The Tulane Maya Symposium is a weekend of talks and workshops dedicated to the study of the Maya civilization. Since 2002, this yearly meeting has called upon scholars from a wide spectrum of specialties—archaeology, art history, cultural anthropology, epigraphy, history, and linguistics—to elucidate the many facets of Maya culture. The 2020 line-up of speakers and workshops will address food consumption practices over the span of ancient Maya prehistory.
Music Rising at Tulane invites you to Women and Movement #6: African American Women Affecting the Arts in New Orleans (Part II).
Five African American women will discuss what they think about the state of contemporary art(s) in New Orleans. This discussion will include consideration of the state of visual arts, music, literature, and the performing arts in this region. This conversation will also consider the politics of race, artistic agency, and artistic opportunity.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 11am-12:30pm, ROGERS MEMORIAL CHAPEL, TULANE UNIVERSITY
The Sociology Department invites the university community to our inaugural Favrot lecture. The lecture will take place at the Lavin-Bernick Center, Room 202, on Friday, January 31st, from 1-2:30PM.
Starting this year Tulane is going to Rome with the French and Italian Department 5 weeks' program.
Students will study Italian Literature, Culture, Society related subjects in English and are also able to take a Global Management class, taught by a Business School professor. This class is counting for their BS Major and Minor. Since the goal of the program is to encourage students to experience Rome and Italian culture in their authentic context, the majority of courses are going to be held in situ and outside of the regular class environment.
Around thirty scholars and creative writers who contributed to the new collection of essays, New Orleans: A Literary History, edited by Tulane English Professor T. R. Johnson, will gather for an all-day symposium on January 25th in the Stibbs conference room of the LBC for a sequence of four panel discussions about the intersections between -- and the implications of -- their work. The symposium will begin at 9:15am with a general welcome. The panels will then follow, thus: I. Creolism and Cosmpolitanism in the 18th and 19th centuries; II.
Geoffrey Weiss, a PhD student in the philosophy department, will be leading a discussion on whether certain actions are not only wrong to perform, but wrong to even consider.
As part of visiting professor Deniz Karakas' ARHS 3912 Islamic Art course, the artist, Munther Yousef, will be running an Arabic Calligraphy Workshop to give the participants the unique opportunity to try their hands at writing in Arabic script and discover this beautiful art form.
UNCERTAINTY | 2019 Administrators Conference
November 7-9, 2019 | New Orleans, LA
Conference Partner: Tulane University, School of Architecture
Conference Co-chairs:
* Iñaki Alday, Dean, Tulane University
* Michelle Addington, Dean, University of Texas at Austin
* Kentaro Tsubaki, Associate Dean, Tulane University
If there is one certainty that we can universally count on as an enduring condition in the built environment, it is the increasing UNCERTAINTY brought by climate change.
Mapping Latin America Works-in-Progress Talks
Friday, November 1, 2019, 10:30am-12pm
Hayley Woodward PhD candidate
Art History/Latin American Studies Tulane University
On Visual & Cartographic Traditions in Aztec & Colonial Mexico
Sebastián Díaz Ángel PhD candidate
History Cornell University
Tropical and Insurgent Landscapes: Mapping a Transnational Network of Modernizers in Latin America’s Cold War (1960-1973)
Adeno Addis is an internationally recognized scholar whose expertise spans a range of areas, but primarily focusing on human rights, constitutional law, and political and legal theory. He has published extensively in law and social science journals in the United States, Asia and Europe. He has taught at other law schools both in the United States and in other countries such as Australia, Germany, Hong Kong (SAR), and Japan. He has delivered many public lectures at many other institutions, including the University of Antwerp, University of Hong Kong, and the University of Texas (Austin).
