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 29 | 11:00 a.m.
Gretel Acosta, PhD - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, School of Liberal Arts
Gretel Acosta is a curator, educator, and scholar of Latin American and Caribbean contemporary art whose research focuses on artists' writings and narrative fiction as a form of artistic practice. Trained as an art historian at the University of Havana, has curated exhibitions such as NANO: Arte conceptual cubano 1980-2015, a collateral exhibition of the Twelfth Havana Biennial, and co-curated Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain (Works by Cuban Artists) at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Winston-Salem. She is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University, where she earned her Ph.D. This spring she is developing a new course, Books and Images: Recreating and Creating "Latin America," which brings literature and art history together.
Thursday, October 8 | 11:00 a.m.
Jocelyne Ponce, PhD - Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, School of Liberal Arts
Jocelyne Ponce is an anthropological archaeologist who earned her Ph.D. from Tulane University. She holds a Licenciatura and B.A. from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Middle American Research Institute. Her research interests include human-environment interactions, urbanism, social inequality, gender, intersectionality, and community-engaged participatory research, with a particular focus on Maya household and community dynamics. She has participated in archaeological projects in Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru. Dr. Ponce’s research has been supported by several organizations, including the National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, and the American Association of University Women.
Wednesday, October 14 | 11:00 a.m.
Sabia McCoy-Torres, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Africana Studies, School of Liberal Arts
Sabia McCoy-Torres is a social and cultural anthropologist whose scholarship examines gender and sexuality, race, transnationalism, and popular culture in the interconnected spaces between the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. She is the author of Vibes Up: Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn. Her current research examines sex work, heterosexual intimacy, and sexual culture across Costa Rica and the United States, with particular attention to how Millennial and Generation Z adults negotiate intimacy, expectations, and sexual agency. She is jointly appointed in Tulane University’s Departments of Anthropology and Africana Studies and affiliated with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.