Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies

Tulane University

The Stone Center coordinates the research and teaching activities of over 70 core faculty and 35 affiliated faculty and adjuncts in schools and departments across several Tulane campuses. Except for the professional schools, this is the largest number of faculty associated with any department or program of the university. The Stone Center occupies a 3,500 sq. ft. facility with conference room, lounge, and TA office.

To learn more about our degree programs and how to apply for our graduate programs, visit Academic Programs.

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2020 Américas Award Ceremony and Book Talk

2020 Américas Award Ceremony and Book Talk

Maya at the Playa, Hieroglyphic Workshop

Maya at the Playa, Hieroglyphic Workshop

Stone Center PhD Jesus Ruiz awarded ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship

Stone Center PhD Jesus Ruiz awarded ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship

The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes

The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes

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Film discussion: "O Pai, O" - Carnaval and the intersectionality of oppressions in Salvador/Bahia

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"La Hora del Cuento" Online Programming is Back in Action!

New faces and voices in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: Language, Race, Gender and Class

New faces and voices in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: Language, Race, Gender and Class

Fulbright Fellow Finds Opportunity at Tulane

Fulbright Fellow Finds Opportunity at Tulane

PORTraits: Ana Claudia dos Santos (Portuguese at Tulane Video Series)

PORTraits: Ana Claudia dos Santos (Portuguese at Tulane Video Series)

2020-2021 CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellows

2020-2021 CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellows

Citizens and Politics: The Changing Nature of Parties, Participation, and Linkages

Citizens and Politics: The Changing Nature of Parties, Participation, and Linkages

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Virtual Reception Welcoming our 2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Fellows

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The Center for Inter-American Policy and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies cordially invite you to a virtual reception welcoming our 2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Fellows. For more information, please contact sfialkof@tulane.edu.

Hip Hop and Brazil's X-Ray: 30 years of Racionais MC's

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Language: introduction in Portuguese Questions and comments welcome in Portuguese, English, or Spanish

Conversation with:
Sílvia Lorenso, Associate Professor and Director, Middlebury School in Brazil Jaqueline Santos, PhD, Anthropology. Universidade de Campinas

Watch the music video Negro Drama and Entrevista Mano Brown before the discussion.

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Citizens and Politics: The Changing Nature of Parties, Participation, and Linkages

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Please join us at 2pm on Friday, October 23 for the second lecture in our Fall series Citizens and Politics. Dr. Ernesto Calvo (University of Maryland) will speak on Trust, Partisanship and Perceptions of COVID-19 Risk in Latin America.

The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes

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The Stone Center recently agreed to co-sponsor Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte’s upcoming talk, “The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andres” which is scheduled for Thursday, October 29 at 5:00 PM via Zoom. The talk is part of the year-long “Representation and Resistance: Scholarship Centering Race in Western Art” lecture series organized by the Newcomb Art Department and co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and is also the 2020 Terry K. Simmons Lecture in Art History for this year.

Details can also be found here on the lecture series website:
https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/newcomb-art/representation-and-resistance-scholarship-centering-race-western-art

Film discussion: "O Pai, O" - Carnaval and the intersectionality of oppressions in Salvador/Bahia

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Language: introduction in Portuguese Questions and comments welcome in Portuguese, English, or Spanish

Facilitators: Sílvia Lorenso, Associate Professor and Director, Middlebury School in Brazil Guimário Nascimento, History Teacher, Colégio Nossa Senhora Soledad, Salvador Tatiane Cerqueira, Mestre and PhD student at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC

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*Warning: Some scenes in the film contain graphic violence and sex.

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Summer in Cuba Information Session

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Learn more about the Cuban and Caribbean Institute‘€™s flagship study abroad program. Summer in Cuba is open to Tulane and non-Tulane undergraduate students from all years and majors. Plus, public Health majors have a unique opportunity to earn credits abroad with the Public Health in Cuba track.