"Making New Orleans Home: A Tricentennial Symposium"

March 8, 2018 to March 11, 2018

Locations across the city.

Admission is free. No reservations will be taken.

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. The symposium is the capstone of the committee, which is chaired by author and former Associate Vice President for External Affairs at Xavier University Sybil Haydel Morial and THNOC Executive Director Priscilla Lawrence.

Featuring lectures and cultural programming throughout the city, the four-day event will explore the 300-year history of how New Orleans came to be inhabited by diverse, vibrant people and how, in turn, the concept of home has been central to the life and culture of the city.

Comprising individual lectures and panel discussions, the 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, City of New Orleans Tricentennial
	Introduction Emily Clark, chair, Symposium Program Committee, and Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History, Tulane University
	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.	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 D. Ryan Gray, Richard Wallin Boebel Endowed Professor in Anthropology, University of New Orleans
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.	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.	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 Voodoo and the Racial Politics of Identity in New Orleans Kodi Roberts, assistant professor of history, Louisiana State Univeristy The Politics of Prayer: Free Women of Color and the Pursuit of Freedom in Antebellum Louisiana Noël Voltz, assistant professor of history, University of Utah From Code Noir to Respectability: Jews and Judaism in New Orleans Hasia Diner, Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and professor of Hebrew, New York University
11–11:45 a.m.	Panel discussion: "Creating Home: 300 Years of Builders and Architects in New Orleans" Ann M. Masson, architectural historian, Tulane School of Architecture Tara Dudley, lecturer, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin Jonn Ethan Hankins, executive director, New Orleans Master Crafts Guild
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 Exiles from Saint-Dominque: Caribbeanizing New Orleans Nathalie Dessens, professor of American history, Université Toulouse The Refugee Predicament: From Saint-Domingue to Cuba to New Orleans, 1803–1809 Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History, professor of law, University of Michigan
3:45–4 p.m.	Break
4–4:45 p.m.	Panel discussion: New Orleans Music: Past, Present, and Future Home Is Where the Heart Is Bruce Boyd Raeburn, head of special collections and director emeritus, Hogan Jazz Archive, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University Building and Rebuilding the “Land of Dreams” with Music Nick Spitzer, producer, American Routes, and professor of anthropology, Tulane University The New Orleans Second Line Tradition: Musical and Cultural Implications Dr. Michael White, Keller Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Xavier University
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 Mary Niall Mitchell, Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, University of New Orleans
10:45–11:30 a.m.	Panel discussion: Immigrants Faith, Hope, and Charity: Irish Communities in New Orleans Laura D. Kelley, adjunct professor of history and program director, Tulane Summer in Dublin program, Tulane University Immigration in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Justin A. Nystrom, director, Center for the Study of New Orleans, Loyola University, New Orleans Three Centuries and Counting: Germans at Home in New Orleans from the Start Daniel Hammer, deputy director, The Historic New Orleans Collection
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 Sybil Haydel Morial, author and former associate vice president for external affairs, Xavier University Alexander P. Tureaud Jr., educator, author, public speaker, and artist Raphael Cassimere Jr., professor emeritus of history, University of New Orleans Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons, civil rights activist, New Orleans Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), NAACP Youth Council 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

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

Dec | 2024

Dec | 2024