Brazilian guest artists Poliana Alves, mezzo-soprano, and Thiago de Freitas, piano, present Art Songs by Brazilian Masters - Nepomuceno, Chantal, Miranda, Setti, Villa-
Lobos, Guarnieri, de Oliviera, Nobre, Fernandez, Santoro, and Sivuca.
Guest Artist Master Class - Poliana Alves, mezzo-sporano, and Thiago de Freitas, piano, University of Uberlandia, Brazil. No need to register.
The Tulane University Office of Academic Affairs and Provost, with generous support from the D.W. Mitchell Fund are pleased to present a public lecture: Patois of the Parishes: Alcée Fortier’s French Middle Ages. Presented by Sara Ritchey, Phd, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at University of Tennessee Knoxville. This event will take place in Rechler Room (LBC 202) on April 16th, 2024 at 4pm. Sponsored by the Kathryn B. Gore Chair in French and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program.
Join Loyola New Orleans’ Latin American Studies for a talk by Dr. James Maffie, author of Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion. Dr. Maffie will explore his research of Tonalamatl, a Mexica philosophical almanac.
LOYOLA LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES — LOYOLA DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY — LOYOLA DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Ms. Ellis-Topsey has advocated for the centering of women and families in sustainable development. She will discuss her work with the Maya community and her participation in the El Pilar Project with Dr. Anibal Ford.
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Spanish language meet-up!
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. Cookies and coffee will also be provided for those who attend!
Spring 2024 Wednesday meetings:
January 17 | January 24 | January 31
February 7 | February 14 | February 21 | February 28
March 6 | March 13 | March 20
April 3 | April 10 | April 17 | April 24
May 1
In 1992, Italian prosecutors uncovered a decades-long corruption system cutting across regions and levels of government. The Clean Hands operation resulted in hundreds of convictions and permanently changed the Italian political landscape. What conditions led to the success of the Clean Hands operation? Dr. Manzi shows how replacing hierarchical prosecutorial institutions with egalitarian ones paved the way for this unprecedented anti-corruption campaign. Through the case studies of prosecutors’ offices in Milan, Rome, Palermo, and Reggio Calabria, Dr.
Livio Sansone (Palermo, Italy, 1956) got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has been living in Brazil since 1992, where he is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Prof. Sansone is the founder and director of the Factory of Ideas Program – an advanced international course in ethnic and African studies – and coordinates the Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Heritage. He has published widely in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. His books include Blackness Without Ethnicity.
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Portuguese language meet-up! All language levels are welcome and participants will have the opportunity to engage in informal conversation. New homemade desserts will also be provided every week.
Rain location: Language Learning Center, Newcomb 408
If you have any questions, please reach out to portuguese@tulane.edu.
Spring 2024 Friday meetings:
January 19, 1:00 p.m. | January 26, 4:00 p.m.
Symposium Program
8:30-8:50 a.m. Coffee & Snacks
8:50-9:00 a.m. Introduction: Kris Lane & Jason Nesbitt
9:00-10:15 a.m.: Session I: Setting, Speciation, Human ‘Invasion’
David Campbell — Jordan Karubian — Nicole Katin — Karina Yager
10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30-noon: Session II: Cultural Forests/Terra-Forming/Pre-Columbian ‘Extraction’
Sonia Alconini — Bill Balée — Carla Jaimes Betancourt — Eduardo Neves
