Mississippi River Symposium Call for Presentations

Call for Presentations
The Mississippi River in American Memory
Lakeport Plantation Museum
Lake Village, Arkansas
October 9, 2026

Lakeport Plantation Museum requests proposals for its first Mississippi River Symposium, “The Mississippi in American Memory,” on October 9, 2026.  Presentations may be on a wide range of topics related to the Mississippi River from Indigenous peoples to steamboats to the modern era in recognition of America 250.  Presentations are twenty minutes with audiovisual elements strongly encouraged.

Proposals are due by June 30, 2026 through this link https://bit.ly/MSRSCFP2026 or by email to Ruth O’Loughlin at roloughlin@astate.edu.  If submitting by email, please include name, mailing address, phone number, email address, presentation title, presentation proposal approximately 200 words, any audio/visual needs beyond a computer and projector, and short biography approximately 50 words.

For additional information, contact Lakeport Plantation Museum at 870-265-6031 or email roloughlin@astate.edu.

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