New Orleans, Global City (1718 – 2018):
The Long Shadow of John Law and the Mississippi Bubble
Inaugural Conference of the 18th- & 19th-Century Studies Network
April 26 – 27, 2018
University of Colorado Boulder
PROGRAM
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Events are held in the Center for British & Irish Studies (CBIS), Norlin Library, room M549, unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, April 26
2 – 5 p.m.: Exhibit in Norlin Library’s Special Collections & Archives (Room N345)
5 p.m.: Reception
5:30 p.m.: Keynote Address
Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English, Yale University,
“‘Dreams Are Spoken Here’:
Counter-Intuitive Economies and the Founding of New Orleans”
Friday, April 27
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Exact schedule and order of sessions/presentations are subject to change.
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9 – 10:30: Session 1
Chair: Maria Windell
Inger Leemans, Cultural History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, “All Profit, No Loss in Wondrous Mississippi Land: The Development of a Global Economics of Desire around 1700”
D'Maris Coffman, Economics & Finance, University College London, “Mercantilism after the Bourbon Succession: Later Editions of Le Parfait Négociant and the Construction of the Eighteenth-Century French Empire”
Matthew Gerber, History, University of Colorado Boulder, “Racializing French Slave Law: How the Edict of March 1685 Became the ‘Black Code of Louisiana’”
10:30 – 11: Break
11 – 12: Session 2
Chair: Masano Yamashita
Gordon Sayre, English, University of Oregon, “Jean-Bernard Bossu and the Tall Tales of Colonial Louisiana Promotional Tracts”
Florence Magnot-Ogilvy, French, Université de Rennes 2, “Staging Commercial Encounters between Europeans and Native Americans: On the Evolution of a Philosophical Topos after the Mississippi Bubble”
12 – 1:30: Lunch break (Hellems 115)
1 – 5: Conference Exhibit, Norlin Library’s Special Collections & Archives (N345)
2 – 3:30: Session 3
Chair: Teresa Toulouse
Peter Brigham Dedek, History & Design, Texas State University, “Mud to Marble: The Development of New Orleans Cemeteries, 1718-1820”
Jennifer Tsien, French, University of Virginia, “How to Get Rich in Louisiana: Physiocrats against Imperial Policy”
Soizic Croguennec, Modern History, Université de Guyane, “New Orleans during the Spanish Interregnum (1763-1803), A City at the Crossroads of Empires: Local Debt, Social Relations and Global Projection”
3:30 – 4: break
4 – 5: Session 4
Chair: Paul Youngquist
Daniel Usner, History, Vanderbilt University, “From Calumet to Raquette: American Indian Performance on the New Orleans Stage”
Marilyn Brown, Art History, University of Colorado Boulder, “Degas and New Orleans Revisited: Cotton and Global Capitalism”
5:00 – 5:30: roundtable
Chair: Catherine Labio
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