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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.

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.

An international and interdisciplinary symposium on the history of mining, precious metals, and forms of money in Latin America from colonial to modern times.

 

Almost a century after the "golden age" of piracy ended, Jean Laffite and his brother Pierre, built a thriving business on the American Gulf Coast through the sale of maritime plunder. As war raged across the Atlantic World from 1789 to 1815, they became notorious as pirates, privateers, smugglers, and slave traders. This presentation strips away the mythology and looks at how the Laffites adapted to the rapidly changing geo-political environment and how the conflicts that enabled them, also became the means of their destruction. Dr.

More than 40 scholars, musicians, and artists from around the world are set to arrive at Tulane's Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Middle American Research Institute on March 3rd and 4th to pay homage to the renowned Mesoamerican religious historian, and Chicano activist, Davíd Carrasco. Dr. Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University and a recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle award.

11/04 Panel Discussion, 4:00 pm


  • Luis Caracamo-Huechante (Mapuche People), U.T., Austin
  • Kathleen Myers, Indiana University
  • Ana Maria Presta, U. Buenos Aires-CONICET
  • Barolome Yun-Casalilla, UPO Seville

 

All are invited to join the History Department's SLAVE REBELLIONS SEMINAR for their beginning-of-semester activity, a screening of Carlos Dieges' 1986 Brazilian Film classic Quilombo! which explores the story of Africans who freed themselves from European colonialism and slavery and founded an independent community in Brazil.

THIS EVENT IS INSIDE THE CAROLYN BARBER-PIERRE CENTER for INTERCULTURAL LIFE, Room 115 in the RICHARDSON BUILDING -- NOT CAROLYN RICHARDSON !!!
 

Professor Kris Lane gives keynote address on the future of "pirate studies"

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Stone Center PhD Jesus Ruiz awarded ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship

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