Tulane University

Amnesty and Transitional Justice in Brazil After Twenty Years of Democratic Rule of Law: Why Now?

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In 2011, Brazil established a National Truth Commission (NTC), attracting broad international attention for its transitional justice process and raising at least two important questions. Why did it take almost three decades after the end of the military regime to implement this important step? Will the NTC be a step forward in the struggle to overturn 1979 amnesty law, or will it instead function as a trade-off in which truth becomes a substitute for justice? Two key ideas help answer these questions. The first entails the evolving meaning of "amnesty" in Brazil, that is, its legal and political transformations over time. The second involves the way society mobilized political actors and built transitional justice institutions and agencies, moving from an agenda of reparations and memory to another of truth and justice. By addressing these issues, the presentation aims to contextualize Brazil's transitional justice process and analyze its current challenges and possibilities.

Presenter, Marcelo D. Torelly, is currently a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He has served as adviser to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice on Transitional Justice issues and as the manager of the Transitional Justice Exchange and Development Program (a joint project of Brazil’s federal government and the UNDP), in addition to teaching law at Brasília Catholic University.

This event is sponsored by the Payson Center for International Development, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Spanish & Portuguese Department, the Altman Program, and the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching.

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For more information, please contact Rebecca Atencio, ratencio@tulane.edu.

Tertulia! Spanish Conversation Club

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Do you want to practice your Spanish?

Are you interested in meeting other Spanish speakers? Then join us every Friday afternoon for our weekly Tertulia! Practice your Spanish in a fun and relaxed atmosphere and enjoy some coffee and cookies!

Feel free to stop by even if you can’t stay the whole time.

Tertulia is sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and TULASO.

Bate Papo! Speak Portuguese!

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Come practice your Portuguese and eat lunch with others practicing their Portuguese. Meet under the big white umbrellas or in the open area next to the bookstore. Look for the tiny, Brazilian desk flag. Native speakers, please join us!

This event is sponsored by TULASO and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

For more information, contact Edie Wolfe at ewolfe@tulane.edu.

MARI Brown Bag: Alina Álvarez Larrain "The South Also Exists: Landscapes of Southern Yocavil Valley (Northwestern Argentina)"

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Alina Álvarez Larrain, doctoral candidate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, will present her research from northwestern Argentina in a talk titled: "The South Also Exists: Landscapes of Southern Yocavil Valley (Northwestern Argentina)"

N.B.: the presentation will be given in Spanish.

M.A.R.I.‘s Brown Bag talk series is meant to provide a venue for students and faculty focusing on topics related to Mesoamerica to discuss their latest research in an informal and friendly setting. If you are interested in presenting, please email Marcello Canuto (mcanuto@tulane.edu) for more information.
For the current speaker list of this talk series, please click here.

Tulane Maya Symposium Teacher Workshop: On the Maya Trail: Ancient Travelers, Epic Voyages

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The Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Middle American Research Institute, and the Audubon Aquarium are joining together to sponsor a K-12 teacher workshop in the conjunction with the 11th annual Tulane Maya Symposium. This year the workshop will be held at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans, in celebration of the opening of a new exhibit on reefs in the Maya area. The workshop will focus on the symposium theme: traveling and voyages among the Maya. The workshop will integrate information about the geography and environment of the Maya area and the ancient and modern Maya utilization of environmental resources. The resources discussed will provide a great way for teachers working with the Common Core requirements to integrate information about the Maya into discussions of a variety of topics!

This year the teacher workshop will begin on Thursday evening, March 20th, with a special reception and talk at the Aquarium specifically for teachers. The main component of the workshop will take place on Friday, March 21st. For more information and to register, please visit the symposium website.

Eleventh Annual Maya Symposium: On the Maya Trail: Ancient Travelers, Epic Voyages

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The Middle American Research Institute and Far Horizons, in collaboration with Tulane’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the New Orleans Museum of Art, are proud to present the Eleventh Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop. This year's symposium, titled "On the Maya Trail: Ancient Travelers, Epic Voyages," will explore the many ways the ancient Maya moved across their landscape, whether for the sake of diplomacy, conquest, commerce, migration, or pilgrimage. The point of the symposium is to emphasize how integral long-distance communication was to ancient Maya society throughout its long history. This year's Maya Symposium will incorporate a wide variety of specialties such as archaeology, art history, cultural anthropology, epigraphy, history, and linguistics to explore the research being conducted on the ancient Maya civilization.

The annual K-12 teacher workshop will be located at the Audubon Aquarium and will begin Thursday evening, March 20th and all day Friday. For more information on the K-12 program, please visit here.

The keynote address will be given by Dr. Karl Taube of the University of California, Riverside who will guide us through the rich world of Mesoamerican art. We will also host a viewing of the Precolumbian collection at NOMA. On Sunday, the Hieroglyphic Forum and the Workshops will focus on the role of women travelers in the Classic Maya civilization. Finally, throughout the weekend, we will also be featuring MARI’s exhibit, “Faces of the Maya.”

For more information and to register please visit the symposium website