- Title: The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture "New Orleans: An American Pompeii"
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 09/28/2005 - 09/28/2005
- Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Location: 100 Hutchins Hall
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Doretha Coval
734 936 3518
humin@umich.edu
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- Description: Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History, Tulane University
Discussants
Kevin K. Gaines, Professor of History Director and Professor Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women’s Studies
- Detailed Information: Who owns the history of New Orleans, and what does that history tell us about how the city should be rebuilt?
Lawrence Powell, Professor of History at Tulane University, is a specialist on the history of the United States South, particularly Louisiana. He is also the former executive director of the Tulane/Xavier National Center for the Urban Community, and has worked extensively in many of the neighborhoods most affected by the recent flooding. Prof. Powell is the author of Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, The Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), which won the Lillian Smith Book Prize from the Southern Regional Council; and of many articles, including most recently, "Why History Matters: Bearing Witness in the Age of Right Wing Populism," The American Scholar (Fall 2005).
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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