Schedule of Events

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Freeman Auditorium, Tulane University

6:30-8:00pm   KEYNOTE LECTURE
Dr. Andy Pratt, “Can the Creative Economy Sustain New Orleans? Global Lessons”

8:00-9:00pm   PUBLIC RECEPTION

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2014
Stibbs Conference Room, LBC

12:30-2:00pm   DISCUSSION
Dr. Andy Pratt, “The Interdisciplinary Scholar: Challenges in Collaboration”

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Stibbs Conference Room, LBC

8:00-8:30am   REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30-10:00am   PANEL 1: Negotiating Power Differences in Everyday Life
moderated by Dr. Elaine Wright, Tulane School of Social Work

Mary Freyder, Tulane University – “Peer-researchers Unravel Social and Sexual Networks to Improve Sexual Health Programs in New Orleans”
Emily Starr, Tulane University – “The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power though Tending Bar”
Alicia McCraw, Tulane University

10:15-11:45am   PANEL 2: Whose Culture, Whose Space? Challenges of Representation and Remembrance in Cities
moderated by Dr. Amber Wiley, Tulane School of Architecture

Mark Beirn, Washington University – “Contested Air Space: Civic Identity and Urban Form in Berlin’s 3 Airports”
Maille Faughnan, Tulane University – “Dynamic Values and Capabilities in Urban Revitalization of a World Heritage Site: The Case of Casco Antiguo Panama”
Adrian Popan, University of Texas – “The Dead Dragon and the Flies: The Socialist Residential Architecture from Infrastructural Violence to Sustainable Solutions”
Heidi Schmalbach, Tulane University – “Race, Representation, and Memory: The Greenwood District and the Problem with Preservation”

12:00-1:45pm   STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Cate Irvin, Tulane University – “Mapping the Spatial Dimensions of Food Trucks: Urban Transformations Through Mobile Outposts of Difference”
Julie Arrington, University of Alabama – “The Reintegration of Alberta City”
Joshua Schoop, Tulane University

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