Once a month, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award) sponsor a 60 minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards. Each webinar features a presentation by an award-winning author with discussion on how to incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. Be sure to join the conversation with our webinar hashtag #ReadingAcrossCultures. All sessions are free and open to the public. All times listed refer to Eastern Standard Time (EST).

For more than half a century the U.S. granted Cubans unique immigrant entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal rights, Cuban immigrants could enter the country without authorization and become lawful residents a year later and, subsequently, citizens, as well as qualify for unique resettlement benefits.

10 am - Tulane University 

6th Floor, Howard Tilton Memorial Library
Free Admission

Angélica Durán-Martínez is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and a co-director of its global studies Ph.D. program. Her research focuses on organized crime, political and criminal violence, and the state in Latin America.

2 pm at the New Orleans Jazz Museum

400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans

Free Admission

Javier Olondo (Cuba)

Geovanne Santos (Brazil)

Special Tribute to Karl LeBlanc (USA)

8 pm at Rock 'n' Bowl 

3000 South Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans

Admission is $10.

Co-sponsored by: Cuban Heritage Collection and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuba and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Tulane University, Atlanta Global Studies Center, The Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University

Featuring Gustavo Carvajal - Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile

Brazil had the longest-lasting slave economy in the Americas, importing an estimated 10x as many enslaved Africans as the U.S. In a belated recognition of Black History Month, we will acknowledge the monumental importance of these four million enslaved people with a trilingual reading of Castro Alves' poem, "O Navio Negreiro" / "The Slave Ship".

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Are you interested in completing field research abroad? Join us at an upcoming event to learn more!

TIERA field courses are two-week, interdisciplinary, immersive experiences in Ecuador. Work collaboratively with instructors and local residents to design and write up the research project, develop environmental leadership skills, and visit conservation initiatives in the area.

Two courses during the summer: June 3-16 and July 18-August 1.

When director Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she is flooded by painful memories of her own childhood sexual abuse at his hands—and the following 24 years of her silence. Through archival family footage and intimate moments in the present, Silent Beauty confronts painful truths while revealing the beauty one can feel when they reach the other side of grief. Join us for a screening of this cinematically striking and poetic documentary and a revelatory conversation with Jasmin after the show.