Family Day at the New Orleans Book Festival
Visit the Latin American Resource Center at Family Day at the New Orleans Book Festival! We will be featuring award-winning bilingual YA and children’s books and hosting a book raffle! Family Day includes a diverse selection of local and national authors who will do live readings and sign books throughout the day. Children will find something that appeals to all reading levels, backgrounds, and reading interests.
Vanessa Castañeda, Davidson College: “Acarajé and Barbie: Baianas’ Refusal to Whiten a Legacy of Afro-Diasporic Resistance in Salvador, Brazil”
Vanessa Castañeda is the James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Afro-Latin American Studies at Davidson College, where she teaches and conducts community-engaged research at the intersections of race, gender, food, culture, and political economy in Latin America and the African diaspora. She completed her PhD in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, where she was trained as an anthropologist and Latin Americanist.
Reinventing Democracy in the 21st Century: Global-Local Strategies of Human Rights Cities
Decades of economic globalization have transformed states and social relations, fueling inequality and exclusionary politics around the world.
Professional Development: Inter-American Affairs Op-Ed Writing Workshop
The Stone Center is excited to offer this opportunity to participate in a professional development workshop on Op-Ed research and writing on Inter-American Relations.
2026 Latinx Voices Author Series: in Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza
Join us for an interview and book signing with Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza, 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice.
The Birth of a Filmmaker in Dark Times: Lygia Pape After 1964
Join us for a lecture by Patrícia Mourão de Andrade, Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas, Brazil, and Visiting Scholar in the Film and Media Cultures Program at the Graduate Center at CUNY.