Papers include:- Nick Nesbitt, Traversing Haiti, Beyond the Universal Phantasm
- Charles Forsdick, 'Our Past, Our Presents,and Our Possible Futures': Situating Toussaint Louverture
- Alberto Moreiras, Historicality and Historiography: Haiti and the Limits of World History
- Deborah Jenson, Placing Haiti on the Geo-psychoanalytic Map: Hypnose, Pathologies of the Middle Passage, and the Creolization of the Unconscious
- Kim Ives, How the Earthquake Has Affected Haiti's National Democratic Revolution and International Geopolitics
- David Scott, The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Ethos of Universal History
- Andrew Leak, Haiti's 'Nouveau Contract Social' of 2005: A Simulacrum of Citizenship
- Chris Bongie, (Not) Razing the Walls: The Post-Politics of 'World Literature'
- John Kranauskias, Haiti's Marvelous Revolution: Reflections on Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World
- Valerie Kaussen, Ghosts of Universal History
- Peter Hallward, Self-Emancipation and the Politics of Violence in Haiti
Full details in the Conference Programme. The event is free of charge. Enquiries to Nick Nesbitt. |