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

Richard Buckley gives lecture on Richard III's final resting place.

Michael S. Neiberg presents at the War to End All Wars Symposium