Educators, librarians, and book lovers, join us as we present Bessie Flores Zaldívar with the 2025 Américas Award for her YA novel Libertad!

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear Bessie read an excerpt from Libertad and share insights about her writing process and the inspiration behind this riveting coming-of-age story set during Honduras's 2017 presidential election. Be inspired to explore new ways to bring Latine literature into your classroom!

December 4, 2025
4PM Pacific / 5PM Mountain / 6PM Central / 7PM Eastern
Free and open to all

This talk presents a novel micro-level conceptual framework for analyzing democratic erosion, resilience, and recovery by disaggregating regime change into discrete, time-bound “regime events” —actions by political actors that modify specific democratic components. These events are classified as autocratizing, democratizing, or status quo, and are distinguished from contextual conditions such as polarization or economic crises, which influence but do not constitute regime change.

Join members of the Stone Center Staff to learn more about summer funding opportunities and applications for Graduate Students. Summer opportunities are open to students in any degree program pursuing a project related to Latin America or its diaspora.

Zoom link here. Password: Summer2026

Join members of the Stone Center Staff to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students including study abroad and research and internship funding. Summer opportunities are open to students in any degree program with an interest in Latin America or its diaspora.

Find the Zoom Link here. Passcode: 434819

The Moving Media in The Americas three-day conference at Tulane University will gather scholars and practitioners of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx cinema and media. It invites papers and creative works on diverse topics, focusing on the theme moving media. The event explores how technological innovations and distribution shifts are transforming media circulation across the Americas, fostering global connections and new genres.

“Naming creole varieties from the perspective of language ideologies”

Dr. Alla Klimenkowa Krohner (University of Siegen, University of Texas at Austin)

📅 Date: Monday, December 1
⏰ Time: 5:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Jones Hall 100A (Greenleaf Conference Room)

Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky) will lecture on the development of religious habitus through embodied worship at a Haitian Protestant church. There, stateless Bahamian-born people of Haitian descent worship within a Black, Christian and anti-Haitian Bahamas. Adherent use of Haitian Protestant hymnody, liturgical dance and prayer reflects social processes of individual and collective self-remaking through embodied and linguistic practices.

Los hondureños acudirán a las urnas el 30 de noviembre en unas elecciones muy polarizadas y reñidas. Este panel analizará el panorama electoral, qué se puede esperar el día de la votación y los posibles impactos de los resultados sobre la democracia hondureña, el ámbito social, y los sectores económico e internacional.

Evento virtual
10:00-11:15am (hora de Centroamérica/Central Time)

Descriptive political representation of Mexico’s indigenous population is abysmal, suggesting that voters may spurn indigenous candidates at the ballot box. Yet recent signs of societal acceptance of indigenous candidacies and politicians also exist, implying that descriptive under-representation may owe to other causes. At present, Mexican voters’ perceptions of indigenous political candidates remains unknown. We report the results of a candidate-choice experiment conducted during the 2024 general election campaigns on a sample of Mexican citizens.