11/1- “Preserving Haiti: Inscribing Home, History, and Hope in New Fiction”
“Preserving Haiti: Inscribing Home, History, and Hope in New Fiction”
November 1st, 2024, at 5:00 PM
Room 4202: French and Urban Education Lounge
Myriam J. A. Chancy (Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California) will talk about the process of writing narratives that speak of Haiti and its Diaspora, traversing difficult historical moments and how to frame those moments in ways that productively preserve a sense of Haiti’s complex history, cultural vitality, and hope for better futures.