The panel will include two presentations: “The new pattern of democratic crisis in Brazil and Argentina”, by Leornardo Avritzer (UFMG, Brazil), and “The Brazilian 2013 Protests: identity, repertoire and democracy”, by Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça (UFMG, Brazil).
Tuesday November 19, 2019
5:00 PM Lecture by Brigitta Malm
Followed by Reception
Newcomb Hall Room 308
A public lecture by Dr. James Ryan (NYU) entitled "Cold War Politics and the Origins of Democracy in Turkey"
TOTALLY EAST - Life in East Germany
Poster Exhibition
Opening reception October 18, 2019
The exhibit will be open to the public until November 22, 2019
With a collection of more than 100,000 unique artifacts from the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War the Wende Museum is one of the leading museums of its kind worldwide. The museum not only collects and preserves materials that offer insight into political realities, cultural trends, and everyday life, but also aims to present them in a thought-provoking way, making connections between past and present and asking pertinent questions about how history is written and experienced.
The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain: Between HumanComputer Flourishing and Computational Slavery
A lecture on the "single most important political event" in the history of the Modern Middle East.
On April 5th, Dr. Bill Maurer will give the final talk of the Tulane Anthropology Colloquium Series 2018-2019: An Exploration of Power Through Practice.
Please join us for light refreshments at 3:30 pm and the talk at 4:00 pm (see abstract below).
The Department of Theatre and Dance welcomes you to join a lecture by critically acclaimed, award winning playwright Lynn Nottage to Tulane University for “A Conversation with Lynn Nottage.” Ms. Nottage has earned numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes (
Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an elected member of the Society of American Historians, and past president of both the Urban History Association and the Social Science History Association.
