Schedule

Thursday, March 5th

4pm – Peterson Lecture in Art History and keynote by Jerry Philogene, “Death, Freedom, Epistemologies: The Radical Labor of Haitian Aesthetic” [HSSC S3325]

5:30pm – Reception for the installation Visualizing Abolition & Freedom (https://vaf.grinnell.edu) [HSSC 1st floor]

6pm – Dinner in Grinnell at Relish

Friday, March 6th

8:00am – Breakfast available [HSSC N1116]

8:45am – Welcoming remarks, Fredo Rivera [HSSC N1116]

9:00am – Digital archives and Haiti [HSSC N1116]

Panelists: Laura Wagner (The Radio Haiti Archive, Duke University), Hadassah St. Hubert and M. Stephanie Chancy (Digital Library of the Caribbean, Florida International University), and Elizabeth Pierre-Louis (Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libète/FOKAL, Port-au-Prince)

Moderator: 

10:30am – Break

11am – Panel on Haitian art collections [HSSC N1116]

Panelists: Edouard Duval-Carrié (Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Miami), Axelle Liautaud (Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince), Peter Haffner (Centre College), and Chawne Paige and Elizabeth Andrews (Waterloo Center for the Arts)

12:30pm – Lunch [HSSC N1116]

1pm – Panel: Studying Haiti in Grinnell [HSSC N1116] 

Panelists include Vadricka Etienne (Sociology), Gwenola Caradec (French), Tess Kulstad (Anthropology), Doug Hess (Political Science) Moderator by Sarah Purcell (History)

2pm – Visit to the Grinnell College Museum of Art

Featuring the exhibitions Damon Davis and Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu

3pm – Panel: State of the Field: Haitian Art History [Grinnell College Museum of Art] 

Panelists: Fredo Rivera (Grinnell College), Erica James (University of Miami), Katherine Smith (UCLA), Jerry Philogene (Dickinson College)

Moderator: 

4:30pm – Shuttle leaves to Waterloo

6pm – Check into hotel (Courtyard Marriott Waterloo)

6:30pm – Dinner [TBD]

Saturday, March 7th

9:45am – Welcoming remarks (Kent Shankle)

10am – Tour of Haitian art collection on display with Legrace Benson

11am – Presentation on NEH grant work by team members

Noon – Lunch catered in museum

1pm – Break out groups to discuss findings regarding Haitian art and digital resources (two break-out sessions, 90 minutes each with a 15-minute break in between)

4:30pm – Group discussion

6pm – Dinner and workshop closing

Sunday, March 8th

9am – Morning meeting for team members and advisory board, to discuss workshop and plans for white paper and implementation grants