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Ongoing Activities

PORTraits of the Community: The PORTulane community is a vibrant collection of people that have diverse trajectories in the language and culture of the lusophone world. Join us weekly as we share a 2-minute video featuring a new community member.

Christopher Dunn, Chair of the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, TU
https://youtu.be/KDP7ZQ-gUE8

Carolina Nobrega, 1st year undergraduate and heritage speaker, TU
https://youtu.be/smhouuagDuU

Jessica Glass, PhD student in Latin American Studies, TU
https://youtu.be/YEYniwbVAg8

Raleigh Kreis, 1st year undergraduate, TU
https://youtu.be/2NjlVvE4Kao

Jonathan Gutmann, TU alum and TU Admissions Counselor.

https://youtu.be/fUdNyLfdSyo

Grant Little, 4th year undergraduate and Altman Scholar, TU
https://youtu.be/BDaFJWN9DCk

Abby Cramer, TU alum
https://youtu.be/a95OV56fT3w

José Fernando Nascimento Moraes, 4th year undergraduate and BRASA founding member, TU
https://youtu.be/SufUCAriXcU

Professor Edith Wolfe, Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, TU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJlKoEWXOA

Hannah Palmer, PhD, Program Manager at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjUOqeU2SEg

Carolina Timóteo de Oliveira, PhD student in Latin American Studies, TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtHwFBokrMA

Rachel Stein, PhD, Research and Instructional Librarian at the Latin American Library, TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKraGPKOxx0&t=3s

Annie Gibson, PhD, Director of Study Abroad at the Center for Global Education, TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rDzp8ZE-c&t=8s

Josh Belew, 1st year undergraduate, TU

https://youtu.be/dRnY2QEr1P8

Leo Oliveira, Adjunct Professor and Director of the Brazilian Music Ensemble, TU

https://youtu.be/7Runtz14LqU

Julie Gamze, Family Literacy and Workforce Coordinator for the Immigration and Refugee Services arm of Catholic Charities, TU alum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kobI-1qT384&t=6s

Anjana Turner, J.D. International lawyer and TU alum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0gLzk8Bcw&t=1s

Kyle Young, MA student in Latin American Studies, TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9m-4NZ-kI&t=25s

Ana Claudia dos Santos São Bernardo, PhD. Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgOq717zX5I&feature=youtu.be

Upcoming Lectures and Events

In the News

Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves is a classic piece by Brazilian abolitionist Castro Alves describing the middle passage.
https://tulane.zoom.us/rec/share/V12p_qfitIhPsy7d8obzrxpCbj19wrO-BK4qdJYcFoC5iIJ5qA2TSrZ3Fe569eF9.Fi-5i0LYfqsT2TWG?startTime=1614376981000

Recent Lectures and Events

The TU annual Black History Month bilingual poetry reading of Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves virtual for the first time ever!
https://tulane.zoom.us/rec/share/V12p_qfitIhPsy7d8obzrxpCbj19wrO-BK4qdJYcFoC5iIJ5qA2TSrZ3Fe569eF9.Fi-5i0LYfqsT2TWG?startTime=1614376981000

Brazil-themed house float.
We also enjoyed our first BRIGADEIRO KING CAKE and GOIABADA KING CAKE plus plenty of pão de queijo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0P0cVc9N80&feature=youtu.be

Lamonte Aidoo
“Without a Name and Under the Tongue: Sexual Violence, Brazilian Slavery, and the Archive”

Andrew S. Curran
“Before Anthropology: Enlightenment Science and the Category of the Human”
Book Presentation: “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely”

James N. Green
"Exile within Exiles: The Extraordinary Life of Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary"

Amazônia Ocupada Symposium

O Navio Negreiro, The Slave Ship - A Public Poetry Reading

"Divorce Court": a staged reading of Miguel de Cervantes's "El juez de los divorcios" in a new English translation.

TULANguagE

Harley Erdmann, UMass, Amherst
“Translating the Counter-Canon of Early Modern Spanish Theater: Theatrical Journeys with Luis Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera”

Sophia McClennen, Penn State University
* “Globalization and Latin American Cinema: Toward a New Critical Paradigm”
* “Satire, Politics, and Resistance: The Global Rise of Comedy and Activism”

PORTrait of Brazil - IEW International Education Week

Luiz Ruffato: “Literatura e Invisibilidade”

Marti Buckley: What's Basque Got to Do with It: Tradition and Modernity in Hispanic Footways

Prof. Gisela Heffes, Rice University: "El nuevo paisaje rural argentino: contaminación y ecodeformidades"

Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University: The Internal Ear: Caetano Veloso's take on bossa nova

Marielle Presente e Futuro: An Artistic Tribute to Marielle Franco

Study Abroad teaches you more than how to conjugate

Foreign Language Pedagogy and Research: New Approaches to Old Challenges