The Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Tulane Department of History, and the Middle American Research Institute invite you to the 2020 Dr. H. Barry and Lucy V. Holt Lecture in Ethnohistory: “City of Blood, City of Flowers: Why the Aztecs Enchant Us” presented by Dr. Davíd Carrasco.
Tuesday November 19, 2019
5:00 PM Lecture by Brigitta Malm
Followed by Reception
Newcomb Hall Room 308
Refugee Crises Now:
A closer look at the Americas, Syria, and the Rohingya
Jana Mason, UNHCR
Tuesday, November 19th
4pm
Diboll Gallery Newcomb Institute
The next installment of the "Refugee Speakers’ Series" will feature Dr. Sarah Cramsey from Tulane’s Jewish Studies Department. Professor Cramsey will present a talk entitled “The Other Diaspora: Family Creation and the Migrations of Polish Jews” on Tuesday, November 5 at 3pm in the Great Room at the Alumni House.
Join Profs. Edwards, Haugeberg, and McMahon for a lively discussion of the #MeToo movement and its growth from an American to a global phenomenon.
A public lecture by Dr. James Ryan (NYU) entitled "Cold War Politics and the Origins of Democracy in Turkey"
Adeno Addis is an internationally recognized scholar whose expertise spans a range of areas, but primarily focusing on human rights, constitutional law, and political and legal theory. He has published extensively in law and social science journals in the United States, Asia and Europe. He has taught at other law schools both in the United States and in other countries such as Australia, Germany, Hong Kong (SAR), and Japan. He has delivered many public lectures at many other institutions, including the University of Antwerp, University of Hong Kong, and the University of Texas (Austin).
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.
How have digital humanities databases changed the nature of scholarship? How have racism and sexism distorted those databases and the scholarship based on them? Professor Block will address these and other questions related to digital humanities research in her lecture.
