Join the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Latin American Library, Tulane University Libraries, Spanish & Portuguese, and Africana Studies for the annual Tulane University poetry reading of “O Navio Negreiro” (“The Slave Ship”).
Esta serie reúne a los autores más representativos de la escritura latinoamericano. A través
de entrevistas con la reconocida escritora ecuatoriana Gabriela Alemán, los invitados explorarán los
vínculos entre el mundo literario y la realidad continental. Sus conversaciones se convertirán en el
eje de un archivo digital que busca llevar estas ideas a un público global.
The event will be in Spanish.
Professor Agustina Paglayan (University of California, San Diego) examines the origins of universal primary education in the West, offering an unsettling answer: governments were motivated by their fear of the masses and the desire to turn the “savage,” “unruly,” and “morally flawed” children of the lower classes into well-behaved future citizens who would obey the state and its laws.
