Preliminary
Conference Schedule for Thursday, April 14, 2005
1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Registration
1:30 p.m. to 2:30
p.m.
Special Presentation: John Laudun,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Kaliste Saloom and Ambassador
Caffery: A Guide to the Local Cultures and Histories of Lafayette"
John Laudun, Assistant Professor
of English and Associate Director of the Center for Louisiana
Studies, is a folklorist who has published widely on verbal
and material folk cultures. He is often called upon to point
out the beauty and the intelligence that can be found if one
simply looks. His talk is designed to acquaint visitors to
Louisiana with the basic outlines of the peoples and cultures
that make up its landscape as well as hints about places to
eat and what to order.