Africa and the Medieval Global World
Discover Africa's unsung golden age as African Francois-Xavier Fauvelle reconstructs a history largely left out of our Western textbooks.
Discover Africa's unsung golden age as African Francois-Xavier Fauvelle reconstructs a history largely left out of our Western textbooks.
Join us for an evening with award-winning author Sandra Cisneros.
Academic Training is a benefit available to all J-1 students. Come and find out more about the requirements for Academic Training as well as tips on searching for jobs.
Join us for an afternoon celebrating the artists and artworks of the new exhibition Core Memory. Featuring the work of over 30 artists, Core Memory explores connections of weaving and technology across time, space, and culture. This event kicks off at 2pm and includes an artist led tour of the exhibition and an artist talk. Food and refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to all. For more details on the event or exhibition, go to newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu
Workshop with Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of History at Purdue University
Facilitator: Laura Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University
2021–22 SLA Dean's Speaker Series:
Anti-Racism and the Disciplines
Many of the liberal arts disciplines have complicated relationships to structural racism, colonialism, and/or imperialism, which arguably are structured into the “rules” of the disciplines themselves. Scholars working in those disciplines, including those featured in the series, are working to uncover those histories in the effort of thinking about and staging work for the next generation(s) of scholars.
Megan Ihnen and Alan Theisen Presents (dubbed MIATp) is an avant-pop band making voice/saxophone/electronic sound worlds that are ancient and futuristic, funky and fragile. It had its roots as a contemporary classical duo but now combines experimental music, multiple pop genres, and theater. With influences ranging from Björk to Sun Ra to Ligeti, MIATp shows have been praised as 'a fresh look at what it means to be artists in the 21st century.
Sacred Nine Project: Sufferage [sic] will explore examples of hegemonic femininity found in nineteenth-century popular songs. Sammi Maza, Gender and Sexuality Studies major at Tulane University, helped navigate this concert concept, and identified several of these archaic paradigms, including whiteness, youthfulness, purity, and passivity. Of course, “straightness” is another example, though it would have been the trait that went without saying.
Master Class for the winners of the Chamber Music Festival