Tulane Global Humanities Center Symposium

The Tulane Global Humanities Center will host its inaugural symposium on Tulane's campus on January 22-23, 2026.  The theme of the symposium is Global Port Cities.

Dr. Arjun Appadurai will deliver the keynote address.  

Schedule:

Thursday, January 22, 2026:

• 1:30pm-2:00pm - Opening and welcome 
• 2:00pm-3:30pm - Port Cities: A Conversation with: Vyjayanthi Rao (Yale) & Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia) & Brian T. Edwards (Tulane)
• 4:00pm-5:30pm - Circulation and Comparison in Global Socio-Cultural Flows - Keynote address: Arjun Appadurai (NYU)

Friday, January 23, 2026:  

• 9:00am-10:30am - Free Zone, Conservation, Colonial Heritage with: Keller Easterling (Yale) & Aarthi Janakiraman (Tulane)
• 11:00am-12:30pm - Port Cities Fiction & Diaspora with: Myriam J. A. Chancy (Scripps College) & Yuri Herrera (Tulane)  
• 1:30pm-3:00 pm - Ports, Networks, and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean with: Justin Leidwanger (Stanford) & Allison Emmerson (Tulane) 
• 3:30pm-4:30 pm - Musical Confluences with musicians Mahmoud Chouki & Victor Campbell. This panel is collaboration with the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
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