WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1

• 19:00 - 21:15
  Pre-Conference Registration (Auditorium Foyer, Kaletsch Campus/Villa)
   
• 19:15 - 21:15
  Pre-Conference Film: Aristide and the Endless Revolution directed by Nicolas Rossier (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus). In English. 82 minutes.
   
• 19:15
  Presentation of the film by Christopher Weed, President of the Franklin College Student Assembly

THURSDAY, APRIL 2

• 16:00 - 17:45
  Conference Registration (Auditorium Foyer, Kaletsch Campus/Villa)

 

• 18:00 - 19:00
  Opening Ceremonies, “The Caribbean Unbound IV” (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Opening remarks by Robert McCormick, Jr., Franklin College Switzerland
  Presentation of the Keynote Speaker by Kathleen Gyssels, University of Antwerp
  Keynote Address by Jean-Claude Fignolé, novelist (Une heure pour l’éternité, Simone Wespieser, 2008) and mayor of Les Abricots, Haiti: “Réalisme merveilleux! Métamorphose du réel?” (Marvelous Realism! Metamorphosis of the Real?) 
   
  
• 19:15 - 20:15
  Reception in honor of Jean-Claude Fignolé (Hollman Hall)
   
• 20:15 - 21:45
  Film Showing (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  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

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

• 8:30 - 9:30
  Conference Registration (Auditorium Foyer, Kaletsch Campus)
   
• 8:30 - 10:25
  Title: “The Wound and the Hope” – by Lyonel Trouillot (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Franklin College Literary Society Student Panel
  Moderator: Marcel Fanara, President of the Franklin College Literary Society
  Kyrstin Andrews, “General Sun, My Brother: The Poetry of Prose”
  Gabriela Centurión, “From ‘Coumbite’ to Communism: The Ideological Eruptions of Jacques Roumain and Jacques Stephen Alexis”
  Christina Nichols, “The Senses and Alexis’ Craftsmanship”
  Anna Peirano, “Alexis’ World: Life’s Literature”
   
• 9:35 - 10:25
  Title: “Haitian Women’s Voices Within and Without: Agnant and Chancy” (Room 5, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University
  Sally Barbour, Wake Forest University. “Writing from Within and Without: the Critical and Creative Works of Myriam J. A. Chancy”
  Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University. “Women’s Complicity in Violence: Marie-Célie Agnant’s Un Alligator Nommé Rosa”
   
• 9:30 - 10:20
  Title: “La Fragmentación de la Hispaniola” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Introduction by Carlos Souffront, Franklin College Switzerland, student
  Moderator: Matilde Raquel Holte, Howard University
  Karina A. Bautista, Wake Forest University. “Genocidio en la página: La deshumanización de la Hispaniola en La isla al revés”
  Matilde Raquel Holte, Howard University. “La Hispaniola: Un espacio para la endodiscriminación”
   
• 10:30 - 11:30
  Title: “Hispaniola Divided” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Angeletta KM Gourdine, Louisiana State University
  Odile Ferly, Clark University. “The Mirroring River: Nationhood, Self and Otherness in Recent Fiction from Haiti and the Dominican Republic”
  Angeletta KM Gourdine, Louisiana State University. “Race In-sight and Sites of History: Hispaniola’s Divided Tourist Identity”
  Linda Strong-Leek, Berea College. “A Tale of Two Islands: Danticat, Alvarez and the Haitian Massacre”
   
• 11:35 - 12:35
  Title: “La Caraïbe visualisée” (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Francesca Palli, Lycée de Locarno. “De ‘Kapeskréyol’ à ‘Potomitan.info’: naissance et évolution d’un site web dédié aux langues et cultures créoles” - Présentation de Potomitan en pps
  Yolanda-Salomé Toumson, IUFM de la Martinique. “Des hommes et des dieux: Au risque de l’altérité”
   
• 11:45 - 12:35
  Title: “The Caribbean in New Jersey: Junot Díaz ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Robert McCormick, Jr., Franklin College Switzerland
  Irline François, Goucher College. “Fukú Americanus“
  Robert McCormick, Jr., Franklin College Switzerland. “The Language of Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wow [sic]”
  Respondent: Jarett Gilbert, New York University
   
• 12:50 - 13:40
  Title: “Dramatizing the ‘Sordid Tyrannies’ of Caribbean History” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Christiane Schlote, University of Bern
  Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College/Columbia University. “Haiti Un-bound?: Transnational Disillusionment in Spiralist Prose Fiction”
  Christiane Schlote, University of Bern. “Is there such a thing as a ‘Dictator Play’?: Carmen
  Rivera’s ‘Dictator: The Fall of the Dictator, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’”
   
• 13:55 - 14:45
  Title: “Maryse Condé” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Sara Steinert-Borella, Franklin College Switzerland
  Victoria Bridges Moussaron, Université de Charles de Gaulle-Lille III. “(Un)written Testimony: Maryse Condé’s La Migration des coeurs”
  Sarah E. Mosher, University of North Dakota. “Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon as Fictitious Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction”
   
• 15:00 - 15:50
  Title: “Ambiguities of Race, Class and Gender” (Room 5, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: To be announced
  Irline François, Goucher College. “Ambiguities of Race, Class and Gender in the Work of Jan Dominique”
  Jennifer Jahn, Sidney Sussex College. Cambridge University. “Caribbean Sisterhood—Race, Class and Gender Concerns in Haitian and Martinican Women’s Novels”
   
• 15:00 - 15:50
  Title: “Economic Growth and Decline in Comparative Perspective: Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 1960-2008” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Georges Rocourt, Franklin College Switzerland
  Wasiq Khan, Franklin College Switzerland
   
• 16:00 - 17:00
  Plenary Session (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  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
  Plenary Session (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Title: “L’autre scéne: 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
  Caribbean Dinner (North Campus Dining Hall) Prepared by Franklin College Switzerland students and staff (Special thanks to Gabriela Centurión and Dean Leslie Guggiari)

SATURDAY, APRIL 4

• 8:45 - 10:30
  Title: “Comparative Caribbean Fiction” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Angela Brüning, independent scholar
  Manuel Caprari, “Praising Haitian Women’s Courage in Laferriére’s Le cri des oiseaux fous and Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”
  Robin G. Vander, Xavier University of Louisiana. “The Postmortem Narrative: Life, Death, and Ethnography in Caribbean and Latin American Fiction”
  Kristian Van Haesendonck, University of Lisbon. “Reclaiming Freedom: The Case of Frank Martinus Arion”
   
• 8:45 – 10:15
  Title: “The Art of Hispaniola” (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Maria de Jesús Cordero, Utah State University
  Maria de Jesús Cordero, Utah State University. “The Many Faces of Haiti in the Visual Art of Hersza Barjon”
  Alanna Lockward, independent scholar. “Fantasmic Tattoos: Haitian-Dominican Fragmentary Geometry (1994-1998)”
   
• 10:15 - 12:15
  Film Showing (Room 5, Kaletsch Campus)
  Cumbite (1964) directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Based on Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée (Masters of the Dew). In Spanish (no subtitles). 82 minutes.
  Post-film discussion led by Jarett Gilbert, New York University
  Respondent: Carlos Argüello, Franklin College Switzerland, student
   
• 10:45 - 12:15
  Title: “Vampires and Zombies—Literary Cultural, Political and Otherwise” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg
  Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg. “‘…strange tales are told of Voodoo in the boudoir and salon’: Tales of Zombies in William Seabrook, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham”
  Elmide Méléance, independent scholar. “Haiti and the Dominican Republic: The Inevitable Religious Connection”
  Monika Mueller, University of Stuttgart. “Haitian Voodoo and the Legend of Annie Palmer: The White Witch of Rose Hall”
  Carmen Serrano, Bates College. “The Panoptic Bite: The Fluttering Bat in Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo”
   
• 10:45 - 12:15
  Title: “The Moving-Image and the Caribbean” (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Alanna Lockward, independent scholar
  Leah Tolbert Lyons, Middle Tennessee State University. “Manhood and Masculinity in Arnold Antonin’s Le Président a-t-il le Sida? (Does the President Have AIDS?)”
  Alanna Lockward, independent scholar. “Dissolve & Juxtaposition: Echoes of a Polyphonic Narrative on Video-Art from the Perspective of Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic”
  Emanuela Maltese, University of Naples. “L’Orientale”; “‘What is the truth?’: Erzulie, the Power of Love and Feminism”
   
• 12:30 - 14:10
  Film Showing (Room 5, Kaletsch Campus)
  Ghost of Cité Soleil (2007) directed by Asger Leth
  Franklin College Student Panel
  Moderator: Caitlin Morris, Franklin College Switzerland
  Post-film discussion led by Alyssa Jeter and Caitlin Morris
   
• 13:00 - 14:30
  Title: “Autour de Patrick Chamoiseau” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Isabelle Constant, University of the West Indies (Cave-Hill), Barbados
  Isabelle Constant, University of the West Indies (Cave-Hill), Barbados. “Texaco est-il un roman  baroque?”
  Claude Guméry, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3. “Patrick Chamoiseau: La Créolité, un héritage. La Créolité, un partage?”
  Virginie Jauffred, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3. “Patrick Chamoiseau et le devenir ‘autre’ du référent épique”
  Cécile-Alice Jouannaux, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. “Patrick Chamoiseau et Ina Césaire: deux figures complémentaires de la littérature martiniquaise (Littérature de jeunesse)”
   
• 13:00 - 14:30
  Title: “Impositions of the Past: Conceiving and Reconceiving Haiti/Hispaniola” (Auditorium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University
  Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University. “Edwidge Danticat’s Pursuit of Justice in Brother, I’m Dying”
  Maria Cristina Fumagalli, University of Essex. “Landscaping Hispaniola: Moreau de Saint Méry’s Description topographique et politique de la partie espagnole de l’Isle Saint-Domingue…”
  Joerg Türschmann, University of Vienna. “Roger Dorsinville and the Light of Would-be Liberation”
  Respondent: Marcus Pyka, Franklin College Switzerland
   

Victoria Famin, Kathleen Gyssels et Stéphanie Bérard.

• 14:45 - 16:00
  Title: “La littérature haïtienne: Autour de Fignolé et d'Éveline Trouillot” (Auditaurium, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Kathleen Gyssels, University of Antwerp
  Stéphanie Bérard, University of Virginia. “Dramaturgie haïtienne de l’exil: Le bleu de l’île d’Evelyne Trouillot”
  Victoria Famin, Université de Paris-Sorbonne. “Plus qu’une simple polyphonie: Voix spiralistes dans Aube tranquille et Une heure pour l’éternité de Jean-Claude Fignolé”
  
   
• 14:20 - 16:00
  Title: Student Creative Writing Panel (Room 5, Kaletsch Campus)
  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

 

Fabienne Pasquet et Jean-Claude Fignolé.

• 16:00
  Open Forum: “Témoinages/Recounting Personal Experience” (Conference Room, Kaletsch Campus)
  Moderator: Marie-Hélène Laforest, University of Naples. “L’Orientale”
  Karina A. Bautista, Wake Forest University
  Marie-Hélène Laforest, University of Naples. “L’Orientale” (Possible reading from the collection of her short stories, Foreign Shores)
  Fabienne Pasquet  Hector Rocourt, Chicago and Jérémie, Haiti 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 and Ms. Karen Cooper, Franklin College alumna.

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