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Translation Matters: Conversation Between Lisa Dillman and Yuri Herrera Gutiérrez

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Lisa Dillman is a leading US translator of contemporary fiction in Spanish by Spanish and Latin American writers. She has recently translated the first novel, Kingdom Cons, by one of Mexico's most exciting fiction writers new to the literary scene, Yuri Herrera Gutiérrez, who has recently joined Tulane's faculty as a Mellon fellow. Prof. Dillman is in the process of translating Prof. Herrera's second novel, Signs Preceding the End of the World, both forthcoming with Faber in 2012.

Reception to Follow.

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Linguistics.

Off The Beaten Path

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Off The Beaten Path
Susan Plum
Luz y Solidaridad, 2006
3 ten and half foot brooms hanging from the ceiling
Video —DVD/TV monitor of performance

Brooms evoke many connotations — from the mystical to the mundane. For Plum, they reference
the sacred act of sweeping the temples in Pre-Hispanic Mexico, an act that was performed
during ritual cleansing and was also thought to elicit the earth’s healing spirit. Plum created
these over-sized brooms to invoke healing for the senseless death and disappearance of women
and girls in her native Mexico. The scale of the objects conjures the enormity of the loss.
In the video performance, 25 women use the sounds and movement of brooms, wind whistles,
bullroarers, and spinners as a limpia — a shamanic cleansing for the murdered daughters and a
gift of empowerment to the mothers of the missing.

In the past decade, nearly 1,000 women and girls have been killed or have vanished from
Juarez, a Mexican border town across from El Paso, Texas. Having followed the escalation of
border-crossing deaths after NAFTA (1996) and the beginning of the disappearance and murder
of young girls in Juarez, Plum has come to look at the Rio Grande as an open wound. As an
artist and activist, as well as being bicultural, she sees an opportunity to bring awareness to the
suffering caused by murder and abduction — and perhaps a step toward healing the societal
wounds they cause.

Award-winning Author Sylvia Nasar to lecture at Tulane on "The Grand Pursuit," Monday Jan 30, 2012

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Author of A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar, will present her newest book GRAND PURSUIT: The Story of Economic Genius at Tulane University on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM in the Greenleaf Conference Room (100a Jones Hall).

GRAND PURSUIT: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar
"Adds an important historical dimension to current debates on the future of the American economy." Kirkus Reviews

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Sylvia Nasar traces the evolution of an idea that allowed humanity to take control of its economic destiny for the first time in history. In Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius she portrays the lives and times of the extraordinary men and women who changed economics from "the dismal science" into an instrument of mastery that has profoundly changed the lives of everyone on the planet. Beginning in Dickens's London, she tells the story of an idea that was first conceived in the Victorian era, was born in the golden age before World War I, was challenged by two world wars, the rise of totalitarian governments, and the Great Depression, and was revived in a second golden age after World War II to create the modern global economy.

Grand Pursuit is an epic, uplifting account of the making of modern economics — from Victorian England to modern-day India — and how the insights of various thinkers transformed the world. Nasar traces the development of a revolution in human thinking that was unimaginable 200 years ago — the notion that the bottom nine tenths of humanity could escape the age-old sentence of endless poverty and a life of drudgery, that nations could shape their own destinies. The Nation described the book as “a timely reminder of the importance of the so-called dismal science…compellingly written, full of detail and vivid anecdotes, and with a refreshing focus on people rather than prices." The Economist said, “Grand Pursuit deserves a place not only in every economist's study but also on every serious reader's bedside table.”

THIS EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
PLEASE RSVP to Angela Reed to reserve your seat.

About the Author
Trained as an economist, Nasar was a staff writer at Fortune and a columnist at U.S. News & World Report before joining The New York Times, where she discovered the remarkable story of John Nash, the Princeton mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia for three decades before recovering and winning a Nobel Prize in economics. Her biography, A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, helped put a human face on a devastating mental illness. Published in 30 languages including Farsi, Turkish, Russian and Hindi, it inspired the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe.

Nasar has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, FastCompany and many other publications. At Columbia University she co-directs the M.A. program in business journalism and teaches a graduate seminar in economics reporting that focuses on globalization, growth, living standards and business cycles.

Order your copy of GRAND PURSUIT here and bring it with you for Dr. Sylvia Nasar to sign!

This event is co-sponsored with The Murphy Institute, Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University, Tulane University Law School’s Payson Center for International Development, and the Tulane Economics Department.

Michael Syrimis: "Self-Parody in Pasolini's La ricotta and Appunti per un' Orestiade africana"

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This event is a part of the Seminar on Historical Change and Social Theory. Papers are pre-circulated. The discussant is Kai-man Change of the Department of Communication. For more information, visit our website: http://shcst.tulane.edu. Admission is free of charge and attendance is by invitation only. This event is being hosted by The Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Political Science and the Department of Communication.

Regionalism in Latin America, Lecture by Prof. Olivier Dabène

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Regionalism in Latin America: the current stage of flexibility and pragmatism

Latin America's rich history in the realm of regional integration dates back to the 1950s. Despite the existence of several regional groupings in Central America, the Caribbean and the Southern cone, levels of intra-regional trade have been low and institutionalization weak, limiting opportunities between regions. The last decade, however, is showing progress.

The Center for Inter-American Policy and Research invites you to a lecture by Professor Olivier Dabène, Director of the Political Science Department at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean, on REGIONALISM IN LATIN AMERICA, the current stage of flexibility and pragmatism.

Recent initiatives, including the Venezuelan-sponsored Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), show an evolution of regional agreements toward flexibility and pragmatism. Will the new endeavors between regions prove compatible? Dabène will argue UNASUR may be the most promising regional integration project because of the decisive Brazilian leadership it enjoys.

Olivier Dabène is professor of political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and senior researcher at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI, Sciences Po). He is also the President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (www.opalc.org). and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Montréal (Canada). His latest book in English is titled The Politics of Regional Integration in Latin America (N.Y., Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

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Counting Time the Maya Way

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Friday, February 24 – 9:00 am -5:30 pm
K-12 Teacher Workshop
Teacher Workshop: Counting Time the Maya Way
Jones Hall 100A, Greenleaf Conference Room
Marc Zender, Tulane University and Stanley Guenter, Idaho State University

Counting Time the Maya Way

Maya hieroglyphs are the best understood writing system from the prehispanic Americas. It flourished during the Classic period (A.D. 250-950) on monumental inscriptions and portable artifacts like ceramic vessels in the southern Maya lowlands (parts of modern Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Mexico). As a logosyllabic writing system with approximately 1000 different signs, it is in structure and content different from writing systems developed in the old world. The workshop introduces participants to Maya inscriptions and focuses on the ways in which the ancient Maya counted time.

In order to secure your spot, please register by February 13, 2012 by clicking here