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ALL TAGGED: "HAITI"
Myrlene Bruno
Professor of Practice - FrenchEdward D. White
Associate Professor - English, Pierce Butler Chair in American LiteratureArachu Castro
Senior Associate Research Fellow - Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin AmericaJane Bertrand
Professor and Chair - Global Health Systems and DevelopmentThomas A. Klingler
Professor - French & Italian
Haitian Folktales
This lesson plan explores a Haitian folktale about water and sources of water based on the book Tezin: le poisson…Resources on Haiti
Tulane University Tulane University has created a website to serve as a clearinghouse on information on the different news stories…
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine part of consortium working to eliminate malaria in Hispaniola
This story originally appeared in Tulane Today and SF Gate entitled Haiti Celebrates Major Progress Against Malaria on World Malaria…From Tulane Hullabaloo: Tulane community recognizes NOLA ties to Haiti
This story originally appeared in the Tulane Hullabaloo written by Matt Saletta. Though the French are recognized most publicly for…SCLAS Alumna, Dr. Shearon Roberts, Named Vice President for the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication
Congratulations to Stone Center alumna, Dr. Shearon Roberts, who has been named the Vice President of the Southwest Education Council…Celebrating Day of the Dead in Schools across New Orleans
On Thursday, November 2, Denise Woltering and Rachel Witt of the Latin American Resource Center at the Stone Center for…Emerging Scholars event at Haitian Studies Association
The Emerging Scholars event at the 29th Annual Haitian Studies Association was held in the Greenleaf Room at the Stone…Professor Daniel Jean-Louis Speaks on Entrepreneurship in Haiti
On Monday, October 30th, Professor Daniel Jean-Louis gave a talk entitled From Aid to Trade and Entrepreneurship: the Case of…From Tulane New Wave: Tulane alumni provide primary care in Haiti
This story originally appeared on the Tulane New Wave News website titled Tulane alumni provide primary care in Haiti on…Jesús Ruiz Lecture at the John Carter Brown Library
Stone Center Doctoral Candidate Jesús Ruiz, who is currently the Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow at the John Carter Brown…From Tulane's New Wave: Art of Jacob Lawrence revisits Haitian revolution
From Tulane’s New Wave, this story originally appeared on the Tulane News website here Art of Jacob Lawrence revisits Haitian…Jesús Ruiz published on the New York Public Library website
From nypl.org Jesús Ruiz, Ph.D Candidate at Tulane University and Short-Term Research Fellow at the Schomburg Center, writes about his…"Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context"- A new book by Marky Jean-Pierre
“This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how…Grete Viddal joins the Stone Center as a Zemurray Stone Postdoctoral Fellow
Grete Viddal is a Zemurray Stone Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her Masters in Anthropology in 2007 and her Ph.D. from…From Tulane New Wave: Finding Haiti at Tulane- Marky Jean-Pierre
January 26, 2014 Sarah Netter snetter@tulane.edu Living in New Orleans gives Marky Jean-Pierre a sense of home. He‘s lived in…Guantánamo Exhibit Opens at Tulane
Story originally published by Tulane University‘s ‘New Wave‘ on September 12, 2014 and can be found here. By: Barri Bronston…Local students learn about Carnival in Haiti
On February 19th, Wedsly Guerrier, Visiting Assistant Professor in French & Italian, presented on Carnival in Haiti at the Newman…Performing Haiti in French
This fall, 11 Kindergarten through third graders worked on their French language skills in a unique after-school class called Haitian…From Tulane New Wave: Guardian angel for children of Haiti
from Tulane New Wave Fran Simon fsimon@tulane.edu They‘re called ‘Restaveks,‘ the Haitian children who have lost one or both parents…Students' Hearts Beat With Haitian Kids
Social Work graduate students Tuyl Fletchinger, left, and Jordan Matevich, of HeARTS With Haiti, make drums from paper plates, small…Getting It Done in Disease-ravaged Haiti
Getting It Done in Disease-ravaged Haiti By: Madeline Vann newwave@tulane.edu Photo: Planning their work in Haiti are, from right, Carl…Haiti Beyond the News
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: Wedsly Guerrier, a native of Haiti, is a visiting assistant professor teaching courses on…Gates Foundation Funds Haitian Aid Study
By: Mike Strecker mstreck@tulane.edu Photo: Dr. Elizabeth Bellino, a clinical instructor of pediatric infectious diseases at Tulane, cares for a…Public Health School Hosts Haitian Leader
By: Dee Boling newwave@tulane.edu The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will host Dr. Alex Larsen, minister of…Carnival Swings Into Summer
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Guest artists from Brazil, Cuba and Haiti will lead dance and drumming classes for all…Students Bring Health Care to Hispaniola
By: Arthur Nead anead@tulane.edu Tulane medical and public health students are traveling to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola this summer…Walk for Haiti
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu The Tulane School of Social Work, together with the Run for Third organization, will host…Off the Island!
By: Arthur Nead anead@tulane.edu In an editorial in the May 2010 issue of the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Tulane…T-Shirts for Haiti
By: Alicia Duplessis Jasmin aduples@tulane.edu Photo: First-year student Alexandra Yarost leads her peers in a campaign to raise money for…Healing the Wounds of Haiti
By: Fran Simon fsimon@tulane.edu Photo courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth Bellino. Dr. Elizabeth Bellino, a pediatrician with a public health degree…Tulane Website for Haiti Events
Tulane University has created a website to serve as a clearinghouse on information on the different news stories and relief…Teach-In on Haiti
New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu In response to the devastation following the earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti, students in the Tulane…Fundraisers to Help Haiti
By: New Wave staff newwave@tulane.edu Events on Friday and Saturday will be raising funds for Haitian earthquake victims. Tulane Latin…LARC Supports Haiti through Resources and Fundraiser
The Latin American Resource Center (LARC) has highlighted some key resources to help explore the depth and complexity of the…Unique Challenges for Aid Community in Haiti
By: Ryan Rivet rrivet@tulane.edu The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, leveling the capital city of Port-au-Prince, has created a humanitarian…Summer Teacher Institute: Exploration of the African Diaspora in the Americas
By: Denise Woltering-Vargas Photo: Participants of the 2009 LARC Summer Teacher Institute learning Haitian dance steps with dancer, Peniel Guerrier.…
Prytania Theatre to premiere documentary Out of Chaos: An Artist's Journey in Haiti
The New Orleans Film Society, in collaboration with the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute and Stone Center for Latin American…Celebrate Caribbean culture and heritage during Caribbean Carnival of New Orleans
Bayou Bacchanal, the original Caribbean Carnival of New Orleans, is back for its 16th annual celebration of Caribbean culture and…Chantalle Verna to Present Research on U.S. and Haitian Relationships in Post-Occupation Haiti
Join us at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies in welcoming Dr. Chantalle Verna for a talk on her…Nouvelle Vague presents Maskarad: Photography of Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
Maskarad (mask) is a project of Nouvelle Vague: an artist collective group of young multimedia artists from Jacmel, Haiti working…Haitian Studies Week at Tulane
Haitian Studies Week at Tulane: Monday 30th October to Friday 3rd November, 2018 MONDAY 30th October, 2017 at Tulane Law…Tulane to Host Artist & Curator Edouard Duval-Carrié for Talk on Haitian Art & History
Join us at the Woldenberg Art Center in welcoming artist and curator Edouard Duval-Carrié for a talk titled Haitian Art…Tulane to Host Talk by Daniel Jean-Louis on How to Break the Cycle of Poverty in Haiti through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Payson Graduate Program in Global Development and The Altman Program in International Relations and Business are pleased to invite…Tulane to Host Talks for Haitian Studies Association Conference on Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Intersections in the Making of a People
The Haitian Studies Association will hold its 29th Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, a site that offers scholars a…Vodú Chic: Cuba's Haitian Heritage, the Folkloric Imaginary, and the State
The Department of Anthropology and Tulane Anthropology Student Association present a lecture by Dr. Grete Viddal, Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow…Xavier Art Exhibit on Haitian Revolution
The opening of Revolution! The Haitian Art Exhibit. The official opening is on Sunday, April 17. The exhibit is sponsored…Culinary Connections: Creole Cuisines of Louisiana and/as the Caribbean - CANCELLED
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Rico Riz, a third-generation chef and hunter-gatherer of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, will…"Representing the Revolutionary: The Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture"- A Talk by Charles Forsdick
A talk by Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, titled “Representing the Revolutionary: The Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture.” Toussaint Louverture, a…An Evening With Two Francophone-Creolophone Authors
From 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed on Quisqueya Island, to the period 1791-1804,which marked the emergence and manifestation of self-consciousness…Connecting Day of the Dead Traditions Across the Americas: Haiti
Learn about Day of the Dead traditions in Haiti in this teacher workshop. The teacher workshop will be followed by…Gabriel Thelus Talk: Jacsonville, Haiti
Gabriel Thelus will speak about his work in his hometown of Jacsonville Haiti. After attending Virginia Tech and earning his…Film Screening and Discussion- "Poto Mitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy"
Newcomb Feminist Film Series featuring discussion and reception with filmmaker Mark Schuller Join us for a special screening of Poto…RaRa for Haiti: Awareness Walk and Second Line
The Earthquake in Haiti on January 12th devastated the Capital City of Port-au-Prince. An estimated 300,000 people died, more than…Albert Valdman Lecture: Kapwa ap kenbe djanm - Sociolinguistic Variation in Northern Haiti
Among French-based creoles, Haitian Creole has the highest degree of standardization, with a written norm—Standard Haitian Creole (SHC)—based on the…Haiti Teach-In
The Latin American Graduate Organization (LAGO) is sponsoring a Haiti teach-in to be held on Tuesday, January 26th at 7pm.…Pachanga and Haitian Relief Fundraiser
Please join TULASO, LAGO and the Stone Center for the first Pachanga of the spring semester this FRIDAY!! This is…
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Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence Valeria Luiselli
via Newcomb Institute
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.
The Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence Program brings renowned woman writers to the Tulane campus. Coordinated through the Newcomb Institute, the Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence program was established by Dana Zale Gerard, NC ‘85, and made possible by an annual gift from the M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation of Dallas, Texas. Since 2006, the program has been generously supported by Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. In 2010, the program became fully endowed through a gift from Martha McCarty Kimmerling, NC‘63, and known as the Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence program.
Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality Exhibit K-12 Educator Orientation
Join us for an evening with Tom Friel, Coordinator for Interpretation and Public Engagement as he walks through an innovative tool developed to share the Newcomb Art Museum’s latest exhibit, Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality. The program is designed to introduce K-12 educators to Laura Anderson Barbata’s work and focus on specific elements of the exhibit that connect deeply to the K-12 classroom. While the exhibit is open to limited public access, it plans to open to the public and school visits by Fall 2021. Educators from across the country will find this online introduction to Barbata’s work a valuable resource as the virtual exhibit serves as a unique tool for online learning.
Read more about this exhibit from the Newcomb Gallery of Art About the Exhibit page below:
“The process-driven conceptual practices of artist Laura Anderson Barbata (b. 1958, Mexico City, Mexico) engage a wide variety of platforms and geographies. Centered on issues of cultural diversity, ethnography, and sustainability, her work blends political activism, street theater, traditional techniques, and arts education. Since the early 1990s, she has initiated projects with people living in the Amazon of Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and New York. The results from these collaborations range from public processional performances, artist books and handmade paper, textiles, countless garments, and the repatriation of an exploited 19thcentury Mexican woman ‘” each designed to bring public attention to issues of civil, indigenous, and environmental rights.
In Transcommunality, work from five of Barbata‘s previous collaborations across the Americas are presented together for the first time. Though varying in process, tradition, and message, each of these projects emphasize Barbata‘s understanding of art as a system of shared practical actions that has the capacity to increase connection. The majority of the works presented are costumed sculptures typically worn by stilt-dancing communities. Through the design and presentation of these sculptures, Barbata fosters a social exchange that activates stilt-dancing‘s improvisational magic and world history. At the core of this creative practice is the concept of reciprocity: the balanced exchange of ideas and knowledge.
The events of this past year ‘” from the uprisings across the country in response to fatal police shootings to the disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 among Black and brown communities to the bitter divisiveness of the 2020 presidential election ‘” have renewed the urgency for Barbata‘s multifaceted practice. In featured projects such as Intervention: Indigo, participants from various backgrounds reckon with the past to address systemic violence and human rights abuses, calling attention to specific instances of social justice. In The Repatriation of Julia Pastrana, Barbata‘s efforts critically shift the narratives of human worth and cultural memory. The paper and mask works presented in the show demonstrate the impact of individual and community reciprocity, both intentional and organic. Through her performance partnerships in Trinidad and Tobago, New York, and Oaxaca, represented throughout the museum, onlookers are invited to connect to the traditions of West Africa, the Amazon, Mexico, and the Caribbean and the narratives these costume sculptures reflect on the environment, indigenous cultures, folklore, and religious cosmologies.
By encouraging diverse collaborators to resist homogenization and deploy the creative skills inherent to authentic local expressions and their survival, Barbata promotes the revival of intangible cultural heritage. Transcommunality horizontally values the systems of oral history and folklore, spirituality, and interdisciplinary academic thought that shape Barbata‘s engaging creations, celebrating the dignity, creativity, and vibrancy of the human spirit.”
An Evening with Multi-Award Winning Author Elizabeth Acevedo
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Join us for an evening with Elizabeth Acevedo. Acevedo presents her third book, Clap When You Land, and discusses her writing process and performance background. The discussion will be followed by a reading.
Poet, novelist, and National Poetry Slam Champion, Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City, the only daughter of Dominican immigrants. She is the author of Clap When You Land, (Quill Tree Books, 2020); With the Fire On High, (Harper, 2019); the New York Times best-selling and award-winning novel, The Poet X. (HarperCollins, 2018), winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award, and the Carnegie Medal; and the poetry chapbook Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths. (YesYes Books, 2016), a collection of folkloric poems centered on the historical, mythological, gendered and geographic experiences of a first-generation American woman. From the border in the Dominican Republic, to the bustling streets of New York City, Acevedo’s writing celebrates a rich cultural heritage from the island, inherited and adapted by its diaspora, while at the same time rages against its colonial legacies of oppression and exploitation. The beauty and power of much of her work lies at the tensioned crossroads of these competing, yet complementary, desires.
This online program is free and open to the public. It is part of our ongoing series of public engagement programs with Latinx writers that explore Latin America, race, and identity. Read more about Acevedo’s work in this recent article from The Atlantic.
Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Newcomb Institute.
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Other Supported Events
- March 16, 2021 – An Evening with Dominican Musician and Poet, Fermín Ceballos. Sponsored by the Center for the Gulf South
- March 25, 2021 – Open Mic Night In Celebration of Elizabeth Acevedo. Sponsored by the Tulane Black Student Union (tBSU) and the Office of Multicultural Affairs
Please help us to support local bookstores by purchasing any copies of Acevedo’s books at Tubby & Coo’s.
For more information, please email crcrts@tulane.edu or call 504.865.5164.
Kaqchikel/K'iche' Language Table: Sociolinguistic Language Variation
Join fellow students, teachers, and native speakers to practice your Kaqchikel language skills and deepen your understanding of Kaqchikel culture. This event is held on the last Thursday of each month for the duration of the Spring 2021 semester.
The March 25th session will focus on sociolinguistic variations within the Kaqchikel language. It will be facilitated by Rebecca Moore.
Kaqchikel/K'iche' Language Table: K'iche' Language Learning
Join fellow students, teachers, and native speakers to practice your Kaqchikel language skills and deepen your understanding of Kaqchikel culture. This event is held on the last Thursday of each month for the duration of the Spring 2021 semester.
The April 29th session will focus on K’iche’ language learning with guest speaker Nela Petronila Tahay Tzay. It will be facilitated by Ignacio Carvajal.
Global Read Webinar Series Spring 2021
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies coordinates the annual CLASP Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature and is excited to collaborate with other world area book awards on this exciting online program. Join us this spring 2021 as we invite award winning authors to join us in an online conversation about social justice, the writing process and an exploration of culture and identity across world regions. This annual Global Read Webinar series invites readers of all ages to join us as we explore books for the K-12 classroom recognized by world area book awards such as the Africana Book Award, the Américas Award, the Freeman Book Award, the Middle East Outreach Council Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award.
Each webinar features a presentation by an award-winning author with discussion on how to incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. Be sure to join the conversation with our webinar hashtag #2021ReadingAcrossCultures.
SPRING 2021 SCHEDULE – Read more about the program here.
All webinars are at 7:00 PM EST.
- January 12 – The Américas Award highlights the 2020 Honor Book, The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
- February 3 – The Children’s Africana Book Award highlights the 2020 book award winning, Hector by Adrienne Wright
- March 11 – The Middle East Outreach Award presents 2020 Picture Book award winner, Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan, illustrated by Anna Bron
- April – Freeman Book Award, a project of the National Consortium for Teaching Asia will present a book TBD.
- May 13 – South Asia Book Award presents The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
All sessions are free and open to the public. All times listed refer to Eastern Standard Time (EST). Sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, the Middle East Outreach Council, and African Studies Outreach Council, The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.

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