Professor Dalleo delivered the keynote address “Haiti, Harlem, and Hamburg: Anticolonialism’s Rhizomatic Roots” at the Caribbean Meridians conference at the University of Western Sydney. The address used research from American Imperialism’s Undead to reflect on the meridians of anticolonialism intersecting around the U.S. occupation of Haiti.

More information about the conference can be found here: http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/caribbean-meridians/

Professor Dalleo was invited to participate in a roundtable about Critical University Studies organized by Anne Gulick (University of South Carolina) and Sam Pinto (Georgetown University) at the 2019 MLA in Chicago.

Connecting #feesmustfall to the struggle to remove monuments to racist pasts on campus, this session addressed the contemporary global university as it has been constructed through both political protest and literary form in the postcolonial world. Participants asked how the university has figured in the study of world literature and how it has been imagined in the postcolonial context, as an institution both beholden to and offering promise beyond the colonial infrastructure.

Other participants included Agata Szczeszak-Brewer (Wabash College), Coilin Parsons (Georgetown University), Matthew H. Brown (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Neville W. Hoad (U of Texas, Austin).

Professor Dalleo took part in a roundtable discussion of U.S. military occupations in the Caribbean and their aftermaths at the American Studies Association conference in Atlanta. This presidential session organized by Mary Renda (Mount Holyoke College) allowed scholars of Caribbean studies to initiate a robust conversation about the political and cultural reverberations of US military interventions in the Caribbean.

Participants included Harvey Nepute (author of Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation), Grace Sanders Johnson (University of Pennsylvania), and Lara Putnam (co-editor of Caribbean Military Encounters). Professor Dalleo discussed research from his book American Imperialism’s Undead

At the 37th annual West Indian Literature conference at the University of Miami, Professor Dalleo was part of the two-part “Con/federating the Archipelago” panels organized by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann. These panels explored the parallels and distinctions between Antillean confederation of the 19th century and the West Indies Federation of the twentieth century.

His presentation, “Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti,” argued for Haiti’s occupation as a key even in shaping the desire for alternative to the nation-state in the mid-twentieth century Caribbean. This argument drew on the research from the book American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism.