News & Events
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.
Raleigh Kreis, 1st year undergraduate, TU
https://youtu.be/2NjlVvE4Kao
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJlKoEWXOA
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
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
Newcomb Art Museum Presents Author Reading with Yuri Herrera
Poetry Reading: Navio Negreiro "The Slave Ship"
A talk by poet and scholar, Sara Uribe, the "Emily Dickinson of Tamaulipas"
Ana Paulina Lee Mandarin Brazil Chinese Labor, Memory, and Representation