This interdisciplinary seminar series on Informal Settlements and Health will explore the complex relationships between informal urbanization and health, with a focus on urban areas across Latin America. The series brings together faculty, students, and invited speakers from public health, urban planning, and the social sciences to examine how structural, spatial, and environmental factors intersect with health outcomes in informal settlements and other precarious urban contexts. 

The Tulane Global Humanities Center will host its inaugural symposium on Tulane's campus on January 22-23, 2026.  The theme of the symposium is Global Port Cities. Dr. Arjun Appadurai will deliver the keynote address.

Professor and author Yuri Herrera will participate in this session with Myrian J.A. Chancy from Scripps College, where the two will discuss Port Cities Fiction and Diaspora. The conversation will be moderated by Professor Chelsea Stieber.

Join the weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. 

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. If you have any questions, please reach out to portuguese@tulane.edu 

Upcoming meetings:

Friday, January 16: 2 pm

Friday, January 23: 11 am

Friday, January 30: 4 pm

M.A.R.I. Lunch Talks bring guest speakers to MARI for engaging seminars covering diverse topics in Mesoamerican archaeology, history, and ethnography, as well as studies from other world regions. Follow M.A.R.I. on Facebook and Instagram to learn more about their Lunch Talk Series. 

El próximo 1 de febrero, Costa Rica elegirá presidencia y diputaciones para el período 2026–2030. Con 20 partidos políticos inscritos, la candidata oficialista encabeza las encuestas, en una campaña marcada por un rol activo del Ejecutivo. Un grupo diverso de candidatos de oposición se disputa el voto indeciso, denunciando las características e intenciones autoritarias del grupo en el poder. Acompáñenos a un intercambio para analizar el escenario electoral en la primera cita del calendario electoral de América Latina para el 2026.

In this talk, Prof. Marilyn Miller will explore how the Holocaust resonates in Latin American experience and consciousness past and present.  Resuscitating examples from a range of fields including history, literature, memoir, and visual art dating from 1939 forward, her talk will show that far from being distant in time or space from Latin America, the Holocaust was and remains vitally present in diverse forms of representation and remembering in the region.

The US military operation that removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from Caracas to stand trial in New York City on January 3rd 2026 has generated heated analysis around the world. To what extent is the Trump administration's action a continuation of a long-standing pattern of US intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to what extent does it represent a new "Trump Corollary" of the Monroe Doctrine?