Announcements

Please save the date for Friday, September 23, 2016. Manno Charlemagne will be joining us in concert! Free and open to the public. For more info please contact: jacques.pierre@duke.edu

It’s time for a theatre festival! In theatre and conversation, we are gathering for Border Story Fest this spring. The theme is the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti and joining us will be professors, writers and storytellers on the subject. We warmly welcome our visiting participants: Évelyne Trouillot (Université d’Etat d’Haïti), Edward Paulino (CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and Samantha Galarza (Rutgers University). Please mark your calendars.

Tuesday, March 29 @ 6:30pm: (Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall)

Monologues, One-Man Show & Opening Reception

Wednesday, March 30 @ 12pm: (Duke West Campus- Old Chem, Room 011)

Forum for Scholars and Publics Panel with Professors Edward Paulino & Évelyne Trouillot.

Lunch at 11:45.

Friday, April 8 @ 7pm: (Duke East Campus- Brody Theater)

Monologues, Play Excerpt, Actors & Closing Reception

Sponsors: Haiti Lab John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke University’s Department of Romance Studies, Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Telling Our Stories of Home” conference (https://tellingourstories.web.unc.edu).

Catering provided by: La Tropicale Catering and Makus Empanadas

Please mark your calendars for the final screening of the 5th annual Haitian Film Festival curated by Jacques Pierre (Duke University). All screenings will be held on Duke’s campus.

Thursday, March 10, 6:30 pm
“Journey Through Frankétienne’s Worlds”
Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Friday, March 25, 6:30 pm
“Haitian Corner”
240 John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall

Friday, April 1 @ 6:30pm
Jacques Stephen Alexis: Dead Without a Burial Site
Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Friday, April 15 @ 6:30 pm
“When the Drum is Beating”
240 John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall

We are very excited for an author event coming up before the end of the month!

Please join for another joint Haiti Lab and Story Lab event, this one featuring Laura Wagner, PhD (UNC, Anthropology and Radio Haiti archivist). She will be reading excerpts from her young adult novel, Hold Tight Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti. The Q&A will be moderated by Robin Kirk, Faculty Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Thursday, February 25, 5:30-7pm

Novel Discussion & Reception

Duke Smith Warehouse, FHI Story Lab (Bay 4, Room C106)

November 18, 1803

The victory of the armée indigène on that fateful day against the French shook the foundations of the Atlantic world. Come see Professor Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec speak about what it meant for Haiti: the right to be black, alive and free, and the right of citizenship beyond the boundary of race that triumphed at the Battle of Vertières.

November 18, 2015
5:15-7pm
Duke University’s Smith Warehouse
Bay 4, FHI Garage (C105)

For further info please contact Jacques Pierre at jacques.pierre@duke.edu

Duke’s Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies is celebrating our 2nd annual International Creole Day on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m. in the John Hope Franklin Center, room 240.

Our special guest will be Michaeline A. Crichlow, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke

At 5:00 p.m., there will be student presentations in Creole with English handouts by:
Sandie Blaise (Duke University): “Fèt kreyòl: literati ak kesyon sosyal”
Tara Kingsley (Vanderbilt University): “Esperyans mwen nan kominote kiche ak ayisyen an.

At 5:35 p.m., Professor Crichlow will give her talk “Creolization, Americanity, and the Global Caribbean” followed by questions from the audience.

At 6:40pm, Mariana Magloire (Duke University) will present “Kont Kreyòl: Ti kolibrit, ti kabrit, ak ti chat k ap fè laviwonndede ak mizik”

At 7 p.m., there will be a Haiti Lab Welcome Reception in Franklin Center 130.

All are welcome. Se Kreyòl nou ye!

Co-sponsored by: Haiti Lab, Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Center for French & Francophone Studies, and the Department of Romance Studies.

For more information contact Jacques Pierre, Co-director of the Haiti Lab at jp189@duke.edu

Duke’s Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies is celebrating our 2nd annual International Creole Day on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m. in the John Hope Franklin Center, room 240.

Our special guest will be Dr Ben Hebblethwaite, Associate Professor in Haitian Creole, Haitian & Francophone Studies at the University of Florida.

At 5:00 p.m., there will be student presentations featuring Haley Thalbot (Duke) and Gabrielle Charlotte Patterson (Univ of Virginia) and their talk, “Ki jan kreyòl la makonnen yo ak Ayiti.” Also, Michael Becker, Ph.D student in Department of History at Duke will present, “Deplòtonnen sa Ayisyen panse sou revolisyon peyi yo ak entèpretasyon  sa ki  kouche nan achiv.” The talks will be in Creole, with handouts in English provided.

At 6 p.m., Professor Hebblethwaite will give his talk “Cycles of Salutation in the Rada Rite:Fundamentals and Particulars in the Greetings of the Haitian Vodou Rada Spirits,” followed by questions from the audience.

At 7 p.m., there will be a Haiti Lab Welcome Reception in Franklin Center 130.

Dr. Hebblethwaite has won two national grants, one from the National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research grant (2012-2015) with co-PI Laurent Dubois at Duke University and another from the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2013) with PI Mariana Past at Dickinson College. He is the author of two books (Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English and Une saison en enfer / Yon sezon matchyavèl, with Jacques Pierre), 12 articles, 1 book chapter and 1 digital publication. Past and Hebblethwaiteare currently working on a critical edition of Michel Rolph Trouillot’s (1977) Haitian Creole masterpiece, Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti.

All are welcome. Se Kreyòl nou ye!

Co-sponsored by the Haiti Lab, Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, Duke University Center for International Studies, Center for French & Francophone Studies, and the Department of Romance Studies.

Welcome to the Haiti Lab web archive!

The first Humanities Laboratory at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, the Haiti was launched in Fall 2010 as a three-year project. What a three years it has been! This website has been designed to document the impressive range and diversity of work produced by the Lab’s faculty and students over this period – not only to celebrate and showcase this work, but also to make it available to researchers, teachers, and students interested in Haiti. Whenever possible we have embedded multimedia content – and have also tried to be as thorough as possible in linking to faculty/student research and publication that live elsewhere on the web.

Though the Lab is nearing its official end, this site is by no means a closed book. We are still transferring some older materials from the FHI website, and will continue to update the site as projects come to fruition. If you notice anything missing from the site, please feel free to contact us at fhi [at] duke.edu.

We’ve put together a brief guide to the website and its features here.  We hope you find the resources on this site helpful!

UPDATE 4/30/13: The conference panels were livestreamed – please view the archived videos here! 

—

Please join the Haiti Lab on April 11-12 for Humanitarianism in Haiti: Visions and Practice. The culminating project of Prof. Joshua Nadel’s “Haiti Project” course, this conference seeks to bring together grassroots activists and donors, international NGO workers and theorists to critically assess both the aims of humanitarian and development aid and the efficacy of aid design and delivery.

For more information, please visit the conference website: https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/humanitarianisminhaiti/