Academic Conferences, Speakers, and More
The Noel Foundation, through the Noel Collection, has sponsored many different conferences and symposia at Louisiana State University Shreveport. These presentations can last up to a few days with multiple speakers, or can be a single day with one speaker. The Noel Foundation encourages scholarly study from faculty and scholars from around the United States and the world.
Past Conferences
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny
- The War to End All Wars: Symposium on the Centennial of World War I
- Greyfriars, Leicester and the Search for Richard III
- The Battle of New Orleans Real and Remembered: a Symposium Commemorating the Bicentennial of The Battle of New Orleans
- Science and the Imagination
- Daring Women of the Enlightenment
- The Sensational Centuries
- Celebrity: The Idiom of a Modern Era
- Precision as Profusion: Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century
- Exaggeration, Caricature, and Other Fervid Forms
- Paper, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein
- Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and the Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment