Music at Midday – Geovane Santos: Ballet and Beyond

Geovane Santos, an Afro-Brazilian guitarist, vocalist, composer, and educator from Belo Horizonte, brings his rich cultural heritage to New Orleans' vibrant music scene. Recognized as the city's "best Brazilian jazz guitarist" by OffBeat Magazine, he is the founder of New Orleans Brasil Day and a dedicated scholar exploring race, transculturation, and cultural appropriation in music. 

Book Presentation & Conversation: "El dios del silencio"

El dios del silencio (2023) is a short story collection written by Fernando Rivera. Since he won the Peruvian National Award for Short Stories El cuento de las mil palabras in 1992, he has published the short story collection Barcos de arena (1994) and the novels Invencible como tu figura (2004) and Ustedes que jamás vieron mi Muerte (2016). His short stories have been published in anthologies in Peru and Spain.  

This event will take place in Spanish 

 

 

Brian Sidlauskas

Brian Sidlauskas

Professor- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Curator- Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection
School of Science & Engineering
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 6

Research

Neotropical fish, evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2006
  • M.S., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2003
  • A.B., Cornell University, Biological Sciences, 1998

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Curator of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Professor, Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2022-2024.
  • Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2015-2022.
  • Assistant Professor and Curator of Fishes, Oregon State University, 2009-2015.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Duke University, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2006-2009.

Distinctions

  • Fisheries Team of the Year, Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, 2024.
  • Fulbright Scholar, State University of Londrina, Brazil, 2020, 2024.
  • Meritorious Teaching Award in Ichthyology, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and American Elasmobranch Society, 2020.

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Guyana
  • Peru
  • Venezuela
  • Gabon

Selected Publications

  • In press. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Bruno F. Melo, José L. O. Birindelli, et al. Molecular phylogenetics, a new classification, and a new genus of the Neotropical fish family Anostomidae (Teleostei: Characiformes). Neotropical Ichthyology.
  • In press. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Tobit. L.D. Liyandja, Heleen Maetens*, Ray Schmidt and J. Churley Manfoumbi. In press. Building capacity for fish biology in Subsaharan Africa. Cybium.
  • 2024. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Samarth L. Mathur, Hakan Aydoğan*, Fred Monzyk and Andrew N. Black. Genetic approaches reveal a healthy population and an unexpectedly recent origin for an isolated desert spring fish. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 24 (1), 2.
  • 2022. Sidlauskas, Brian L. and Peter Konstantinidis. Fish Curation. In: Methods for Fish Biology, second edition. S. Midway and P. Chakrabarty, eds. American Fisheries Society: 739-774.
  • 2022. Sidlauskas, Brian L. †, Fernando M. Assega†, et al. Total evidence phylogenetic analysis reveals paraphyly of Anostomoides and uncovers an unexpectedly ancient genus of Anostomidae fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 194(2) 626-669.
  • 2021. Sidlauskas, Brian L., Michael D. Burns*, Thaddaeus J. Buser*, Nicholas Harper, and Mark Kindred. Teaching ichthyology online with a virtual specimen collection. Ichthyology and Herpetology, 109(2): 407-423.

Pachanga

Unwind with the Stone Center on Friday afternoon with drinks, snacks, music, and good community. Everyone is welcome at the party!

Ethnoracial Hierarchy and Democratic Citizenship in Latin America

The Public Opinion and Political Behavior Speaker Series brings together leading scholars examining the relationship between democracy, political institutions, and citizen attitudes and behavior in Latin America. Join CIPR for these presentations exploring how political institutions and public opinion shape democratic outcomes across the region. 

Speaker: Jana Morgan (Rutgers University) 

terTUlia

Join the weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. We will have different snacks from all over Latin America every week. 

 

 

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