Events

Upcoming Events

First America Conference Panel (Yale University)

First America Conference Program, March 26-28

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Registration for the keynote at the Yale University Art Gallery with Ken Burns, David Schmidt, Maggie Blackhawk, and Colin Calloway has reached capacity and is now closed. All other conference events, listed below, remain open to the public without registration required.

The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) is honored to welcome scholars from across the United States and...

Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Global Blackness" ft. Marlene Daut, Yale University

AY26 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Global Blackness" ft. Marlene Daut, Yale University

New Approaches to Black Studies in the 21st Century

Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pmAdd to calendar

Location

Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall (by invitation only)

Faculty-Graduate Seminar

Speaker
Marlene Daut
Affiliation
Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies
Presentation
Yale University

Keynote address: Outreach to Haiti annual gala

Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Haiti
Invites You to the 19th Annual Gala

For the Love of a Child Charity Gala

Saturday, April 18, 2026

A Villa Louisa, 60 Villa Louisa Rd., Bolton, CT

The Most Reverend Richard F. Reidy, of the Diocese of Norwich invites you to join him in this event that benefits the children who live in the Archdiocese of Port-au-of Prince, Haiti.
Cocktails and appetizers at 5:30 pm, followed by dinner buffet. Special Guest Speaker, Haitian crafts, artwork and silent auction....

Past Events

The 2026 Modern Intellectual History Lecture, on “The King of Haiti and Black Statecraft in the Nineteenth Century" (Vanderbilt University)

The 2026 Modern Intellectual History Lecture, on “The King of Haiti and Black Statecraft in the Nineteenth Century,” will be given by Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) at Vanderbilt University on March 19 from 2:15–3:45 PM in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history

AWP conference: “So What’s Your Book About?”: A Branding Mini-Clinic

“So What’s Your Book About?”: A Branding Mini-Clinic

March 5: 12:45 PM

Your book might be brilliant, but can you explain the gist of it to a stranger in one sentence? This mini-clinic will help writers clarify their message to better position their work for media and public attention. Publicist Nanda Dyssou and four authors who have effectively branded and pitched their books, generating lots of media, event, and public interest, will guide attendees in inventing a tagline and an elevator pitch...

Read the Revolution Speaker Series with Julia Gaffield and Marlene L. Daut

February 25, 2026 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Museum of the American Revolution

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Dr. Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History at William & Mary, and Dr. Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, will join the Museum on Wednesday, February 25 to present the second public program in the Museum’s 2025-2026 Read the Revolution Speaker Series with a joint lecture and discussion inspired by their recent biographies on Haitian...

“From Slavery to Freedom: Haiti and Anticolonial Revolution” A lecture by Professor Marlene Daut (Yale University)

This event will occur on February 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM in the Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N St NW, DC 20057.

“America250: Worlds of Revolution” is a part of the Georgetown University Global Humanities Faculty Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Global Irish Studies Initiative, the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, the Department of History, the Walsh School of Foreign Service, and the Mortara Center for International Studies.

More details to come soon!

History Symposium: Marlene Daut – A Revolutionary Legacy: Haiti’s King Henry Christophe

Marlene Daut – A Revolutionary Legacy: Haiti’s King Henry Christophe

February 12 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

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Register here: https://www.historysymposium.com/marlene-daut/

Yale Alumni Academy: The Life and Times of Haiti’s First, Last, and Only King: Henry Christophe

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

4:00 PM ET

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Join us on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM Eastern for a live webinar with Professor Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies. In this session, Professor Daut will discuss her newly published book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, which brings to life one of the most extraordinary—and misunderstood—figures of the Age of Revolution. From...

“Duels”: An Evening with Néhémy Dahomey in conversation with Marlene L. Daut

On February 2, join poet and novelist Néhémy Dahomey as he will discuss his English-language debut, Duels (trans. by Nathan H. Dize, Seagull Books), in conversation with Marlene L. Daut.

Monday, February 2, 2026

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

LOCATION

Albertine Books

972 5th Ave

New York, New York, United States

Please RSVP here. This event is in English and is free.

Néhémy Dahomey will be joined by Dr. Marlene Daut, an award-winning writer and professor at Yale University.

Set in 1842, this novel foregrounds a...

Pursuits of Knowledge: Julia Gaffield on I Have Avenged America, moderated by Marlene L. Daut

Join us for our ongoing Pursuits of Knowledge series exploring the enduring legacy of curiosity, innovation, and learning inspired by Thomas Jefferson, and the people and paths that created the United States.

Food and beverages, including award-winning Jefferson Vineyards wine, will be available for purchase.

Event Details

Concessions and seating open at 5:30pm and the program begins promptly at 6pm.
Meet the author and book signing available after the program.
Complimentary parking is...

Writing at the Margins of Fiction and History: The Case of the Haitian Revolution (WCSU Winter Residency)

WestConn MFA in Creative and Professional Writing

2026 Winter Residency

January 2 – January 7

Hotel Zero Degrees

15 Milestone Road

Danbury, CT 06810

203.730.9200

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM – Writing at the Margins of Fiction and History: The Case of the Haitian Revolution with Marlene Daut

In this workshop, using the Haitian Revolution as a case study, we will explore what to do when
the fictional and nonfictional worlds in our writing collide, clash, and contradict in both expected
and unexpected ways.

*All...

Critical Archives Reading Group Meeting

Friday, December 12 at 2:00pm

94 George Street- Please use the Caspersen Entrance.

Many members of our community are thinking about the topic of critical archives. In view of this, we created an Archives Reading Group during the 2024-25 academic year as part of Monumental Archives, a larger collaborative project. Archives Reading Group participants read and discuss key classic and new texts from a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives on the making, unmaking, challenges and...

1825-2025: France, Haiti, and the Question of Indebtedness (Brown University)

Time:
5:00pm EST

Sponsor:
French Embassy Center of Excellence at Brown University in collaboration with Centers of Excellence at Louisiana State University and Yale University

Location:
John Carter Brown Library

Please join us for “1825 - 2025: France, Haiti and the Question of Indebtedness” presented by Marlene Daut, Chelsea Stieber and Bertie Mandelblatt on Wednesday, December 3 at 5pm at the John Carter Brown Library, 94 George St. Please use the Caspersen Entrance!

2025 marks the...

RECLAIMING HISTORY: POWER, RESISTANCE & CULTURAL MEMORY at the Miami Book Fair

RECLAIMING HISTORY: POWER, RESISTANCE & CULTURAL MEMORY – FICTION & NONFICTION

Saturday, November 22 @ 2:00 pm

Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)

300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States

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Join us for a conversation about revolutionary figures and marginalized voices. In The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, Marlene Daut explores a riveting life of a man who was born enslaved and eventually crowned himself King...

Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk: Marlene Daut’s "Awakening the Ashes" and Sara E. Johnson’s "Encyclopédie noire"

Join Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition in celebrating French Caribbean scholarship and the two co-winners of 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize (FDBP): Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press) and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture...

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

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 &...

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 37th Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association

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 at NYU

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

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...

Haïti, la rançon de la liberté

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

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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Cost

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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...

Delaware History Book Festival

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...