Rising seniors will discuss their recent summer work and research experience that led to impactful needs statements for their capstone course. 

Dr. Florence Babb, a cultural anthropologist visiting Tulane from UNC at Chapel Hill, will present her most recent work on a book based on ethnographic research in three locations in Peru, where she critically engages racial and gender inequalities, inclusion and exclusion, and national identity. Scaling Differences examines the contradictory meanings of being Andean. Social standing in Peru is measured in inverse proportion to the altitude of one’s origins, with the high Andes having low status and Lima, at sea level, holding the greatest prestige.

UPDATE: Tonight’s event “Water Ways: Dutch Lessons for a Changing Coast” is being postponed to a later date. Please check back for updates.

Wednesday, March 11, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m., with a short reception to follow.

We are excited about this semester's the Health, Racism, and Communication seminar series presented by the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, Mary Amelia Women's Center and the Dean's Office of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Andrew Armstrong, JD, Bruce Reilly, JD and Ashley Wennerstrom, PhD will explain how to:

(1) discuss the factors leading to mass incarceration in Louisiana,

(2) identify ways in which jails and prisons are public health spaces,

(3) discuss lessons learned in collaboration and communication, and

We are excited about this semester's Health, Racism, and Communication seminar series, hosted by the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, Mary Amelia Women's Center, and the Dean's Office of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. 

Lamar Gardere, Executive Director of The Data Center, will

(1) describe the work of The Data Center,

(2) discuss the role of data and information in potentially shaping social determinants of health,

We are excited about this semester's Health, Racism, and Communication seminar series hosted by the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, Mary Amelia Women's Center, and the Dean's Office of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Roland Thorpe, Jr., Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, & Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health will teach you how to:

National Book Award winner and decorated author Barry Lopez will give a reading of and talk about his work at Tulane on March 2nd, 6:00 PM, Diboll Gallery (Room 300), The Commons. This is the final event of the 2019-2020 Environmental Studies Speaker Series, "American Water and Actual Air."

Over a long and decorated career, Lopez has written with vividness and specificity about the natural world and the people and creatures for whom the landscape is home. Robert McFarlane of the Guardian describes the experience of first reading Lopez's work thus: 

Please join us on Friday, February 28 for the first Anthropology colloquium of the semester. Dr. Christina Torres-Rouff from the University of California, Merced will present a talk titled, "Head Shaping: Shifting Bodies and Shifting Understandings of Self and Culture in Pre-Columbian Northern Chile" in Dinwiddie Hall Room 102. Please see the abstract below.

LECTURE CANCELLED

Joel Kaminsky is the Morningstar Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Smith College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and has been a Visiting Professor at Duke, Harvard, and Yale Divinity School.

He is the author of numerous books, edited collections, and articles, including The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction and Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election.

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