News & Events


Ongoing Activities

terTUlia - TU Spanish conversation group  
snacks & coffee provided

Spanish Language Events for Extra Credit 
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Spanish Language Events for Extra Credit

Spanish Language Events for Extra Credit: **** PLEASE ADD EVENTS BELOW, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER ***** \u000B(most most recent/upcoming first)\u000B(terTUlia has a sign-in; all other events please take a picture and email your instructor)\u000B *Every Wednesday from 2-5 pm What: TerTUlia Where: Newcomb ...

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TUdo bem - Portuguese language meet up

BRASA / TU Brazilian Student Association open for registration!

Upcoming Lectures and Events

Sesión informativa sobre el programa de posgrado en el departamento de español y portugués de Tulane University (New Orleans, EEUU).  
Esta sesión está destinada a interesados en solicitar admisión a nuestro programa de maestría y doctorado en literaturas y estudios culturales españoles y latinoamericanos. 
En una charla informal de unos cuarenta minutos cubriré estos puntos:

  • estructura académica del programa
  • campos de especialización 
  • esquema de financiamiento ofrecido 
  • proceso de solicitud 
  • recomendaciones prácticas 

Luego habrá unos 20 minutos para preguntas y respuestas.  
El evento via zoom será en español, pero los asistentes pueden hacer preguntas en inglés y portugués.  
Favor de registrarse en este enlace

Fecha:   viernes 10 de noviembre, 2023 
Hora:     16.00 / 4.00 pm (hora central de EEUU / GMT -5) 

Preguntas: agomez@tulane.edu 
¡Hasta pronto! 


Navio Negreiro trilingual poetry reading 
Sign up to read!!! SEE BELOW

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJ2ns3DA9eAHZjeRaoASdeoXebKrfIYRIIXpsGkQc2U/edit?usp=sharing


PORTa-voz: PORTulane continues its popular video series!
Tune in weekly to hear from a different community member about their favorite word in Portuguese. Don't forget to share yours in the comments! 
 

Ana Carolina de Paula of the Poli Sci department and her favorite word: serelepe!  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iCNHoWHKHc

 

Mestre Cocada, capoeira instructor and TIDES service learning partner, TU 
https://youtu.be/Dt06mifOAWg

Tate Sheppard, 1st year law student, TU 
https://youtu.be/O5CgT0nTbqM

Ezra Spira-Cohen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, TU 
https://youtu.be/-OHROjvYsFg

Idelber Avelar, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese  
https://youtu.be/eyg6FNcta9M

Daniel de los Rios, PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese, TU  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbXsM7OvVyE

Igor Acácio, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for Inter-American policy and research, TU 
https://youtu.be/L8_Xr9YkE4g

Catie Mae Carey, 3rd year undergraduate and Altman Scholar, 
TU https://youtu.be/H2JRmLySZ_4

Pablo Barra, PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese, TU 
https://youtu.be/8A99LDA40f8

Sara Pancerella, PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese, TU 
https://youtu.be/HRzneYKDE-g

Stephanie Holden, alum in Spanish and Portuguese, TU  
https://youtu.be/7snc1sPJ8Uc

Ana Guilhermina Soeters, alum in TU Business School and outgoing BRASA student  org president 
https://youtu.be/wN_VyWBxtco

Mike Bromberg, PhD student in Latin American Studies, TU 
https://youtu.be/zm7zHcMBDCg

Andromeda Yahoudy-Macner, TU undergrad 
https://youtu.be/mdHn6NrOqyQ

Guilherme Mariano, Professor at the Universidade Regional do Cariri; Co-Director of the TU-URCA telecollaboration partnership 
https://youtu.be/YpnB7kaXeqI

Sydney Jernigan, TU undergrad 
https://youtu.be/Bkxnsc_K0es

Juliana Taddone, NOLA Brazilian caterer 
https://youtu.be/x_1CpUdFmr0

Ana Maria Caldwell, Executive Director of Bard Early College 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqTTX6u4OI&list=PLUymxEGhk-tKkefxFNZinjDP-I7mm643F&index=6

Sarah Mellman, PhD student in Anthropology, TU 
https://youtu.be/1rv-2Od5zwc

Claudia B. de Brito, Senior Executive Secretary, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 
https://youtu.be/CUQ3vpemd04

Adrienne Gonzales, TU Assistant Dean for Language Learning 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0bS35QEhQ

Dan Sharp, Chair of the Dept. of Music, TU

https://youtu.be/tsijd_4EprM

Julie Cornfield, TU undergrad 
https://youtu.be/tl92bvauay0

Glauber Brito Matos Lacerda, TU visiting scholar (Fall 2019)

Carolyn Barber-Pierre, TU Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and the Director of the Center for Intercultural Life 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMgyh7dI_Gc&list=PLUymxEGhk-tKkefxFNZinjDP-I7mm643F&index=3

Patrick Urbine, a TU Altman alumnus (May 2021) 
https://youtu.be/MJeXM8S-dsA

Megwen Loveless, Director of the Portuguese Basic Language Program, TU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdzryyU827U

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
 

In the News

The Power of Language 
https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/newsletter/power-language?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Power%20of%20language&utm_campaign=Taryn%20Oct%2020


Recent Lectures and Events

CONVERSATORIO CON EL PROF. JULIO RAMOS: FARMACOPEA LITERARIA LATINOAMERICANA Y EL ESTADO DE LA DISCUSIÓN   
 

Information Session for Prospective Graduate Students 
Para más información contactar al Prof. Loveless

BRAZILIAN POETRY 

Workshop: Gamify the Language Classroom - K-12 Educator 
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1260536488064123?ref=newsfeed). 

Rethinking Early Modern English and Spanish Religious Texts: A conversation with Debora Shuger and Dale Shuger 

Carolina: raça e gênero na favela de Canindé

Tantas vezes Carolina: uma conversa com Sirlene Barbosa & João Pinheiro.

Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves is a classic piece by Brazilian abolitionist Castro Alves describing the middle passage. 

The TU annual Black History Month bilingual poetry reading of Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves virtual for the first time ever! 

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

Foreign Language Pedagogy and Research: New Approaches to Old Challenges

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

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