Iconic St. Charles streetcars

Welcome to New Orleans. From left: Juliana Starr, Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt

French Quarter, New Orleans

Getting ready for Mardi Gras. From left: Anna Gural-Migdal, Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Ayşe Kiran

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras in the rain

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras at night

Breakfast at the Hampton Inn. From left: Vanessa Costa e Silva Schmitt, Jennifer Wolter, and Geneviève De Viveiros

University of New Orleans, Lakefront Campus

University of New Orleans, Lakefront Campus

University Center, UNO

Announcing the 2014 AIZEN/UNO International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism

Two Organizers-in-Chief: Anna Gural-Migdal and Juliana Starr

Hamp Overton, Local Organizer

Conference Registration

Juliana Starr welcomes participants Keith Newlin and John McDowell

Book Exhibit

Gallery Lounge. From left: Myrto Drizou and Célia Sousa Vieira

Getting ready for the conference. From left: Jean-Sébastien Macke and Robert April

Before the Opening Speeches

Opening Speech: Juliana Starr, Associate Professor of French, UNO

Opening Speech: Kevin Graves, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, UNO

Opening Speech: Eliza M. Ghil, Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, UNO

Opening Speeches: Audience

Opening Speech: Philippe Aldon, Attaché Culturel adjoint, Consulat Général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans

Opening Speeches: Audience

Opening Speech: Anna Gural-Migdal, President of the AIZEN

Morning Session. From left: Mark Kuss, Robert April, Geneviève De Viveiros, Evlyn Gould, and Olivier Bourderionnet

Session audience

Conference participants

Convivial lunch

Participants at lunch

Donna M. Campbell, Special Guest

From left: Eliza Ghil, Keith Newlin, Anita Duneer, Carol Loranger

From left: Anna Gural-Migdal, Donna Campbell, Juliana Starr, Jeanne Campbell Reesman.

Panel on Female Naturalist Writers. From left: Ellen Mayock, Brittany Powell Kennedy, Andrea Panzeca, and Anita Duneer.

Opening Cocktail, UNO Fine Arts Gallery

Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante

Mardi Gras cake at Opening Cocktail

Juliana Starr presents the First Prize to winner of photo contest “Southern Women at Work”

UNO student winner of First Prize at photo contest: Gaiten Howard

Olivier Bourderionnet’s jazz ensemble

Opening Cocktail. From left: Qizhi Shu, Evlyn Gould, Keith Newlin

Dinner at Café Adelaide

Karl Zieger and Jaques Neefs

Full session with people sitting on tables

Franco-American friendship. From left: Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Donna Campbell, Jean-Sébastien Macke, Carmen Mayer-Robin

Sébastien Olson-Niel and Marie-Sophie Armstrong

Conference participants

Karl Zieger, Special Guest

From left: Juliana Starr, Karl Zieger, Laura Zieger, Chantal Morel, Anna Gural-Migdal

From left: Andrea Gogröf and Kim Misfeldt

Welcome screen for the Naturalist Film Festival

Film screening audience

Justine Guschlbauer, Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans

Screening audience

Film presentation by Justine Huet

The French Quarter by night: Bourbon Street

Carol Loranger and Stephen Brennan

Pizza Party Lunch

Pizza Party Lunch

Paddle-wheel steamer “Natchez”

The AIZEN Organizing Committee: From left: Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Anna Gural-Migdal, Justine Huet, Robert Singer, and Juliana Starr.

The Natchez at night

From left: Éléonore Reverzy, Guri Ellen Barstad, Riikka Rossi, Vanessa Costa e Silva Schmitt

Dinner Cruise on the Steamboat Natchez

Paddle-wheel mechanism

From left, back row: Kristen Cook-Gailloud, Ayşe Kiran, Jacques Neefs. Front row: Maria Cristina Batalha, Anna Gural-Migdal, Sébastien Olson-Niel.

The Natchez at night

Anna Gural-Migdal and Riikka Rossi

New Orleans at night, from the Natchez

Banqueters

From left: Andrea Gogröf and Christine Muelsch

Banqueters

Banqueters

Banqueters

Dinner Cruise

Jackson Square

Antoine’s restaurant

From left: Maria Cristina Batalha, Anna Gural-Migdal, Kelly Basilio, and Midori Nakamura

Street musicians

From left: Mihaela Marin, Evlyn Gould, Elizabeth Emery, and Jennifer Wolter

Laura Plantation

Banana grove in winter

The Mississippi

Preservation Hall

The Court of Two Sisters

“Joie de vivre” in New Orleans!