Margaret M. "Meg" Keenan is Assistant Director Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute, where she has worked since 2003. She earned a B.A. in history from the University of New Orleans and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history from Tulane University. She has taught at Tulane and Loyola Universities and remains on the Masters of Liberal Arts faculty at Tulane's School of Professional Advancement.

Split between two afternoons in late October, this conference will (virtually) bring together economists from Tulane and LSU to discuss recent work and build connections to foster future, collaborative research.  Faculty and graduate students from the economics departments of both universities are invited to attend.

Friday October 23

3:00pm – 3:30pm Patrick Testa (Tulane) “Resource Blessing? Oil, Risk, and Religious Communities as Social Insurance in the US South.” With Andy Ferrara (at the University of Pittsburgh)

Split between two afternoons in late October, this conference will (virtually) bring together economists from Tulane and LSU to discuss recent work and build connections to foster future, collaborative research.  Faculty and graduate students from the economics departments of both universities are invited to attend.

Friday October 23

3:00pm – 3:30pm Patrick Testa (Tulane) “Resource Blessing? Oil, Risk, and Religious Communities as Social Insurance in the US South.” With Andy Ferrara (at the University of Pittsburgh)

Michael Gillespie is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Duke University. Professor Gillespie’s research is in political philosophy with a particular emphasis on modern continental theory and the history of political philosophy. He is the author of Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History  (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Nihilism before Nietzsche (University of Chicago Press, 1994), The Theological Origins of Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and Nietzsche’s Final Teachings(University of Chicago Press, 2017).