STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Events
of the Roger Thayer Stone Center
for Latin American Studies

If you have any questions regarding the information listed here, feel free to contact the Stone Center.

Symposia & Conferences

Creativity and Performance in the Circum-Caribbean World: Comparative Perspectives
Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, Tulane University
April 25 - 26, 2007
From 2002 to 2006 Tulane University hosted seven fellows as part of its Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship program Shared Inheritances: Comparative Studies in Creativity and Performance in the Mississippi-Gulf-Caribbean Region.  The fellows will return to New Orleans on the eve of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to share the findings and products of their research. Click here to find out more information.

Disaster and Migration: Hurricane Katrina's Effects on New Orleans' Population
Tulane University
April 13-14, 2007
Call for paper proposals due December 20, 2006. The conference will bring together scholars contributing to a social scientific understanding of disaster and migration either through theoretical analyses or empirical research. The concentrated period of depopulation and repopulation of New Orleans and the concurrent racial, ethnic, and class-based shifts in the social terrain are the focus of this conference. Paper proposals should describe the research project and preliminary results in the case of empirical contributions or a well-develped draft of a theoretical contributions. Submit proposals to: Elizabeth Fussell, Sociology Department, Tulane University, 220 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118. Please contact Elizabeth Fussell for more information at efussell@tulane.edu or Jim Elliott at Elliott@uoregon.edu. To download poster of conference please click here. Updates to the conference can be found on the website.

Fourth Annual Maya Symposium and Workshop: Murals and Painted Texts by Maya Ah Tz'ibob
Tulane University
February 2- February 4, 2007
This symposium offers a glimpse of Maya life through images and hieroglyphic texts painted by Maya scribes called ah tz’ibob. Murals from the northern Maya area will be the focus of discussions by archaeologists, epigraphers, and art historians, with additional examples from elsewhere in the Maya world. We will explore the earliest murals, recently discovered at Late Preclassic San Bartolo, to the latest pre-Columbian examples from the Late Postclassic sites of Mayapán and Tulum. For more information, contact Denise Woltering or visit http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/MayaSymposium/
Please note: The 2005 symposium was cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina.

Young Cinema: New Latin American Film/New Filmmakers Film Series
102 Jones Hall, Tulane University
Thursdays at 7:00 pm during Spring Semester
The Stone Center of Latin American Studies at Tulane University announces the Young Cinema Film Series beginning February 8th, 2007. Introduced by Professor Ana López. For more information please contact Ana at lopez@tulane.edu.
February 8, 2007
25 Watts (Uruguay, 2001) Directed by Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll.

March 1, 2007
Lavoura Arcaica (Brazil, 2002) Directed by Luis Fernando Carvalho.

March 8, 2007
Días de Santiago (Peru, 2004) Directed by Josue Menendez.

April 12-13, 2007 Symposium - Contemporary Cuban Cinema: A Porous National Cinema

April 12 - 4:00 pm Greenleaf Conference Room
Lecture: Edmundo Desnoes: “My Twenty Years in the Cuban Revolution"Edmundo Desnoes is a renowned Cuban writer, author of the novel Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution. The book was adapted into a seminal Latin American film by the late director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in 1968. Desnoes has lived in New York City since 1979. He recently completed Memorias del desarrollo, a follow-up to his original novel.

April 13 - 12:30 pm - 2 pm Greenleaf Conference Room- Panel Discussion: Making Memorias del desarollo; Miguel Coyula and Edmundo Desnoes, moderated by Ana López;

4:30 pm 102 Jones Hall Red Cockroaches by Humberto Padrón;

6:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: CONTEMPORARY CUBAN CINEMA: A POROUS NATIONAL CINEMA.
MIGUEL COYULA AND DOLORES TIERNEY. MODERATED BY ANA LÓPEZ.
A discussion about contemporary Cuban cinema and the “national.”  What are the limits of a  “national cinema”?  Can we imagine a national cinema with porous borders?  What lies ahead for film production, distribution and exhibition in Cuba?

6:30 pm Reception Jones Hall;

Politics of Memory, Memory of Politics: Film and History in Contemporary Spain and Latin America
All Films shown in Jones Hall and Newcomb Hall, Tulane University
April 9- April 17, 2007 [For further information please contact Tatjana Pavlovic at tpavlov@tulane.edu and download film schedule here.]
April 17, 2007

11 am - 12 pm Lecture: Professor Anthony Geist: "Almas Sin Fronteras/Souls without Borders: The Untold Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade" Greenleaf Conference Room

12 - 1 pm Book Presentation and Lunch Reception: Close-ups/Primeros Planos: 100 Years of Spanish Cinema; Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall

4 - 5 pm Lecture: Professor Marvin D'Lugo: "Post-Nostalgia in Bad Education: Written on the Body of Sara Montiel" followed by reception; Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall

Latin American Environmental Media Festival
Tulane University
March 30 - April 1, 2007
The Stone Center of Latin American Studies at Tulane University announces the return of the Latin American Environmental Media Festival in New Orleans March 30 – April 1, 2007. This weekend-long festival will bring to audiences films, videos, and innovative works in digital media whose subjects call critical attention to major environmental challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. The festival will be held on the Tulane University campus and at venues in the city. It will screen a curated, non-competitive series of innovative works and new productions submitted as part of a juried competition. A distinguished jury will award prizes in four categories at the opening of the festival in late March. To download festival poster with schedule, click here. For more information contact Denise Woltering. This event is free and open to the public.

Student Events 

The New Latin American Political System and its Implications for US-Latin America Policy
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall, Tulane University
April 23 at 5:00 pm
Lecture by Constantino Urcuyo, Richard E. Greenleaf Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies.

Kotz'ib: The Emergence of New Mayan Literature
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall
March 13, 2007 6 pm
Please join us tomorrow for a lecture by Arturo Arias, Richard E. Greenleaf Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies Arturo Arias is Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Redlands. He is co-writer for the screenplay for the film ³El Norte² (1984), and author of six novels in Spanish‹Despues de las bombas (1979), Itzam Na (1981), Jaguar en Llamas(1989), Los caminos de Paxil (1991), Cascabel (1998) and Sopa de caracol (2002). He was winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize and the Anna Seghers Scholarship for two of them. Two of his novels have been translated into English‹After the Bombs (Curbstone Press, 1990) and Rattlesnake (Curbstone Press, 2003). Dr. Arias is a specialist on ethnic issues and subaltern identity, a subject that is a central theme in both his fiction and his academic work. In 1998 he published two books of literary criticism, one on Guatemalan 29th Century fiction, La identidad de la palabra, and another one on contemporary Central American fiction, Gestos Ceremoniales. In 2001 he published a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias¹s Mulata and the edited volume. The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy. He has finished a new novel, Arias de don Giovanni, and this spring his study Taking Their Work: Literature and the Signs of Central America will be published by the University of Minnesota Press. He served as President of the Latin American Studies Association for 2001-2003. This event is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Christopher Dunn at cjdunn@tulane.edu.

Race and Representation: A Mini Symposium
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall
March 9, 2007 2-4 pm
Lecture will be f ollowed by a party with Brazilian Samba band, Casa Samba Pagode. Assistant Professor, Peter Beattie will discuss "Conflicting Images of Race and Nation in Brazil During and After the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1890." Assistant Professor Emanuelle Oliveira will discuss "An Ethic of the Aesthetic? Racial Representations in Brazilian Cinema Today." Peter M. Beattie is Associate Professor of History and the Acting Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil 1864-1945 (Duke, 2001) and editor of The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil (SR Books, 2004). He is co-editor for the fields of history and social science for the Luso-Brazilian Review. He is currently working on a monograph about the civil criminal justice system in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco from 1850 to 1900 to examine how state institutions responded to the decline and ultimate abolition of slavery in 1888.

Emanuelle Oliveira is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. Her book Writing Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature, is forthcoming by Purdue University Press. She is currently working on a new book project, "The Color of Crime: Delinquency and Representations of Race in Brazilian Literature and Film." This book will examine the construction of diverse representations of blacks, and how these representations relate to crime and violence in Brazilian society.

Co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Brazilian Studies Council, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of History of Tulane University. For more information contact, Christopher Dunn, cjdunn@tulane.edu.

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Distinguished Visitors & Special Events

Third Annual Celebración Latina

Saturday, April 21, 2007, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Laurence Square on the corner of Napoleon and Magazine
Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies will present the Third Annual Celebración Latina. This event, in partnership with Tulane University’s Center for Public Service, the Hispanic Apostolate, and the New Orleans Public Library, will be held in from 11AM until 6PM. Celebración Latina features food, music, and other entertainment all with a Latin flavor. The children’s area will be hosted by the Pebbles Center and the New Orleans Public Library and art activities will be provided by Tulane University students. Our “Community Partners” tent will promote non-profit and community organizations working to make a difference in New Orleans.
This family-oriented event is a great opportunity for New Orleanians to come together to celebrate Latin American culture as we forge into a new and stronger New Orleans. This celebration is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Denise Woltering at 504.865.5164 Or dwolteri@tulane.edu [Click here to download poster.]

Marcia Milhazes Compania de Danca Presents:
Tempo de Verao

Friday, March 23, 2007, 8:00 PM
Contemporary Arts Center
Award-winning Rio de Janeiro-based choreographer Marcia Milhaze will present the New Orleans premier of her latest work Tempo de Verao (Time of Summer.)

This work was inspired by her long time fascination with waltzes, and memories of her family. Lovers express their desires and emotion through movement under a sky of brightly colored circles suggesting an imaginary world of unceasingly moving colorful targets befitting an empirical universe of waltzes created by visual artist Beatrice Milhaze.

The residency and performance is made possible through the National Performance Network. NPN is an independent organization begun by Dance Theater Workshop and is comprised of arts organizations in 42 cities and 27 states. NPN is made possible through major funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For further information, visit the NPN website at www.npnweb.org or write: National Performance Network 1712 Baronne Street, St. 1712, New Orleans, LA 70112.

Additional support provided by the Stone Center for Latin Studies Tulane University, the Arts Council of New Orleans, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and xfone. Tickets are on sale for $15 CAC Members/$20 General.

Pachanga
Friday, March 9 , 2007, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Jones Hall Patio
Let’s keep the carnival spirit rolling at the one and only Pachanga-Pagode of the spring semester!  The Stone Center for Latin American Studies and TULASO invite you to the come meet fellow LAST undergrads, faculty and Stone Center staff while enjoying the Brazilian rhythms of Casa Samba Pagode.  Casa Samba Pagode features Curtis Pierre, the founder of New Orleans’ Casa Samba, Luis Lima from Salvador da Bahia and Jackson Santos from Pará, Brazil.  Don’t know how to Samba?  No problem—Samba lessons will be provided.  And we’ll have pupusas, empanadas and tamales by Kathia Duran of Doña Blanca Foods.  Don’t miss it! Event is free and open to the public.

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Professional Development

Latin American Environmental Media Festival Curriculum Writing Project
March 30 - April 1, 2007
Freeman Auditorium, Tulane University
The media festival is a weekend-long event which will bring to audiences films, videos, and innovative works in digital media whose subjects call critical attention to major environmental challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. For more information about the festival check the website: http://stonecenter.tulane.edu/EFF/. The winning film will be used in a curriculum writing project. Those teachers selected to participate will be supported to create an exemplary curriculum to be used in the K-12 classroom in coordination with the film. The curriculum will be available as one of our online resources accessible to educators nationally. If you are interested in participating on the curriculum writing project, please fill out the registration form here.

Indigenous Identity and Environment
Friday, April 20, 2007 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Greenleaf Conference Room 100 Jones Hall, Tulane University
This workshop will allow educators to learn about indigenous identity and the complexity of globalization through the Nahua community of Tepoztlán, in the valley of Morelos, just south of Mexico City. The film “A Defender of His People” by Bruce Lane is used to explore these issues. The filmmaker, along with two anthropologists will conduct the workshop introducing classroom materials. The workshop will delve into the culture of the Nahua and explore the land and resources of Mesoamerica. The workshop will teach useful tools and resources for curriculum planning and techniques on bringing issues of indigenous rights, globalization, and the environment into the classroom. Please fill out registration form by clicking here. Space limited to 25. Registration due April 13.

Summer Professional Development Opportunity for Gulf South regional K-12 teachers
The national Latin American Studies Teacher Training Network is a collaborative effort of six Title VI national resource centers hoping to encourage the study of Latin America through our network of resource centers. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies will support the study of Latin America at any one of our six participating national resource centers. The deadline to apply for this summer institute competition is May 31, 2007. Please click here for more information.

For more Professional Development opportunities or information about the above events, visit the Latin American Resource Center.

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Performances & Exhibits

Gabriel Alegría Afroperuvian Jazz Sextet
Wednesday, February 28, and Thursday March 1, 2007, 8:00 PM
Sung Harbor Jazz Bistro 626 Frenchman St.

This concert will feature some of Peru’s finest jazz musicians and their rich and dynamic explorations of traditional Afroperuvian genres like the festejo, the landó and the zapateo and their connection to contemporary jazz.  The concert will be fun, dynamic and will introduce audiences to a uniquely Peruvian form of jazz.  This tour is promoting Gabriel’s second album, Nuevo Mundo which will be on sale at the concert.  In addition to his two evening concerts in Snug Harbor (626 Frenchmen St.), Gabriel Alegría and his sextet will give a master class in the Dixon Recital Hall (152 Dixon Annex) in Tulane’s Music Department at 4pm on Thursday, March 1.  This will be an excellent opportunity for students and local musicians to play with Gabriel and learn more about Afroperuvian rhythms and how to integrate them into jazz performance.  The Master class is free and open to the public.  For more information regarding the concerts visit www.snugjazz.com or call (504) 949-0696.  For more information regarding the Master Class, please contact Professor Javier León at (504) 865-5273 or jleon@tulane.edu.

Fall 2006 Events

Reconceptualizing Latin America: Curriculum Dissemination Workshop
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall Tulane University
Saturday, December 9, 2006 9:00 - 4:30pm
This full-day workshop represents both the concluding public event in a multi-year Stone Center (SCLAS) project to rethink and redesign Tulane’s Latin American Studies graduate and undergraduate curricula, and the current stage in an ongoing interdisciplinary and intra-institutional dialogue on the future and possibilities of Latin American Studies as an academic field.  Scholars from across the country will join Tulane faculty and members of the broader New Orleans academic community to explore and debate methodological issues and pedagogic strategies related to the field.  Topics of discussion include SCLAS new curricula, the incorporation of service learning as a relevant experiential exercise for obtaining cultural knowledge and for professional development; sources and uses of alternative (subaltern/local) knowledge in undergraduate teaching and research; questions of interdisciplinarity versus multidisciplinarity, and the teaching thereof; activism vs. “ethical neutrality” in the classroom; and strategies for transforming Latin American Studies from a delimiting “area study” to a vehicle for mutual and universal understanding.This event is free and open to all interested faculty, administrators and educators, regardless of disciplinary or regional specialization.  RSVP’s are appreciated. For more information, contact Edie Wolfe at ewolfe@tulane.edu or Maureen Long at mlong2@tulane.edu.

TUCLA Conference IV Annual Tulane Undergraduate Conference on Latin America
Tulane University, Jones Hall 102 & 108
December 2, 2006 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
The Stone Center’s annual TUCLA conference is an interdisciplinary undergraduate symposium in which seniors from the Latin American Studies core seminar present their individual research projects.TUCLA is designed to provide LAST undergraduates with an opportunity to present papers in the style and atmosphere of an academic conference.  We invite students, faculty, administrators and the public to attend this year’s IV annual conference Dec. 2, 2006 and to discuss the panelists’ research with them.  This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Edie Wolfe at lastadv@tulane.edu click here for the schedule, abstracts and biographies of participants.

Latin Jazz Clinic with Osmany Paredes
Dixon Band Room
November 18, 2006 1 pm
This event is free and open to all musicians. Osmany Paredes González is a pianist, composer and arranger whose style blends jazz with his Afro-Cuban rhythmic heritage by using a technique derived from years of classical education. Born in Santa Clara , Cuba , his father began Osmany’s musical education at the age of five. He has played with various artists and groups including Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Jerry González, elio González, Diego alias “El Cigala”, and “Patato” Valdés, Fellove Valdes among others. Since his arrival in the United States in 2003, Osmany Paredes has been featured in many well-known clubs; and he has performed or recorded with David Murray, Richard Bona, Giovanni Hidalgo , and Dave Samuels, among others. He has also appeared at the Zinc Bar in New York City , the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia , the Freihofer Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs , the Berklee Performance Center in Boston , the San Jose Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles , and the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle .

Latin Jazz Clinic with Juan Carlos Formell
Dixon Band Room
November 4, 2006 10 am
This event is free and open to all musicians. Born in Havana in 1964, Juan-Carlos is a fourth generation musician. But the restrictions of the government-controlled music industry in his homeland made it difficult for the singer/songwriter/guitarist/bassist to express his new ideas. In 1993 he fled to the United States , to make his own music, his way. He went to New York where he established a band, and in 1998 he was signed to the world music label Wicklow Records. His his debut CD, Songs From A Little Blue House, received a nomination for a Grammy® in 2000. His next release, in 2002, was the critically-acclaimed Las Calles Del Paraiso (EMI Latin). Then, after several years of touring with his band and some major concerts – with Buena Vista Social Club veteran Eliades Ochoa, and world music stars Cesaria Evora, Milton Nascimento and Susana Baca – Juan-Carlos decided to take on the challenge of a solo guitar project. Inspired by a sojourn in New Orleans , Juan-Carlos returned to the Crescent City in May of 2005 to record Cemeteries & Desire, which was released by Narada Records in August 2005. The album features powerful original ballads – songs now haunted by the devastation of the city.

His current project, SON RADICAL, is the spontaneous combustion of rock en clave that came out of Los Angeles recording sessions with two other exceptional Cuban musicians – drummer/producer Jimmy Branly (of NG la Banda) and bassist Carlitos del Puerto (of Caravana Cubana).

"The Role of the Media and the Hispanic Community in Post-Katrina New Orleans"

Friday, November 3, 2006
5:30-6:30pm Reception at the Latin American Library followed by a
Town Hall discussion 7-9:45pm (RSVP by Nov. 1st 504-865-5681 or mespinos@tulane.edu)

This discussion will be moderated by WWL Co-Anchor, Lucy Bustamante and will feature the following panelists:

Beth Fussell, Tulane University
Martin Gutierrez, Hispanic Apostolate
Vanessa Oubre, General Manager, WVUE FOX 8
Ernesto Schweikert, KGLA 1540
Julio Guichard. De Todo Un Poco
Bob Noonan, News Director, WGNO ABC 26
David Meeks, City Editor, Times-Picayune

The Town Hall discussion will take place in the auditorium in 131 Goldring/Woldenberg Hall (Freeman School of Business.)

The Latin American Library will also present a concurrent exhibit on
The Spanish Language Press & the Latin Presence in New Orleans through History (tentative title)

These events are co-hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Latin American Library and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

Latin Jazz and Carribean Rhythms Clinic with Oscar Stagnaro
260 Dixon Annex
October 21, 2006 11 am - 1 pm
This event is free and open to all musicians. Mr. Stagnaro is a professor of Jazz Studies and Improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music and is considered one of the most versatile bass players on the East Coast. His mastery of playing different music styles; including jazz, fusion, Latin jazz, Brazilian jazz, and South American music; has helped him travel the world performing and recording with the very best of Latin jazz artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Valentin, Dave Liebman, Danilo Pérez, Chucho Valdez, The Caribbean Jazz Project, New York Voices, and the Boston Pops. Mr. Stagnaro is a two time Grammy winner: in 2001 for performing with the Paquito Rivera Quintet on Live at the Blue Note, and again in 2003 for again performing with the Rivera Quintet and also the New York Voices on Live at Manchester Craftsman Guild. He is coauthor of The Latin Bass Book, published by Sher Music, and author of Latin Slap Book, to be published by Hal Leonard in June 2004.

Seminar on Historical Change and Social Theory
Mondays from 6:00 - 8:00 (check out website for schedule details)

Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall

Papers are pre-circulated. For more information visit our website: http://shcst.tulane.edu. Admission is free of charge. Attendance is by invitation only. For more information, call or e-mail Justin Wolfe at 865-8630 or jwolfe@tulane.edu respectively. The event is being hosted by Latin American Studies and sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of Political Science. 

New Graduate Student Orientation
August 28-29, 2006
Please see schedule for more information or contact the Stone Center.

"Rufino José Maria, an African Muslim in the Atlantic World"
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall
November 21, 2006 5-7 pm
Lecture given by Dr. João José Reis, internationally renowned scholar of Afro-Brazilian history, slavery, and black resistance. He is Professor Titular in the Department of History at the Federal University of Bahia where he coordinates the post-graduate research group "Slavery and the Invention of Liberty." Lecture is free and open to the public.

"Talking Through the Chest: Transculturation, Divination, and the African Diaspora in Colonial Mexico"
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall
November 17, 2006 12 -1:30 pm
Lunch and Roundtable Discussion by Professor Javier Villa Flores, U of Illinois at Chicago. Prof. Villa Flores will discuss his research on the use among Afro-Mexican slave women of the technique known as "talking through the chest," a ventriloquist art of divination that gained its practitioners the fearful respect of a multiethnic clientele in colonial New Spain. Prof. Villa Flores is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies in the Departmehnt of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book, Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial México, has just been published by the University of Arizona Press (2006). He is also the author of Carlo Ginzburg, el historiador como teórico (México: Universidad de Guadalajara, 1995) and numerous articles on colonial life and inquisitional history in New Spain. Students with a particular interest in colonial Mexico will also be able to discuss their own projects with Prof. Villa Flores at the roundtable. RSVP by Nov. 14 to: Prof. Marilyn Miller, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 862-3423, mgmiller@tulane.edu.

"Through Eve's Open Mouth: Blasphemy and the Woman's Voice in Colonial Mexico"
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall
November 17, 2006 3:30-5:00 pm
Come join Professor Javier Villa Flores after the luncheon for a look at women's use of blasphemy in Colonial Mexico. Prof. Villa Flores explores the use of
blasphemy by Spanish and Creole women in light of the gender conventions of
the time that related chastity and obedience with female control of speech. Prof. Villa Flores is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book, Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial México, has just been published by the University of Arizona Press (2006). He is also the author of Carlo Ginzburg, el historiador como teórico (México: Universidad de Guadalajara, 1995) and numerous articles on colonial life and inquisitional history in New Spain.

Dance Music and the Politics of Fun in Socialist Cuba
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall
November 2, 2006 2 pm
Dr. Robin Moore, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Texas at Austin, will lecture on “Dance Music and the Politics of Fun in Socialist Cuba”. He has received awards including fellowships from the Rockfeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. His written work includes Nationalizing Blackness:  afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) and articles in the Latin American Music Review, Cuban Studies, Ethnomusicology, Encuentro de la cultura cubana, and other journals and book anthologies. His new publication, Music and Revolution (University of California Press, 2006) concerns musical performance in Cuba after 1959.
 
* Dr. Moore will also be speaking in Professor León’s Music, Marxism and Globalization seminar on Wed. Nov. 1 at 2pm.  Please email Prof. León if you are interested in attending this event (jleon@tulane.edu)
The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ajpub’ García Ixmata’
Middle American Research Institute, 4th flr Dinwiddie Halll
October 27, 2006 4 pm
Linguist and researcher at the Instituto Lingüístico of the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala, will give a talk on the “vacation school” program he has initiated to help Mayan children learn about and develop pride in their culture and language: “Escuela Mayab’ de Vacaciones”. The talk will be held in MARI, 4th floor Dinwiddie Hall. There will be a “happy half hour” preceding the talk.
For more information contact Judy Maxwell at 862-3046 or maxwell@tulane.edu.

“Contracultura e Reafricanização na Bahia.”

October 10, 2006, 5:30-7:00
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall

Armando Almeida, from Federal University of Bahia. This lecture is open to the public. Admission is free. For more information, call or e-mail Christopher Dunn at 865-5519 or
cjdunn@tulane.edu. The event is being hosted by The Stone Center for
Latin American studies and is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Please spread the word among Portuguese speakers you know.

A Conversation with Antonio Carlos Miguel

September 12, 2006, 5:30-7:00
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100 Jones Hall

Sponsored by the Brazilian Studies Council, Brazilian journalist and music critic, Antonio Carlos Miguel writes for "O Globo", one of Brazil's largest daily newspapers. He is the author of a Brazilian music guide, "Guia de MPB em CD", 1999) and is a voting member of Latin Grammy, Premio TIM de Música and Premio Rival de Música. He will be speaking about contemporary Brazilian popular music and cultural journalism.discuss the music of Brazil.

Pachanga
Thursday, November 2 , 2006, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jones Hall Patio
Please join us for the second Pachanga of the school year in the patio of Jones Hall. Come learn Rueda de Casino, Cuban Salsa and enjoy the music of Asheson. The event, hosted by TULASO (Tulane University Latin American Student Organization) is free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be available.

"Demographic Change and the Future of America: What will it take to make diversity a source of unity and strength?"
Freeman Auditorium of Woldenberg Art Center
October 30, 2006 6 pm
Award winning educator, activist, and author of City Schools and the American DreamDr. Pedro Antonio Noguera will speak on issues of diversity and education reform. Reception will follow in Woodward Way of the Woldenberg Art Center. Presented by Office of Multicultural Affairs/Multicultural Council, Stone Center, The Partnership for the Transformation of Urban Communities, Teacher Preparation and Certification Program and Center for Public Service. For more information contact OMA 504.865.5181.

Pachanga
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jones Hall Patio
Please join us for the first Pachanga of the school year in the patio of Jones Hall. Come and shake it to Viváz, a New Orleans Latin Band that uniquely combines Latin Jazz, Salsa, and Caribbean sounds. Viváz was formed in New Orleans, Louisiana in April of 2001. The band is comprised of musicians from many different countries including Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, and the United States. A highly original sound is achieved by these energetic musicians who combine traditional Latin music styles with innovative ideas (The event, hosted by TULASO (Tulane University Latin American Student Organization) is free and open to the public. Food and drinks will be available.

Salsa Lessons
Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 8:00 PM
McWilliams 105 (kitty corner to Newcomb Hall)
Please join TULASO for free Salsa lessons in preparation for the first Pachanga of the school year September 28, 2006. For more information contact: msauque@tulane.edu

 

Latin American Library Second Annual Open House and Book Sale
September 22, 2006 12 pm - 5 pm Come join us and learn more about LAL's collections & services, speak with the staff,
meet incoming faculty and students and welcome back old friends. The Open House and Book Sale will begin promptly at noon and run until 5pm on Friday, September 22, 2006 in the LAL gallery and seminar room 4th floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. Titles are largely in Spanish, English or Portuguese
Light refreshments and snacks will be available.
We look forward to seeing you!

ONIX Ensemble
Sunday, November 5, 2006, 8:00 PM
Dixon Performance Hall

Founded in 1996, ONIX ENSEMBLE has been a tour de force promoting contemporary music by Mexican and Latin American composers. More than 50 works dedicated to the group give testimony of this effort and recognize the skill and musicianship of its members.  ONIX’s performances include a wide variety of landmark works that had contributed to shape the face of today’s concert music. From early twentieth century classics to the most recent contemporary music expressions, the ensemble’s repertoire embraces all together simplicity and beauty, hypnotic states, energetic and contagious rhythms, unpredictable gesticulations and creations nurtured from theatre, painting and technology.
 
ONIX ENSEMBLE among with other performers will also be featured between of Nov. 6-8. A few passes for these performances will be available to students, staff and faculty members of Latin American Studies.  For more information contact Javier León (jleon@tulane.edu). For more information: http://www.icmc2006.org/

Latin Jazz with Paquito D'Rivera
Saturday, October 21, 2006, 7:00 and 9:00 PM
Contemporary Arts Center, Freeport-McMoran Theater

Born in Havana, Cuba, this four-time Grammy Award-winning saxophone, flute and clarinet virtuoso, who has recorded over 30 solo albums, is celebrated both for his artistry in Latin jazz and his achievements as a classical composer. He will perform at the CAC with his jazz ensemble.

NEA Jazz Masters on Tour is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts sponsored by Verizon in partnership with Arts Midwest. Additional support is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through a grant to Chamber Music America. This concert is a co-presentation of the Contemporary Arts Center, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc., and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University.

Tickets: $20 for CAC members/students, $25 general admission.

Click here to purchase tickets online or visit the CAC Thursday - Sunday, 11am-4pm; or call the CAC Box Office: (504) 528-3800.

Fiesta Latina 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006, 11:00am - 8:00 PM
Contemporary Arts Center

Come listen to free music, dance and eat some great food at the CAC! Presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, local latin performers, food, dance, craft and folk art booths focus on Latin American culture and cuisine. Local musicians: Fredy Omar con su Banda, Fuerza Latino, Grupo Paraiso, Julio y Cesar, Ritmo Caribeno, Vivaz, Otra, Patrice Fisher and ARPA, Ovidio Giron and the Little Forggies and more will make you shake your booty. Sponsored by The Stone Center for Latin American Studies, New Orleans Music Clinic Summer Solace Program, Higher Ground Hurricane Rlief Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Johnson Controls, Inc. Contemporary Arts Center. This event is free.

Afro-Brazilian Rhythms Lecture, Demonstration & Performance
Friday, August 25, 2006, 6:30 PM
Café Brazil, 2100 Chartres Street
A lecture, demonstration and performance led by Brazilian master percussionist, Dendê, from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil will highlight various Afro-Brazilian rhythms - both sacred and secular. Dendê, a former member of the world famous Afro-Brazilian band Timbalada, will lead a lecture-demonstration in Afro-Brazilian percussion. This will include popular rhythms like the Samba-Reggae from Olodum as well as rhythms created by Ile Aye and Timbalada to name a few. Sacred rhythms like afoxe, congo and samba de caboclo will also be explained along with the structure of orixa rhythms. Dendê will perform these rhythms on instruments like timbal, surdo, bacurinha, rebolo and caixa. Doors open at 6:00 p.m, Performance at 6:30 pm. Admission is $5.

STONE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118

ph: (504) 865-5164; fx:(504) 865-6719; rtsclas@tulane.edu

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