A Colloquium organized by The Henri Peyre French Institute with the support of Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libète (FOKAL)
17 March 2016
City College Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
NY, NYC 10004
AND
18 March 2016
The Segal Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016 USA
Keynote Speakers: Etienne Tassin (Université Paris-Diderot) and William O’Neill (CPPF – Social Science Research Council)
All Events Free and Open to the Public (though Government-issued IDs required for building entrance)
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Colloquium Program
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Thursday, 17 March 2016
09:30 Welcome
10:00 Overture
Introduction
Francesca Canadé Sautman, Director, Henri Peyre French Institute
Opening Speech
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, President, FOKAL
10:30 Panel 1.– Impunité et Histoire, Histoire de l’Impunité
Impunity and History, Impunity in History
Moderator: Francesca Canadé Sautman
Florence Gauthier
Comment prendre en compte l’exclusion du peuple dans l’histoire de l’Indépendance haïtienne?
Laënnec Hurbon
Les sources historiques et anthropologiques de l’impunité en Haïti
Vertus Saint-Louis
Autour de l’assassinat de Dessalines: un document révélateur.
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Panel 2 – Impunité, Agir politiquement/ Impunity, Acting politically
Moderator: Michèle Montas
Nathalie Lamaute-Brisson
De l´impunité à la lutte contre l’impunité. Pour l´instauration de nouveaux rapports au passé
Danièle Magloire
Libérer Haïti de l’impunité
Jocelyn McCalla
“Koupe tèt boule kay” and “Rache manyòk bay tè a blanch”: Haiti’s guiding principles
Alrich Nicolas
Figures de l’impunité, oblitération de la mémoire et mise en scène de la réconciliation dans l’Haïti contemporaine
15:00 The Forum On Impunity/ Le forum sur l’Impunité en Haiti
Michèle Montas & Jasmine Claude Narcisse
Impunité en Haïti et opinion publique. État des lieux ?
15 :30 Book Presentation and Signing
Michèle Pierre-Louis & Etienne Tassin
De la Dictature à la Démocratie ?
http://goo.gl/IdrcGI – Proceedings of the colloquium of the same title held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in June 2014
16:00 Break
16:30 Projection & Discussion
Jacques Stephen Alexis: Mort Sans-sépulture
A documentary by Arnold Antonin
Panel 3: Arnold Antonin, Thomas Spear, J-Pierre Richard Narcisse
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Friday 18 March 2016
9:30 Welcome
10:00 Panel 4– Impunité, Agir politiquement/ Impunity, Acting politically
Le dossier de la République Dominicaine/ The DR Dossier
Moderator: Kiran Jayaram
Sophia Cantave
“Se Mѐt Kò ki Veye Kò:” Resisting the Terror of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic and on the Haitian Border.
Sophie Maríñez
The Perejil Massacre in the Dominican Republic and its Sequel in the 21st Century: Impunity and Responsibility
11:00 Panel 5– Impunité, Droits de la personne et procès en justice/ Impunity, Human Rights and Procedurial Justice
Moderator: William O’Neill
Allen Kim
Between Reformism and Repression: The History of the Local Human Rights Movement in Haïti
Michèle Montas
Opinion publique, volonté politique et les procès de l’après Duvalier/Public opinion, political will and some post Duvalier trials.
Pascal Paradis
The Duvalier Case: Emblematic, Indispensable and Far From Over /Le cas Duvalier: emblématique, indispensable et loin d’être terminé.
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Keynote panel
Moderator & Respondent: Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis
William O’Neill
Ending Impunity in Haiti: how can international law help?
Etienne Tassin
Responsabilité personnelle et dictature
15:30 Break
15:45 Panel 6. Dire (contre) l’impunité / Speaking (Against) Impunity. Narratives
Moderator: Jasmine Claude Narcisse
Nathan Dize
Acting Political/Political Action: Antoine Innocent, Fin-de-Siècle Haitian Theater, and Nord Alexis
Katia Gottin
Paroles déchues: crise du processus testimonial en Haïti.
Régine Joseph
Paradoxes of the Responsible Citizen: Impunity in Roumain, Alexis and Chauvet
17:15 Panel 7 – Impunity et Mémoire / Impunity and Memory
Moderator: Domna Stanton
Kesler Bien-Aimé
Les régimes mémoriels du duvaliérisme
Yvanne Joseph
Talking Back: Narrative Expressions of Life under Papa Doc’s Reign
Ayanna Legros
Radio Song: Haitian Exiles, Political Activism, and the Fight for Human Rights
Célia Romulus & Yasmine Djerbal
Rumour and Artistic Performances as Forms of Testimony – Between Disciplining the Body and Collective Healing in Algeria and Haiti.
18:15 Closing Remarks
18:30 Reception
