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Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow - Latin American StudiesFelix K. Rioja
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Professor - Economics, Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Latin American EconomicsJohn Edwards
Associate Professor - Economics
Paolo Spadoni on Cuba's Socialist Economy Today
On March 28, 2014, Paolo Spadoni, former post-doctoral fellow at CIPR (2008-09) and current assistant professor of political science at…Prof. Nora Lustig Participates in Latin America Initiative Event
A LATIN AMERICA INITIATIVE Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? In Declining Inequality in Latin America: A…
Dr. Carol Wise Presentation Summary
For the third presentation of the 2019 Fall Speaker Series, CIPR welcomed Dr. Carol Wise, an Associate Professor of International…Protestas en Chile
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This story originally appeared on the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts Magazine entitled Commitment to Equity: A Transformational Project…From the Los Angeles Times and Tulane Today: Tulane sociologist David Smilde discusses the role of the military in Venezuela
This story originally appeared in Tulane Today and the Los Angeles Times entitled In Venezuela right now, one constituency matters…Tulane historian Kris Lane writes essay for Zócalo on Bolivian silver mining and capitalism
This story originally appeared in Zócalo Public Square entitled How a 16th-century Bolivian Silver Mine Invented Modern Capitalism on April…Tulane Professor of Economics Nora Lustig co-edits new book "Decling Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress?"
Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however,…From the Washington Post: Tulane Sociologist Daivd Smilde comments on propaganda in Venezuelan media
Dr. David Smilde, the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations and Senior Associate Fellow at the…From School of Liberal Arts News: A New Professor's Inclusive Approach to Economics
This story originally appeared in School of Liberal Arts News titled A New Professor’s Inclusive Approach to Economics, on September…Tulane Sociologist David Smilde comments on Venezuela and Summit of the Americas in the New York Times
Dr. David Smilde, the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations and Senior Associate Fellow at the…Tulane Sociologist David Smilde Weighs in on Venezuelan Politics and Economy
Dr. David Smilde, the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations and Senior Associate Fellow at the…Dr. Lustig will be a Visiting Researcher at the Paris School of Economics
Dr. Nora Lustig, the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane…Search Announcement: The Scott and Marjorie Cowen Endowed Chair in Latin American Social Sciences in the Department of Economics
The Economics Department and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies announce the search for the Scott and Marjorie Cowen…Op-ed on Venezuela by David Smilde published in New York Times
Tulane’s David Smilde’s opinion piece, Chavismo Full Circle was published in the New York Times today. In it he blames…Two seminars held by CIAPA in Costa Rica
Two important seminars were held on the CIAPA campus in Costa Rica last December and January. The first event, held…Dr. Rose Spalding Explores Free Market Reform and its Resistance in Central America
On November 20th, CIPR was pleased to welcome Dr. Rose J. Spalding to present her book: “Contesting Trade in Central…Successful NCSS Conference Held in New Orleans
The National Council for Social Studies annual conference was held November 13-15, 2015 in New Orleans. The conference, promoting the…Nora Lustig co-organizes conference, "Declining Inequality in Latin America: Are the Good Times Over?"
Nora Lustig, the Stone Chair in Latin American Economics, participated in and co-organized the conference, Declining Inequality in Latin America:…Nora Lustig Interviewed in El País
Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and Senior Research Fellow at CIPR, was interviewed for the…Lustig presents Brazil and U.S. comparison of taxation, transfers and redistribution to New School in NY
On April 25, 2014, Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and Senior Research Fellow at CIPR,…Nora Lustig at Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Friday April 5th, Professor of Economics and CIPR Senior Research Associate Nora Lustig presented at the Yale Center for the…Lustig Addresses new IMF Managing Director and Poverty and Inequality Issues
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Professor of Economics, NORA LUSTIG, was extensively quoted in the May 5, 2011 edition of the Latin America Advisor. She…Dr. Nora Lustig's Column: "The Final Word"
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New from Brookings Institution Press: Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? Luis F. López-Calva & Nora Lustig,…9th Meeting of the Latin American Economics Roundtable
On Wednesday evening, January 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Shotwell Room of the Carnegie Endowment the ninth…Mesa-Lago Quoted in Caracas Newspaper
Distinguished Greenleaf Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, was recently quoted extensively for the article ‘Venezuela pays USD…
Perspectives on Latin America
The Mother of All Storms: Venezuela and the COVID-19 Crisis. Join via Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/96172234806Critical Issues in Democratic Governance: Spring 2019 CIPR Series
Latin America faces major threats to democratic governance, but there are also new opportunities for grassroots mobilization and social policy…Lecture with Rafael Ledezma, Greenleaf Fellow
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The Murphy Institute, the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, and the Department of Political Science present a talk by…Contesting Trade in Central America: Market Reform and Resistance
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Rose J. Spalding, Professor of Political Science, DePaul University. Dr. Spalding will…A crise brasileira: O papel da juventude- A Talk by Lira Alli
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Please join us Friday, September 18th, for the Tulane University Political Science Seminar, sponsored by CIPR. Our speaker will be…New Orleans, Gateway to the Americas: Trade, History & Globalization
The Latin American Resource Center in conjunction with the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, is presenting a…REPAL Second Annual Conference
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Diogo R. Coutinho is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a leading young…A Lecture by Dr. Carmen Diana Deere: "Gender, Asset Accumulation and Wealth in Ecuador."
A lecture by Dr. Carmen Diana Deere, Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and Food & Resource Economics at the…Contesting Trade in Central America: Market Reform and Resistance
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Rose J. Spalding, Professor of Political Science, DePaul University. Dr. Spalding will…Paolo Spadoni presents new book on Cuban economy
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Paolo Spadoni, assistant professor of political science at Georgia Regents University, on…Award-winning Author Sylvia Nasar to lecture at Tulane on "The Grand Pursuit," Monday Jan 30, 2012
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The Tulane Department of Economics’ third guest speaker of the 2011 spring semester is Raquel Fernandez of New York University.…Nora Lustig Lecture
The 2009-2010 Economics Department Speaker Series will feature a lecture by Professor Nora Lustig, the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of…
Measuring the Impact of Microfinance in Costa Rica
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On March 28, 2014, Paolo Spadoni presented his new book on Cuba’s Socialist Economy Today: Navigating Challenges and Change.
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Storytelling in the Language Classroom K-12 Educator Workshop
This online workshop focuses on books for the Spanish language classroom and highlights interdisciplinary connections for the language, arts and science classrooms. Increase the diversity of books in your school library with these stories from Latin America.
Registration closes on February 12, 2021.
The pandemic this past year has challenged educators in unimaginable ways. Learning environments have been reinvented as teachers constantly struggle to connect with students in meaningful ways. This presentation shows how storytelling can create learning environments that nurture as well as educate.
Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of education, entertainment, and cultural preservation. Given its natural and universal appeal, storytelling can be particularly valuable as an instructional strategy in the language classroom. Attendees will learn how to harness the benefits of storytelling, from creating a more nurturing learning environment that encourages active participation to increasing verbal proficiency among all students.
The presenter, an award-winning children’s books author and teacher, will provide examples from her own books and classroom.
Registration is $10 and includes a copy of a book presented, ready-made lessons to introduce into your teaching, and a certificate of completion. Confirmation of your registration will be sent via email within 2 days to provide access to the Zoom Workshop. Space is limited.
REGISTER TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT! Deadline to register is February 12, 2021
Sponsored by Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Pebbles Center in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library.
For more information, please call 504.865.5164 or email crcrts@tulane.edu.
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
REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM WEBINAR HERE.
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.
REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM WEBINAR HERE.
For more information, please email crcrts@tulane.edu or call 504.865.5164.
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.
Reading Latina Voices Online Book Group for High School Educators
This spring 2021 we invite all K-12 educators to join us once a month in an online book group. This past year has been a challenging one for everyone but especially K-12 educators. Sign up and join us as we explore the stories of women confronting identity as Latinas in the United States. Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies, AfterCLASS and the New Orleans Public Library partner to host this online book group. The books selected are recognized by the Américas Award and focus on the Latina experience. The group begins with the work of award-winning author and poet, Elizabeth Acevedo who will speak in a unique online format on March 23rd presented by Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Newcomb Institute.
You have the option of registering in two methods:
- A) $15 includes your own complete set of books for the series mailed to your home;
- B) Free – you find your own copies of the books at your local library.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 29, 2021
Reading Schedule – Thursdays at 6:00 PM CST
- February 11 – Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- March 18 – The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- April 15 – American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- May 13 – The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
Sponsored by AfterCLASS and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University and the New Orleans Public Library.
Central America, People and the Environment Educator Institute 2021
This summer educator institute is the third institute in a series being offered by Tulane University, The University of Georgia and Vanderbilt University. This series of institutes is designed to enhance the presence of Central America in the K-12 classroom. Each year, participants engage with presenters, resources and other K-12 colleagues to explore diverse topics in Central America with a focus on people and the environment.
While at Tulane, the institute will explore the historic connections between the United States and Central America focusing on indigenous communities and environment while highlighting topics of social justice and environmental conservation. Join us to explore Central America and teaching strategies to implement into the classroom.
Additional details and registration will be available in the early spring 2021. For more information, please email dwolteri@tulane.edu or call 504.865.5164.

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