***Update May 2024***
Recorded talks from this series are available on our DAACS Conversations Playlist
This spring, our DAACS Conversations series features a variety of talks from collaborators working in Haiti. Several speakers will focus on the site of Sans-Souci in northern Haiti, with data coming soon on DAACS.org. All talks will take place on Fridays at 12pm Eastern.
January 19, 2024: Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies: “Digging into Haiti’s Past.”
February 2, 2024: Camille Louis, University of California, Santa Cruz and Monticello Archaeology: “Marronage in Saint-Domingue (Haïti): An Archaeological Approach.”
February 16, 2024: Finola O’Kane, University College Dublin and Royal Irish Academy: “Sharp Gradients of Landscape Design in 18th-Century Saint Domingue (Haiti).”
March 15, 2024: Cameron Monroe, University of California, Santa Cruz: “‘Je renais de mes cendres’ (I will rise from my ashes): An Archaeology of Liberty and Sovereignty in the Kingdom of Hayti.”
April 12, 2024: Gabriela Martinez-Rocourt, University of Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne: “The Coffee Plantations of the Matheux Mountains, Haiti.”
April 26, 2024: Diane Wallman, University of South Florida: “From Code Noir to Code Henry: A Zooarchaeological Examination of Post-Revolution Subsistence at Sans-Souci, Haiti.”
May 10, 2024: Claire Norton, University of Massachusetts, Boston: “Understanding a Post-Emancipation Haiti: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 19th Century Plant Remains at the Palace of Sans-Souci.”
