Year: 2020
Book Talk with Louis Chude-Sokei and Dylon Lamar Robbins (11.17.20)
Join us for a Book Talk with Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University, and Dylon Lamar Robbins, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. Chude-Sokei will present The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. […]
What Is Daca? (10.27.20)
Join us for a discussion on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and its impact on higher education, particularly for Latin American students. Presenters: Cristian De La Rosa, Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and Practice & Director of Contextual Education and Community Partnerships, Boston University School of Theology; Alberto Fierro Garza, Consul […]
Migration Policy, Border Issues, and Campus Reflections on Hostile Terrain 94 (10.15.20)
October 15 at 4pm Join us for a discussion on migration, policy, border issues, and other topics related to the Hostile Terrain 94 Installation at BU on the 2nd floor landing of the George Sherman Union. To learn more and register visit: HT94 Reflections Panel
Adela Pineda Presents The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage at Brown University
Adela Pineda presented The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pineda is a Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University. Her research interests focus on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Spanish American literature, […]
Implementing Novel Strategies for Education and Chagas Testing (INSECT)
We are excited to announce the awarding of a 5-year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to co-PIs Dr. Natasha Hochberg (BMC/BUSM/BUSPH) and Maja Carrion, MPH (BU-Sargent) and Dr. David Hamer (BMC/BUSM/BUSPH) as co-investigator to study Chagas disease. Chagas disease, a vector-borne infection caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is […]
Book Presentation: Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain (10.23.20)
Join us for a presentation of Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo. Carballo offers a unique perspective on the history of encounter, with a focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic […]
A Conversation with Mexican Filmmaker Isaac Cherem (10.05.20)
Latin American Studies (PLAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University
Tango y cultura urbana (09.23.20)
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMM-UXrP3_XAl49wVXktYbx8hXLTVJIwsNfRW-cnSRoviTZw/viewform