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.

The programs of the past conferences are available below.

Past Conferences

• 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
  

Dr. Leitz giving a welcome speech

Professor Don Hickey giving a presentation after he returned to the Noel Collection for more research, following the symposium of The Battle of New Orleans in November 2014.