Registration

Welcoming Remarks
Priscilla Lawrence, Executive Director, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Robert A. Thomas, Symposium Moderator
Director, Loyola University Center for Environmental Communication

American Indians and Natural History: Managed Landscapes in Prehistory
Robbie Ethridge, Professor of Anthropology, The University of Mississippi

François Lemaire and Bernard Alexandre Vielle:
The First Observers of Natural History in Colonial Louisiana
Gilles-Antoine Langlois, National School of Architecture at Versailles University of Paris,
East Créteil

Enlightenment Science in French Colonial Louisiana:
The Royal Physician Botanist Jean Prat and the Wax Myrtle
Boris Teske, Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts Liaison Librarian,
Louisiana Tech University

Break

From Peru to the Bayou: Antonio de Ulloa and New World Nature
Neil Safier, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Lunch on your own

Introduction to afternoon speakers and invitation to 2014 Symposium

Fledgling American Naturalists: Mark Catesby and Alexander Wilson
Christopher W. Lane, Co-owner, The Philadelphia Print Shop

Audubon in New Orleans
Joel Oppenheimer, President, Joel Oppenheimer, Inc.

Land, Life, and Living:  Ecology of the Louisiana Coast
Gay Gomez, Geographer,  McNeese State University (retired)

Break

Panel Discussion
Collect Globally, Connect Locally: Inside Two of Louisiana’s Natural History Museums

Henry L. Bart, Jr., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director and Curator of Fishes, Tulane University Museum of Natural History

Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Curator of Fishes, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University

Moderator’s closing remarks

4:00 p.m.

Post-conference Reception 
Meet the speakers