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.

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.

Dr. Harris will discuss her forthcoming book about the history of African Americans in New Orleans from the nineteenth century to the present.