In The Movement

The Seaway Movement: A Lecture by Richard Campanella Monday, December 7 6:00PM-7:15PM CST Registration Link: https://tulane.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xElF_smgSkm1wG3A0YWrWA New Orleans Center for the Gulf South invites you to our annual Monroe Lecture with geographer Richard Campanella. Campanella is associate dean and senior professor of practice in Tulane University's School of Architecture. In this illustrated talk, Campanella explores two rival shipping canals of the West Bank, one dug by enslaved laborers and the other by immigrants, and how they reconfigured the urban geography of our region—nearly to the point of calamity. As a geographer, Campanella researches questions of “where” and “why there.” That is, he tries to identify, characterize, and explain spatial patterns—of human settlement, the built environment, and the underlying physical geography—with an emphasis on New Orleans and Louisiana. His approach is empirical and quantitative, using mapping and spatial analysis tools such as Geographi