Tulane Global Humanities Center

Fall 2026 Speakers Select Publications

This bibliography showcases recent or significant publications by TGHC visiting scholars for fall 2026, offering a snapshot of their work. If any of these texts align with your course themes or pedagogical goals, we invite you to consider incorporating them into your syllabus and encouraging students to attend the scholars’ upcoming talks. Our hope is that these visits foster deeper engagement with current humanities research and create meaningful points of connection between classroom learning and the vibrant humanities community at Tulane.

Raphaël Imbert, Musician & Director of the Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet de Marseille. Talk on October 12, 2026. 

Keywords: Jazz, Marseille, Ports

Texts:

  • Chamoiseau, Patrick, et Raphaël Imbert. Baudelaire jazz: méditations poétiques et musicales avec partition pour chaos-opéra. Éditions du Seuil, 2023.

Audio:

  • Raphaël Imbert Quartet, Songbook: Live à la Gare. Outnote Records, Oct. 2024.
  • Imbert, Raphaël, et al. Invisible stream. Harmonia Mundi, 2023.
  • Raphaël Imbert Quartet, Oraison. Outnote Records, April. 2021.
  • Imbert, Raphaël. Music Is My Home. Act 1. Jazz Village, 2017.

Jonathan Galka, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Anthropocene History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Talk on November 9, 2026

Keywords: Maritime history, environmental history, seabed infrastructures; speculative futures and scientific imagination; material culture of marine science; histories of biology and natural history

  • “‘The Nodules Are Alive and Well on the Sea Floor’: Deep Ocean Minerals, Invertebrate Traces, and Multispecies Histories of Abyssal Environments: The Nodules Are Alive and Well on the Sea Floor.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences [Cham], vol. 47, no. 2, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00668-4.
  • “Bohemia at the Pacific Seabed: Archiving the Future of Deep-Sea Mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization.” Social Studies of Science [London, England], vol. 54, no. 5, October 2024, pp. 678–705, https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231226423.
  • “Oceans of Ooze: Deep-sea Sedimentary Data, Mineral Resource Frontiers, and Imperial Continuities in Ocean History.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol. 53, no. 5, November 2023, pp. 481-517. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2023.53.5.481
  • “Liguus Landscapes: Amateur Liggers, Professional Malacology, and the Social Lives of Snail Sciences.” Journal of the History of Biology [Dordrecht], vol. 55, no. 4, December 2022, pp. 689–723, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09695-4.

Eric Tagliocozzo, John Stambaugh Professor in the History Department, Cornell University: Talk on November 16, 2026

Keywords: Southeast Asian history, Maritime history, History of exploration, Global diaspora

  • “Afterword: Migration’s Longue Durée.” International Migration [Oxford], vol. 63, no. 1, January 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13368.
  • In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. Princeton University Press, 2022.
  • The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915. 1st ed., Yale University Press, 2005, https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300128123.

Debashree Mukherjee, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University: Talk on November 30, 2026

Keywords: Film & media studies, Bollywood, South Asian history, Indentured labor, Plantation capitalism

  • “Shipwreck Media: Crisis Ornaments and How to Read Them.” JCMS : Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 65, no. 1, September 2025, pp. 106–30, https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2025.a973992.
  • Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema. Mapin Publishing, 2023.
  • “Media Wars: Remaking the Logics of Propaganda in India’s Wartime Cine-Ecologies.” Modern Asian Studies [Cambridge, UK], vol. 57, no. 5, September 2023, pp. 1585–614, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X22000427.
  • “Energy and Exhaustion in a Coal Melodrama: Kaala Patthar (1979).” Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, edited by Salma Monani, 1st ed., Routledge, 2023, pp. 52–69, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246602-5.
  • Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City. Columbia University Press, 2020.

Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English and Director, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University: Talk on December 7, 2026

Keywords: African literature, comparative literature, environmental humanities, Caribbean studies

  • African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics. Duke University Press, 2022.
  • “Intricate Intimacies: Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our Names.” New Literary History [Baltimore], vol. 53, no. 1, December 2022, pp. 85–107, https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2022.0003.
  • “The Media Turn in African Environmentalism: The Niger Delta and Oil’s Network Forms.” Journal of Visual Culture [London, England], vol. 20, no. 1, April 2021, pp. 60–84, https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412921994616.
  • African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space. University of Rochester Press, 2019.
  • Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2018.