Excerpts from Aimé Césaire's Tragedy of King Christophe

Directed by Jean-René Lemoine. With Alex Decas, Nicole Dogue, Antoine Kobi, Jean-René Lemoine, Côme Paillard, Makita Samba, Kervens St Fort and Souleymane Sylla. Produced by Collège de France and Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (MC93).

Excerpts from Aimé Césaire's Tragedy of King Christophe

Speaker(s)

Antoine Lilti

Events

Haiti, 1825: from independence to debt - Introduction

Saint-Domingue at the dawn of the Revolution

The Haitian Revolution: histories and historiographies

Food versus food : the foundations of the State in Haiti

Discussion

Round table : Haitian independence : an intellectual histo…

Excerpts from Aimé Césaire's Tragedy of King Christophe

The debt of independence: the price of general freedom in 1793/1794

An alternative history of the ordinance of 17 April 1825: Haitian opposition to the half-right

The auction of sovereignty: The Haitian indemnity of 1825 in a global financial context

The State and the peasantry in relation to the indemnity debt

Discussion

Postcolonial racial ambiguities: the occultation of the notion of "race" in the Haitian compensation…

Indemnitaires and Obligataires: The Means and Meaning of Haïti's Debt in N…

Moral debt and social rights: distinguishing political compensation under the Restoration

Reparations, compensations, indemnities: the idea of justice in the aftermath of the abolition of 18…

Discussion

The Haitian revolution and the West: the making of a non-event

Round table : Remembrance and reparations

Round table : From debt to contemporary crisis

See also