As part of CARIFESTA XII, the Trinidadian writer, Earl Lovelace, will be a keynote speaker at the symposium which will take place on August 25th and 26th at the National Library from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The theme will be "The Caribbean a Collective Memory’.

Earl Lovelace is also President of the Association of Caribbean Writers. Other keynote speakers will include Carol Boys Davis, President of Caribbean Studies; Tierry Letang, Scientific Director of ACTe in Guadeloupe (Caribbean Center of expression and slave trade); and the outstanding Lyonel Trouillot, Vice President of the Association of Caribbean Writers, writer and professor at the State University of Haiti; Laennec Hurbon, Sociologist, researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research, France (CNRS in French), specialist in relations between religions, cultures and politics in Haiti and in the Caribbean.

To participate in the symposium, register by writing to : gessie.noisin@bnh.ht

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14725-haiti-culture-d-17-carifesta-xii-everything-is-taking-shape.html

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