Events
What can a photograph tell us about the commercialization of race and media in 19th-century Latin America? By tracing the image’s journey as it got copied, distorted, inverted, and captioned, this talk analyzes why this specific photo became a…
Join the weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. We will have different snacks from all over Latin America every week.
This ensemble, comprised of Tulane students, focuses on the intersections of Brazilian music with jazz. Bossa nova, samba jazz, baião, choro, ijexá, and many other traditional Brazilian rhythms integrate the repertoire. The ensemble performs music…
This September, the Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center at Tulane University will host Transformative Lenses: Four Contemporary Brazilian Photographers, an exhibition and series of events celebrating the work of internationally…
Tlalancaleca was one of the largest settlements in Central Mexico before the rise of Teotihuacan and likely acted as a center for the development of Central Mexican urban traditions whose influence would persist through the Classic and…
This talk presents a novel micro-level conceptual framework for analyzing democratic erosion, resilience, and recovery by disaggregating regime change into discrete, time-bound “regime events” —actions by political actors that modify specific…
The Haitian Revolution was a moment of radical transformation, marked by the abolition of slavery, achieved through the actions of the enslaved themselves, and culminating in the creation of the first independent Black state in the Americas. Long…
