Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies

Tulane University

Denise Woltering-Vargas

Program Manager - SCLAS Latin American Resource Center

(M.A., International Communication) Denise manages educational and community programs for Tulane University's Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Denise coordinates the Stone Center's K-12 program by developing teacher workshops, summer institutes, curricular resources, study abroad opportunities and managing the LARC national film lending library. She has developed curriculum units and curriculum guides with teachers as part of annual summer institutes and film festivals including, Exploration of the African Diaspora in the Americas, Geography & Identity in the Brazilian Amazon, and Ecuador's Oil Legacy: Media Skills, Justice, and Preservation. She is also currently the Co-Coordinator of the Américas Book Award, an award sponsored by the national Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs.

Denise earned her BA in Spanish from Reed College and her Masters in International Communication from American University in Washington, DC. She researched bilingual education at the K-12 level in DC and focused on cross-cultural communication in the ESL classroom. Prior to joining the Stone Center staff in 2006, Denise taught ESL and coordinated the International Communication Graduate program at American University.

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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