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

• 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

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.