUAL, AND ASSEMBLAGE IN HAITIAN RESISTANCE [101, 55, 38] Hybrid Session
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• Ritual Sounding: Vocality, Vodou, Vision
   Collin Edouard (Yale University)

• "If Rainbows had Voices:" Lumane Casimir and Sartorial Resistance
   Isabelle Duval (Cornell University)

• E Pluribus Unum
   Guillermina De Ferrari (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

HISTORICAL STRUGGLES FOR RESTITUTION [64, 39, 92] Hybrid Session
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• Sugar, the State, and A Commercial Empire: The Bass Family and the Exploitation of the Dominican Cane Sugar Industry, 1887-1912
   Joseph Sturgeon (Yale University)

• From Collapse to Restitution: Haiti’s Elite and the Demand for Economic Transformation
   Claire Pierre (National Tsing Hua University), Jackson Merinor (National Chung Hsing University)

• "Mwen pa yon esklav": preliminary notes on the plants and the revolutionary tradition in Haiti
   Miguel da Cruz Almeida Rocha (State University of Campinas (Unicamp))

VIOLENCE AS LEGACY OF THE INDEMNITY [2, 6, 19, 104] Hybrid Session
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• The Defeat of Dechoukaj: The Shadow of Duvalierism in Haiti and the Tonton Makout of the 21st Century
   Sebastian Hersey

• Instrumentalisation de la violence dans un contexte de réparation et de restitution
   Djems Olivier (Université d'Etat d'Haïti)

• The role of neocolonialism and imperialism in Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic
   Daniel Joseph (Eastern Kentucky University)

• Legal Transculturation and a Deep History of San Pedro de Marcorís, 1780s-1876
   April Mayes (Pomona College)


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