When: Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
Doors open at 6:00 p.m., Starts at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA
Free and open to the public. Wine by donation.
Salon Host: Eben Kirksey
Speakers: John Spencer Creevy (of Herman, Herman, & Katz, L.L.C.), Jacqueline Bishop, Pippin Frisbie-Calder, Scott Eustis (Gulf Restoration Network), Courtney Kearney (Naval Research Laboratory), Maria Brodine (Columbia University)
Artists, anthropologists, as well as natural scientists from multiple disciplines — a plankton biologist, an oceanographer, and a specialist on crab reproductive biology — came together to discuss the topic of “Hope in Blasted Landscapes” in 2010 at the Multispecies Salon. Our original panel took place shortly after Admiral Thad Allen announced that BP’s Macondo oil well as “effectively dead.” Toxic oil still lingers in the Gulf. Four years after this disaster, we are reengaging with the same participants and bringing new voices to the table, to explore cautious hopes in the aftermath of this disaster.
At the event images of the pulsing ecosystem that shelters and feeds coastal residents from Venice to New Orleans, will be on display by the Gulf Restoration Network. Grandiose wetland prints by Pippin Frisbie-Calder will be on display to give a sense of the feeling that comes with standing amidst abundant wildlife that is still flourishing in untamed swamplands, surviving alongside humans and projects of exploitation. Satellite images of phytoplankton, courtesy of Courtney Kearney, will enable us to see large-scale patterns generated by some of the Gulf’s smallest inhabitants. John Spencer Creevy, who is on the Plaintiffs Steering Committee of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Litigation, will talk about how the Settlement Program works.
This event coincides with the New Orleans launch of a new book:
Kirksey, Eben (editor) The Multispecies Salon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
