September 08, 2023 11:00 AM
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Portuguese language meet-up! All language levels are welcome and participants will have the opportunity to engage in informal conversation. New mousse desserts will also be provided every week. If it is raining, the event will be held at the Language Learning Center located in Newcomb Hall room 408. Please reach out to portuguese@tulane.edu if you have any questions.
June 15, 2023 8:00 AM
All sessions are in-person, with two fully virtual panels. For presentation times, please see the program below the virtual panel registration.
Coffee, light snacks, and sandwiches will be served.
VIRTUAL Panel: Perception, Representation, and State Interest in Predation by Sea
Date: Thursday, June 15th
Time: 15:30-17:30 CDT (UTC-5)
April 20, 2023 5:00 PM
Dr. Zahawi is an internationally recognized leader in the restoration and conservation of tropical forests. As the Director of one of the largest conservation NGO's in South America, the Charles Darwin Foundation, he is working to conserve the unique splendor of the Galápagos Islands. Dr. Zahawi will speak to some of the challenges, opportunities, and unexpected inroads made in the race to preserve and recover the unique biodiversity and habitats of Central and South America, where he has lived and worked for more than 20 years.
April 21, 2023 4:00 PM
Adrian Gorelik is an architect and holds a PhD in History, both from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at CONICET, Full Professor at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, and Tinker Visiting Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and the Simon Bolívar Chair at the University of Cambridge in 2011.
April 12, 2023 1:00 PM
Our last Kaqchikel Language Table of the semester is next Wednesday, April 12 at 1:00 pm. Just hop on Zoom to hone your language skills with fellow students and Mtra. Magda Ixk’amey Sotz.
Register to join us on Zoom: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/6305505942#success
April 14, 2023 6:00 PM
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is partnering with the New Orleans Poetry Festival to sponsor an evening of Brazilian poetry at the Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center on April 14, 2023. They have invited five Brazilian poets, two based in Rio de Janeiro, and three in the United States, to participate in the festival.
April 17, 2023 6:00 PM
Join us as Dr. Sabia McCoy-Torres guides us in conversation with representatives from the Garifuna community in New Orleans. With this panel, we hope to learn more about how Garifuna people preserve their identity and culture in both Honduras and the United States, understand how local Garifuna people navigate a transnational existence as a marginalized group in both Honduras and the United States, and learn how they build community here in New Orleans, Louisiana.
April 18, 2023 5:00 PM
We are hosting a conversation with Maurice Chammah and Mirya Holman, where they will discuss their work, "Does Your Sheriff Think He is More Powerful than the President?" Please find more information about their research findings here.
February 27, 2023 4:00 PM
February 16, 2023 12:00 PM
This is a Central American Politics Consortium (CAPC) Virtual Conversation featuring:
• Luciana Chamorro (WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan)
• Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University)
• Constantino Urcuyo (Researcher, CIAPA)
To join the conversation, please register at: Zoom Registration
