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.

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).