“Telling Histories”: a discussion between Laurent Dubois, Greg Grandin, and Gary Wilder

While Haiti’s complex and “cursed” past was often used by journalists to explain its recent and tragic upheaval, these historical retellings frequently did more to malign and undermine the promising cultural and political forces the country was founded on than to illuminate them. How might historians and other academics responsibly and effectively contribute to a global public discourse? Join Laurent Dubois (History, Duke University), the author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History and Greg Grandin (History, NYU), the author of, among many other prize-winning books, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism for a discussion with Gary Wilder (Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY) about the challenges of writing critical histories of nations and empires in the current political climate

Monday, March 19 @ 6:30pm, Room: C201/202 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)

This public event is organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. It is also cross-posted with the Caribbean Epistemologies seminar.