BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4014-cca0ee9d98d8e770d2ba1d259086a285@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260428T195051Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T110000 SUMMARY:“Losing Empire, Becoming Haitian: Indignation, Reparation, and Recogniti on” with Burleigh Hendrickson DESCRIPTION:\nWhile there exists a vast scholarship on attempts to retai n and expand French imperial glory\, and equally impressive accounts of anti-colonial resistance\, there is comparatively little published resea rch on the restructuring of notions of indignation/dignity or national b elonging following imperial loss. This presentation explores how so-call ed &ldquo\;enlightened&rdquo\; societies reconciled declarations of univ ersal freedoms alongside attacks on the dignity of others. At the same t ime\, it asks in what instances human beings draw a line in the sand to demand respect and mutual recognition for and from others? From merchant s and plantation owners to rebellious Haitians\, French citizens and col onial subjects alike were clearly impacted by these reorganizations of e mpire. Reactionary foreign policies in the realms of commerce and immigr ation could reposition French superiority and alter economic and demogra phic landscapes. While French refugees demanded reparations for lost pro perty after being expelled from colonial Saint-Domingue\, Haiti&rsquo\;s new political leadership penned indignant letters of consternation addr essed to French aggressors in the early nineteenth \;century. From r eactionary depictions of foreign bodies to new affirmations of Frenchnes s against former colonial subjects\, this presentation interrogates the process of losing empire from the perspectives of both former colonizers and the newly sovereign.\n\n \;Image: &ldquo\;Traité\; de Ha& iuml\;ti (1825).&rdquo\; The author of the image is unknown. It is in th e public domain\, reproduced from Victor Duruy\, Histoire populaire cont emporaine de la France\, Tome premier\, Paris\, Lahure\, 1864.\n\n \ ;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_burleigh-hendr ickson/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

While there exi sts a vast scholarship on attempts to retain and expand French imperial glory, and equally impressive accounts of anti-colonial resistance, there is comparatively little published research on the restructu ring of notions of indignation/dignity or national belonging following i mperial loss. This presentation explores how so-called “enlightene d” societies reconciled declarations of universal freedoms alongsi de attacks on the dignity of others. At the same time, it asks in what i nstances human beings draw a line in the sand to demand respect and mutu al recognition for and from others? From merchants and plantation owners to rebellious Haitians, French citizens and colonial subjects alike wer e clearly impacted by these reorganizations of empire. Reactionary forei gn policies in the realms of commerce and immigration could reposition F rench superiority and alter economic and demographic landscapes. While F rench refugees demanded reparations for lost property after being expell ed from colonial Saint-Domingue, Haiti’s new political leadership penned indignant letters of consternation addressed to French aggressors in the early nineteenth century. From reactionary depictions of fo reign bodies to new affirmations of Frenchness against former colonial s ubjects, this presentation interrogates the process of losing empire fro m the perspectives of both former colonizers and the newly sovereign.

 Image: “Traité de Haïti (1825).” The a uthor of the image is unknown. It is in the public domain, reproduced fr om Victor Duruy, Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France, T ome premier, Paris, Lahure, 1864.

 

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