Calendar of Events

• March 15 - July 15, 2000 The center is co-sponsoring the exhibit "Bagels and Grits: Exploring Jewish Life in the Deep South." The exhibit pairs photographs from the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience with documents from Tulane's Southern Jewish Archives. This free exhibit is on display in the Special Collections Gallery, Jones Hall, 2nd floor.
  
  
• April 24, 2000 Meeting of Local Humanists Network, 5:00 PM.  Faculty and administrators from New Orleans universities (Xavier, Loyola, Dillard, and UNO) meet to discuss collaboration on local projects, including the celebration of the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase in 2003.
  
  
• May 15, 2000 The Center hosts a delegation from Senegal, West Africa.  The Senegalese group recently celebrated the sister-city relationship between St. Martinsville, Louisiana, and Goree, Senegal.  Also attending is Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana and a leading scholar in the developing field of French and Spanish Colonial Louisiana.
  
  
• May 9, 2000 Education Committee meeting, 7:30 PM, conference room, Latin American Studies, Jones Hall. Community leaders and innovators in education will meet for a brain-storming session.
  
  
• June 16-30, 2000 New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival is a celebration of the heritage of jazz dance presented by the Newcomb Dance Program at Tulane University.  Jazz dance, like Jazz music, is a uniquely Southern art form that reflects our African and Caribbean heritage.
  
  
• August 19-21, 2000 The center is bringing the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) meeting, "'Secondary School Teaching about the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Content, Methodology, Resource Materials, Formation of Identity, and Psychological Impact" to Tulane's campus.
  
  
• August 22-23, 2000 The Third meeting of the Transatlantic Slave Trade International Task Force, in conjunction with the UNESCO meeting
  
  
• August 23, 2000 The International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition, in conjunction with the UNESCO meeting
  
  
• September 19-21, 2000 Meeting with Alabama Humanities Groups at Auburn University and visit to the Rural Studio
  
  
• November 4, 2000 The Academy and the Community: A Symposium on Creolization and Cultural Representation with a Companion Exhibit featuring the paintings of Ulrick Jean-Pierre.  Organized by the Interdisciplinary Scholars Network.
  
  
• November 29, 2000  Meeting with Arkansas Humanities Groups in Little Rock, hosted by Ouachita Baptist University and Hendrix College
  
  
• April 5-7 2001 Tulane/Cambridge Conference on Civil Rights
  
  
• August 1, 2001 Deadline for submission of implementation grant proposals
  
  
• June 6-8,  2003 Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference commemorating the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase

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