The discussion will be led by Laurent Dubois (Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy and Professor of History, University of Virginia), a leading scholar of the Haitian Revolution who is currently Academic Director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at University of Virginia. His publications include Avengers of the New World (Harvard UP, 2004) and A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004), which won four book prizes, including the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004); An Enslaved Enlightenment: Rethinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic (2006); Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010); Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012); The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (Harvard University Press, 2016) and Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean (UNC Press, 2019) which is co-authored with Richard Turits.
The event is cosponsored by the Program on Caribbean Studies and the Latin American Institute at UCLA, and Global Studies, Africana Studies, and Latin American Studies at William & Mary.
Speaker:
Widlore Mérancourt, editor in chief of Ayibopost and a Haitian journalist who has written extensively on gang violence and systemic corruption in Haiti will give a presentation on the current crisis in Haiti.