Cultural Studies
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium
White Supremacy, Civil Rights, and Violence: Being Black in the American South
Keith M. Finley, From Slavery to Segregation: Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American South
Corey J. Miles, Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South
with moderator Charisse Gibson
9:15 am to 10:00 am
State Capitol, House Committee Room 6
Why Louisiana Ain’t Mississippi...or Any Place Else!
Jay Dardenne and Linda Midgett
10:00 am to 10:45 am
State Capitol, Senate Chamber
Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of a Cajun Life
Melissa M. Martin with moderator Elizabeth M. Williams
10:15 am to 11:15 am
Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium
Chronicles of South Louisiana
Errol Laborde, When Rex Met Zulu and Other Chronicles of the New Orleans Experience
William J. Thibodeaux, Cajun Country Chronicles
10:45 am to 11:30 am
State Capitol, House Committee Room 4
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium
Louisiana Traditions: Subsistence and Healing
Dana David Gravot, “Je jongle au Bon Dieu quand je traite”: Traiteurs in Francophone Louisiana
Helen A. Regis, Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana
with moderator Robert Mann
11:45 am to 12:30 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 4
Voodoo: An African American Religion
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 1
The Foods that Built Louisiana