(Re)Imagining Borderlands & Shared Cultures in Between
We are thrilled to invite you to participate in International Education Week (IEW) where we are exploring the theme of (Re)Imagining Borderlands & Shared Cultures in Between, to celebrate Tulane's global community and reflect upon the international research, collaborations, and learning Tulanians are engaged in around the world. We join campuses across the country through IEW, a joint national initiative of the Department of State and the Department of Education to think more deeply about internationalization across U.S. Campuses. At Tulane we are using IEW to cultivate spaces for global awareness across borders, fostering an inclusive international community, and facilitate impactful global learning and engagement, while also aligning with our institutional mission of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
The Office of Academic Affairs and Provost and the Office of International Affairs (Tulane Global) are spearheading this year’s International Education Week, alongside its key partners, the Office of International Students and Scholars, NTC Center for Global Education, and 15+ Schools and Units across campus.
Keynote Speaker: Daniel Alarcón
Date: Tuesday, November 15
Daniel Alarcón is a Peruvian-American writer, journalist, professor, and radio producer. Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and MacArthur Fellow. Daniel’s work explores the social, cultural, and linguistic ties that connect people throughout Latin America and the United States. Author of Lost City Radio (2007), At Night We Walk in Circles (2013), and The King is Always Above the People (2017). He is also a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where he covers Latin America.
Daniel is the Co-founder of the renowned podcasts Radio Ambulante and El Hilo, both a collaborative and transnational enterprise integrating stories from 20+ countries and resulting in more than 8 million downloads a year.
Daniel's lecture is also part of the School of Liberal Arts Bobby Yan Lectureship in Media and Social Change and of CIPR's Distinguished GreenLeaf Lecture Series about investigative journalism in Latin America and how journalists have been able to take advantage of the same technological trends affecting print journalism to create new spaces where they can continue fulfilling the journalistic mission of ensuring transparency and accountability.
Sponsors: Center for Inter-American Policy & Research, Freeman School of Business, Fulbright Association, School of Liberal Arts, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Office of Academic Affairs, Tulane Global.
Keynote Speaker: Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village on the banks of the Colorado River and is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. She identifies herself as Indigenous, Latinx, and Queer.Natalie is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American Poet, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2018), Lannan Literary Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Arizona State University, a language activist, and co-founder of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. Author of Postcolonial Love Poem (2021) -winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry- and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), Natalie’s work has also appeared in Narrative Magazine, Guernica, Poetry Magazine, the New Republic, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, amongst others. Sponsors: Altman Program, Middle American Research Institute, Newcomb Institute, Office of Academic Affairs & Provost, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Tulane Global.
Other Events
- Monday, November 14 (5:30 pm): OISS Award Ceremony & IEW Welcome Reception
- Tuesday, November 15 (2:00 pm): IEW Global Café
- Tuesday, November 15 (3:00 pm): Tulane Immigration Law Society hosts the talk What is Citizenship? by Homero Lopez Jr, Director/Managing Attorney of Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy (ISLA) in New Orleans
- Wednesday, November 16 (6:00 pm): Center for Global Education takes undergraduate international students to the New Orleans Pelicans basketball game
- Thursday, November 17 (All Day): Office of International Students and Scholars Connect Workshops at the LBC.
- Ongoing: Exhibitions at Middle American Research Institute, Newcomb Art Museum, Howard Tilton Memorial Library, & celebrate international lunch menus at the Chef’s Table on the second floor of The Commons.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Academic Affairs & Provost |Newcomb Institute | NTC - Center for Global Education & Office of Study Abroad | Office of Academic Affairs & Provost | Office of International Affairs (Tulane Global) | Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS) | Office of Undergraduate Admission | Freeman School of Business | School of Architecture | School of Law | School of Liberal Arts | School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine | School of Science & Engineering | Stone Center for Latin American Studies | Altman Program | Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion | Center for Inter-American Policy & Research | Carolyn Barber-Pierre Center of Multicultural Affairs | Middle American Research Institute | Fulbright Association
