This paper sketches a new project attempting to renew the history of extraction in the Americas broadly speaking from pre-Columbian to recent times, addressing how minerals have been conceived of differently across time and how 'mining metabolisms' have sped up or slowed down. What is to be done? Keep digging it?

Join Hannah Palmer, Assistant Director of Academic Programs and Projects, for an Information Session about Summer Funding for undergraduates. 

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Join the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research for the second speaker in 2024 Fall Series: Political Violence and Democratic Representation in Latin America. Isabel Laterzo-Tingley (UT Austin) will give a talk entitled Political Positions on Public Security in which she’ll discuss why the common perception of public security policy measures as either tough-on-crime strategies or socially oriented, preventative solutions, is an oversimplification, using Brazil as a case-study.

Date: Monday, November 18
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Freeman Auditorium (Room 205 - Woldenberg Art Center)

***Reception will follow immediately after the keynote session***

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Tulane launch for Season of the Swamp with author Yuri Herrera in conversation with Carolina Sánchez, Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow.

What are the limits of history and how do artists and writers create new approaches to narrating the past?  Kaiama Glover and Laurent Dubois explore these questions in their forthcoming translation of Jean-Claude Fignolé’s novel Aube tranquille (Quiet Dawn). Our conversation will center on the artistic movement known as Spiralism, which emerged in Haiti in the 1960s under François Duvalier's dictatorship.

In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1910, Mexican artists, scholars, and government officials worked to revive the image and idea of the original Mexica (Aztec) capital in Modern Mexico City. A tight social network of thinkers oversaw a conceptual excavation of Tenochtitlan in the context of a rapidly modernizing urban landscape, actively rewriting the myth of the capital's Hispanic origins in favor of a mestizo civic identity--a process that in many ways continues to this day.

Join us for our tailgate as we gather to cheer on the Green Wave! Stop by before the game to catch up with us, enjoy delicious empanadas, and grab a drink.