"Undisciplined: Haitian Intellectuals between Science and the Humanities"

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Uptown Campus
Jones Hall
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Please join us for the talk by Prof. Bastien Craipain, (LSU) on "Undisciplined: Haitian Intellectuals between Science and the Humanities"
 
📅  Date: Tuesday, November 18
⏰  Time: 5:00 p.m.
📍  Location: Jones Hall 100A (Greenleaf Room)
 
Shedding light on Haiti’s contribution to the human and social sciences at a crucial moment in their history, this presentation explores the life and work of Anténor Firmin in the years following the publication of his 1885 De l’égalité des races humaines. Combining archival research, textual analysis, and theoretical exploration, it traces the development of Firmin’s indiscipline from his early rebuke of scientific racism to his later forays into the science of culture and civilization. Ultimately, it argues that Firmin was part of a generation of Black intellectuals who not only crafted new ideas of racial and epistemic justice but also provided new ways to study and story Haiti.
 
Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, the Kathryn B. Gore Chair in French Studies, and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies