Join the CMS Circulation: Africa and its Diasporas Research Group and the UBC Latin American Landscape Cluster for “Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti” with Dr. Cécile Accilien.
Dr. Accilien’s talk will delve into the complexity around simplistic disaster narratives surrounding Haiti by providing historical and cultural context. It will further consider how ensekirite in its various forms (physical, economic, emotional, psychological and structural), in addition to colorism, gender, class prejudice and ineffective aid, help maintain narratives of crisis and a failed state.
About Cécile Accilien
Cécile Accilien is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Maryland. Her areas of study are Francophone African and Caribbean Literature and Cultures, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Film & Media Studies. She has co-written and co-edited several books, including Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives, The Antiracism World Language Classroom and English-Haitian Creole Phrasebook. She recently published Bay lodyans: Haitian Popular Film Culture with SUNY Press. Since 2019, she has been serving as chair of the editorial board for Women, Gender and Families of Color. She currently serves as president of the Haitian Studies Association. She has written for Truthout and Latin American Commentator. She is co-founder (with Jessica Adams) of Soley Consulting, LLC.
The talk is part of UBC FHIS Research Seminar Series and will be followed by a conversation with Dr. Victoriano-Martinez whose research focuses on the Dominican Republic.
This event is co-organized by the CMS Circulation: Africa and its Diasporas Research Group and the UBC Latin American Landscape Cluster.
Food and beverages will be served.