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LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM MARCH 1-4, 2012 Alecia P. Long, Program Chair THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 Registration: 10:00-4:00 pm Nominations Committee: 10:30-11:00 am Publications Committee: 10:30-11:00 am Teaching Committee: 10:30-11:00 am Board of Directors Meeting: 11:00 -2:00 pm New and Under-Used Archival Sources for Historians Session I-A, Thursday, 3:00-4:15 pm Charles J. Pellegrin, Northwestern State University, Chair Michelle Riggs, Louisiana State University--Alexandria Chris Brown, Centenary College Mary Linn Wernet, Northwestern State University Keith Fontenot, St. Landry Parish Courthouse Comment: The Audience The State of Public Archives in New Orleans Post-Katrina Session I-B, Thursday, 3:00-4:15 pm Jennifer Abraham, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, LSU, Chair Irene Wainright, New Orleans Public Library Greg Lambousy, Louisiana State Museum Christina Bryant, Clerk of Civil District Court, Notarial Archives Division Comment: The Audience FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 Creoles and Citizens: Being Afro-Creole in New Orleans, 1836-1921 Session II-A, Friday, 9:00-10:15 am Sheri Abel, Wheaton College, Chair "Societe d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle: The Formation of an Afro-Creole Identity" Fatima Shaik Saint Peter's College "The Common Wind's Legacy in the Writings of Pierre Aristide Desdunes, a Civil War Soldier and Civil Rights Activist" Caryn Cossé Bell University of Massachusetts "Lost in 'le bas de la ville': In Search of the History of New Orleans's Creoles of Color in the 1920s" Mary Niall Mitchell University of New Orleans Comment: Lolis Eric Elie, Author and Journalist Women in Early Louisiana Session II-B, Friday, 9:00-10:15 am Mary Farmer-Kaiser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chair "The Women across from Congo Square" Emily Clark Tulane University "Neither Creole, Nor Southern, Nor Northern: Phoebe Hunter and the Female Orphan Society, 1815-1844" Mark Duvall Mary Institute Country Day School "Lucy Alston Pirrie: A Woman's Life in Early Louisiana" Sara Brooks Sundberg University of Central Missouri Comment: Kirsten Wood, Florida International University Right Wing Backlash in Twentieth-Century Louisiana Session II-C, Friday, 9:00-10:15 am Patrick Maney, Boston College, Chair "Anti-ERA Women in Louisiana: Negotiating Gender, Culture, and Politics in the 1970s" Yvonne Brown Louisiana State University "Equality and Educational Policy in Louisiana, 1940-1960: Anticommunism, Segregation, and the Battle Between African-American Educators and the Louisiana Board of Education" AmyLynn Schexnayder University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comment: Edward Haas, Wright State University Texans on the Waterways of Louisiana History Session III-A, Friday, 10:30-11:45 am Julienne L. Wood, LSU-Shreveport, Chair "From the New Madrid Earthquakes to the Settlement at Velasco: The Stephen F. Austin Family on the Waterways of Louisiana" Light Townsend Cummins Austin College "Artist Don Brown and the Waterways of the Pelican State" Victoria Hennessey Cummins Austin College Comment: Sam Shepherd, Centenary College Afro-Creole Rights, Culture, and Identity Session III-B, Friday, 10:30-11:45 am Raphael Cassimere, University of New Orleans, Chair "The Photography of Florestine Perrault Collins: From Downtown to Midtown" Arthe' A. Anthony Occidental College "Racial Triangulation in New Orleans: A. P. Tureaud's Early Years" David Kenneth Pye University of West Georgia "Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans" Melissa Daggett San Jacinto College "'A shield against the spiteful and calumnious arrows shot at us': Afro-Franco-Creole-Catholic Education in New Orleans 1810-1860" Petra Munro Hendry Louisiana State University Comment: Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University New Perspectives on Women in the Big Easy Session III-C, Friday, 10:30-11:45 am Clarence Mohr, University of South Alabama, Chair "Grace King and the Feminization of New Orleans Creole History and Culture" Rien Fertel Tulane University "High School Students and Coeducation in 1950s New Orleans" Walter Stern Tulane University "The 'Bad Girls' of the Big Easy: New Orleans' Infamous Female Hurricanes" Liz Skilton Tulane University Comment: Pamela Tyler, University of Southern Mississippi Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon Friday 12:00-1:00 pm Family Matters: Intimate Relationships of Free Women of Color in Antebellum New Orleans Session IV-A, Friday, 1:15-2:30 pm Justin Nystrom, Loyola University, Chair "Caring Parents and the Careers of Free Artists of Color" Patricia Brady Independent Scholar "Mon Cher Dupre: Race, Property, and Affect in Antebellum New Orleans" Shirley E. Thompson University of Texas at Austin "But for the Law: New Orleans Interracial Couples, 1760-1868" Gregory G. Osborn Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library Comment: Jennifer Spear, Simon Fraser University Women, Creoles, and Indians on the Louisiana Frontier Session IV-B, Friday, 1:15-2:30 pm Charles Chamberlain, Louisiana State Museum, Chair "Powers Earned, Not Given: Women, Cattle, and Racial Flexibility in the Attakapas District, 1765-1812" Sarah Jane Senette University of Louisiana at Lafayette "'A small, irregular and meanly built village': Natchitoches and Louisiana Statehood" James MacDonald Northwestern State University Comment: Charles Chamberlain, Louisiana State Museum Bridging the Colonial and Antebellum: Transforming Slavery and Race in the Early Republic Gulf South Session IV-C, Friday, 1:15-2:30 pm Christopher Morris, University of Texas at Arlington, Chair "Changing Crops and Saving Slavery: Crisis and Consolidation in the Lower Mississippi Valley's Slave Regime, 1790-1811" Patrick Luck Johns Hopkins University "Race, Slavery and Liberty: Transitions of Power in Colonial Natchez, 1779-1820" Christian Pinnen University of Southern Mississippi "Both Native South and Cotton South: Cotton, Slavery, and Racial Transformation in the Gulf South, 1790-1830" James Wainwright Rice University Comment: Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Université de Sherbrooke Ethnicity and Religious Identity in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Session V-A, Friday, 2:45-4:00 pm Michael Cohen, Tulane University, Chair "Southern Parnellites: Irish-American Identity and the Land League in Late Nineteenth-Century New Orleans" Geoffrey D. Cunningham Louisiana State University "Wavering Whiteness: The Conditionality of Jewish Racial Identity in New Orleans in as Seen Through Responses to Early Nazi Persecution of German Jews" Seth Henderson University of Louisiana at Lafayette "Protestant Print and Catholic Curiosity: Christian Texts and Religious Exchange in the Mississippi Valley, 1810-1830" Christine Alice Croxall University of Delaware Comments: Laura Kelley, Tulane University Epidemics and Disasters in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Louisiana Session V-B, Friday, 2:45-4:00 pm Jo Ann Carrigan, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Chair "Trading Oyster Soup for Ice Cream: How Food Attitudes Changed in New Orleans During the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918" Sarah Savage University of Southern Mississippi "Amidst the Ashes of the City: Rebuilding and Governing New Orleans after the Fire of 1788" Kevin T. Barksdale Marshall University Comment: Randy Sparks, Tulane University Labor Politics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Louisiana: Urban and Rural Session V-C, Friday,2:45-4:00 pm Lance Hill, Tulane University, Chair "Jim Crow Unionism and the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Crown Zellerbach's Fight Against Equal Employment in Bogalusa" Owen James Hyman Southeastern Louisiana University "Examining the Historical Significance of Colored Creole Female Wage Earners in Post-Reconstruction New Orleans" Natasha McPherson Spelman College Comment: Thomas Adams, Tulane University, and Michael Ross, University of Maryland Consuming Local Color: Tourism Dialect Literature and the Commodification of French Culture in Louisiana, Quebec, and New England Session VI-A (Plenary Session 1), Friday, 4:15-5:30 pm Michael Wayne, University of Toronto, Chair "Americans in 'Old Quebec': In Search of the Authentic French Canadian" Nicole Neatby St. Mary's University, Halifax "Frenchface: The Rise of Linguistic Minstrelsy in a Period of Anti-French Sentiment in Canada, New England, and Louisiana" Jay Gitlin and Ryan Brasseaux Yale University Comment: The Audience Reforming Criminal Justice in Louisiana Session VI-B (Plenary Session 2), Friday, 4:15-5:30 pm Mary Howell, New Orleans Attorney, Chair "Shocking the Conscience: Judge Gordon West and the Beginning of Federal Court Reform of Angola State Prison" Gregory L. Richard University of Mississippi "Nine Angry Men: Johnson v. Louisiana and Non-Unanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts" Thomas Aiello Valdosta State University "'Less Than Mayhem': Convict Labor, Criminality, and Race in Louisiana, 1865-1901" Nathan Cardon University of Toronto Comment: Natalie J. Ring, University of Texas, Dallas Cash Bar Friday 6:00-7:00 pm Annual Banquet Friday 7:00 - 9:00 pm Janet Allured, LHA vice president, McNeese State University, presiding Presidential Address "Why Louisiana Matters" Lawrence N. Powell Tulane University SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 Females in Blue and Foreigners in Gray: Perspective on Soldiers that Fought For and Against Louisiana in the Civil War Session VII-A,Saturday, 10:00-11:15 am G. Howard Hunter, Metairie Park Country Day School, Chair "A Different Look at the Yankee Invaders: Two Ladies Disguised as Male Soldiers in Louisiana" Shelby Harriel Pearl River Community College "Non-Native Sons: A Detailed Look at Two Foreigners Who Wore Gray for Louisiana in the Civil War" Richard H. Holloway Louisiana National Guard Comment: LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri New Directions in Tudor-Stuart History Session VII-B,Saturday, 10:00-11:15 am Jeffery R. Hankins, Louisiana Tech University, Chair "'The Contrivance of Ambitious Animals': Usury, Money, and the Restoration Body Politic" Robin Hermann University of Louisiana at Lafayette "Doubtful Thomases: Henry VIII's Ministers on Film" William Robison Southeastern Louisiana University Comment: Jeffery R. Hankins, Louisiana Tech University Creole Connections: Transnational Itineraries and the Establishment of Law and Citizenship in New Orleans and Cuba Session VII-C, Saturday, 10:00-11:15 am Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan, Chair "A Tale of Two Lawyers" Kenneth Aslakson, Union College "The Wagers of Whiteness: French and Spanish Migrants and the Recolonization of Nineteenth-Century Cuba" David Sartorius University of Maryland, College Park "Gender and the Next Generation: The Legacy of the Haitian Revolution in Plessy v. Ferguson and Storyville" Emily Landau University of Maryland, College Park Comment: Adam Rothman, Georgetown University General Membership Meeting Saturday 11:30 am The Road to Statehood Session VIII-A (Plenary Session 3),Saturday, 1:15-2:45 pm Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, Chair "Shaking the Foundations: Slave Revolt, Statehood, and the Search for Stability in Early Louisiana" Junius Rodriguez Eureka College "Creation of an Un-American Republic: The Anxious Road to Louisiana Statehood, 1810-1812" Lo Faber Princeton University Comment: Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania RECEPTIONS AND TOURS (reservations required for each; see registration form) The Historic New Orleans Collection Williams Research Center 410 Chartres Street Research Facilities Tour Thursday, 4:30pm LHA SOCIAL Thursday, 6-7:30pm Law Library of Louisiana La. State Supreme Court Building 400 Royal Street LHA CLOSING RECEPTION* Saturday, 3-4pm The Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal Street *Sponsored by the N.O. Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University COMPLIMENTARY HISTORY TOURS (show your conference name badge for free admission) The Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal Street, guided tour on Sunday at 10am Louisiana State Museum Exhibits at the Cabildo, the Presbytere, and the Old U.S. Mint self-guided tours on Sunday anytime between 11am-3pm The Civil War Museum (929 Camp Street) self-guided tours on Sunday anytime between 10am-2pm SUPPLEMENTAL ACTIVITIES (reservations required for each; see registration form) Tremé America’s Oldest African American Neighborhood Tremé Walking Tour, Sunday, 2-4pm Departs from Basin Street Station (501 Basin St.) $15, reservation required Other Recommended Tremé Activities Jazz Mass, 10:00-11:30am St. Augustine Catholic Church (1210 Gov. Nicholls St.) Creole Brunch Lil’ Dizzy Café, 1500 Esplanade Ave. ($$) French Quarter Walking Tour Sunday, 1:30-3:30pm Conducted by the Friends of the Cabildo Departs from the 1850 House (523 St. Ann St.) $15, reservation required Tour of the National WWII Museum including admission to the 4-D movie Beyond All Boundaries Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm Arrive at the Victory Theater by 1:45 for film screening followed by a self-guided tour of the museum. (enter from Andrew Higgins Drive, between Camp and Magazine) Prices vary, reservation required |
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