A panorama of 19th century and 20th century connections between Latin America and New Orleans through two major figures that lived in the city: Benito Juárez, future president of Mexico (Yuri Herrera published a book in 2022 about the time Juárez spent in the Crescent City)  and George Febres, founder of the Jules Lafourge Art Gallery in the French Quarter in the 1980s and a staple of the New Orleans art scene in the 70s, 80s and 90s (Gabriela Aleman is writing a novel about him after extensive research in the Historic New Orleans Collection).

Event will be held in Spanish.

This event is part of the LAST 100, a celebration of a century of research and teaching in the field of Latin American Studies at Tulane.