Strings of the Past: Revisiting the Lapidary Industry of Poverty Point | Shannon Torrens

Join Professor Nadève Ménard of the Ecole Normale Supérieure at the l'Université d'Etat d'Haïti for a luncheon discussion of Haiti’s political situation and its impact on education in the country. Professor Ménard will provide an overview of the current situation and the consequences these disruptions have had on lower, secondary, and university education. Please send an RSVP to csteiber@tulane.edu as space is limited. Refreshments will be provided. 

In 1992, Italian prosecutors uncovered a decades-long corruption system cutting across regions and levels of government. The Clean Hands operation resulted in hundreds of convictions and permanently changed the Italian political landscape. What conditions led to the success of the Clean Hands operation? Dr. Manzi shows how replacing hierarchical prosecutorial institutions with egalitarian ones paved the way for this unprecedented anti-corruption campaign. Through the case studies of prosecutors’ offices in Milan, Rome, Palermo, and Reggio Calabria, Dr.

Livio Sansone (Palermo, Italy, 1956) got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has been living in Brazil since 1992, where he is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Prof. Sansone is the founder and director of the Factory of Ideas Program – an advanced international course in ethnic and African studies – and coordinates the Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Heritage. He has published widely in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. His books include Blackness Without Ethnicity.