Ongoing Activities
TU Spanish Conversation Group
Drop in anytime!
Why join?
TUdo bem – Portuguese Language Meet-up
- All levels welcome!
- Informal conversations
- Friday sessions
- Staggered times to accommodate diverse schedules
[rain location: PJ’s on Willow]
Fall 2026
- Friday, Aug. 21: 12 pm
- Friday, Aug. 28: 10 am
- Friday, Sept. 4: 12 pm
- Friday, Sept. 11: 10 am
- Friday, Sept. 18: 11 am
- Friday, Sept. 25: 2 pm
- Friday, Oct. 9: 11 am
- Friday, Oct. 16: 3 pm
- Friday, Oct. 23: 11 am
- Friday, Oct. 30: 1 pm
- Friday, Nov. 6: 2 pm
- Friday, Nov. 13: 3 pm
BRASA
Immerse Yourself in Brazilian Culture Through Bi-Weekly Meetings!
- Portuguese Classes
- Brazilian Food & Drinks
- Cultural Events
- Networking & Professional Development
- Field Trips & Much More!
Feel free to contact us with any questions @brasatulane on Instagram.
Past Lectures and Events
Género y violencia política en la literatura peruana del siglo XXI
Talk and round table
(testimonio personal)
Moderator: Fernando Rivera
4:00 pm
Seminar Room of Latin American Library
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies
El arte de escribir en el cuerpo
St. Catherine University
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, 6 pm
Jones Hall 100A
Reception following
Questions? mgmiller@tulane.edu
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 — favorite word: serelepe
- Mestre Cocada, capoeira instructor and TIDES service learning partner, TU
- Tate Sheppard, first-year law student, TU
- Ezra Spira-Cohen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, TU
- Idelber Avelar, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
- Daniel de los Rios, PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese, TU
- Igor Acácio, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, TU
- Catie Mae Carey, third-year undergraduate and Altman Scholar, TU
- Pablo Barra, PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese, TU
- Sara Pancerella, PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese, TU
- Stephanie Holden, alum in Spanish and Portuguese, TU
- Ana Guilhermina Soeters, alum in TU Business School and outgoing BRASA student organization president
- Mike Bromberg, PhD student in Latin American Studies, TU
- Andromeda Yahoudy-Macner, TU undergraduate
- Guilherme Mariano, Professor at the Universidade Regional do Cariri; Co-Director of the TU-URCA telecollaboration partnership
- Sydney Jernigan, TU undergraduate
- Juliana Taddone, NOLA Brazilian caterer
- Ana Maria Caldwell, Executive Director of Bard Early College
- Sarah Mellman, PhD student in Anthropology, TU
- Claudia B. de Brito, Senior Executive Secretary, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Adrienne Gonzales, TU Assistant Dean for Language Learning
- Dan Sharp, Chair of the Department of Music, TU
- Julie Cornfield, TU undergraduate
- Glauber Brito Matos Lacerda, TU visiting scholar (Fall 2019)
- Carolyn Barber-Pierre, TU Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of the Center for Intercultural Life
- Patrick Urbine, TU Altman alumnus (May 2021)
- Megwen Loveless, Director of the Portuguese Basic Language Program, TU
- Christopher Dunn, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, TU
- Carolina Nobrega, first-year undergraduate and heritage speaker, TU
- Jessica Glass, PhD student in Latin American Studies, TU
- Raleigh Kreis, first-year undergraduate, TU
- Jonathan Gutmann, TU alum and TU Admissions Counselor
- Grant Little, fourth-year undergraduate and Altman Scholar, TU
- Abby Cramer, TU alum
- José Fernando Nascimento Moraes, fourth-year undergraduate and BRASA founding member, TU
- Professor Edith Wolfe, Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, TU
- 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
- Josh Belew, first-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
- Ana Claudia dos Santos São Bernardo, PhD, Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, TU
In the News
Recent Lectures and Events
Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Program Information Session
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 vía Zoom será en español, pero los asistentes pueden hacer preguntas en inglés y portugués.
Preguntas: agomez@tulane.edu
¡Hasta pronto!
Navio Negreiro Quadrilingual Poetry Reading
O Navio Negreiro / The Slave Ship
A Public Reading & Discussion
Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves is a classic piece by Brazilian abolitionist Castro Alves describing the middle passage.
Film Screening – Mi Amiga del Parque
The film will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles. Stay for the Q&A with screenwriter Inés Bortagaray after the film.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 6 pm in Jones 100A
Samba Workshop with Mestre Curtis Pierre, Master of Brazilian Percussion and Culture
Curtis Pierre is a world-renowned artist, educator, and guardian who has devoted his life to Afro-Brazilian musical, dance, and performance traditions. He is the founder and director of Casa Samba, which he leads with his wife, Carolyn Barber-Pierre, Assistant Vice President of Intercultural Life at Tulane University, and their son, Bomani Pierre.
Casa Samba promotes Brazilian musical and performance cultures through weekly open rehearsals and frequent school and university workshops. It also maintains a center that works to educate the New Orleans community and the Gulf South region of the rich cultural traditions of Brazil and the similarities which bridge Carnival in Brazil with Mardi Gras in New Orleans emphasizing the importance of their African tradition and influences.
In addition to the samba workshop Mestre Curtis will discuss a recent partnership with the Acadêmicos do Salgueiro, an esteemed Escola de Samba from Rio de Janeiro. Casa Samba has been selected to serve as the first international ambassador to Salgueiro.
O Navio Negreiro, The Slave Ship: A Public, Trilingual Poetry Reading
Brazil had the longest lasting slave economy in the Americas, importing an estimated 10x as many enslaved Africans as the U.S.
In a belated recognition of Black History Month we will acknowledge the monumental importance of these four million enslaved people with a trilingual reading of the Castro Alves poem O Navio Negreiro (The Slave Ship).
Earlier 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
- 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! Watch the video .
- 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
