Lecture Series

A diverse array of informative, entertaining, and interesting discussions on a variety of topics- from the Civil War in the Florida Parishes to Serial Killers and the Geography of Natural Disasters.

 

Some of the lectures in the series:

• 74 Days a Nation, Sam Hyde
• 1927 Flood to Katrina, Michael Kurtz, Teaching American History series
• A Reading, Olympia Vernon
• African-American Holidays, Ron Traylor
• Alan Nolan Considered: Robert E. Lee, Charles Roland, Civil War Symposium (2003)
• An Evening with Rick Bragg, Rick Bragg
• Arts in Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu
• Average is Just Not Good Enough, Ken Carter/“Coach Carter”
• Bashing Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, Bill Robison
• Betty Werlein Carter & The Hammond Daily Courier, Rebekah Ray
• Black and White: Florida Parish Newspapers in the 1920's, Reginald Span, Teaching American History series
• Blackball, Randy Sanders, Teaching American History series
• Brains vs. Brawn, Babe Ruth vs. Ty Cobb, Randy Sanders
• British West Florida, Robin Fabel, Teaching American History series
• Can We Talk?, Karen Fontenot
• Cholera and Spanish Influenza, Keith Finley, Teaching American History series
• Climate, Geography, and Southern History, John Boles
• Confederate Naval Operations, Gene Still
• Crazy Like a Fox: Earl Long, Michael Kurtz
• Creative Writing Workshop, Laura Joh Rowland
• Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean
• Different Mountain/Different Moons, Charles Elliott
• Earth Day, Paul Keddy and Don Schwab
• Environmental Challenges in Early Louisiana, Charles Elliott
• Factors Contributing to the Confederate Defeat, Sam Hyde, Civil War Symposium (2006)
• Female Assassins and Suicide Bombers, Margaret Gonzalez-Perez
• Food and Community, Leah Chase (“Queen of Creole Cuisine”)
• Geography of Natural Disasters, Gerald McNeil and Molly McGraw, Teaching American History series
• Globalization of Women, Margaret Gonzales-Perez
• Hellhound on My Trail: The Life, Legend & Legacy of Robert Johnson, Bill Robison
• High Noon Fiction, Jack Bedell & Norman German
• High Noon Fiction, Alison Pelegrin & Bev Marshall
• Halloween, Bill Robison
• Holidays: Civic Holidays, Ron Traylor
• Holidays: Christmas and Easter, Bill Robison
• Hurricanes and Manchac Ghost Towns, Roman Heleniak
• Into a Cauldron of Fire: Louisiana Troops at Sharpesburg, Ted Alexander, Civil War Symposium (2003)
• Issues Affecting Jefferson Davis, Stephen Davis, Civil War Symposium (2004)
• Italians in Louisiana, Anthony Margavio
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2003), U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2005), John Dimling, Chairman, Nielsen Media
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2006), La. State Treasurer John Neely Kenned
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2008), “Ethics in Insurance”, C. Allen Bradley
• Jefferson's America, Jefferson's Louisiana, Gene Smith, Teaching American History series
• Louisiana's Coastal Ecology, Richard Condrey
• Louisiana Women , La. Representative Diane Winston
• Louisiana Women Authors, Patricia Brady and Beverly Marshall
• Mann's Foray: A Grierson-Type Raid That Failed, James Hollingsworth, Civil War Symposium (2005)
• Maria Montessori, Women’s History Month
• Monsters at the Movies, William Robison
• Music & Literature: The Story of Louisiana, Sec. of State Jay Dardenne
• Native American Women, Jeanne Northrup
• Nostradamus, William Robison
• One Dead in Attic, Chris Rose
• Our Environmental Destiny, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
• Paul is Dead, Joe Burns
• Prosperity and Peril in the Piney Woods, Reginald Span
• Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John Rodrigue
• Regionalism Post-Katrina (Parts One and Two)
• Robert E. Lee's Gambling Habits, Harry Laver
• Segregation's Friends, Keith Finley, Teaching American History series
• Serial Killers, Michael Kurtz
• Sportfishing with Cameron, Norman German
• Stem Cell Research, Pete Petrakis and Mary White
• Swamp Survival, Roman Heleniak and Al Dranguet
• The Confederate Home Front, Charles Roland, Civil War Symposium (2006)
• The History of Frankenstein, Bill Robison
• The Perfect Storm, John Barry
• This New Orleans, Roberts Batson
• Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, and Wizards, William Robison
• Who Shot JFK?, Michael Kurtz
• Women and Science, Mary White
• Women and War, Margaret Gonzales-Perez
• Women in Politics, La. State Senator Julie Quinn
• Women: Nationally, Locally, and Politically, Diane Winston
• Women of Auschwitz, Judith Fai-Podlipnik
• Women of the Holocaust, Judith Fai-Podlipnik
• Worse than Slavery, Sam Hyde, Teaching American History series
• Yellow Fever Epidemics, Sam Hyde, Teaching American History series