CENTURIES OF CHANGE: HUMAN TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI

The Randall L. Gibson Seminar
October 16, 1998
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Co-Sponsors:
Center for the Study of New Orleans and the Mississippi River, Tulane University
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District
Center for Hazards and Environmental Geography, Southwest Texas State University

Preliminary Program

9:00 - 9:15 am, Opening Ceremonies

9:15 am to noon, Morning Presentations

• Henry Bart, Jr. Tulane University "Fish Diversity in a Heavily Industrialized Reach of the Lower Mississippi River"
  
• Tristram Kidder, Tulane University "Sea Level, Delta Formation, and Human History in the Lower Mississippi River Delta"
  
• Chris Morris, University of Texas-Arlington "Impenetrable but Easy: The French Transformation of the Lower Mississippi Valley"
  
• Richard Condrey, Louisiana State University "The Priest's Advice and the King's Greed: The Autocratic Roots of Democratic Policy towards the Mississippi River System"
  
• George Pabis, Appalachian State University "When the Mississippi Lost Its Gender: Engineers and the Language of Flood Control, 1846-1881"
  
• Donald Davis, Louisiana State University "A Historical Perspective on Crevasses, Levees and the Mississippi River"
  
• Ari Kelman, Brown University "The Power of Art: The Eads Jetty, New Orleans, and the Mississippi"
  
• Edwin Lyon and Joan Exnicios, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District "From Wetland Reclamation ot Restoration: The LaBranche Wetlands"

Lunch

1:30 - 3:30, Afternoon Presentations

• Craig Colten, Southwest Texas State University "Too Much of a Good Thing: Industrial Pollution of the Lower Mississippi"
  
• Todd Shallat, Boise State University "In the Wake of Hurricane Betsy: Disaster by Design"
  
• Beverly Wright, Xavier University "Endangered Communities: Struggle for Environmental Justice in the Louisiana Chemical Corridor"
  
• Barbara Allen, University of Southwest Louisiana "Cluster Claims or the Popular Geography of Illness"
  
• Colin MacLachlan, Tulane University Closing Comments

For more information contact:

Terrance Fitzmorris
Director, Center for the Study of New Orleans and the Mississippi River
Tulane University
tfitzmo@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu