8:29 a.m., Feb. 17, 2010----"Haiti: Historical and Cultural Perspectives" will be the topic of a special University of Delaware Department of History workshop to be held from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., Thursday, April 8, in Room 206 of the Trabant University Center.

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The special session, which is co-sponsored by UD's Black American Studies Program, will provide the expertise of historians and literary scholars in order to inform the campus community about Haiti beyond the current disaster and to put that disaster into context.

Panelists for the session and their topics are as follows:

* Howard Johnson, Francis H. Squire Professor of History and Black American Studies, who will discuss the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s;

* Erica Armstrong Dunbar, associate professor of history, who will discuss Haitian immigration to the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries;

* Edgard Sankara, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, who will discuss Haitian literature; and

* David Suisman, assistant professor of history, who will discuss Haitian music.

The session, which was rescheduled from Feb. 11 due to snow, is part of a Department of History workshop series. The coordinator for the series this semester is James Brophy, professor of history.