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.

Matthew Rarey, Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History at Oberlin College, looks at a unique work of Black Atlantic visual culture: the map of Buraco do Tatú, a quilombo (primarily African-populated maroon polity) invaded and destroyed on the orders of the Viceroy of Brazil in September of 1763. Produced by a military cartographer immediately after the battle and today held at an archive in Lisbon, it is one of only two extant maps of the hundreds of such polities that existed in Brazil during its slavery period and by far the most detailed.

The Middle American Research Institute proudly presents the Eighteenth Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop. This year's symposium, titled "Inequality Among the Maya," will explore the rise, role, and forms of inequality throughout Mayan history. The invited scholars will explore this topic across the Maya area and Central Mexico. The symposium will be held March 16th-19th, 2023 (Thursday-Sunday).

7:30 PM - Manuel Barrueco, A Special Tribute to Maestro Elias Barreiro.

Loyola University, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall

Admission charge. Free admission for Loyola and Tulane students, faculty, and staff with ID.

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Performance made possible by Tonar Music

This talk centers on two collective sound art practices of which Ariel Bustamante is a part of in Karukinka (Tierra del Fuego, Chile) and the Collasuyo, the shared desert of Bolivia and Chile. Over years of collaboration with members of the Uru-Chipayan nation in the Collasuyo and members of the Selk'nam nation from the far southern lands of South America, they have developed a creative practice around different spiritual technologies to affiliate with the non-human, including wind-people and peatlands.

The talk examines mobilization by the mothers of victims of state violence in Latin America. It develops the concept of resilient citizenship to elucidate how individuals vulnerable to the negation of citizenship and victims of state-induced trauma challenge the state socially and politically. Much of the social science literature on policy feedback effects shows that punitive interactions with state institutions convey negative messages about how the state views its citizens, leading to decreased participation and mobilization.

Please join the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and the Stone Center for the next installment of our Distinguished Greenleaf Series: Journalism & Democracy. Suchit Chávez is a Salvadoran journalist covering environmental issues, security, violence, and organized crime. She has worked for La Prensa Gráfica in El Salvador and Plaza Pública in Guatemala.

The Stone Center shares traditional Latin American crafts and the Pebbles Collection at the New Orleans Book Festival this weekend at the annual Family Day, Saturday, March 11th, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. in the Fogelman Arena. Join us for our bilingual book giveaway! For more information about the New Orleans Book Festival, please click here.

Professor Silva’s research and teaching interests focus on representation and electoral politics. In his research, he seeks to understand (i) the reasons behind the underrepresentation of certain groups (e.g., women and people of color) in public office and (ii) the effects of electoral rules on voters' and elites' behaviors. His primary regional focus is Latin America, but he has also addressed research questions related to these topics using Western and Eastern European cases. He utilizes experimental, quasi-experimental, and observat

This work-in-progress workshop by the Mexican Studies Research Collective will feature Tulane University Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr. Olivia Cosentino, and Dustin Dill. Participants can register for the Zoom workshop. One week prior (3/2), attendees will receive Cosentino’s text, “Angélica María’s alegría: Stardom and Idealized Youth in 1960s Mexico,” part of her monograph-in-progress, Starscapes: Youth, Modernity, and Media in Mexico. Dr. Paul Julian Smith (CUNY) will respond before feedback and conversation open up to the audience.