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Uptown Campus
Greenleaf Conference Room
Other location info
6801 Freret St. Jones Hall 100A, New Orleans, LA, 6801 Freret St., New Orleans, LA
It's National Latine Heritage Month! Join us to hear from Latine professionals about their careers and experiences. All presentations are in the Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A.
Tuesday, September 23 | 11:00 a.m.
- Melissa Fuster, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Celia Scott School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Dr. Melissa Fuster will share her work with Latin communities, drawing from her book, Caribenos at the Table, and her current research with restaurants and food systems.
Tuesday, September 30 | 11:00 a.m.
- Stephanie Porras, PhD - Chair of the Newcomb Art Department, Professor of Art History, Global Early Modern
- Stephanie Porras will talk about her research on how printed images helped set the stage for early modern globalization, and how her work has taken her from the study of the Netherlands to Latin America and Manila.
Tuesday, October 7 | 11:00 a.m.
- Jillian Cuellar - Director of Tulane University Special Collections, Tulane Libraries
- Jillian Cuellar will highlight her recent research and writing that explores how legacy practices impact access to archives, as well as how contemporary archivists are upending traditional curatorial methods for collection building and community engagement.
