April 17-19: Mellon Partners in Humanities Education Workshop on Haiti: The Need to Know and Preserve the Past
Mellon Partners for Humanities Education
Center for Digital Humanities Workshop on Haiti
Register for the event here: https://forms.gle/dXLEkMhrmjnCA8QA7
When registering, please indicate if you plan to attend a special workshop on field digitization and International Standards for Digital Preservation with Professor David LaFevor.
Wednesday, April 17th
Noon Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar’s lunchtime presentation in Buttrick 123
Julia Gaffield, Georgia State University, “‘Je suis Chrétien, Chrétien, moi!’: Emperor Faustin I of Haiti and Abbé Moussa, Africain, and the Fight for a National Church”
Thursday, April 18th
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Welcoming Remarks and Introductions: Dean Bonnie J. Dow and Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities Mickey Casad, Vanderbilt University
9:30 Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University, “Before Toussaint: Slave Rebels and Black Auxiliaries in Española”
10:00 Miriam Erickson, Vanderbilt University, “The Diaspora of Spain’s Black Auxiliary Troops”
10:30 Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University, “False and Pretended Masters:” Freedom Lawsuits, Jurisdictional Legal Conflict, and the Haitian Diaspora to Cuba and the Antebellum US South”
11:00 Julia Gaffield, Georgia State University, “Haiti and the Atlantic World Website”, https://haitidoi.com/online-resources/primary-sources-atlantic-world/
Noon: Lunch
1:30 David LaFevor, University of Texas-Arlington, “Training Workshop on International Standards for Digital Preservation”
4:00 Haitian filmmaker, Wilna Julmiste Taylor, Vanderbilt University, presents her film, “Lumière douce, Lumière brilliant,” with Q&A to follow
Friday, April 19th
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Charlton (Chaz) Yingling, University of Louisville, “Dominicans and Haiti in the Age of Revolutions”
9:30 Charlton (Chaz) Yingling, University of Louisville and Angela Sutton, Vanderbilt University, “Mapping Desire and Race onto Early Modern Caribbean Space”
10:00 Frank Robinson, Vanderbilt University, “Historic and Modern Racism in Haiti”
10:30 Paula Covington, Vanderbilt University, Review of VU Library Holdings and Websites on Haiti
Noon Lunch
1:00 DeLisa Harris, Fisk University and Nathan Dize, Vanderbilt University, “The Haitian Papers Project at Fisk University
2:00 David LaFevor, University of Texas-Arlington, “Training Workshop on International Standards for Digital Preservation”
4:00 Closing reception