Stone Center Events
Events
Professor Esberg (University of Pennsylvania. Political Science.) explores the challenge cultural elites pose to dictators, as they can use their platforms to criticize the government. She investigates the logic of employment bans as a means of…
History of the West Indies in general, and Guadeloupe in particular, oscillates between historical facts and fictions. How does a simple myth become a definitive history that inspires heroes and political action? How is a myth created? What are the…
Professor Consuelo Amat (Johns Hopkins University) develops a theory of nonviolent resistance under extreme repression, complementing the traditional "power in numbers" framework with a new logic of "power in autonomy." She argues that in highly…
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Portuguese language
meet-up! All language levels are welcome and participants will have the opportunity to engage in informal conversation. New homemade desserts will also be…
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.
The project analyzes how the interactions and displacements of periodicals, newspapers, manuscript books, and their authors and agents, configured systematic translinguistic, transcolonial and transimperial connections and networks that contributed…
Homophily, or the tendency to associate with like-minded individuals, is reinforced on social media through sorting (self-selection into like-minded communities) and pruning (unfriending those with discordant views). The author presents results from…
Few scholars of the Greater Caribbean have been more influential than Richard and Sally Price, whose best-known work began among the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in the late 1960s and continues today, from Paris to Pernambuco. With dozens of…
After the wars of conquest in Mesoamerica during the sixteenth century, a complex process of reorganization of the Indigenous population started, with social, political, and economic implications. The Indigenous nobility, some of whom fought…
The Tulane University Office of Academic Affairs and Provost, with generous support from the D.W. Mitchell Fund are pleased to present a public lecture: Patois of the Parishes: Alcée Fortier’s French Middle Ages. Presented by Sara Ritchey, Phd,…
