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Obden Mondésir, the Haitian Studies Institute’s inaugural archivist, is designing a collection that honors the lives of revolutionaries and everyday citizens alike.
The pair of rising leaders visited to inspire youth participating in the Young Scholars Civics Institute.
After 17 years, Jennifer Matisi ’98 came back to work at Brooklyn College and rediscovered what she had loved about the campus.
June 11, 2020—Deklarasyon Kont Latèrè Rasyal, Rayisman Moun Nwa Ak Vyolans Lapolis Ap Fè Nan Etazini
May 22, 2020—Brooklyn Democratic Council Member Haitian American Farah Louis is celebrating her first anniversary after winning the Special Election to replace then Council Member Grenadian American Jumaane Williams, who has since become New York City Public Advocate.
May 20, 2020—L’État de New-York, avec un peu plus de 352845 cas confirmés et 22843 décès enregistrés au moment où nous écrivons ces lignes, est considéré comme l’épicentre de la covid-19 aux États-Unis d’Amérique. Du nombre de ces nombreuses victimes new-yorkaises figurent beaucoup d’haïtiens de tout groupe d’âge confondu, quoiqu’on n’ait pas encore…
November 6, 2019—The Haitian Studies Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization created in 1987. Our mission is to promote the production, exchange, and dissemination of ideas and knowledge about Haiti and its diaspora in a global context in order to inform pedagogy, practice, and policy.
June 7, 2019—Kreyòl pale. Kreyòl konprann. Vin apran n ekri, pale Kreyòl Ayisyen nan lakou Bwouklin Kolèj. Wynnie Lamour, yon Pwofesè ki maton nan Ansèyman Lang nan, pral mete bon bèt atè. Simaye pawòl la tribò-babò. Depi nou konnen moun ki anvi aprann lang nan, pataje enfòmasyon sa ak yo. Mèsi anpil!
January 11, 2019—Haitian Creole / Kreyòl Ayisyen (Creo 2048) is still open through the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. The instructor is Wynnie Lamour, director of the Kreyòl Institute.
December 12, 2018—The Haitian Studies Institute brings together a dynamic curation of pieces from six Haitian artists whose work documents the country’s noble past, celebrates even the ordinary moments of its present, and asks tough questions of its uncertain future.
December 7, 2018—The new book offers a critical analysis of the automatic dependence of the countries of the South on those of the North from whom they receive aid for development. The book also describes U.S. foreign policy toward Haiti and shows how the food aid on which Haiti depends is controlled by the United States.
November 15, 2018—Beyond Vertières: A Decolonial History of the Haitians
November 15, 2018—Founded in 2016 by the university’s board of trustees, it is an academic division that offers information on the study of Haiti and its diaspora, and also examines research that reflects how minor or major changes in Haiti can influence Haitian and non-Haitian communities abroad.
November 5, 2018—A special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world.
October 15, 2018—In this article, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, professor of sociology and founding director of the City University of New York’s Haitian Studies Institute, pays tribute to Bryant Freeman, who founded in December 1992 the Institute for Haitian Studies at Kansas University in Lawrence.
May 1, 2018—Meet Jean Eddy Saint Paul, the Brooklyn College professor using empirical study to understand New York’s Haitian diaspora. On most days, Saint Paul, the founding director of the City University of New York’s Haitian Studies Institute (HSI), sits in his double office tucked away on the third floor of James Hall.
April 3, 2018—“What I share with you is part of an ongoing exploration for me . . . about certain issues and struggles that connect different people in the African diaspora, both in pain and jubilee,” said Haitian-American author and activist Edwidge Danticat, who delivered the 13th Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture, “A Right to Be Here: Race, Immigration, and My Third Culture Kids,” at the Woody Tanger Auditorium in the Brooklyn College Library on March 28.
December 14, 2017—“Through the lens of this exhibit, I hope you will appreciate the universal dimension of the Haitian culture,” said Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul, founding director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute (HSI), at the November 16 opening for “The Universal Dimension of Haitian Culture: History and Politics of Memory.”
November 27, 2017—Last week, we ran a story on the celebration of the Battle of Vertières at the City University of New York’s Haitian Studies Institute. As part of the festivities, seven Haitian artists were invited to exhibit their paintings, the first time such an event was held in the university’s 130-year history. Our piece was so enthusiastically welcomed by our readers that today, we’re thrilled to publish Jean Eddy Saint Paul’s opening statement, with an eye on contextualizing the commemorative festivities. A renowned multidisciplinary scholar, Saint Paul is the institute’s founding director.
September 8, 2017—The Trump administration announced on Tuesday the end of the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allowed for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain in the country. The Justice Department has also agreed to give Congress a six-month window to possibly reinstate the program.
September 3, 2017—Très chère Dr. Lucie Carmel Paul-Austin : Tout d’abord, permettez-moi de vous féliciter de vos services (professionnels et intellectuels) rendus à notre chère Ayiti et de votre contribution à l’avancement du champ des études haïtiennes.
June 19, 2017—On May 17, 2017, I had the honor of engaging in conversation with the Haitian film director, Arnold Antonin, after the screening of his film Six Exceptional Haitian Women (6 Femmes d’exception). This screening was one in a series of evenings with the filmmaker as part of the first inaugural film screening series of Brooklyn College’s new CUNY Haitian Studies Institute under the directorship of Jean-Eddy Saint Paul.
March 3, 2017—On March 2, renowned Haitian singer/songwriter and Red Cross Ambassador Emeline Michel joined filmmaker and journalist Cassandre Thraysbule, and Régine Roumain, executive director of Haiti Cultural Exchange at Brooklyn College for “Voices from Haiti: Artists as Activists.”
August 25, 2016—Internationally noted scholar and author Jean Eddy Saint Paul was officially welcomed as the founding director of the new CUNY Haitian Studies Institute (CUNY-HSI) at Brooklyn College in an August 24 reception on the college’s campus.
May 16, 2016—The CUNY Board of Trustees recently approved a new university-wide Haitian Studies Institute (CUNY-HSI) that will be housed at Brooklyn College. It will seek to establish itself as a leading international research center, supporting scholars, conducting policy analysis, fostering collaboration between CUNY and colleges and universities in Haiti, and conducting community outreach, among other goals.
