Professor Laurent Dubois

Professor Dubois is a specialist on the French Caribbean, and author of  A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004), (winner of the 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition) and of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004).

The Colonies Seminar meeting will be on Thursday, February 2, 12:00(noon)- 2:00 pm, in 302 Schaeffer Hall, the Commons Room. Lunch will be served. Anyone interested in receiving the pre-circulated paper and attending this event should contact me at mark-a-peterson@uiowa.edu.

Professor Dubois will also give a public lecture, "'Dessalines Toro d'Haiti': The Archive of Vodou," on Wednesday evening, February 1, at 7:30 pm, in the Gerber Lounge of the English and Philosophy Building (EPB). This event is sponsored by the Caribbean, Diaspora, and Atlantic Studies Program. All
are invited to attend.