Thursday, January 26, 2012

"Narrating the Caribbean: Food for the Soul or Food for Thought" Series

Day 1: February 2, 2012.
Time: 4:45PM-6:30PM
Location: Niles Gallery

Title of session: "Politics of Food and Sexuality in French Caribbean Literature"

"Savoureux Piment: the Fake Pornography of Gisele Pineau and Dany Laferriere" by Valerie Loichot (Emory University) and Bon appetit: A Masculine Tale of Desire, Resistance, and Fear in Raphael Confiant’s Mamzelle Dragonfly by Jacqueline Couti (University of Kentucky).

Day 2: February 3, 2012.
Time: 400:-6:00.
Location: 103 Main Building
Title of session: "Consuming Haiti: Its Haunting Past and Sustainable Future"

“A Marshall Plan for Haiti?: To End or Continue the Legacy of Revolution" by Myriam Chancy (University of Cincinnati) and “Haiti Then and Now: The Terror of Equality” by Nick Nesbitt (Princeton University).

Contact for Series: Contact Dr. Jacqueline Couti, Jacqueline.couti@uky.edu

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