9:30 a.m. Introductions 
LMU Hauptgebäude/Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich / Room E 006

Welcome: Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center), Amy Doherty Mohr (Amerika-Institut, LMU), and Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley)


9:45-11:15 a.m. Preservation, Precarity, and Resilience
LMU Hauptgebäude/Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich / Room E 006

Nadine Klopfer (LMU): The St. Louis Hotel: Race, Nostalgia and Historic Preservation in Early 20th Century New Orleans

Ryan Gray (University of New Orleans): Environmental Injustice and Precarity: Perspectives from the Archaeology of New Orleans 

Matt Sakakeeny (Tulane University):  The Myth of Resilience: Kids, Culture, and the Climate Crisis in New Orleans      

(Moderator: Charlotte Lerg, LMU)


12:15-2:00 p.m. Symposium: New Orleans, A Sense of Place
LMU Hauptgebäude/Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich / Room A 120

Rachel Breunlin (University of New Orleans) and Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes (Neighborhood Story Project): Called to Spirit: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women and Healing Arts in New Orleans 

Laurie Wilkie (UC Berkeley): The Bead Throwing Game of New Orleans Mardi Gras: Geopolitics, Technology and Excess 

(Moderator: Bryan Wagner, UC Berkeley)


2:30-4:00 p.m. Narratives of New Orleans
LMU Hauptgebäude/Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich / Room M 101

Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier (LMU): Hurricane Katrina: A Discursive Analysis 

Amy Doherty Mohr (LMU): Rewriting New Orleans in Contemporary Literature

Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley): Night People

(Moderator: Pierre-Héli Monot, LMU)

 
7:00 p.m. “Music and Culture in New Orleans”
Amerikahaus, Karolinenplatz 3, 80333 Munich

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, veteran musician and public historian, and Rachel Breunlin, anthropologist and ethnographer, will share their collaborations from The Neighborhood Story Project, based on book projects from their interviews in New Orleans and southern Louisiana, in a multimedia presentation with live music. 

•    Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes is an independent scholar and musician. Leader of Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he played harmonica and accordion with the Paul Simon Band and visited the Munich Olympiahalle on tour with Paul Simon & Sting in 2015. 

•    Rachel Breunlin is the Director of the Neighborhood Story Project, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of New Orleans. 

The Neighborhood Story Project is a nonprofit collaborative publishing organization in partnership with the University of New Orleans.


We would like to dedicate this conference to Professor Dr. em. Berndt Ostendorf of North American Cultural History for carrying the torch for New Orleans in his years of research and teaching at LMU. 

Thank you to Bryan Wagner, UC Berkeley, LMU-UCB Research Cooperation

Program Coordinators: Amy Mohr and Bryan Wagner
Co-organizers: Nadine Klopfer, Amy Mohr, Pierre-Héli Monot, Bryan Wagner

Photo: Conference setting / ©kasto, fotolia.com