Prominent American filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Tulane University on Friday, March 29, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tulane professor of history Walter Isaacson will moderate a dialogue with Burns, which will include clips of Burns’ groundbreaking works and a discussion of the people and events that molded America’s history. A question and answer session will follow the discussion. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Kendall Cram Room on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, which is located on Tulane’s uptown campus.

Newcomb Art Museum will present an author talk and reading in Freeman Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 6:30 p.m. on A Dream and a Chisel, a powerful new memoir of sculptor Angela Gregory’s years in Paris.

Students from Dillard University, Loyola University, University of New Orleans and Tulane University will participate in the annual day of service to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 21, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The students will dedicate their efforts to honor of King’s legacy by working with nonprofit groups around New Orleans.  

Tulane Hillel is hosting the Tulane Vigil for The Tree of Life Synagogue, tonight at 8 p.m. on the Berger Family Lawn (LBC Quad). Please join your fellow Tulanians for this evening of remembrance and unity in opposition to bigotry, prejudice and violence.

Damon Young, editor of ‘The Root’ and co-founder of Very Smart Brothas, will join the Tulane community on Oct. 15 as the guest speaker for the 2018 Diversity Convocation.

Newcomb Art Museum to host the world premiere of Postcards From Over the Edge, a new theatrical work that illustrates the historical struggles related to the sale of sex in Louisiana.

The growing number of technology jobs in the city was part of the discussion at the 39th annual Tulane Business Forum held Friday, Sept. 21.