LAL Past News
Latin American Jewish Diasporas in the Archive
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans' Behar Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs (CJMA) and the Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center … (read more)
Zine Your Research: A New Podcast from Tulane Libraries Launches Sept 26
Tulane University Libraries is proud to announce the launch of Zine Your Research, a new podcast series exploring the intersection of zine culture and academia.
Zines, which are DIY and self-published works, have long thrived in… (read more)
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… (read more)
The Latin American Library at the New Orleans Book Festival Family Day
To young and old alike:
Be sure to stop by the Latin American Library booth at the New Orleans Book Fest Family Day on March 29, 10-2!
Come explore what ancient Mesoamerican books looked like and how colonial Spanish Americans printed and bound their books. Family Day visitors can learn to solve a Maya almanac and practice counting, writing, and calendar-reckoning,… (read more)
Placing Enlightened Critique: The Trans-Caribbean Periodical Press, Manuscript Authorship, and Imperial Conflicts between the 18th and 19th Centuries
Join us for the work-in-progress talk by Kevin Sedeño-Guillén, 2024-25 Richard E Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library.
Placing Enlightened Critique: The Trans-Caribbean Periodical Press, Manuscript Authorship, and Imperial Conflicts between the 18th and 19th Centuries
The talk analyzes how the interactions and displacements of periodicals, newspapers,… (read more)
Sabina da Cruz: Life and Strategies of a Freed African in Slave-Holding Bahia
The research focuses on the story of Sabina da Cruz, a freed African woman who denounced the Malês Revolt, an insurrection by Muslim Africans, which occurred in Bahia, Brazil, in January 1835. This character's trajectory allows us to reflect on sociability, agency, and legal restrictions imposed on freed African women, as well as the strategies they deployed to remain free and autonomous in… (read more)
Invention and Innovation in the Altiplano of the Andes, 1587-1620: The Roots of Legacy Mercury in our Environment?
Invention and Innovation in the Altiplano of the Andes, 1587-1620: The Roots of Legacy Mercury in our Environment?
Of the six refining recipes for silver ores implemented on an industrial scale prior to the end of the 19c, three were the product of an extremely fruitful period of invention and innovation that took place around Potosi, in present day Bolivia, during the two… (read more)
“It is the SALALM book, 5 k’atuns completed at Tulane”
On June 8-12, the Latin American Library hosted SALALM 69, the annual meeting of the international professional association dedicated to academic… (read more)
“A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library”, a major exhibit at the Latin American Library (LAL)
On June 10, the Latin American Library (LAL) inaugurated “A Distinctive Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library”, a major exhibition commemorating a century of Tulane University’s… (read more)
The Latin American Library Hosts SALALM 69!
On June 8-12, the Latin American Library (LAL) hosted the 69th Annual Conference of the Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) in New Orleans. SALALM is the foremost… (read more)