Lectures
The Eleventh Marcia Monroe Conery Lecture
Thursday, April 27, 2006, 7:30 pm
Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel
(Broadway, between Freret & Willow Streets)
Dr. John Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Sciences at Duke University
will present his lecture: “When Top-down Becomes Bottom-up: the Topsy-turvy World of
Predator-free Islets in Lago Guri, Venezuela.” This event is sponsored by the Department of
Ecology and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. There will be a reception following
the lecture at the Patio & Adjoining Corridor, Jones Hall. For more information contact Tom
Sherry, Dept. EE Biology, Tulane University (tsherry@tulane.edu; (504) 862-8296)
No Exit: Brazilian Cultural Politics in 2005
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Newcomb 407
The department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a lecture entitled NO EXIT: BRAZILIAN
CULTURAL POLITICS IN 2005. The speaker is Camillo João Penna, one of the leading voices
of literary criticism and cultural studies from Brazil. He is a Professor of Brazilian Literature
at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the author of several
articles and books of criticism, including Sobre viver (entre Primo Levi e Giorgio Agamben),
Espaços da (in) segurança nacional, and Estado de exceção. He is currently finishing his
book on the Brazilian popular culture icon Carmen Miranda. He is also a co-director of La
Promesa, a documentary about the pilgrimage of Saint Lazarus-Babaluayê (Cuba). This
event is being sponsored by the department of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American
Studies.
An Oreo in Chocolate City: C. Ray Nagin and the End of Black Political Power in
New Orleans
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 5:30 pm
Norman Mayers 101
Leonard N. Moore is associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is also
the former director of the African and African-American Studies Program and the PreDoctoral Scholar's Institute. The Cleveland Heights, Ohio, native is a 1993 graduate of
Jackson State University and he earned his Ph.D. in American History at The Ohio State
University in 1998. He joined the faculty at LSU in 1998 and he was promoted to associate
professor with tenure in 2002. His major research interests center around the black urban
experience since World War II. His book, Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political
Power, was published in 2002 by the University of Illinois Press. He currently has another
manuscript under review by the University of Illinois Press, entitled "American Gestapo:
African-Americans and the New Orleans Police Department." He has just begun a third
project tentatively titled "Chocolate City: The Political Career of C. Ray Nagin". In 2004 The
National Urban League awarded him with the Whitney M. Young Urban Leadership Award for
Education. He has been featured in a number of media outlets including the New York
Times, which did a feature story on him in 2004, USA Today, National Public Radio, ESPN
Radio, Sporting News Radio, and Tony Brown's Journal. As of today he has received over
160 hate e-mails for his recent comments in a March 30, 2006, USA Today cover story
regarding the Barry Bonds controversy. In response to the furor over his comments he has
just launched a website, www.blacksportscommentator.com, which will focus on race and
sport.
Ritual Space, Regional Cults, and the Rise of an Andean Polity
Middle American Research Institute, 4th Floor Dinwiddie Hall
Friday, April 7, 2006, 4.00 - 5.00 PM
Dr. Janusek is an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University interested in the development of
complex societies in the South American Andes. He will presenting the reseach he has been
carrying out for many years at the archaeological site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia. Refreshements
will be served at 3.30 PM.
Latinos, the American South, and Remaking Community Engagement
Anna E. Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Hall
Thursday, April 6, 2006, 4.30- 6.30 PM
George Sanchez is Professor of History and Director of the Center for American Studies and
Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on historical and
contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration. He is the author of
the award winning Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano
Los Angeles, 1900 - 1945 and co-editor of Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures.
Currently, he is completing a book on the impact of contemporary Mexican migration on the
culture and politics of Los Angeles, and a historical study of the ethnic interaction of
Mexican-Americans, Japanese-Americans and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los
Angeles.
Y Siguen Festejando: Popular Music, Commodification and the Afroperuvian
Festejo
152 Dixon Annex (Recital Hall)
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 4.45- 6 PM
Javier Leon, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Newcomb Department of Music
will present his lecture entitled: “Y siguen festejando: Popular Music, commodification and
the Afroperuvian Festejo.” This presentation will deal with the musical development of one
of the two main Afroperuvian genres, the festejo from the time of the Afroperuvian revival
of music and dance in the 1950s to the present. The talk will be focused on the various
ways in which musicians of different generations have sought to introduce particular
changes and innovations into the festejo in response to how they perceive their relationship
to the mass media and the role that the mass media has had in promoting this music
among non-Afroperuvian audiences.
A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. For more
information, please contact Javier Leon at 505-862-3214 or jleon@tulane.edu. This event is
being sponsored by the Music Department.
Making a Living in a Fragmented Forest: Red Howling Monkeys in Central
Amazonia
Middle American Research Institute, 4th Floor Dinwiddie Hall
Friday, March 24, 2006, 4.00 - 5.00 PM
Dr. Kellen Gilbert, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southeastern Louisiana University
will be speaking about his research on howling monkeys in Central Amazonia.
Refreshements will be served at 3.30 PM.
The Anthropology of Disasters
Middle American Research Institute, 4th Floor Dinwiddie Hall
February 14, 2006, 12.30 - 13:30 PM
Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith, an Anthropology professor at the University of Florida will give a
lecture on natural disasters and human response to them, a topic of great relevance to our
region. Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith areas of research are Disaster Research, Displacement
and Resettlement Studies. He will also give a workshop at the Center for Latin American
Studies from 8.00 - 9.15 am on February 14, 2006.
Ned Sublette Presents "Music and Slavery in New Orleans"
Stone Auditorium, Newcomb
February 2, 2006, 5:00 - 6:00 PM
Author, documentarian, and musician Ned Sublette is an acclaimed authority on the history
of Cuban music. He initiated research on New Orleans music as a Rockefeller Fellow
sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies in 2004-05. This lecture is
presented by The Wall Residential College. For more information please contact Chris Dunn
at <cjdunn@tulane.edu>
Xtobo and New Visions of the Maya Preclassic
Middle American Research Institute, 4th Floor Dinwiddie Hall
Friday, January 27, 2006, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
This presentation by David Anderson, Department of Anthropology looks at the intriguing
Middle and Late Preclassic period in the Maya lowlands of Northern Yucatan, Mexico. This is
a time of change in which many areas of Mesoamerica witness increasing complexity and
initial development of state societies.
Food Supply and the Dry-Season Ecology of Tropical Resident and Wintering
Migrant Birds
Alcee Fortier, Room 301
Friday, January 20, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
This lecture by Daniel Brown is a public disseration defense sponsored by the Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Royal Administration in Seventeenth-Century Santo Domingo: Considerations
on an Institutional Approach
Hebert Hall, Room 125 D
Friday, January 20, 3:00 PM
Marc Eagle received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from Tulane in
August 2005. Friday's presentation is conceived as a practice "job talk"
of the kind of presentation made by candidates for most teaching and
research jobs at colleges and universities. All graduate students are
strongly encouraged to attend. Ph.D. candidates are particularly urged to
participate. For more information, please contact Rosanne M. Adderley at
<adderley@tulane.edu>