April 08, 2024 1:00 PM
In recent decades, countries across the globe have substantially expanded the nature and scope of government social welfare programs, especially those targeted at the poor. In fact, lower and middle-income democracies today promise more social benefits to more citizens than they have at any time in the past. At the same time, however, effective access to these programs and benefits remains highly variable, even among those who are eligible. What explains why some citizens actually receive the social benefits and programs for which they are eligible while others do not?
April 11, 2024 4:00 PM
These Amazonic mythical narratives are based on imaginary, rich, and fantastical episodes of hillbillybumpkin life. These themes have served for years as inspiration for poetic literary constructions. The composer Waldemar Henrique stands out as a disseminator of this imagery, revealing in his works the values, beliefs, experiences, and behaviors experienced by his characters in the Amazonian context. Henrique translates through sung mythical narratives the riverine life filled with the language specific to the Amazon region and indigenous traditions.
April 08, 2024 3:30 PM
How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina? What cultural, economic, and political processes made the U.S. currency dominant on certain domestic markets? How did the dollar-peso exchange rate become an everyday part of life, something nearly everyone follows? In other words, how precisely did this global currency become a local currency on the other end of the Americas?
April 01, 2024 12:00 PM
Latin American cities like São Paulo and Mexico City have seen tremendous improvements in public safety in the last decade. But, as crime rates have gone down, clashes over who is responsible for these rare accomplishments have emerged. The reason is that states provide security in these cities. Yet mayors have used their minimal or imaginary responsibilities in public safety to claim credit for improving public safety. What do citizens know about security provision in cities such as these?
March 22, 2024 12:00 PM
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.
April 06, 2024 8:30 AM
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.
April 05, 2024 8:30 AM
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.
March 13, 2024 2:00 PM
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.
April 15, 2024 4:00 PM
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.
April 16, 2024 11:00 AM
Uma aula sobre a música e o Brasil with Dr. José Miguel Wisnik, the University of São Paulo.
