Upcoming LHA Online Presentations
Thursday, March 4 (4:00-5:30)
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[2020 LHA AWARDS CEREMONY and PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Henry Robertson, LHA Vice-President (2020), Presiding
“’Benevolence, Brotherly Love, and Harmony:’ Community Building among German Jewish Merchants in Clinton, Louisiana”
V. Elaine Thompson, LHA President (2020)
Wednesday, March 10 (6:00-7:30)
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[2021 LHA AWARDS CEREMONY and PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Eva Baham, LHA Vice-President (2021), Presiding
“The Creation of a Louisiana Bungalow Court: Suburban Development in Louisiana, 1909-1930”
Henry Robertson, LHA President (2021)
Thursday, March 18 (4:00-5:30)
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[BUILDING RENAMING ON A UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: MOTIVATIONS, JUSTIFICATIONS, AND OBSERVATIONS
Michael Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Moderator
PARTICIPANTS:
Jordan Kellman, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Marissa Petrou, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Maria Seger, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Theodore Foster, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Trevian Ambroise, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Phebe Hayes, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Wednesday, March 24 (6:00-7:30)
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[LEGACIES OF THE COLONIAL GERMAN-ACADIAN COAST R. Martin Guidry, Independent Scholar, Chair “’It’s a German Sausage with a French Name:’ The Côte des Allemands at 300, A Critical Reassessment” “Natives on the German and Acadian Coast: A Window into Native-Imperial Politics in Spanish Louisiana, 1763-1800” “The Acadian Petitions: A 300-Year Legacy” Comments:
Andreas Hübner, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Frances Kolb Turnbell, Tennessee Historical Society
Fernin F. Eaton, Independent Scholar
Jay M. Schexnaydre, Independent Scholar
Thursday, April 8 (4:00-5:30)
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[THE PRICE OF DENIAL: EPIDEMICS IN NORTHWEST LOUISIANA Brady Banta, Arkansas State University (retired), Chair and Comments “’Death and the Price of Lemons:’ The Great Influenza of 1918 in Caddo Parish” “The Road Not Taken: Dr. Willis Butler and the Shreveport Narcotic Clinic, 1919-1925” “The Making of Small Town Rage: The Work and Influence of ACT UP Shreveport in the Fight against HIV in the 1980s”
Laura Lyons McLemore, Louisiana State University – Shreveport
Sarah Greene Hamer, Louisiana State University – Shreveport
David Hylan, Betty and Leonard Phillips Deaf Action Center
Wednesday, April 14 (6:00-7:30)
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[LANGUAGES OF RACE AND BELONGING: MULTIETHNIC DYNAMICS IN 19TH-CENTURY LOUISIANA PRINT CULTURE Ann Tucker, University of North Georgia, Chair and Comments “’Unstoppable conjunction’ or ‘Racy and novel contiguity:’ Forms of the Creole in Antebellum Travel Writing and Fiction” “Ethnic Community, Military Sociality, and Multilingual Intimacies: A Louisiana Newspaper Network (1853–1868)” “’Citizens Plead Necessity for White Supremacy’ & the ‘Privileged Dago’ Clause: The Power of the Press in Racializing Sicilians in 1890s Louisiana”
Erica Stevens, Houston Community College – Northline
Sarah H. Salter, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Jessica Barbara Jackson, Colorado State University
Thursday, April 22 (4:00-5:30)
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[THE POLITICS OF ACQUISITION: COMMERCE, EMPLOYMENT AND THEFT Michael Powers, Angelo State University, Chair and Comments “Hen-Men and Red-Handed Murderers: Louisiana’s 1879 Larceny Provision, Freedmen, and Nonhuman Animals” “Demands of Commerce: The Louisiana Tehuantepec Company and the Complexity of Southern Economic Diplomacy” “Creole Women’s Occupational Strategies and the Politics of Wage Earning After Reconstruction”
Tom Aiello, Valdosta State University
Kyle Jackson, University of California – Berkeley
Natasha L. McPherson, University of California – Riverside
Wednesday, April 28 (6:00-7:30)
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[LOUISIANA POT-POURRI Emily Clark, Tulane University, Chair and Comments “Antonio Acosta’s The Population of Spanish Louisiana: A Preview” “Body Politics: Keeping (and Making Up) Appearances in Colonial New Orleans” “Behind Every Voodoo Queen . . . The Reconciliation of Jacques Paris”
Paul Hoffman, Louisiana State University
Philippe L.B. Halbert, Yale University
Kenetha Harrington, Louisiana State University
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