Online Visitor Speaker Bureau
Available between September 1, 2022 – May 31, 2023
This program is comprehensive with faculty and graduate students studying almost every region and discipline essential to understanding Latin America. The Mississippi-Gulf-Caribbean region is the epicenter of cultural and historical converging and radiating flows of a vast cultural and geographic networks embracing Europe, Africa, the Pacific Rim, and North and South America. Today, Tulane University has active programs in African and African Diaspora Studies, the Atlantic World, Comparative Southern Studies, and Cuban, Brazilian, and Francophone Caribbean Studies. Nationally, few institutions of Tulane’s size compare in the number of faculty, graduate students, undergraduate majors, library holdings, and support for research dedicated to the support of Latin American studies across the university. The Visitor Speaker Bureau is a service we provide to schools and the community to learn first-hand from key scholars and researchers about the diversity of Latin America.
We encourage schools and organizations that are interested in a visitor speaker to contact us and view the list of speaker topics to learn about how to incorporate this special service into your school or workplace. Whether it is Hispanic Heritage month (September 15 – October 15) or Mardi Gras season, please contact us to arrange for a speaker. The topics available depend on the diverse interests of our faculty and students, a list of possible topics is below (although other topics may be available!).
- Each institution is limited to no more than 2 speakers a semester.
- Please give us at least 3 weeks advance notice.
Possible Topics
- Archaeology of Peru (Inka)
- Archaeology of Mesoamerica (Maya, Aztec)
- Day of the Dead
- Art of Latin America
- Colonial history of Latin America
- Cuba/US Relations
- Cuban Americans
- Latinos in the United States
- Current political events in Latin America
- Political relations within Latin America
- Mexican politics and civil engagement
- Portuguese language, music, and dance
