On November 16, 1532, over 7,000 Incans died at the Battle of Cajamarca, an ambush led by Francisco Pizarro. The Incan kingdom of Atahualpa succumbed to Spanish conquest and a colonial rule that would continue to haunt Peru for centuries later. P.6 artist Blas Isasi will be in conversation with P.6 artist Brooke Pickett to discuss his Prospect.6 project titled 1,001,532 CE. Isasi will share the creative process that took him to dig deep into his native Peru´s complex past in an attempt to collapse human history and deep time.

Come practice your Spanish skills in a casual and friendly environment! All levels are welcome. Nos vemos allí.

We are delighted to announce that the Tulane Future of Energy Forum will take place on the uptown campus Nov. 13-15. The forum, which is free and open to the public, will bring together global leaders to discuss innovative strategies for meeting energy demands while transitioning to a lower-carbon future. This year’s theme, Can Energy Pragmatism Secure Our Energy Future? will focus on practical solutions, featuring high-caliber speakers, cutting-edge research and opportunities to engage with key decision-makers across the energy sector. 

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.