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The Tequila region of Jalisco, Mexico followed a unique trajectory of cultural development that challenges traditional models of social complexity. For many decades, it was forced into unsuitable categories, inadequate for explaining the richness and diverse material culture manifested in the archaeological record. Advances in anthropological theory and fieldwork research in the area have enhanced our understanding of the nature of political organization through time.

On Friday, April 5th, and Saturday, April 6th, 2024, Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Newcomb Art Department are hosting a conference in honor of Elizabeth Boone. Featuring the work of her students who received their Ph.D. at Tulane, the two-day gathering celebrates Professor Boone's important and enduring legacy in the field of art history.

 

Register here by March 25th

 

Conference Program

 

On Friday, April 5th, and Saturday, April 6th, 2024, Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Newcomb Art Department are hosting a conference in honor of Elizabeth Boone. Featuring the work of her students who received their Ph.D. at Tulane, the two-day gathering celebrates Professor Boone's important and enduring legacy in the field of art history.

 

Register here by March 25th

 

Conference Program

 

La charla se enfocará en iluminar los lazos estéticos y la red de vínculos y solidaridades que un puñado de escritoras centroamericanas establecieron entre ellas durante las décadas de 1940 y 1950, haciendo centro en la trayectoria errante de la poeta costarricense Eunice Odio.  Siguiendo con la metáfora abiertamente textil de la red, el propósito de la charla es detenerse en “envés de la urdimbre” del proceso literario latinoamericano del período ya que resulta evidente una vez más que las redes están hechas de los hilos y los nudos pero también de los vacíos y los silencios.

Lecture on the cultural and historical dimensions of soccer, an area in which he is recognized as the author of the most important item in Brazil's modern bibliography, "Veneno remédio: o futebol e o Brasil." Dr. José Miguel Wisnik, the University of São Paulo.

"Uma aula sobre a música e o Brasil" with Dr. José Miguel Wisnik, the University of São Paulo.

The Department of History, the Africana Studies Program and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies & the Newcomb Institute invite you to an evening exploring Black Global Feminism with Dr. Dalea Bean. This public talk will explore the intersections between Caribbean Feminist Theorising and Jamaican women’s experiences during World Wars I and II.

Considered one of the most prominent Latin American intellectuals of the twentieth century, José Carlos Mariátegui (Peru, 1894-1930) has attracted growing interest among scholars.

Brazil's experience in fighting corruption over the past generation offers a case study of tremendous value to anticorruption reformers the world over. At different moments, the country has followed distinct strategies, including an incrementalist approach to reform during the decades of the 1990s and 2000s, and a big-push court-led campaign against corruption in the 2010s.

Please join The Latin American Library for a talk by Dr. Verenice Heredia Espinoza, 2023-24 Richard E. Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library, who will discuss her work in progress: A comparative approach to Mesoamerica´s early social complexity.

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