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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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.
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).
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.
