Haitian Midwest Scholars Society

Please see below the images of the last dinner hosted with the guest speakers and their guests on Friday 12th after our 2024 first annual symposium at the University of Michigan central campus in Anna Arbor, MI.

“Contextualizing Haiti Demising situation,” the first annual symposium organized by the Haitian Midwest Scholars Society in collaboration with the University of Michigan. It was a success, thanks to our members, staff, volunteers, and sponsors.

Please relive the key moments of the symposium panel discussions with us through these images.

Thanks to our members, staff, and volunteers, our first annual symposium, “Contextualizing Haiti Demising situation,” jointly organized with the University of Michigan, was a great success.

Below are some images of the “Networking Dinner” hosted at the University of Michigan School of Social Work Building on Thursday, September 12, 2024, the night before the symposium.

U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

See you tomorrow, Chery.

Our 2025 Knight-Wallace Fellow, Dieu-Nalio Chery, will present his photojournalism documenting the profound beauty, searing pain and upheaval in his home country of Haiti at the first annual symposium titled: "Contextualize Haiti's Demising Situation."

Come support Dieu-Nalio Chery and see some of the most iconic images of Haiti in the 21st century!

Friday, September 13 | 10:20 AM | Michigan Union Room 2210 (2nd Floor)

Event Details: https://loom.ly/oDQ4z1g

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Please join us this Friday as we welcome these three figures with expert knowledge of Western powers’ presence and relations with Haiti. Haitian Midwest Scholars Society

This panel discussion features:
- 1) Dr. Jackie Goodrich from University of Michigan, who recently co-published a research study (then self-retracted for further review), which measured total arsenic in domestic and imported rice samples collected from the same markets in Haiti;
- 2) Dieu-Nalio Chery, photojournalist awarded Robert Capa Gold Medal 2019 & 2020 Pulitzer finalist for the breaking news photography award. He is a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year at University of Michigan; and
- 3) Dr. Vincent Joos from Florida State University, who’s latest book “Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships” (Rutgers University Press, 2021) explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

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| Our friend Evens Emmanuel Lange, Communications Strategist and Independent Consultant, will host the second panel discussion, titled "Disaster, Humanitarian and Haiti's Demise" from 10:40 to 11:40 AM, at the University of Michigan Central Campus Union (Union-2210 ABC 2nd floor) on Friday, September 13th.

🗣 This panel discussion featured Dr. Mark Schuller, professor of Anthropology and Nonprofit and NGO Studies at Northern Illinois University. He recently co-authored with Independent Researcher Jessica Hsu the article “Humanitarian Aid and Local Power Structures: Lessons from Haiti’s ‘Shadow Disaster’” (Disasters, 2020) which investigates the confluence of humanitarian aid, centralisation, and politics.

⏰📅 Please join us next Friday as as we welcome this figure with expert knowledge of humanitarian disaster in Haiti.

| Our very own Websder Corneille, Adjunct Lecturer at Indiana University, will be the panel’s moderator for the first session, titled “International Capitalism and Haiti's Demise" from 8:40 to 10:00 AM, at the University of Michigan Central Campus Union (Union-2210 ABC 2nd floor) on Friday, September 13th.

This panel discussion featured:
- 1) Dr. Jackie Goodrich from University of Michigan, who recently co-published a research study (then self-retracted for further review), which measured total arsenic in domestic and imported rice samples collected from the same markets in Haiti;
- 2) Dieu-Nalio Chery, photojournalist awarded Robert Capa Gold Medal 2019 & 2020 Pulitzer finalist for the breaking news photography award. He is a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year at University of Michigan; and
- 3) Dr. Vincent Joos from Florida State University, who’s latest book “Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships” (Rutgers University Press, 2021) explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

Please join us next Friday as we welcome these three figures with expert knowledge of Western powers’ presence and relations with Haiti.

Wallace House Center for Journalists Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies FSU Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics FSU Winthrop-King Institute

Meet the two guest speakers of our third session for the symposium on Haiti, which will be held at the University of Michigan Central Campus Union (Union-2210 ABC 2nd floor) on September 13, 2024. This discussion panel with deibert, a major journalist who covers Haiti news, and Mathias Pierre, who is a Haitian political actor, about the complexity of Haiti’s current political crisis and, eventually, reflections on a possible way out of the situation.

Meet the guest speakers of our second session for the symposium on Haiti, which will be held at the University of Michigan Central Campus Union (Union-2210 ABC 2nd floor) on September 13, 2024. In this session, we hope to raise reflections and discussions around historical and contemporary neoliberalist policies that harm Haiti.

Meet the guest speakers of our first session for the symposium on Haiti, which will be held at the University of Michigan Central Campus Union (Union-2210 ABC 2nd floor) on September 13, 2024. In this session, we hope to raise reflections and discussions around historical and contemporary neoliberalist policies that harm Haiti.

| On Friday, September 13th, 2024, the University of Michigan and Haitian Midwest Scholars Society will host the first annual symposium "𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞’𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣" at the University of Michigan Central Campus from 7:30am to 3:30pm EST.

The symposium will bring together scholars and specialists in Haitian Studies, filmmakers, photographers and community leaders to discuss current issues relevant to Haiti, the Haitian diaspora, and actors involved in development in Haiti.

For more info, write to:
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Partners: University of Michigan School of Social Work | Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies | Rackham Graduate School | U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - University of Michigan | University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts | University of Michigan International Institute | University of Michigan African Studies Center | LSA Institute for the Humanities