April 28, 4 pm
Greenleaf Conference Room (Jones Hall – Tulane University)
The island of Hispaniola, in the middle of the Caribbean basin, is one of only a handful of islands in the world that is shared by two independent nations with distinct official languages. Haiti, in the west, speaks Haitian Creole, and in the Dominican Republic in the East, Spanish is the official language. For more than 60 years, there has been a steady flow of Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic, with some scholars estimating that today there are upwards of 2 million Haitians and their descendants living in the Dominican Republic.
Join us for a visit and roundtable discussion with Grammy-nominated Afro-Cuban Rockstar Cimafunk. His latest album, El Alimento, was nominated at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album.
Adrian Gorelik is an architect and holds a PhD in History, both from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at CONICET, Full Professor at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, and Tinker Visiting Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and the Simon Bolívar Chair at the University of Cambridge in 2011.
Bate papo welcomes Portuguese speakers of all levels for snacks and informal conversations. Megwen Loveless organizes this event.
Dr. Zahawi is an internationally recognized leader in the restoration and conservation of tropical forests. As the Director of one of the largest conservation NGO's in South America, the Charles Darwin Foundation, he is working to conserve the unique splendor of the Galápagos Islands. Dr. Zahawi will speak to some of the challenges, opportunities, and unexpected inroads made in the race to preserve and recover the unique biodiversity and habitats of Central and South America, where he has lived and worked for more than 20 years.
This event is part of the Center for Global Education’s Global Perspectives series.
A CENTRAL AMERICAN POLITICS CONSORTIUM VIRTUAL CONVERSATION
Please join us for the third Central American Politics Colloquium (CAPC) virtual conversation on migration, deportation, and their consequences, which will take place Tomorrow at Noon via Zoom. The event will feature two experts:
We are hosting a conversation with Maurice Chammah and Mirya Holman, where they will discuss their work, "Does Your Sheriff Think He is More Powerful than the President?" Please find more information about their research findings here.
Join us as Dr. Sabia McCoy-Torres guides us in conversation with representatives from the Garifuna community in New Orleans. With this panel, we hope to learn more about how Garifuna people preserve their identity and culture in both Honduras and the United States, understand how local Garifuna people navigate a transnational existence as a marginalized group in both Honduras and the United States, and learn how they build community here in New Orleans, Louisiana.
