[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for sharing this item.] Organized by the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Lauren H. Derby will speak about her latest book, Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands (Duke University Press, 2025). This seminar will take place online (Zoom) on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 4:30 to 6:00pm (GMT).
Go to https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/caribbean-studies-seminar-5 for more information and to register.
Lauren H. Derby is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Senior Editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. She is author of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands (Duke University Press, 2025) and The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (Duke, 2009). She has coedited The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke, 2014) and Activating the Past: History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World (Cambridge Scholars, 2010).
For more information on the book, see https://www.dukeupress.edu/betes-noires
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for sharing this item.] Organized by the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Lauren H. Derby will speak about her latest book, Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands (Duke University Press, 2025). This
