Sociology Culture Workshop: Angel Adams Parham, Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University-New Orleans, "Race and the Limits of Civil Incorporation"

The Tulane Department of Classical Studies presents the Dennis A Georges Lecture in Hellenic Culture

Conversations with a Colossus: the Vocal Memnon Statue in Egyptian Thebes

Dr. Patricia Rosenmeyer (The University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill)

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 7:00PM in the Freeman Auditorium (205 Woldenberg Art Center) ~ Reception to follow in Woodward Way

Revisions have been made to modernize, strengthen, and make more effective the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (The Common Rule, 45 CFR 46).  The Final Rule is scheduled to be effective on January 21, 2019. 

Please join Cheryl Savini, CIP and Judy Matuk, MS from HRP Consulting Group and Lucia LaSalle, CIP from the Tulane Human Research Protection Program to learn about the changes and the types of research that will be affected.

Elizabeth Rush, author of the new book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore will visit Tulane for the inaugural event in the ByWater Institute's speaker series Future Cities // Future Coasts. The public event will be held on November 7th at the Tulane River and Coastal Center overlooking the Mississippi River. This event is in collaboration with the Resilience Lab, a partnership between Tulane and the Water Institute of the Gulf, and undertaken with support from the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

Jonathan Silver is Senior Director at the Tikvah Fund and Executive Director of the Jewish Leadership Conference. After his undergraduate studies in Classics at Tufts University and Master's program in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he obtained a PhD in Political Science and Government from Georgetown University, with a dissertation entitled "Unto Thy Children's Children: Lockean Freedom and the Hebraic Horizons of Society and Self."

Tulane SoPA Digital Design presents Ramy Hanna, Co-Founder and Creative Mastermind for TILTPIXEL, an award-winning creative studio specializing in 3D visualization. 

From 3D illustrations to animations and virtual reality, TILTPIXEL produces stunning imagery to support the needs of a diverse client base. Their 3D illustrations and films have been utilized by developers, brokers and Fortune 500 companies around the globe.

The Fall 2018 Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture will feature Mihir A. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  He is the author of The Wisdom of Finance, which explores the intersection between finance and the humanities, a frequent contributor to popular media such as the New York Times, Financial Times, and NPR, and is considered a leading expert on corporate tax reform.

Tulane University Translational Science Institute: Translational Science Grand Rounds

Changing the ‘real world’: Four feeding studies and their impact on nutrition policy

Presented by

Lawrence J. Appel, MD, MPH

C. David Molina, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Medicine with Joint Appointments in Epidemiology, International Health and Nursing; Director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Rising: A conversation on the future of the American shoreline with author Elizabeth Rush

Dr. Víctor M. Torres-Vélez received his bachelors from the University of Puerto Rico (1996) and his Masters (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) from Michigan State University. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at City University of New York (CUNY). He is a critical medical anthropologist by training, who specializes in gender, justice and environmental change. Dr. Torres-Vélez' interdisciplinary theoretical expertise and interests are diverse.