Professional Development
Teaching the Maya: Pre-Colombian to Present, June 6-8, 1999
Teacher training workshop: which exposed participants to a Jaguar Jungle exhibit at
Audubon Zoo, pre-Columbian collection at MARI, and modern Maya experts at Tulane
Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin American Studies’ Latin American Resource Center
Summer Workshop for Teachers in Guadalajara, Mexico, July 17-31, 1999
Teacher training workshop: introduced teachers to Mexican history, culture, and folkart
through study in Guadalajara
Sponsor: Stone Center for Latin American Studies’ Latin American Resource Center
A Tribute to Guatemala: Land of the Eternal Spring, September 21-22, 1999
A visiting Guatemalan weaver visited local elementary and middle schools as well as several
Anthropology and Literature classes on Tulane’s campus to demonstrate her craft and
display a large collection of traditional costumes representing different towns in Guatemala
Sponsor: Latin American Library, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the General
Consulate of Guatemala
Louisiana as a State of the Caribbean: a Regional Culture, November 12, 1999
Teacher-training workshop: focused on the regional unity of Louisiana and the countries and
cultures of the Caribbean Basin
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Bienvenu. Thomas Klinger, Department of French and Italian
Geography Overview. Elizabeth Van Sant, Latin American Resource Center Interim
Director
Haiti-Louisiana Cultural Connections. Monique Guillory, Department of English/
African Diaspora Studies
Louisiana and the Caribbean: A Regional Culture. Dr. Timothy Hawkins, Latin
American Studies
Associated Activities: French Connections: France, Louisiana, Antilles 1699-1999,
Colloquium
Louisiana’s Black Jacobins. Caryn Cosse Bell, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Les sables fertiles: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity. J. Michael Dash, New
York University
Sponsors: Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Latin American Resource Center.
Collaborator: Department of French and Italian
Cubanismo in Context, November 29, 1999
Workshop: led by “Cubanismo” a local Latin American Music Group, placed Latin American
music in an interactive context for the academic and New Orleans community; Part of the
symposium Restoring Cultural Links for the Next Millennium: Celebrating Musical Friendship
and Artistic Partnership
Sponsors: Cuban Studies Institute and Stone Center for Latin American studies.
Cuba Today: Society, Culture, Environment and International Relations: A
Workshop, March 21, 2000
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Yolanda Wood, Dean of the School of Arts and Letters, University of Havana
Jorge Hernández, Director of the Centro de Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos (CESEU)
,University of Havana
Armando Fernández, Researcher with the Fundación del Hombre y la Naturaleza,
Adjunct Professor with CESEU
Sponsor: Cuban Studies Institute and Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Zapatismo and the Struggle in Chiapas, March 21, 2000
Workshop: addressed the history, causes, manifestations and implications of the current
struggle between the indigenous people of Chiapas and the Mexican government.
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History of the Zapatista Struggle. Melissa Birch, co-director of Estacion Libre
The Role of Zapatismo in U.S. Activist Communities. Jeff Moebus, director of the
New Orleans branch of the Mexican Solidarity Network.
Film: A Place Called Chiapas.
Sponsor: Tulane Latin American Peace and Justice Action Group