Upcoming Events
“Tulane Global Humanities Center: The Launch”
September 8–12 pm
Stibbs Room in Lavin-Bernick Center
Panelists: Chris Dunn, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Maryam Athari, Tori Bush
Moderator: Brian Edwards
This opening panel discussion of the Tulane Global Humanities Center explores the center's biennial theme of Global Port Cities.
“An Ocean of Air-Rights: Speculative Reconstruction in Contemporary Mumbai”
September 22–12 pm
CELT Room #306 in Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Speaker: Vyjayanthi V. Rao
Vyjayanthi V. Rao is an anthropologist, writer, artist and curator, currently teaching at the Yale School of Architecture. Her work focuses on the built environment and urbanism in India and the United States, specifically comparing Mumbai and New York. She has published extensively on urban transformation and she serves as an Editor in Chief of the journal Public Culture (Duke University Press). She is the chief curator of the third editor of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, opening in November 2026.