A Maya Afternoon
Gabrielle Vail (UNC-Chapel Hill), Alexandre Bassi (independent scholar), and Andre Galss (Microsoft, Inc.): New Digital Tools for Engaging Audiences with Ma
Christine Hernández (The Latin American Library): How is Pakal’s Sarcophagus like the Codex Tulane
Late Colonial Textualities
The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display.
New Orleans and Latin America
The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display.
Colonial Encounters
The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display.
Brazilian "modernismos"
The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display.
Colonial Encounters: José de Acosta’s Natural History and Tercero cathecismo
The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display.
Authoritarianism and the Preservation of Memory in Nicaragua: The Chamorro Barrios Family Papers
The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display.
Did this 19th-century photo go viral? The circulation of images about race in Brazil, North America, and Europe
What can a photograph tell us about the commercialization of race and media in 19th-century Latin America? By tracing the image’s journey as it got copied, distorted, inverted, and captioned, this talk analyzes why this specific photo became a transnational and transatlantic object of fascination.
Sponsored by the Latin American Library and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University
Documentary Film Screening: “Luiz Melodia: Within the Heart of Brazil”
The musical documentary "Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil", narrated entirely in the first person, seeks to give voice to the artist Luiz Melodia, who, by embracing his musical freedom and originality, challenged many norms in the Brazilian music and cultural market. Sculpted with rare and unpublished archive images, it reflects the cultural importance of his legacy and the music scene to which he actively contributed from the 1970s onwards.
