Spanish & Portuguese

Science and Public Truths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

Miruna Achim

Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities

Universidade Autónoma de México--Cuajimalpa

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

5:00 pm

Seminar Room, Latin American Library

(4th floor, Howard-Tilton Library)

Urban Empire:

A Symposium on Cities of the Early Modern Hispanic World

March 19-20, 2010 

Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Deep South Regional Humanities Center, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of History, Newcomb Art Department, and the Program for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Miguel Falomir Faus

Head Curator of Italian Renaissance Painting at the Museo del Prado and Andrew Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art (CASVA)
Title of talk: “Titian and Charles V”
Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Location: 209 Woldenberg Art Center

Luisa Elena Alcalá

Professor of Art History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Title of talk: "Guadalupe´s Others: Rethinking Marian Devotion in Colonial Mexico”
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 6:30 pm

Liberty via Latinity: The Epic Stratagems of Joannes Latinus,

An African-Andalucian Freedman Negotiating an Age of Mass Enslavement

A Lecture by Elizabeth R. Wright - Associate Professor of Spanish

University of Georgia

Friday, November 13, 2009- Hosted by Prof. Laura Bass

Tulane University hosted the event "Celebrating 50 Years of Teatro Oficina", April 6-8, 2009, with the founder of the company, José Celso Martinez Corrêa, and the lead actor, Marcelo Drummond. See photos

from their visit.

Virtual Caribbeans:                                                                                                                                                            A Conference on Representation, Diaspora and Performance in and on the Caribbean, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, February 28 - March 1, 2008

http://cuba.tulane.edu/events.html

Gilberto Gil, the world-renowned musician and Minister of Culture of Brazil, received an honorary degree from Tulane University in May 2006. See photos from his visit.

José Miguel Wisnik, the great Brazilian composer, musician, and literary critic visited Tulane University in April 2006. See photos from his visit.

Many of our current and former graduate students presented at the Latin American Studies Association meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2006. See photos from a department reunion in San Juan.