Oct 27-30, 2006. New Orleans, LA: "HUMANITY AND THE EARTH/L’HOMME ET LA TERRE: THE LEGACY OF ELISEE RECLUS (1830-1905)"

Program for the Conference

All events (with the exception of the Saturday evening dinner) will be held in

the Octavia Rooms of the Danna Center at Loyola University

Friday, October 27

Registration

6:30-7:30 PM

Session I

7:30-9:00 PM

Keynote Address

Chair: Robert Caldwell (Industrial Workers of the World)

Speaker: Peter Marshall (Fellow, Royal Geographical Society)

“Classical Anarchism in the Age of Reclus”

Saturday, October 28

Visit to the New Orleans Bookfair

10:00 AM-1:00 PM

Registration

1:00-1:30

Session II

1:30-3:30 PM

Chair: Sean Benjamin (Iron Rail Book Collective)

Peter Marshall (Fellow, Royal Geographical Society): “Elisée Reclus, Geographer of Freedom”

Dana Ward (Pitzer College): “Kropotkin and Reclus’ Friendship and the Cross-fertilization of Ideas”

Aragorn! (Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed): "The Future of Green Anarchy: Reclus Beyond the City and the Primitive"

Session III

4:00-6:00 PM

Chair: Mark Antliff (Duke University)

Patricia Leighten (Duke University): “Abstracting Anarchism: Élisée Reclus,František Kupka and the Project of Modernist Art”

Amy F. Ogata (Bard Graduate Center): "Van de Velde, Reclus, and the Applied Arts"

**Portrait of Reclus by Eugene Carrière. Photo: Eric Coulaud**

Courtesy of Société de Geographie, Paris. Special thanks to President Jean Bastié.

Serena Keshavjee (University of Winnipeg): “The Relationship of Symbolist Painter Eugène Carrière to Élisée Reclus and Anarchism”

A Reclusian Banquet
“foods in accord with our ideal of beauty”

7:00-10:00 PM

Creole Vegetarian and Vegan Cuisine

with "Cabaret Élisée"

featuring Paul Gailiunas &

Ukulele Against the Machine

Sunday, October 29

Session IV

11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Chair: Kate James (Iron Rail Book Collective)

John Clark (Loyola University): “Elisée Meets the Big Easy: On Antebellum and Postdiluvian Anarchy”

Athanasius Isaac (University of Alabama): “You Can’t Flood a Social Relationship Either: An Anarchist Examination of an Unqualified Disaster and its Relationship to Socio-spatial Change”

Fire (Green Anarchy): “Reclus: A ’Green’ Egoist Anarchist Exploration”

Session V

1:30-3:30 PM

Chair: Hélène Ducros (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Mark Bonta (Delta State University): “Mapping Reclus onto Deleuze: Toward a Geophilosophy of the ‘NewEarth’”

Philippe Pelletier (University of Lyon): “The Great Divide to Overcome: East and West as Seen by Elisée Reclus”

Kent Mathewson (Louisiana State University): “Elisée Reclus’ Latin American Writings and Travel”

Session VI

4:00-5:30

Chair: Jordan Flaherty (Left Turn Magazine)

Francisco di Santis (Common Ground Collective): “Mutual Aid in New Orleans: From Elisée Reclus to the Common Ground Collective”

Monday, October 30

Field Trip

(10:00 AM-4:00PM)

Tour of Post-Katrina New Orleans