"Haiti: Slavery, Resistance, Revolution"/"Haiti: esclavage, résistance, révolution"

In honour of Professor Carolyn Fick, the Department of History and the Montreal French Atlantic History Group are proud to present the following symposium:

Concordia University Friends of the Library Seminar Rooms, LB-361 and 362
Friends of the Library Room LB-361
8:30-9:15 Petit déjeuner
9:00: Bienvenue, Peter Gossage, Anya Zilberstein

Webster Library Seminar room LB-362
9:30-10:10: “The Haitian Revolution from Below”/ « La Révolution haïtienne vue d'en bas »
Chair: Allan Greer, McGill University
Frantz Voltaire, Centre International De Documentation & D'Information Haitienne Caraïbéenne & Afrocanadienne

10:15-11:30 “Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: Sources, Methods, Theories”/ « L’interprétation de la Révolution haïtienne: documents, méthodes, théories »
Chair: Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
Julia Gaffield, Georgia State University
Bertie Mandelblatt, University of Toronto

11:30 -11:50: pause café

11:55-12:55: “Resisting Slavery in the Age of Revolutions”/ « Résister à l'esclavage à l'ère des Révolutions»
Chair: Norman Ingram, Concordia University
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Université de Sherbrooke
Francois Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University
Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara

13:00-14:30: Déjeuner / Lunch on your own

14:40-16:00
“The Making of Atlantic Studies: James, Rudé, Fick” / « La naissance du monde atlantique: James, Rudé, Fick »
Chair: Nick Dew, McGill University
Carolyn Fick, Concordia University
Malick Ghachem, MIT
David Austin, John Abbott College