Program
Caribbean Unbound IV – “Reconceiving Hispaniola”
Franklin College Switzerland
April 1-4, 2009
APRIL 1 | APRIL 2 | APRIL 3 | APRIL 4
19:00 - 21:15
Auditorium Foyer, Kaletsch Campus/Villa
Pre-Conference Registration
19:15 - 21:15
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Pre-Conference Film: Aristide and the Endless Revolution
Directed by Nicolas Rossier
In English. 82 minutes. Presentation of the film by Christopher Weed, President of the Franklin College Student Assembly.
16:00 - 17:45
Auditorium Foyer, Kaletsch Campus/Villa
Conference Registration
18:00 - 19:00
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Opening Ceremonies, “The Caribbean Unbound IV”
Presented as a part of the Franklin College Lecture Series.
Opening remarks
Robert McCormick, Jr., Franklin College Switzerland
Presentation of the Keynote Speaker
Kathleen Gyssels, University of Antwerp
Keynote Address: “Réalisme merveilleux! Métamorphose du réel?” Marvelous Realism! Metamorphosis of the Real?
Jean-Claude Fignolé, novelist (Une heure pour l’éternité, Simone Wespieser, 2008) and mayor of Les Abricots, Haiti
Marvelous realism! The metamorphosis of the real. Questioning those formulations undermines the postulates that they present to the reader’s understanding. Linking novelistic intent to the lived reality of the Haitian people, Jean-Claude Fignolé proposes understanding invention in literary discourse as an attempt to make the unreal real so that this de-realization of the real is, consciously or not, the inverted projection, i.e., dreamed or imagined, of the real lived twice. Schizophrenia? This is nonetheless the conclusion of Fignolé who, taking up certain recurrent ideas about novelistic production, demonstrates that what one considers “magical” is nothing other than the projection of the real, the real in the fantasies of the collective imagination, fantasies derived from the nostalgia for forgotten knowledge whose traces trouble the unconscious. What we understand as “magical” would then belong to the domain of psychoanalysis and should be studied in relation to hypotheses of certain scientific discoveries. Thus the concept and literature of the “marvelous” could be again renewed at the frontiers of science, in particular, biochemistry.
Please note that the lecture will be conducted in French and translated into English.
19:15 - 20:15
Hollman Hall
Reception in honor of Jean-Claude Fignolé
20:15 - 21:45
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Film Showing: The Agronomist
Directed by American film-maker Jonathan Demme. Original score by Wyclef Jean.
In English. 91 minutes. Introduction by Alison Vogelaar, Franklin College Switzerland.
8:30 - 9:30
Auditorium Foyer, Kaletsch Campus
Conference Registration
8:30 - 10:25
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “The Wound and the Hope” by Lyonel Trouillot
Franklin College Literary Society Student Panel
Moderator: Marcel Fanara, President of the Franklin College Literary Society
“General Sun, My Brother: The Poetry of Prose”
Kyrstin Andrews
“From ‘Coumbite’ to Communism: The Ideological Eruptions of Jacques Roumain and Jacques Stephen Alexis”
Gabriela Centurión
“The Senses and Alexis’ Craftsmanship”
Christina Nichols
“Alexis’ World: Life’s Literature”
Anna Peirano
9:35 - 10:25
TBA
Title: “Haitian Women’s Voices Within and Without: Agnant and Chancy”
Moderator: Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University
“Writing from Within and Without: the Critical and Creative Works of Myriam J. A. Chancy”
Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University
“Women’s Complicity in Violence: Marie-Célie Agnant’s Un Alligator Nommé Rosa”
Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University
9:30 - 10:20
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “La Fragmentación de la Hispaniola”
Introduction by Carlos Souffront, Franklin College Switzerland, student.
Moderator: Matilde Raquel Holte, Howard University
“Genocidio en la página: La deshumanización de la Hispaniola en La isla al revés”
Karina A. Bautista, Wake Forest University
“La Hispaniola: Un espacio para la endodiscriminación”
Matilde Raquel Holte, Howard University
10:30 - 11:30
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Hispaniola Divided”
Moderator: Angeletta KM Gourdine, Louisiana State University
“The Inappropriate Other: The Dominican Figure in Edwidge Danticat and Gary Victor”
Odile Ferly, Clark University
“Race In-sight and Sites of History: Hispaniola’s Divided Tourist Identity”
Angeletta KM Gourdine, Louisiana State University
“A Tale of Two Islands: Danticat, Alvarez and the Haitian Massacre”
Linda Strong-Leek, Berea College
11:35 - 12:35
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “La Caraïbe visualisée”
“De ‘Kapeskréyol’ à ‘Potomitan.info’: naissance et évolution d’un site web dédié aux langues et cultures créoles”
Francesca Palli, Lycée de Locarno
“Des hommes et des dieux: Au risque de l’altérité”
Yolande-Salomé Toumson, IUFM de la Martinique
11:45 - 12:35
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “The Caribbean in New Jersey: Junot Díaz ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’”
Moderator: Robert McCormick, Jr., Franklin College Switzerland
“Fukú Americanus“
Irline François, Goucher College
“The Language of Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wow [sic]”
Robert McCormick, Jr., Franklin College Switzerland
Respondent: Jarett Gilbert, New York University
12:50 - 13:40
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Dramatizing the ‘Sordid Tyrannies’ of Caribbean History”
Moderator: Christiane Schlote, University of Bern
“Haiti Un-bound?: Transnational Disillusionment in Spiralist Prose Fiction”
Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College/Columbia University
“Is there such a thing as a ‘Dictator Play’?: Carmen Rivera’s ‘Dictator: The Fall of the Dictator, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’”
Christiane Schlote, University of Bern
13:55 - 14:45
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Maryse Condé”
Moderator: Sara Steinert-Borella, Franklin College Switzerland
“(Un)written Testimony: Maryse Condé’s La Migration des cœurs”
Victoria Bridges Moussaron, Université de Charles de Gaulle-Lille III
“Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon as Fictitious Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction”
Sarah E. Mosher, University of North Dakota
15:00 - 15:50
TBA
Title: “Ambiguities of Race, Class and Gender”
Moderator: Irline François, Goucher College
“The Process of Translating the Work of Jan Dominique”
Irline François, Goucher College
“Caribbean Sisterhood—Race, Class and Gender Concerns in Haitian and Martinican Women’s Novels”
Jennifer Jahn, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University
15:00 - 15:50
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Economic Growth and Decline in Comparative Perspective: Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 1960-2008”
Moderator: Georges Rocourt, Franklin College Switzerland
Wasiq Khan, Franklin College Switzerland
Respondent: Morris Mottale, Franklin College Switzerland
16:00 - 17:00
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Plenary Session
Title: “Caribbean Syncretic Religious Systems, with Special Attention to Cuban Santería”
Introduction by Johanna Fassl, Franklin College Switzerland
Günther Giovannoni, Museo delle Culture di Lugano
17:15 - 18:30
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Plenary Session
Title: “L’autre scène: ombre et lumière de l’histoire”
Introduction by Sara Steinert-Borella, Franklin College Switzerland
Fabienne Pasquet, author of La deuxiéme mort de Toussaint-Louverture (Actes Sud, 2001)
Around 19:15
North Campus Dining Hall
Caribbean Dinner
Prepared by Franklin College Switzerland students and staff
Special thanks to Gabriela Centurión and Dean Leslie Guggiari
8:45 - 10:30
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Comparative Caribbean Fiction”
Moderator: Angela Brüning, Independent Scholar
“Praising Haitian Women’s Courage in Laferriére’s Le cri des oiseaux fous and Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”
Manuel Caprari
“The Postmortem Narrative: Life, Death, and Ethnography in Caribbean and Latin American Fiction”
Robin G. Vander, Xavier University of Louisiana
“Reclaiming Freedom: The Case of Frank Martinus Arion”
Kristian Van Haesendonck, University of Lisbon
8:45 – 10:15
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “The Art of Hispaniola”
Moderator: Maria de Jesús Cordero, Utah State University
“The Many Faces of Haiti in the Visual Art of Hersza Barjon”
Maria de Jesús Cordero, Utah State University
“Fantasy Tattoos: Haitian-Dominican Fragmentary Geometry (1994-1998)”
Alanna Lockward, Independent Scholar
10:15 - 12:15
Room 5, Kaletsch Campus
Film Showing: Cumbite (1964)
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Based on Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée (Masters of the Dew).
Post-film discussion: Jarett Gilbert, New York University.
Respondent: Carlos Argüello, Franklin College Switzerland, student
In Spanish (no subtitles). 82 minutes.
10:45 - 12:15
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Vampires and Zombies—Literary Cultural, Political and Otherwise”
Moderator: Carmen Serrano, Bates College
“Haiti and the Dominican Republic: The Inevitable Religious Connection”
Elmide Méléance, Independent Scholar
“Haitian Voodoo and the Legend of Annie Palmer: The White Witch of Rose Hall”
Monika Mueller, University of Stuttgart
“The Panoptic Bite: The Fluttering Bat in Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo”
Carmen Serrano, Bates College
10:45 - 12:15
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “The Moving-Image and the Caribbean”
Moderator: Alanna Lockward, Independent Scholar
“Manhood and Masculinity in Arnold Antonin’s Le Président a-t-il le Sida? (Does the President Have AIDS?)”
Leah Tolbert Lyons, Middle Tennessee State University
“Dissolve & Juxtaposition: Echoes of a Polyphonic Narrative on Video-Art from the Perspective of Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic”
Alanna Lockward, Independent Scholar
“L’Orientale”; “‘What is the truth?’: Erzulie, the Power of Love and Feminism”
Emanuela Maltese, University of Naples
12:30 - 14:10
Room 5, Kaletsch Campus
Film Showing: Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2007)
Directed by Asger Leth
Franklin College Student Panel
Moderator: Caitlin Morris, Franklin College Switzerland
Post-film discussion: Alyssa Jeter and Caitlin Morris
13:00 - 14:30
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Autour de Patrick Chamoiseau”
Moderator: Isabelle Constant, University of the West Indies (Cave-Hill), Barbados
“Texaco est-il un roman baroque?”
Isabelle Constant, University of the West Indies (Cave-Hill), Barbados.
“Patrick Chamoiseau: La Créolité, un héritage. La Créolité, un partage?”
Claude Guméry, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3.
“Patrick Chamoiseau et le devenir ‘autre’ du référent épique”
Virginie Jauffred, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3.
“Patrick Chamoiseau et Ina Césaire: deux figures complémentaires de la littérature martiniquaise (Littérature de jeunesse)”
Cécile-Alice Jouannaux, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle.
13:00 - 14:30
Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “Impositions of the Past: Conceiving and Reconceiving Haiti/Hispaniola”
Moderator: Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University
“Edwidge Danticat’s Pursuit of Justice in Brother, I’m Dying”
Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University.
“Roger Dorsinville and the Light of Would-be Liberation”
Joerg Türschmann, University of Vienna.
Respondent: Marcus Pyka, Franklin College Switzerland
14:45 - 16:00
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Title: “La littérature haïtienne: aux alentours de Fignolé et du spiralisme”
Moderator: Kathleen Gyssels, University of Antwerp
“Dramaturgie haïtienne de l’exil: Le bleu de l’île d’Evelyne Trouillot”
Stéphanie Bérard, University of Virginia.
“Plus qu’une simple polyphonie: Voix spiralistes dans Aube tranquille et Une heure pour l’eternité de Jean-Claude Fignolé”
Victoria Famin, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
14:20 - 16:00
Room 5, Kaletsch Campus
Title: Student Creative Writing Panel
Organized by the Franklin College Literary Society
Moderator: Sierra Bucher, Franklin College Switzerland, student
Sierra Bucher, Marcel Fanara, Caitlin Morris, Christina Nichols, Madeline Weinfield, Amilcar Ybarra-Rojas
16:00
Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus
Open Forum: “Témoinages/Recounting Personal Experience”
Moderator: Marie-Hélène Laforest, University of Naples. “L’Orientale”
Joyce Anglade, Franklin College student
Jean-Claude Fignolé, Novelist
Jeff Francois
Marie-Hélène Laforest, University of Naples. "L'Orientale" (Reading from her new text, I stand in your midsts.)
Fabienne Pasquet
Et al.
Franklin College Switzerland wishes to thank the following organizations and people for their financial support for Caribbean Unbound IV: Globus Gateway Tours, S.A. (Lugano), the Franklin College Alumni Council, Karen Cooper, Franklin College alumna; and Ellen Nielsen for the donation of the design and production of all print materials for the conference.
