Join us for the third annual Summer Institute for K-12 Educators! This year’s theme is Central America: People and the Environment. While (virtually) at Tulane, the institute will explore the historic connections between the United States and Central America focusing on indigenous communities and environment while highlighting topics of social justice and environmental conservation. Join us to explore Central America and teaching strategies to implement into the classroom. 

When: June 14 – 25, 2021  

On/Off Screen. The Other Histories of Cinema in Latin America / Las otras historias del cine en América Latina explores practices of film distribution, exhibition and cinemagoing in Latin America. Over the past decade, the receiving end of the film chain, including patterns of film distribution and exhibition and the experiences of cinemagoers, has received increasing scholarly attention. Although this turn has made inroads beyond Eurocentric, Anglo-American limits, there is still a need to highlight other important cinematographic regions, especially Latin America.

Just five years ago, in March of 2016, Barrack Obama visited Cuba as the first sitting president to do so since 1928. This historic event culminated a diplomatic process that included an easing of certain elements of the embargo that allowed for more US investment, travel to the island by US citizens, and an updated immigration policy.

Join Drs. Ana López, João Luiz Vieira, Leslie Louise Marsh, and Catherine Benamou for a discussion of the documentary film Obscuro Barroco.

Obscuro Barroco is a documentary-fiction film about the dizzying heights of gender and metamorphosis in Rio de Janeiro. Following the path of iconic transgender figure Luana Muniz (1961-2017), the film explores the different quests for the self, through transvestism, carnival and political struggle. In turn, it asks questions about the desire for transformation of the body, both intimate and social.

Join fellow students, teachers, and native speakers to practice your Kaqchikel language skills and deepen your understanding of Kaqchikel culture. This event is held on the last Thursday of each month for the duration of the Spring 2021 semester. 

The February 25th session will focus on the history and practices of the Tuj with guest speaker Magda Sotz Mux. It will be facilitated by Silvia Sánchez Tappan. 

The March 25th session will focus on sociolinguistic variations within the Kaqchikel language. It will be facilitated by Rebecca Moore. 

Join us for an evening with Elizabeth Acevedo.

Acevedo presents her third book, Clap When You Land, and discusses her writing process and performance background. The discussion will be followed by a reading.

Applications are now open for the Stone Center’s summer intensive language programs!

Join us for a discussion with Amalia Leguizamón and Toby Miller about resource extraction and environmental politics in Latin America. Leguizamón will be presenting her new book, Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina published by Duke University Press.

Tuesday 11/17, 2-3p CST

RVSP for Zoom link: https://bit.ly/booklaunch_soybeans

The 2020 Terry K. Simmons Lecture in Art History

Co-Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies

The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes

Ananda Cohen-Aponte Associate Professor of History of Art, Cornell University

Thursday, November 5, at 5:00 pm Zoom meeting info:  https://tulane.zoom.us/j/98937431062

Yarimar Bonilla is Professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.