Events
This is our yearly event to welcome new and returning faculty, students, staff, and friends of the LAL. As always, we will exhibit recent acquisitions And feature our ever-popular book sale. Everyone is welcome, so come join us!
The program will feature a block of five shorts from across the Caribbean, which you can read about here, and the feature-length fiction film Freda, directed by Gessica Geneus, who will be in attendance. We are honored that Gessica…
Join us for a visit and roundtable discussion with Grammy-nominated Afro-Cuban Rockstar Cimafunk. His latest album, El Alimento, was nominated at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album.
Cimafunk is a Cuban-based artist in…
The Middle American Research Institute proudly presents the Eighteenth Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop. This year's symposium, titled "Inequality Among the Maya," will explore the rise, role, and forms of inequality throughout Mayan…
The online workshop is aimed at participants with basic knowledge of the ancient Maya. Aspects of the Maya civilization will be discussed and their remarkable achievements and popular misunderstandings will be addressed. Examples of teaching…
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…
A lecture on the life and writings of Ambrosio Echemendía, an enslaved Cuban writer in the 1850s. The talk is in charge of Víctor Goldgel from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
What are the stories we choose to tell about the places we belong to and the families we came from? What will we remember, and what will be forgotten? This collection of documentary shorts explores permanence, and the importance of finding…
Professor Agustina Paglayan (University of California, San Diego) examines the origins of universal primary education in the West, offering an unsettling answer: governments were motivated by their fear of the masses and the desire to turn the “…
In this talk, Dr. Altamirano will explore the role of narrative in adjudication. In particular, she focuses on the role of listening in judgment. What elements of listening are key for a fair judgment to be made? What is the connection between…
