Deborah Jenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

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

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

United States of America

Service to the Profession

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

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

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

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

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

Selection Committee, NIneteenth-Century French Studies Conference · 2011 Event/Organization 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 Event/Organization 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 Theme Leader (Brain & Society) · 2013 - 2016 Curriculum Innovations

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