Symposium Schedule

(schedule subject to change)


Friday, January 29, 2010

6:00 pm

Reception
Meet the speakers and view the companion exhibition
The Historic New Orleans Collection
533 Royal Street


Saturday, January 30, 2010


Omni Royal Orleans Hotel • 621 St. Louis Street
8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

8:00 am  

Registration

8:45 am

Welcome
Priscilla Lawrence, Executive Director
The Historic New Orleans Collection

Introduction
Mark Fernandez, Symposium Moderator

Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans


9:00 am

The Creole City—Its Character and Characters
Christina Vella, Historian, New Orleans

9:45 am 

Break

10:00 am

The Brothers Laffite and the Smugglers of the Orleans Territory
William C. Davis, Director of Programs for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Virginia Tech

10:45 am  

"This Awful Lesson": Torture and Testimony in the Great Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811
Robert L. Paquette, Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of History
Hamilton College (Clinton, New York)

11:30 am

Lunch (on your own)

1:00 pm 

Invitation to Symposium 2011

1:15 pm 

The Dreamers: Ambitious "Americans" in Territorial New Orleans
Lo Faber, Doctoral Candidate
Princeton University

2:00 p.m.

Break

2:15 pm

Gens de Couleur Libre in Territorial New Orleans
Jennifer M. Spear, Assistant Professor of History
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, British Columbia)

3:15 pm

Moderator’s Comments and Closing Remarks


Williams Research Center • 410 Chartres Street

       4:00 pm

Post-conference Reception
Meet the speakers and ask questions