1805 Concert
1805 Concert: September 26 & 27 at 7:30 PM | LSU Digital Media Center Theatre
Travel back in time to New Orleans in 1805, in a unique concert event that brings together classical musical performance, innovative humanities scholarship and cutting-edge technology!
Presented by the LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies, the 1805 Concert is a unique recital of arias from the French comic operas popular in Louisiana at the turn of the nineteenth century, performed live in a digitally-enabled acoustical environment that restitutes the soundscape of a massive theatre proposed for the New Orleans waterfront in 1805.
Please see the dedicated event page for more information. We hope to see you on September 26 and 27 at the LSU Digital Media Center Theatre!
Announcements
Call for LSU CFFS Micro-Grant Proposals
The CFFS Micro-Grant initiative invites members of the LSU community to convene small-scale intellectual or creative exchanges that illuminate the broad applicability of intellectual and artistic contributions from the French and Francophone world, broadly construed. All members of the LSU community – undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and faculty – are invited to apply, although preference will be given to student and non-TT/early career faculty proposals. Successful proposals will be eligible to receive organizational support from the CFFS in the form of publicity and help securing on-campus spaces, as well as material support for honoraria and refreshments (up to $500). Whenever possible, Micro-Grant activities will be recorded and archived on the CFFS website for future reference. These grants will be administered on a rolling basis.
Student Engagement
LSU Undergraduate students have been working in 2023-2024 with CFFS Director J. Leichman to develop a searchable database of French-language theatrical performances in territorial New Orleans, based on advertisements in Le Moniteur de la Louisiane. Participants include Rhys Borders, Blaire Newburger, Bella Frederick, Victor Herbin, Ansley Barlow, Elizabeth Murray and Morgan Carter. Members of this team, along with Professor Leichman, presented their work at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era annual conference that was held in Baton Rouge from February 22-24, 2024.
Students in the French Senior Seminar course with Professor Leichman also completed
digital humanities final projects on their archival research using Le Moniteur de la Louisiane. Their projects discuss different aspects of life in Territorial New Orleans between
1803 and 1812. See their amazing work here.
Campus and Community Partners
The Caribbean Futures workshop and colloquium gathers scholars, practitioners, and students at the LSU School of Architecture to
investigate and imagine actionable ideas to meet the challenges of escalating inequality
and accelerating climate change in greater Caribbean, including the Gulf Coast. Visit
the Caribbean Futures website to learn about their virtual colloquium events in Spring 2024.