international conference : a “special relationship”?

In recent years, celebrations of the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase by the United States and the tricentennial of the French founding of New Orleans have sparked renewed public and academic interest in the French colonial past in Louisiana and in the varieties of Louisiana Creole.

The objective of this conference will be to rethink the complex relationships that have united France and Louisiana for more than 300 years in the light of research currently being carried out on both sides of the Atlantic. In no case will it be a question of celebrating any “Louisiana Frenchness” or of exaggerating the influence of the Louisiana French-speaking community to the detriment of that of other groups.

This conference aims rather to question the singularity of the France-Louisiana relationship, in a perspective that is in turn comparative and connected as well as in the long term. It also aims to strengthen transatlantic dialogue around theoretical models, ethnographic methods and archival or curatorial practices linked to the study of French Louisiana and French-speaking Louisiana cultures.

CLIMAS research unit in collaboration with CRINI and CAS with the support of the Historic New Orleans Collection , the Institute of the Americas , the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and from Bordeaux Montaigne University, in partnership with the Musée d'Aquitaine .

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