Uprisings, Futures, and Freedoms

Anthropocene River Campus Public Programs welcomes Campus participants and collaborators and the public to gather together for a slate of experiences open to all. Programming includes offerings by Campus participants, members of the Anthropocene Working Group, and additional Gulf South artists, scholars, and scientists from Tulane University and beyond.

Anthropocene River Screenings

Anthropocene River Campus Public Programs welcomes Campus participants and collaborators and the public to gather together for a slate of experiences open to all. Programming includes offerings by Campus participants, members of the Anthropocene Working Group, and additional Gulf South artists, scholars, and scientists from Tulane University and beyond.

Anthropocene River Screenings Monday, November 11, 2019, 7:30pm

Kendall Cram, Lavin Bernick Center, Tulane University

Anthropocene River

Anthropocene River Campus Public Programs welcomes Campus participants and collaborators and the public to gather together for a slate of experiences open to all. Programming includes offerings by Campus participants, members of the Anthropocene Working Group, and additional Gulf South artists, scholars, and scientists from Tulane University and beyond.

Anthropocene River Presentations and discussions by project participants and the Anthropocene Working Group

FORESTival

A Studio in the Woods' 9th annual FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature will be held on Saturday November 16, 2019, 10am – 5pm at A Studio in the Woods, 13401 Patterson Road (Westbank, New Orleans).

Overflow parking and shuttle at 9201 Patterson Rd.

Tickets $15*, kids free. Early bird hour 10am – 11am with $10 admission and a bird tour at 10:30am

Anthropocene River Campus

New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University (NOCGS), in partnership with Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG), is hosting Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, November 10-16, 2019. This immersive, week-long educational event explores the Mississippi River region as catchment for ecological, industrial and social realities—both historical and current, and as a zone of longstanding interaction between humans and the environment.

Blues Harmonica and American Roots Music

Lecture-recital on the harmonica in American Music featuring acclaimed musician and teacher, Richard Sleigh.

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Richard was born in Philipsburg, a coal mining town in Central Pennsylvania. He first heard the sounds of the Marine Band harmonica as a kid through the music of his great-uncle Bill, who played steam train imitations and songs like “The Irish Washerwoman” to crowds on street corners in his home town.

The 8th Annual Sylvia R. Frey Lecture: Daniel Brook

The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South welcomes urbanist, historian, journalist and author Daniel Brook to present the 8th Annual Sylvia R. Frey Lecture. His works have appeared in Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine and Slate. Brook will discuss his latest work, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction, which discusses how our nation was birthed from a singularly narrow racial system that was forged in opposition of civil rights.

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