Stone Center Events

Join us for a special photographic exhibition in collaboration with the Middle American Research Institute at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University. As part of the 2018 Tulane University Maya Symposium, the Consulate of…
Join us at the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library for a hands-on workshop that will introduce attendees to the painted divinatory screenfolds produced and used by ancient Mexican and Maya priest-scribes. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore…
The Xavier University Division of Fine Arts and the Humanities invites you to attend an Evening with Robert and Maud Cox who will be on hand for the screening of a recently released documentary entitled, Messenger on a White Horse. They will also…
Join us at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum for a fresh perspective on the Columbian Exchange. This workshop will engage educators with hands-on activities to provide a Louisiana perspective on the foods of this exchange. Learn from cultural…
Join Dr. Kent Eaton from the Political Science Department at University of California at Santa Cruz as he gives a lecture titled: “Territory and Ideology in Latin America.” This talk will examine territorial conflicts in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru…
Daniel Fridman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Texas, Austin. Professor Fridman will present research from his recently published Freedom from Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and…
Join Pamela Neumann as she hosts a workshop on her paper, ‘The Social Construction of Women‘s Ambivalence in Nicaragua.” A workshop is different from a lecture series, where the audience passively listens to an oral presentation. In a workshop…
Please join us for a work-in-progress talk titled “Congresos de la Cultura Negra de las Américas (1977, 1980, 1982): Contradicciones y resignificaciones en el campo conceptual de las negritudes y su impacto en la creación y la crítica literaria y…
The Middle American Research Institute is happy to announce the eight talk of the 2017-2018 Brown Bag talk series. Dr. Jessica J. Price, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy & Research, Tulane University, will present her…
Special Edition Bate Papo! Celebrate Black History Month with students of Portuguese and Africana Studies. We‘€™ll be sampling sweet cocadas while we expose the injustices of Brazil‘s slave trade with a reading of ‘Navio Negreiro' by Castro Alves.…