The Historic New Orleans Collection will join the City of New Orleans 2018 Commission’s Cultural and Historical Committee to present “Making New Orleans Home: A Tricentennial Symposium,” Thursday, March 8, through Sunday, March 11, 2018.
Comprising individual lectures and panel discussions, the four-day symposium will be held at locations throughout the city, including Tulane University, the Hotel Monteleone, Xavier University, and the University of New Orleans. Additional evening events will take place at The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old US Mint.
Schedule
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium, McAlister Drive and Freret Street
6:30 p.m. | Welcome address Michael Fitts, president, Tulane University |
Symposium address
Priscilla Lawrence and Sybil Haydel Morial, co-chairs, Cultural and Historical Committee, |
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Introduction
Emily Clark, chair, Symposium Program Committee, and Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History, Tulane University |
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Keynote address Cokie Roberts, NPR and ABC News political commentator |
Friday, March 9, 2018
Conference sessions: Monteleone Hotel, Queen Anne Ballroom, 214 Royal Street
Block party: 500 block of Royal Street
8:45–9 a.m. | Introductory remarks Priscilla Lawrence and Sybil Haydel Morial |
9–9:40 a.m. | Balbancha: How American Indians Kept New Orleans in their Homeland Daniel H. Usner, Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, Vanderbilt University |
9:40–10 a.m. | Break |
10–10:45 a.m.
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Revisiting the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans Shannon Lee Dawdy, professor of anthropology, University of Chicago Traces of Endangered Pasts: New Orleans Archaeology at the Tricentennial |
10:45–11 a.m. | Break |
11–11:40 a.m. | Self Expression and Enslaved People Sophie White, associate professor of American studies, University of Notre Dame |
11:40 a.m.–1:15 p.m. | Lunch (on your own) |
1:15–1:30 p.m. | Afternoon welcome Daniel Hammer, deputy director, The Historic New Orleans Collection |
1:30–2:10 p.m.
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Making New Orleans Home at the Table Jessica Harris, culinary historian and professor, Queens College, CUNY (retired) |
2:10–2:30 p.m. | Break |
2:30–3:15 p.m. | The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Shared History David Fleming, director, National Museums Liverpool (UK) |
3:15–3:30 p.m. | Break |
3:30–4:15 p.m.
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New Orleans and the Slave Trade Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History, professor of African and African American studies, and director of the Charles Warren Center, Harvard University interviewed by Lawrence N. Powell, professor emeritus of history, Tulane University |
5–7:30 p.m. | Block party, 500 block of Royal Street Featuring performances by Leroy Jones’ Original Hurricane Brass Band and the Dukes of Dixieland Refreshments will be available for purchase. Viewing of New Orleans, the Founding Era, an exhibition at The Historic New Orleans Collection |
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Conference sessions: Xavier University, McCaffrey Ballroom, University Center (3rd floor), 1 Drexel Drive
Evening program: New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Avenue
Food and drinks available for purchase at both venues.
8:45–9 a.m. | Welcoming remarks C. Reynold Verret, president, Xavier University |
9–9:45 a.m. | Featured address The Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson, author, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration |
9:45–10:15 a.m. | Break |
10:15–11 a.m. | Panel discussion: Religion
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11–11:45 a.m. | Panel discussion: “Creating Home: 300 Years of Builders and Architects in New Orleans”
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11:45–2 p.m. | Lunch (on your own) Book signing with Isabel Wilkerson |
2–2:40 p.m. | New Orleans in the American Revolution Kathleen Duval, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina |
2:40–3 p.m. | Break |
3–3:45 p.m. | Panel discussion: Haiti and New Orleans
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3:45–4 p.m. | Break |
4–4:45 p.m. | Panel discussion: New Orleans Music: Past, Present, and Future
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4:45 p.m. | Invitation to evening event Greg Lambousy, director, New Orleans Jazz Museum |
6:30–10 p.m. | Minting NOLA Music at the Jazz Museum |
Sunday, March 11, 2018
University of New Orleans, Senator Ted Hickey Ballroom and Gallery Lounge, University Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive. Parking will be complimentary in all university parking lots, including the University Center lot. Food and drinks available for purchase.
10:30–10:45 a.m. | Welcoming remarks Matt Tarr, Vice President for Research and Economic Development Introductory remarks |
10:45–11:30 a.m. | Panel discussion: Immigrants
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11:30–12:15 p.m. | An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans: Residential Settlement Patterns across Three Centuries Richard Campanella, geographer, Tulane School of Architecture |
12:15–2:15 p.m. | Lunch (on your own) |
1–2:15 p.m | “Congo Square” and “Storyville” University of Louisiana at Lafayette Wind Ensemble conducted by William J. Hochkeppel, director of bands, University of Louisiana at Lafayette works composed by James Syler, University of Texas at San Antonio commentary by Freddi Evans, author, independent scholar, and arts educator |
2:15–3:15 p.m. | Civil Rights roundtable
moderated by Lawrence N. Powell, professor emeritus of history, Tulane University |
3:15–4 p.m. | Whither New Orleans? The Future of A Great American City Leslie M. Harris, professor of history and African American studies, Northwestern University |
4 p.m. | Closing remarks |