This reflexive talk addresses the challenges of engaging in literary studies in an era marked by the expansion of the literary globe. It argues that there is a value in viewing the work of literary comparison as a form of scholarly amateurism that embraces intellectual mobility and shuns specialization that academic institutions often valorize.
Join the Department of English, Center for Scholars, The Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT), The Undergraduate Activities Fund, and the The Institute for Cuban and Caribbean Studies in a screening for the Puerto Rican film, Perfume de Gardenias, and a Q&A with Director, Macha Colón.
Fall 2023 meeting of The School of Liberal Arts Dean's Advisory Council members.
The Blue Caftan, directed by Maryam Touzani (2022) is the haunting story of Halim and Mina, who run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire a young man named Youssef; slowly, Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and was chosen to represent Morocco in the 2023 Oscars shortlist in the "International Feature Film" category.
The Carole Barnette Boudreaux '65 Great Writers Series welcomes Pulitizer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to campus for a public talk.
The Department of Classical Studies at Tulane University presents “In Between Empires: Armenia and the Armenians from Xenophon's Anabasis to Koriwn's Life of Mashtots (5th c. BCE–5th c. CE)” by Emilio Bonfiglio (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg).
Date ~ Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Time ~ 5PM
Tabling event to share information about the GESS major and minor to interested students. We will also provide information about GESS courses for spring registration. We will encourage students to both register for GESS courses and consider declaring a GESS major/minor as part of their undergraduate education here at Tulane.
Evocative and mysterious, Wanderers of the Desert (Les Baliseurs du désert), directed by Nacer Khémir, captures southern Tunisia in a near-mythological form. A young teacher arrives to take over a remote village school isolated in the desert to find that there is no school, only disparate talk of the “wanderers,” a group of men from the village who left, and now spend their lives walking the desert, singing in unison. In the village the young teacher discovers a singular and unreal world, where magic and reality intertwine.
Join the Department of English for a Guest Lecture from Dr. James Shapiro of Columbia University for his lecture, "Macbeth in Harlem: The Making of the Federal Theatre’s Greatest Hit." This talk will be a lively discussion on the first production by an all-Black cast of Macbeth, directed by the 20-year-old Orson Welles, for the Federal Theatre Project in 1937. There will be a reception to follow with wine and appetizers.
Join the Department of English to hear about Prof. Karen Zumhagen-Yekple's current Works-in-Progress. Learn about what your professors are working on! Get to know Prof. Zumhagen-Yekple and the other English professors!
