Saint-Louis, Senegal/New Orleans Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana April 22-25, 2013 will be the site of the second part of an international conference, “Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans: The Comparative and Linked History of Two Port Cities on Each Side of the Atlantic from the 17th to the 19th Centuries,” cosponsored by Tulane, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, in exclusive partnership with RFI (Radio France Internationale). Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History and associate professor of history, is the conference organizer for Tulane.
This is the kind of thing one should be able to attend. I would so like to just cancel everything and go to this, as it is just down the road. I would like it to be happening here at Vichy State so I could look in on it as it was happening, without neglecting everything else.
On the positive side, there is a book coming out that debunks the plaçage myth. We must buy it. But I am in mourning over this conference on Senegal. Also, had I been better organized this week I would be out right now, seeing Lil Buck Sinegal. Louisiana rules in music.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 