Events
Bilingual and Spanish-speaking families engage in this recurring free evening of activities for the whole family. Each date will feature a unique activity or game, snacks, and book giveaway door prizes. In addition, Americas Award books will be…
What are the limits of history and how do artists and writers create new approaches to narrating the past? Kaiama Glover and Laurent Dubois explore these questions in their forthcoming translation of Jean-Claude Fignolé’s novel Aube tranquille…
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…
Of the six refining recipes for silver ores implemented on an industrial scale prior to the end of the 19c, three were the product of an extremely fruitful period of invention and innovation that took place around Potosi, in present day Bolivia,…
Many indigenous communities around the world that have reclaimed land access after colonial and post-colonial dispossession experience considerable property rights insecurity. This paper examines how policies to secure communal property rights…
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…
