Haiti: A Graduate Student Roundtable
Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 3:30 -5:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall
Reception featuring the work of Haitian historical painter Ulrick Jean-Pierre
Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 6:00 -7:30 PM
Room 204, Woldenberg Arts Center, Tulane
Nick Nesbitt keynote address, “Universal Emancipation: Haiti and the Idea of 1804”
Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 7:30 PM
Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Arts Center, Tulane
Roundtable A: "Historical, Cultural & Literary Meditations on the Haitian Revolution"
Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Amistad Research Center, Tulane
Roundtable B: "Meditations on Contemporary Haiti"
Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Hebert Hall, Room 201, Tulane
Michel Laguerre keynote address, "The Practice of Diasporic Politics: The Haitian Diaspora in the U.S."
Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 7:30 PM
Marquette Theater, Marquette Hall, Loyola
Reception preceding on the balcony of Marquette Hall or, in case of rain, outside the President's office.
Speaker biographies:
Nick Nesbitt is author of Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature (Univ.
of Virginia, 2003). He is currently working on a book entitled Universal Emancipation: The Haitian
Revolution and the Globalization of the Enlightenment.
Michel Laguerre is the author of numerous books on Haiti, including American Odyssey: Haitians in New
York City (Cornell, 1984), Military and Society in Haiti (Univ. of Tennessee, 1993), and Diasporic
Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America (Macmillan, 1998).