The Latin American Library Centennial Gallery Talks

The Latin American Library invites you to a series of gallery talks to close out our yearlong centennial exhibition “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” celebrating one hundred years of Latin American studies at Tulane University. The exhibit tells this story through many of the library’s rare and unique holdings, some of which have never before been on display. Before the close of the exhibit at the end of May, we have invited Latin Americanist scholars from Tulane to guide us towards a deeper understanding of some of the key pieces in the exhibit in a series of gallery talks followed by a Q&A. The series closes with a special presentation by an international team of Mayanists working on a groundbreaking digital database of Maya hieroglyphs. 

 

Mark your calendars and join the Latin American Library for some or all of the sessions in the LAL Gallery to learn more about some of the unique items in the exhibit!

 

March 26

Authoritarianism and the Preservation of Memory in Nicaragua: The Chamorro Barrios Family Papers

Justin Wolfe (Department of History) and Juan Pablo Gómez (The Latin American Library)

Wednesday, March 26 | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

March 27

Colonial Encounters: José de Acosta’s Natural History and Tercero cathecismo

John Charles (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

Thursday, March 27 | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

March 28

Brazilian modernismos

Christopher Dunn (Department of Spanish and Portuguese): Haroldo de Campos and Galáxias

Adrian Anagnost (Newcomb Art Department): The Photography of Thomaz Farkas

Friday, March 28 | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

April 3

Colonial Encounters: Mesoamerican Pictorial Manuscripts at the Latin American Library

Barbara Mundy (Newcomb Art Department)

Thursday, April 3 | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

April 4

New Orleans and Latin America

Yuri Herrera (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) and Marilyn Miller (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

Friday, April 4 | 4:00-5:00 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

April 9

Late Colonial Textualities

Hortensia Calvo (The Latin American Library): Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the Latin American Library

Teresa Clifton (The Latin American Library): Francisco Hernández and a Transatlantic Natural History of Mexico

Wednesday, April 9 | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

April 11

A Maya Afternoon

Gabrielle Vail (UNC-Chapel Hill), Alexandre Bassi (independent scholar), and Andrew Glass (Microsoft, Inc.): New Digital Tools for Engaging Audiences with Maya Texts: Unicode Fonts for Maya Hieroglyphs

Christine Hernández (The Latin American Library): How is Pakal’s Sarcophagus like the Codex Tulane?

Friday, April 11 | 1:00-3:30 p.m.

The Latin American Library Gallery, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

 

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