Deborah Jenson

(In)Visible Organ - (In)visible Organ: A Mixed Media Exhibit · February 1, 2019 - March 2019 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Rubenstein Arts Center Co-planner, (In)visible Organ, a mixed media exhibit, part of a larger campaign for women’s empowerment in healthcare—working to demystify women’s reproductive anatomy and start a positive and productive dialogue about the shame and stigma surrounding sexual and reproductive health. At this event, the opening reception for the exhibit, scientists, engineers, artists, humanist, and documentarians will all converge to celebrate women’s health, reproductive anatomy, and rights through the power of dynamic, mixed media storytelling and performance art.

Neuroscience and the Poetics of the Haitian Declaration of Independence · December 9, 2013 Lecture Harvard University, 18th Century Studies Group, Mahindra Humanities Center

Revolutionary Practices · December 5, 2013 Lecture Brandeis Sawyer Seminar on Rethinking the Age of Revolution

L'aire de Firmin · November 11, 2013 Lecture Journées d'ethnologie, Institut d'Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Adrian and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory · October 23, 2013 Lecture 19th Century French Studies Colloquium

Les Cicatrices de Dessalines · April 1, 2013 Lecture Atelier Groupe Histoire de l'Atlantique Française, Montreal, CA

Plenary, "African Roots and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean" · March 19, 2013 Lecture World View's Annual Latin America and North Carolina Seminar

Flaubert and Epilepsy and "Haiti to New Orleans," Katherine P. Gore Chair Lectures · March 1, 2013 Lecture Tulane University

Les Cicatrices de Dessalines · October 17, 2012 Lecture Institute for African Studies and Research (l'IERAH), Université d'état d'Haïti

Flaubert's Brain: Neurohumanities (Plenary Lecture for the Society for French Studies) · July 5, 2012 Lecture University of Exeter

Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the African Character of the Haitian Revolution (Charles Bonnier Annual Lecture) · May 6, 2012 Lecture University of Liverpool

Neuroscience and the Humanities · November 12, 2011 Lecture NEH/Goethe Institute Satellite Panel for the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC

Digital Humanities and 19th Century French Studies: Mapping the History of Cholera · October 27, 2011 Lecture Nineteenth Century French Studies, Philadelphia, PA

Immigration to the Republic of Letters · September 30, 2011 Lecture Columbia University Seminar on Colonialism and Orientalism

The Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Lab Cholera Project · April 1, 2011 Lecture Duke University

Barbara Johnson’s Last Gift: Toward a New Engagement with Historical African Personhood · January 9, 2011 Lecture Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA

Feminine Literary Persons and Things · January 8, 2011 Lecture Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA

Haiti’s Independence Denied: The French in Santo Domingo, 1804 · November 13, 2010 Lecture Haitian Studies Association, Brown University, Providence, RI

Toward a Theory of Fat: Balzac, Capitalism, and Body Consciousness · October 1, 2010 Lecture Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Courtesan Poetry, the Urban Libertine Milieu, and the Haitian Revolution · September 1, 2010 Lecture Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Your Experience is in My Body: The Biological Precedence of Representation in the Mirror Neuron Paradigm · May 1, 2010 Lecture Institute of Advanced Study, University Symposium on Body and Knowing, University of Minnesota

Imitating Universality · May 1, 2010 Lecture Haiti and the Politics of the Universal,” Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

The Writing of Disaster in Haiti · May 1, 2010 Lecture East Carolina University

Specialized Communities: Mirror Neurons and the Biosocial Politics of Resemblance · May 1, 2010 Lecture Keynote, University of Minnesota Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies, Minneapolis, MN

Francophone World Literature (littérature-monde) and Cosmopolitanism: Citizen of the World without the Citizen? · November 1, 2009 Lecture University of Chicago

Mirror Neurons and Mimesis · October 1, 2009 Lecture Humanities/Science Symposium on “What Is Human?” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Second Nature: The Biosocial Construction of Likeness · September 1, 2009 Lecture Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Mirror Neurons and Mimesis Symposium

Le Monde Mandé et un Postcolonialisme cosmopolite et de longue durée · June 1, 2009 Lecture Bamako, Mali

Haitian Romanticism and Romantic Modernity · May 1, 2009 Lecture North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Under the Jurisdiction of La Sirène: Anba dlò in Turner, Dessalines, and Haitian Painting · April 1, 2009 Lecture

American Reactions to the Haitian Independence in the Era of Slavery · February 1, 2009 Lecture University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for the Humanities, "Coping with the Past" Symposium

A Reconsideration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence as Text · December 1, 2008 Lecture Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA

A Reconsideration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence as Text · November 1, 2008 Lecture Haitian Studies Association Conference, Montrouis

Napoleonic Kidnappings, from Toussaint Louverture to the Son of Henry Christophe · October 1, 2008 Lecture Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Nashville, Tennessee

Service to the Profession

Director : 3rd Annual Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference · March 2013 Administration Duke University

Selection Committee, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference · December 17, 2012 Administration

Orgaanizer : 'Old' Worlds, 'New' Worlds, Future Worlds Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference · March 2012 Administration

Co-Organizer : Haiti Lab Workshop, "Unveiling the Colonial System": The Baron de Vastey and the Henry Christophe Regime · December 2011 Administration

PFIRST Workshop, "Discourses of Trauma in Haiti" (Co-Organizer) · November 2011 Administration

Selection Committee, NIneteenth-Century French Studies Conference · 2011 Administration

Co-Organizer (with Michaeline Crichlow (Duke, Sociology and AAAS, Patricia Northover (UWI, SALISES), Matthew Smith (UWI, History, Faculty of the Human : States of Freedom, Freedom of States · June 1, 2010 Administration University of West Indies-Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

Editorial Consultant Team, Norton Anthology of World Literature · December 17, 2009 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke

Bass Connections Team Leader, Integration of Technology and Storytelling to Create a Visual Art Exhibit on Women's Health · 2019 - 2020 Projects & Field Work

North Carolina Bass Connections Open

Bass Connections Faculty Team Member, Trauma and Timing · August 2013 - May 2014 Projects & Field Work

United States

Bass Connections Theme Leader (Brain & Society) · 2013 - 2016 Curriculum Innovations

Bass Connections Faculty Advisory Council (Program) · 2012 - 2016 Committee Service

Leadership & Clinical Positions

Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, 2015-2018
Co-Director, Brain & Society Theme of Bass Connections, 2012-2016
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012-2014
Founding Co-Director, Health Humanities Lab, 2016-2020
Co-Director, Haiti Lab, 2010-2013