The Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) will hold its 2002-2003 colloquium, TRANS-AMERICAN CROSSROADS: HAITI AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAS, from March 6-7, 2003 in the Cole Assembly Room at Amherst College, MA. The interdisciplinary colloquium will explore the historical, cultural, literary, and political import of Haiti within the Americas over the last two centuries since the General Slave Revolt of 1791 in colonial Saint Domingue and the establishment of the Republic of Haiti in 1804.

The Colloquium is free and open to the public.

KEYNOTE LECTURERS INCLUDE:

• Sophia Cantave, Tufts
• Valerie Chanlot, Institut du Monde Anglophone, University of Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle; Teaching Fellow, Harvard
• Myriam J.A. Chancy, Senior Editor of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University
• Alexandra Celestin, Harvard
• Carrol F. Coates, Binghamton University (SUNY)
• Charlene Desir, Harvard
• Leslie Desmangles, Trinity College
• Gerdes Fleurant, Wellesley College
• Georges Eugene Fouron, SUNY-Stony Brook
• Dany Laferriere, writer
• Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke
• Nina Glick Schiller, University of New Hampshire
• Curtis Small, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

For additional information about the colloquium, please email the contact listed or check the colloquium website.

For information about the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas, visit http://www.fivecolleges.edu/

This event is generously sponsored by Five Colleges, Incorporated; the Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas; The Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World fund at Amherst College; the Departments of English, Women and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Amherst College; the Office of the Dean of Students at Amherst College; the Departments of Communication, English, Women's Studies, and French and Italian Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; the Departments of French, Afro-American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Anthropology at Smith College; the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College; and the Department of American Studies at Mount Holyoke College.