Daniel Alarcón: Keynote Speaker

DATE: Tuesday, November 15 / TIME: 5:30 pm

Freeman Auditorium (Woldernberg Art Center)

Daniel Alarcón is a Peruvian-American writer, journalist, professor, and radio producer. Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2021). His 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. These interactive audiovisual platforms have also become a widely used educational tool for journalism and Spanish classes.

We are excited to announce that Daniel Alarcón is this year’s speaker for the School of Liberal Arts Bobby Yan Lectureship in Media and Social Change, which is part of the Tulane Trailblazers initiative, celebrating the contributions of people from diverse backgrounds who have made a substantial and lasting impact at Tulane. The lectureship is named after seven-time Emmy Award winner Bobby Yan, a 1995 Tulane graduate who founded Tulane’s Asian American Student Union.

During his visit, Daniel will also join this year’s Distinguished Greenleaf Lecture Series sponsored by the Center of Inter-American Policy and Research and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. The series focuses on the importance of investigative journalism for democracy highlighting how Latin American journalists have taken 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: School of Liberal Arts, Center for Inter-American Policy & Research, Freeman School of Business, Fulbright Association, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Office of Academic Affairs & Provost, Tulane Global

Natalie Diaz: Keynote Speaker

DATE: Wednesday, November 16 / TIME: 5:30 pm

Freeman Auditorium (Woldernberg Art Center)

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 and Cultures 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 for Poetry – and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), Natalie's work have also appeared in Narrative Magazine, Guernica, Poetry Magazine, the New Republic, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Sponsors: Altman Program in International Studies & Business, Middle American Research Institute, Newcomb Institute, Office of Academic Affairs & Provost, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Tulane Global