Events

Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 6:00 pm - Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 7:30 pm

Uptown Campus

Jones Hall

Approaches to Haitian Biography: Narrating the Lives of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe

Featuring Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) and Julia Gaffield (William & Mary)

Thursday, November 6

6pm

Jones Hall 100A

Join us for a conversation with two preeminent scholars of Haiti as they discuss their new biographies of the country’s revolutionary founders. Julia Gaffield (William &...

I am delighted to announce that I will be giving the keynote this October 23 at the 37th Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association.

More info soon!

https://www.haitianstudies.org/conference/program/

Builder of the Next World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe

October 16 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

CSAAD Africa~Diaspora Forum Series

Dr. Marlene Daut

Yale University

Thursday, October 16, 2025

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

20 Cooper SQ, 5th FL, Room 503

New York City, NY 10003

Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91031695364

Slave. Revolutionary. King. Taken together, these words describe only one man: Henry Christophe I of Haiti. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the island of Grenada, he first fought...

1825: France, Haiti, and the Debt of Independence

Event time:

Friday, October 10, 2025 - 9:00am

Location:

HQ 136, 320 York Street See map

Event description:

Following its 1804 independence after a thirteen-year revolution, Haiti faced continued French hostility. In 1825, threatened with invasion, President Boyer agreed to pay 150 million francs to secure recognition from France—an unprecedented case of formerly enslaved people compensating their enslavers. This 2025 conference, marking the...

Jeudi 2 octobre 2025

17h00 – 19h00 (11 AM-1PM EDT)

Amphithéâtre Simone Veil, 28 rue des Saint-Pères, Par

Haïti est un pays souverain indépendant! Même en n’étant pas un territoire d’outre-mer, cette conférence s’inscrit dans une dynamique actuelle de mémoire et de réparation autour de la Révolution haïtienne, longtemps occultée dans les récits historiques.

Pour nourrir ce dialogue, nous aurons l’honneur d’accueillir des intervenants de renom :

• Marlene Daut professeure à Yale et spécialiste...

Screening | ORWELL: 2+2=5 (2025) + Q&A w/ Director Raoul Peck and Professor Marlene L. Daut
Wed Oct 1, 2025 5:00 p.m.—7:45 p.m.

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Event Type

• Film & Media Screenings

Location
Humanities Quadrangle
320 York Street New Haven, CT 06511

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Event Topic

• Arts & Humanities

DCP | 2025 | Directed by Raoul Peck | USA | 119 minutes

Free admission. Registration encouraged but not required.

The...

I'll be doing a reading and book signing for The First and Last King of Haiti at the Delaware History Book Festival, in Lewes, DE, on September 26, 2025.

Click here for more information: https://www.historybookfestival.org/daut-marlene

About the Festival

The History Book Festival is the first and only book festival in the United States devoted exclusively to history. With the help of our presenting funding partners — Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway...

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Join us on September 17 for a lecture by Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University.
This talk reframes the story of slavery and freedom showing Haiti at the vanguard of abolition and challenging the idea that Africans and Black Americans were mere passengers on a seemingly linear road from slavery to freedom. As underscored in Daut’s book Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, Atlantic World leaders perpetuated...

We urge you to invite as many others as possible to this opportune webinar

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C4BmQxBKSwGLHtICiCvYrg
This International Center for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma...

Journée d’études: Le Fonds Grégoire à la lumière de l’étude des réseaux abolitionnistes transnationaux (1789-1831)

Lundi 16 juin 2025

De 9h00 à 18h00

Programme

9h-9h30 :

Allocution d’ouverture

Introduction

Présidence : Antoine LILTI, Collège de France

Monde ibéro-américain

9h30 : Alejandro GOMEZ-PERNIA, Sorbonne-Nouvelle

Grégoire et la connexion lascasiènne

10h : Antonio DE ALMEIDA MENDES, Université de Nantes

10h30: Pause

Haïti

11h : Gabriel DARRIULAT, Collège de France / BnF

Diplomatie et réseaux...

Antoine Lilti, Marlene Daut, Délide Joseph & Chelsea B. Stieber

Haiti, 1825 : from independence to debt

Thursday 12 June 2025

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Open to all

14:00 - 16:30

Round table moderated by Antoine Lilti, Collège de France, with the participation of Marlene Daut, Yale University, Délide Joseph, Université de la Guyane, and Chelsea B. Stieber, Tulane University.

Jeudi 5 juin

En visioconférence

14h-14h15

Introduction aux journées d'études (Adler Camilus, Adama Ouattara-Sanz, Matthieu Renault)

14h15-15h15

• Marlène DAUT (Yale University) : Les intellectuels haïtiens des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles et l'écriture de la révolution haïtienne.
• Edelyn DORISMOND (Université d’État d’Haïti) : Révolution ‘’haïtienne’’ et imaginaire colonial.

Lien Zoom: https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/7953570112#success

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Monday, June 2 · 12:30 - 3pm EDT

Woody Tanger Auditorium at Brooklyn College Library

2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210

Join us for the official kickoff of Caribbean Heritage Month, presented as part of our Ayiti in the City (AITC) Program. This engaging lecture by Dr. Marlene Daut will examine the far-reaching impact of the Haitian Revolution.

Celebrate the legacy of Haiti and its enduring role in shaping global struggles for freedom and justice.

Free and open to the public.

Lunch will be...

QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY – LITERARY THURSDAY

6-7 PM ET

Virtual author talk with Marlene L. Daut, author of The First and Last King of Haiti, at Queens Public Library

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Event Details

Haitian Flag Day Celebration with special guest scholar Marlene L. Daut, professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University and author of The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.

In The First and Last King of Haiti, Daut explores the fascinating life of Haiti’s only king while delving into the complex history of the 19th-century Caribbean monarchy.

Local artists will also perform.

Snacks will be served.

South End...

On Friday, May 16, from 2:30-3:30 PM, Marlene Daut discusses her book The First and Last King of Haiti online with Gregory Pierrot.

Register here:

https://southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-uurz4vH9InAy4rRHSGNSK8brmw9nwv#/registration

Porter Square Books is excited to welcome author Marlene Daut to discuss her book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe. Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles will join Daut in conversation. This event will take place on Wednesday, May 14 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140).

Our Cambridge store offers validated parking in the lot on Roseland St. behind Lesley's University Hall. See parking details below.

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Friday, May 2

2025 Haitian Heritage Conference

Join us as we discuss the 1825 Indemnity imposed on Haiti by France 200 years ago. We will explore the possibilities for reparative justice.

For more information and to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-haitian-heritage-conference-tickets-1312168644739

Global France Seminar (MIT)

A discussion on Professor Marlene Daut’s new book The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.

April 30, 2025

4:00pm

E51-095

Join in a book event with Marlene L. Daut on “The First and Last King of Haiti.”

BOOK EVENT DETAILS

4/4/2025

PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM

251 BENEFIT ST

PROVIDENCE, RI 02903-2709

About the Author:

MARLENE DAUT is Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University. She teaches courses in anglophone, francophone Caribbean, African American, and French Colonial and historical studies. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, Essence, and Harper’s Bazaar. She lives...