Saturday February 23, 2013

Hebert Hall, Room 201

Panel Four: Navigating Transnational Spaces 10:00 - 11:00AM, Chair/Commentator: Dr. Jana Lipman, Department of History
A History of Resiliency: New Orleans East Vietnamese American Gardens and Fishing Community Paige Prather, University of Mississippi Fashioning Landscapes and Difference: Environment and American Tourism in the Nineteenth Century Liana DeMarco, University of Massachusetts-Boston Black Owned Transnationalism: A Case for Agency and Paradigm Shift Timothy Nelson, University of Texas at El Paso

Second Annual Global Gulf Conference

Tulane University
February 21-23, 2013

--- Lunch Break 11:30-12:45pm --Mid-Afternoon Presentation 1 - 1:30PM

A Visual History of New Orleans Second Lines: the Art of Procession Charles Lovell, Director of the Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University

The Global Gulf conference is about transnational exchange and life in and around the Gulf of Mexico past and present. Tulanes Global Gulf conference will include graduate student presenters from universities around the U.S. on various topics that would be interesting to scholars and students working on the United States South, the Circum-Caribbean, or Latin America.

Panel Five: Community and Family in the Global Gulf 1:45 - 3:15PM, Chair/Commentator: Dr. Justin Wolfe, Department of History
Becoming Trinidadian: Drumming for a Place in the Nation Dan Castilow, Tulane University The Revolutionary Era American Family and its Representation in Public History: The Case of the George Wythe and his Faithful Servant Carol Cleaver, University of South Alabama The Jena Choctaw: A Comparative History of the Choctaw Diaspora Jonathan Fairchild, University of Houston

Panel Six: Jesuits, Aristocrats, and Pirates: Social, Cultural, and Economic Impacts in the Atlantic World 3:30 - 5:00PM, Chair/Commentator: Dr. Kris Lane, Department of History
The Influence of St. Ignatius in the Americas Alejandra McCall, Western Carolina University The British Atlantic Influence: How the Port of Charleston became London in the Colonial Era Frank McHone, Western Carolina University The Complexity of Atlantic World Piracy in Regards to External Factors: Late 17th Century to Early 18th Century Phoebe Raulston, Western Carolina University The Global Gulf Conference is presented by Tulanes History Graduate Student Association with generous funding and support from GSSA, the Gulf South Center, the History Department, the Murphy Institute, The D. W. Mitchell Lecture Series and the Provosts Faculty Seminars in Interdisciplinary Research, the Interdisciplinary Committee for Arts and Visual Culture, the English Department, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Payson Center, and the Department of Anthropology

Schedule
Thursday, February 21, 7:00PM - 10:00PM Keynote Speach by Walter Johnson in Freeman Auditorium Friday, February 22, 9:30AM - 4:30PM Panels / Presentations in Rogers Memorial Chapel Saturday, February 23, 10:00AM - 5:00PM Panels / Presentations in Hbert Hall, Room 201

Thursday, February 21
Freeman Auditorium

Friday, February 22
Rogers Memorial Chapel

Keynote Speech featuring Walter Johnson

7:00 10:00PM
Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of the award winning Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Walter Johnsons keynote speech for the Global Gulf conference will embed the history of slavery in the U.S. in the histories of global capitalism (especially the cotton trade and the Atlantic money market) and U.S. imperialism (the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican War, and the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s). Following the keynote, there will be a reception in Woodward Way and a presentation by Dr. Edith Wolfe of the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies on Sandra Panis exhibition De Ser Arbol 2008 in the Newcomb Gallery.

Panel One: Imperial Designs: Visual and Narrative Representations of Colonial Cuba 9:30 - 11:00AM, Chair/Commentator: Dr. Marilyn Miller, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The Art of Playing the Villain: Virtual Torture and Tourism in the Photographs of Black Men from Turn of the Century Cuba Kate Mason, Tulane University Cuban Libres Robert Poister, University of Georgia The Imagined Empire: The United States, Cuban Space, and the Politics of Representation, 18151865 Matt Brennan, Tulane University

--- Lunch Break 11:00-12:45pm --Panel Two: Performance and Action: Race, Identity, and Culture in and around New Orleans 1:00 - 2:30PM, Chair/Commentator: Dr. Joel Dinerstein, Department of English
A Master and a Mistress: the Life of Josphine Monnot Alix Riviere, Tulane University Fashioning Status in the French Market: Enslaved Womens Clothing and the Performance of Freedom in Antebellum New Orleans Whitney Stewart, Rice University We Wont Bow, We Wont Kneel: Negotiating a Black Identity within the Mardi Gras Indian Tradition, 1960-1980 Matt Joseph, University of Florida

Panel Three: Revolution and Recovery: Responses to Crisis throughout the Global Gulf
3:00 - 4:30PM, Chair/Commentator: Dr. Maureen Long, the Murphy Institute
Northern Alabama Unionists and the Republican Threat During Reconstruction: A Hypothesis Susan Deily-Swearingen, University of New Hampshire A Comparative Study of Spanish Caribbean Reform Movements and Their Process of Radicalization: Cuba and Puerto Rico 1850-1870 Michael Deliz, University of Texas at Arlington When Mexico Turned Inward: The Victory at Tampico and its Effect on Mexican Domestic Politics, 1829-1833 Kyle Carpenter, University of Texas at Arlington

Photo by Derek Bridges, August, 2000