Pachanga
Come join the Stone Center for Latin American Studies for a lively gathering involving music, food, and community!
Ogden After Hours: Dia de los Muertos
Join the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for a community celebration at Ogden After Hours featuring Los Primos Mariachi! Presented in collaboration with the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation.
During the event, visit the Traditional Día de los Muertos Altar honoring Dolly Parton, presented in partnership with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, located in the passageway!
The Power of Testimony in a Post-Conflict Society: Documenting Cases of Rape in El Salvador in the Aftermath of its Armed Conflict
This presentation examines El Salvador’s armed conflict (1981–1992) through the testimonies of sixty women who experienced wartime rape perpetrated by both state security forces and guerrilla forces. By documenting experiences frequently excluded from official and dominant historical narratives, the research contributes to a more inclusive understanding of the conflict and its enduring legacies.
The Grammar of Conversion: An Analysis of Early Nahuatl and K’iche’an Artes / Nicolas Barnum
While early dictionaries of Indigenous languages in New Spain have received consistent scholarly attention, the early grammars (artes) have, until recently, been dismissed as error-filled, prescriptivist texts. In other words, previous scholars have argued that these grammars did not accurately describe Indigenous languages because of their reliance on Latin grammatical frameworks. However, scholars of missionary linguistics, a subfield of historical linguistics, began to challenge this notion in the 1990s.
Connecting Cuba and New Orleans Through Performing Arts
Connecting Cuba and New Orleans Through Performing Arts features members of Goat in the Road Productions discussing the creative devising process and performing selections from Carlota, their new musical tracing the extraordinary, time‑crossing life of Carlota Ruíz de González, a revolutionary whose story moves between 19th‑ and 20th‑century Cuba and New Orleans. Moderated by Professor Carolina Caballero with Denise Frasier, Chris Kaminstein, Shannon Flaherty, Yusa.