The Stone Center’s annual TUSCLA conference is an interdisciplinary student symposium in which seniors from the Latin American Studies undergraduate core seminar, first-year graduate students in the graduate Latin American Studies core seminar and undergraduates in Newcomb-Tulane College conducting original research on Latin America present their individual research projects. TUSCLA was formally launched as TUCLA in Fall of 2003 as a means to provide Latin American Studies undergraduates with an opportunity to present papers in the style and atmosphere of an academic conference.

Professor Marc Zender of the Tulane Anthropology Department will be sharing knowledge about various writing styles from old Egyptian and Mayan cultures. Join him to learn how to spell and say your name in ancient glyphs! Sponsored by Tulane's Anthropology Club.

The Anthropology Department’s upcoming colloquium featuring Dr. Florence Babb from UNC at Chapel Hill takes place on Friday, March 13th. Dr. Babb is at work on a book based on ethnographic research in three locations in Peru, critically engaging racial and gender inequalities, inclusion and exclusion, and national identity. Scaling Differences: Place, Race, and Gender in Andean Peru examines the contradictory meanings of being Andean.

Ecuadorian writer and Tulane Visiting Scholar Gabriela Alemán interviews Venezuelan writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka about his life, interests, and influences. Their discussion will be followed by an open Q&A and an informal reception. This event will be held in Spanish.

About the Latin American Writers Series