Il y a 230 ans, la Convention nationale abolissait l’esclavage dans l’ensemble des possessions françaises haitianhistoryblog.com/230-years-ag...

Jean-Claude Carrié, Les membres de l'Haïti Littéraire dans la résidence de la romancière Marie Vieux-Chauvet à Port-au-Prince (1963). De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur. #marievieuxchauvet

Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation avec Merle Collins au sujet de la traduction de son roman The Color of Forgetting par @gregorypierre.bsky.social @rotbokrik.bsky.social et Jean-Baptiste Neudy. Inscrivez-vous ici: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/ À bientôt !

Special Issue: Journal of Haitian Studies - ‘Citizens of the World/Citoyens du monde/Sitwayen Mond Lan/Ciudadanos del Mundo’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas' www.haitianstudies.org/2025/02/jour... #Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social

Don't miss this upcoming event from our friends and collaborators at Puerto Rico Syllabus and Archivo Histórico de Vieques! They will showcase their new open educational resource, which received support from our OER in Caribbean Studies Program. Register here: tinyurl.com/viequessylla...

Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social

If you've never read any books by #Frankétienne, you might start with the English translation of Dezafi; I wrote a review of it a while back with some ways of relating to the story. The artwork on the cover is also by the author readingintranslation.com/2019/05/24/t... @uvapress.bsky.social #Haiti

I never met Frankétienne, but was touched by his writing. one of the most beautiful moments that I can think of is his conversation with his dear friend Jean Dominique, who dared Frank to write a novel in Haitian Creole... & he did! #Frankétienne repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohait...

Last week Danielle Legros Georges passed away, this week we lost Frankétienne. Two gorgeous writers, mapou for us literature people, they gave the world so much in times of uncertainty, may their memories buoy us in the oncoming storm. #Haiti #RIP

(*A joke to distract from the 🤬💔) I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹 🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/ so well it's a spell, hell/ makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop... Not! One! 😆😭

I'm feeling blue today folks, sharing this blog post that I wrote in 2020, which I reread this morning and found some wisdom from my past self. It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed. nathanhdize.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/i...

More of this, please: wapo.st/4k1ueQt

We’re hiring! WWB seeks a digital manager to advance our technological systems, manage our websites, and build readership through multimedia projects. Learn more about this full-time, remote position and apply at the link: https://buff.ly/41eN67j

In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read  "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3

Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.

Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚

Very excited to have been included in this amazing volume, and excited to read the work of other contributors! #francophonestudies #oceania

Atelier sur l’histoire chaotique du drapeau "RVN" adopté en 2023 pour représenter la Martinique lors des manifestations sportives et culturelles ; une exploration de la complexité de la question statutaire et des idéologies aux Antilles #fabriquedecoloniale #martinique youtu.be/PFDcNBqTjps?...

@ubuffalohistory.bsky.social: Mark your calendars! Upcoming talk by the brilliant Dr. Deborah Gray White!

If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is proud to present our stellar 2025 Prize Jury panel: Diana Abu-Jaber — Jury Chair, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton. Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉 For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z #ShieldsPrize

A beautiful essay written by our Smith colleague Paula Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, on Ida B. Wells literally taking up space that white women tried to deny her in the 1913 Suffrage march. Still up, for now, on the NPS website: www.nps.gov/articles/000...

I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social) The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

If you're new to me, or to my work as a translator, I invite you into my heart with this piece. Forever grateful for the support & vision of @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing this <3 #Translation #Memoir

I hope you'll join me & all these lovely people as we celebrate & launch a unit on teaching Caribbean writers for @wwborders.bsky.social !

In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the unseen labor of bringing words across linguistic borders. Read the piece here: https://buff.ly/4b1vIpW

Join us! 7 March 2025 Free and open to the public. Registration required: tinyurl.com/sxsexuality

Repoze an pe, Danielle. Onè ak respè 💔

I adore @drsepinwall.bsky.social's work always, especially the name check of Anna Julia Cooper & Mercer Cook in this piece 💜

Who wants to write a piece on any of this (there’s…so much) for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social ? Go to ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/ (ABD or PhD req)

Really enjoyed reading "Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial" by Aubrey Gabel on @publicbooks.bsky.social discussing St. Omer by Alice Diop and Anatomie d'une chute by Justine Triet www.publicbooks.org/purging-the-...

This looks like such a thoughtful and cool event about Toni Morrison in Translation! Bravo! @twolinespress.bsky.social www.catranslation.org/event/toni-i... #Translation #ToniMorrison

Exciting news - the cover of our next title in translation, The Rarest Fruit, has arrived! Design by @hitoneie.bsky.social #booksky 📚

If you're teaching about the Caribbean and are interested in contributing your materials to @dlocaribbean.bsky.social's archive of Open Educational Resources, you should apply! I'm currently a fellow and the support has been phenomenal. 💜

Translating anything by a Black/Afro-descended writer into English? Check out the series that I co-edit w/ Vanderbilt University Press, Global Black Writers in Translation! Consider sending in a pitch or reaching out directly! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/global-black...

This event looks excellent! LSU CFFS Virtual Lecture: Linguistic Challenges and AI Innovations for Haitian Creole: Overcoming Language Barriers for Healthcare 2/21 12-1pm EST RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Kudos to @rachelkirk.bsky.social for sharing! #Haiti #HaitianCreole