April 12, 2018 3:30 AM
Illicit Traders on New Granada’s Caribbean Coast during the Long Sixteenth Century A talk by Dr. Christian Cwik (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago)
April 14, 2018 3:00 AM
The International Food and Music Festival is a tradition for Tulane University and the surrounding New Orleans community. It is not possible without the participation of the international community at Tulane. We need your help to represent your culture, country, or community. Share food, crafts, cultural history, language, performance, and have fun at this beautiful outdoor festival.
This event is FREE for all Tulane faculty, staff and students. You must present your Splash Card. Non-affiliated Tulane attendees can purchase tickets here.
April 17, 2018 2:00 AM
Megan Loveless will lead an introductory conversation about candomblé for students in Ana Sánchez-Rojo’s Music, Religion, Spirit course (MUSC 3460). For more information email a.s.rojo@tulane.edu.
April 18, 2018 5:00 AM
Join the Anthropology Student Union of Tulane (ASUT) and the Tulane Anthropology Club to hear a talk by Dr. John Verano. Dr. Verano, professor in the anthropology department, will talk about his research on human skeletal remains from Andean South America.
The talk is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Tulane Anthropology Club via email at tac.tulane@gmail.com.
April 19, 2018 12:00 PM
Join us in welcoming Dr. Benjamin Creutzfeldt for a lecture entitled, China’s Growing Role in Latin America on Thursday, April 19, 2018. China’s leaders touring Latin America have developed a fairly consistent discourse in their growing engagement with Latin America, but it is up to Chinese diplomats and businessmen to engage directly.
April 20, 2018 4:00 AM
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Wendy Hunter for a seminar on Brazil as part of the Latin America at the Crossroads spring seminar series. Democracy is under threat in Brazil. The economy has stagnated, crime is rife, standards of living are deteriorating, and a massive corruption scandal, “Operation Car Wash,” is sweeping up a large swath of the country’s political and economic elite, exposing the dark underbelly of past administrations.
April 24, 2018 6:30 AM
The Congress of Day Laborers, an organization of immigrant workers and families founded by the day laborers who helped rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is a leadership pipeline for hundreds of members into public life and social movement participation. A panel of immigrant leaders from Congreso will share how they have formed alliances across the community and influenced elected officials, as well as how students can help build a more tolerant society.
April 26, 2018 6:00 AM
Join us at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies in welcoming Dr. Chantalle Verna for a talk on her book Haiti and the Uses of America: Post- U.S. Occupation Promises on April 26, 2018, at 6:00 PM.
April 27, 2018 12:00 PM
The Middle American Research Institute is happy to announce the twelfth talk of the 2017-2018 Brown Bag talk series. Ryan Hechler, Doctoral Student in the Anthropology Department, Tulane University, will present on his research in a talk entitled Cochasqui, Ecuador: Recent Research and Future Directions.
April 27, 2018 12:00 PM
Join us in welcoming Sabia McCoy-Torres who will present on her research in a talk titled, Shifting the Lens from Harm to Pleasure: What We Learn from Women in Dancehall. Sabia McCoy-Torres is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at Tulane University. She has a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her research focuses on the English and Spanish speaking African Diaspora, race, gender, sexuality, transnationalism, and popular music and performance. Geographically, her work is based primarily in the United States and Coast Rica. Dr.
