We Are Forever United: A Conversation Honoring Haitian Contributions to African American History and Culture
Panelists:
Dr. Marcia Chatelain is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015), Chatelain is a scholar of African American life and culture. In 2014, Chatelain organized her fellow scholars in a social media response to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, entitled #FergusonSyllabus.
Dr. Joanne Hyppolite is a Museum Curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with interests and expertise in African American and African diaspora material and expressive culture. She is the curator of the Cultural Expressions inaugural exhibition and co-curator of A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture inaugural exhibit for the NMAAHC. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, she was the Chief Curator at History Miami Museum from 2008 to 2014, where she curated, among others, the exhibitions Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami, Haitian Community Arts, Rob Storter: Art of the Everglades, Necropolis Cristobal Colon: Photographs by Raul Rodriguez and Black Freedom in Florida.
Patrick Delatour is a Research Fellow and a Senior Consultant at the Smithsonian Institution. He previously served as Haiti’s Minister of Tourism from June 2006 to October 2011. An architect by trade, Delatour devoted over a decade of his early professional career as an architectural restorer for the Haitian Government’s Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National (Institute for the Safeguarding of the National Heritage).
Patrick Tardieu is the curator of Haiti’s oldest library, the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit, which dates back to the eighteenth century and is home to one of the most preeminent collections on the history of slavery. Tardieu also serves as the chief digital archivist of the Haitian Government’s Comité Interministériel d’Aménagement du Territoire (Interministerial Committee for Land Management). Moreover, Tardieu is an expert on the history of printing in the former French colony of Saint-Domingue and its supplanter, the sovereign state of Haiti.
Free and open to all! (Click here for the full Haiti Week in DC schedule)
***Busboys Tribe Trip to Haiti***
After learning about the storied history and rich, artistic culture of Haiti, Tribe Members are invited to embark on this once-in-a-lifetime exploration of Haiti that will lead into an insider’s tour of the misunderstood Nation in July 2017!
The “Nan Nannan Ayiti” (A Journey into the Soul of Haiti) Tour
takes inquisitive travelers on a journey to discover and engage with a country which transcends the negative headlines and stereotypes. Interested guests will be afforded the unique opportunity.
The Tour will offer the Busboys and Poets tribe the opportunity, during eight days (seven nights), to delve into a fascinating universe created and imagined by a people whose unique culture, rich history, creativity and determination to thrive continue to inspire and galvanize freedom lovers the world over.
To find out how you can be a part of the Busboys’ Tribe Tour of Haiti, please visit: http://www.globalexchange.org/reality-tours#id=nan-nannan-ayiti-a-journey-into-the-soul-of-haiti
