Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li)

Il y a 230 ans, la Convention nationale abolissait l’esclavage dans l’ensemble des possessions françaises
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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 !

Journal of Haitian Studies - Special Issue: Call for Abstracts (Mar. 30, 2025) Our issue, “‘Citizens of the World’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas,” engages with the demand by the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (2022) to place (re)situate refugee epis...

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...

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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

The Art of “Tonbe-Leve”: Frankétienne’s “Dézafi,” Translated from Haitian Creole by Asselin Charles By Nathan Dize In a 1975 interview, journalist Jean Léopold Dominique praised Frankétienne’s publication of Dézafi, meaning “cockfight,” because it provided a polysemic analogy fo…

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
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@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
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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 Gave You All I Had, or The Pain of the Dollar When I heard last week that I was turned down for my dream job, I recalled a book I read nearly a decade ago, I Gave You All I Had by Zoé Valdés, thinking that the title poignantly expressed exactl…

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.

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Thank you for sharing this, Crystal. It's the reminder I needed to take care of myself today - I'm hurting, we're all hurting from something, but this helped <3

Opinion | This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.

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

The text “We're hiring: Digital Manager. Advance the technological systems and infrastructure of WWB and WWB Campus. Learn more and apply: wordswithoutborders.org/jobs”

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

A lightbulb hanging over an empty couch with the quote “And meanwhile, if we are secure as translators, I propose that we are able to read and understand the source text, to see and appreciate what it is doing, and then to take a few steps away, like the child in Ainsworth’s experiment, and play on our own in a corner...” and the text “'Is That a Familiar Feeling?' by Rosalind Harvey"

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

A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee In the satirical "guide" below, cartoonist Mana Neyestani draws on his own experience as an Iranian refugee in Paris.

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

YouTube video by La Fabrique Décoloniale La Martinique a son drapeau

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

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Poster of Dr. White's upcoming February 27th talk at UB

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

Poster for AI, Data and Ownership zoom workshop on Thursday.

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 photograph published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, black and white, showing Ida B. Wells in regalia marching with suffrage activists

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)

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