Sumários
Janvier, "Haiti for the Haitians"
8 Abril 2026, 12:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Historical introduction: from the end of Boyer's presidency to Lysius Salomon and the Liberals' insurrection of 1883. The problem of land ownership in post-independence Haiti: the different visions of the Liberal and National parties. Janvier and the call for land reform. Social, political, and economic issues connected to the growth of Haiti as an independent country: the internal cohesion of the population, territorial unity, and the accumulation of wealth.
Anténor Firmin and anthropology
25 Março 2026, 12:30 • Chiara Nifosi
The creation of the myth of the Aryans (linguistics and anthropology). Gobineau on métissage: the decay of the original races. The defense of métissage in Firmin's essay. The use of exemplary cases and the role of language and literature in Firmin's argument against the inequality of races. 19th-century scientific racism and ethnographic museums.
Anténor Firmin and anthropology
23 Março 2026, 12:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Firmin's positioning as an outsider: tone and rhetorical strategy. The centrality of Haiti in the project of rehabilitation of the Black race. The systems of classification of the human race(s): between philosophy, natural history, and comparative anatomy. Anthropometry and craniometry. Slavery and racism: the relationship between politics and science. Métissage in Firmin's discourse.
Anténor Firmin and anthropology
18 Março 2026, 12:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Introduction to anthropology and scientific racism in the 19th century. The ordering of sciences and the methodology of investigation: Firmin and Positivism. The fabrication of the inequality of races: Gobineau's essay and Firmin's response. Polygenism and monogenism.
Bergeaud, "Stella"/3
16 Março 2026, 12:30 • Chiara Nifosi
Conclusion of the discussion on Stella. Libertinism in the colony; the Black woman's body in 19th-century representations. Stella and whiteness. The French Revolution in Stella: the novel as political commentary.