Día de los Muertos Fiesta and Procession
Celebrate your ancestors with Krewe de Mayahuel! We have planned an exciting afternoon of Mexican music, ballet folklórico, danza Azteca, food, drinks, arts, crafts, face painting and community service groups at Markey Park; followed by a procession to St. Roch Cemetery at 7:00 p.m.
Chagas Health Fair
Chagas disease is an infectious disease not transmitted by person-to-person contact that affect 6-8 million people in Latin America and the third most common cause of heart disease world wide. Come to Luke’s House clinic to learn more about Chagas disease and the importance of testing. In addition, you can get a free Chagas screening.
Inter-American Affairs Op-Ed Writing Workshop
Op-Ed Writing for Policy and International Affairs Workshop offered by LAST graduate Adam Ratzlaff is open to All LAST Undergrad and Graduate Students.
M.A.R.I. Lunch Talk Series
The Roman city of Pompeii, utterly destroyed by the volcano Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE, has long occupied a privileged place in modern imaginings of the Roman past. Beyond the city’s well-known monuments, however, lies a well of data that has barely begun to be tapped. This talk will introduce the research program of Tulane University’s Pompeii I.14 Project, a new excavation that brings the most cutting-edge archaeological technologies to stratigraphic exploration below the floors, streets, and sidewalks buried by Vesuvius.
Douglas Belchior Lecture: “The Role of the Brazilian State in the Advancing of Black Genocide”
Douglas Belchior is an Afro-Brazilian activist and educator who has worked primarily on issues of human rights with an emphasis on combating racism. In 2008, he founded a network of preparatory courses of the social movement UNEafro Brasil, which focuses on the education of poor and black youth on the outskirts of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He will discuss the violence that Black Brazilians face and the hands of the Brazilian state and how they have collectively organized to create opportunities for their community where few existed before.
Haiti and Black Internationalism
Talk by Brandon R. Byrd (Vanderbilt University) and Leslie Alexander (Rutgers University).
Haiti Book and Film Club
Interested in Haitian Literature and Film? The Department of French and Italian is hosting a book club this fall! All are welcome and texts can be read in French or in English. No grades, no stress, just an opportunity to get together a few times over the course of the semester and exchange ideas.
We will discussing the book Gouverneurs de la rosée/Masters of the Dew from the author Jacques Roumain, and the film Gouverneurs de la rosée (1976).
