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March 12, 2024 7:00 PM
The Department of History, the Africana Studies Program and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies & the Newcomb Institute invite you to an evening exploring Black Global Feminism with Dr. Dalea Bean. This public talk will explore the intersections between Caribbean Feminist Theorising and Jamaican women’s experiences during World Wars I and II.
March 01, 2024 10:00 AM
The TU annual Black History Month poetry reading of Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves will return this year as a Global Café event. Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves is a classic piece by Brazilian abolitionist Castro Alves describing the middle passage. The reading will be done in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and will be followed by an activity and discussion conducted in English.
October 18, 2018 2:00 PM
On Thursday, October 18, join the Department of Africana Studies at Tulane University in welcoming Dr. Christopher Dunn for brown bag talk titled Yoruba Gods in Brazilian Popular Music at 2 PM in Norman Mayer Building, Room 118.
Dr. Dunn is a professor in the Spanish and Portuguese department at Tulane University. His research interests include Brazilian literary and cultural studies, popular music, and African diaspora studies.
February 01, 2019 2:00 PM
The Brazilian Studies and the Portuguese Language Program at Tulane University will host a public poetry reading of O Navio Negreiro, The Slave Ship as part of a Black History Month Special Program on Friday, February 1, at 2:00 PM.
February 22, 2019 2:00 PM
This spring, join the Africana Studies Program, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Departments of Spanish & Portuguese, the Latin American Library, the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University in collaboration with The Labyrinth-NOLA Wesley for the 2019 Afro-Brazilian Film Series.
The films are free and open to the public.
2019 Spring Schedule
Friday, February 22 Black Orpheus
September 09, 2019 6:00 PM
Emma Christopher is Associate Professor of History at the The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is a documentary filmmaker and is the director, producer and researcher of They Are We, (New York: Icarus Film, 2014) which won five Best Documentary Awards, featured widely in the media, and was chosen as the United Nations’ Remembrance of Slavery film 2015. It has screened in more than 70 countries around the world. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the film and Emma’s work as, “an inspiration; a victory over slavery”.
November 14, 2019 2:00 PM
Join the Spanish & Portuguese Department, Africana Studies, the SLA Center for Scholars, and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies for a presentation by Lamonte Aidoo, entitled “Without a Name and Under the Tongue: Sexual Violence, Brazilian Slavery, and the Archive.” Aidoo is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University and the author of Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History.
September 10, 2020 6:00 PM
Enslaved Spectators and Iconoclasts of Southern Plantations
By: Jennifer Van Horn Departments of Art History and History, University of Delaware
This lecture is free and open to the public. It will take place virtually through Zoom. "Newcomb Art Department":https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/art and is being co-sponsored by the "Africana Studies Program":https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/programs/africana-studies.
October 29, 2020 5:00 PM
The Stone Center recently agreed to co-sponsor Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte's upcoming talk, "The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andres" which is scheduled for Thursday, October 29 at 5:00 PM via Zoom. The talk is part of the year-long "Representation and Resistance: Scholarship Centering Race in Western Art" lecture series organized by the Newcomb Art Department and co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and is also the 2020 Terry K. Simmons Lecture in Art History for this year.