Carlo A. Célius

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Historian and art historian Carlo A. Célius is Director of Research at CNRS, a member of the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF). His research is focused on Saint-Domingue/Haiti and explores three themes: visual arts and culture; the experience, knowledge, and use of the past; and the history of ethnography. Author of Langage plastique et énonciation identitaire: L’invention de l’art haïtien (Quebec City, PUL, 2007), Création plastique d’Haïti: Art culture visuelle en colonie et postcolonie (Paris, Éditions de la MSH, 2023), and Hector Hyppolite: Création plastique et autofiction (Paris, CIDIHCA France, 2023), he has also contributed to a number of journals and anthologies, including “Haïti et l’anthropologie,” Gradhiva, n.s., no. 1 (2005); “Haïti: Face au passé/Confronting the Past,” Ethnologies 28, no. 1 (2006); Situations créoles: Pratiques et représentations (Quebec City, Nota Bene, 2006); and “Création plastique, traites et esclavages,” Cahiers des Anneaux de la mémoire, no. 12 (2009).