Author: Elizabeth Amrien

Multicultural Art Night (11.18.22)

Join BU Graduate Students for a Night of Culture, Artmaking, and Art-sharing. Friday, November 18, 2022 4:30 to 6:30 PM Earl Center for Learning & Innovation 55 Pilgrim Road, Boston, MA RSVP

Reggaetón Scholarship Today (11.21.22)

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Join us for a roundtable discussion, moderated by Michael Birenbaum Quintero, featuring three short presentations of 10-15 min each by Wayne Marshall (Berklee College of Music), Petra Rivera-Rideau (Wellesley College) and Marina Arias Salvado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Sponsored by the BU Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department with support form the Center for Latin American Studies […]

Film Screening: Out of Breath (11.16.22)

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Event Highlights: Venezuela and the Left Turn in Latin America

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This presentation by CLAS Visiting Researcher Carlos Blanco took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Thursday, November 3, 2022. Carlos Blanco holds a PhD from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. He has taught several courses on Latin American politics at Boston University. His present research has been […]

Event Highlights: Latinx Voters – A Misunderstood Demographic

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On October 27, 2022, in the lead up to the midterm elections in the US, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted a faculty roundtable to explore Latinx electoral politics. The speakers included Taylor Boas (Political Science), Susan Eckstein (Pardee School), Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy (Pardee School), Jorge Heine (Pardee School), and Rachel Meade (Political Science). The […]

Mothers of False Positives from Soacha and Bogotá World Tour: Truth, Justice, Integrity, No Repetition, Memory (11.08.22)

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Join us for the MAFAPO World Tour in Boston. A speaking event – Mothers of False Positives from Soacha and Bogotá: Truth, Justice, Integrity, No Repetition, Memory – will be held at Boston University. Speakers will be Jacqueline Castillo, sister of a victim; Carlos Mora, ex-military and human rights leader; and Lilian Calvache. Simultaneous interpretation […]

Opposition to Polarizing Populism in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador (11.02.22)

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Please join the Political Science Graduate Students for a presentation by Orçun Selçuk: Opposition to Polarizing Populism in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador. Wednesday, November 2, 2022 1 to 2:30 PM via Zoom Orçun Selçuk is Assistant Professor at Luther College, Iowa.

Event Highlights: Memorias del Conflicto Colombiano

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On Monday, October 17, 2022, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted the Colombian photojournalist Jesús Abad Colorado and curator María Belén Sáez Ibarra for a presentation of their new book: El Testigo. Memorias del Conflicto Armado Colombiano, en el lente y la voz de Jesús Abad Colorado. Conversaciones con María Belén Sáez de Ibarra. The […]

Lopes de Barros Publishes Monograph

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Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and a core faculty member of the Center for Latin American Studies, has published a new book: Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011) (Liverpool University Press). In this book, he uses the method of cyber-archaeology of […]

Event Highlights: Reggaetón in Spain

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This talk, by CLAS Visiting Researcher Marina Arias Salvado, took place at the Howard Thurman Center at Boston University on Thursday, October 17, 2022. Marina Arias Salvado is a PhD candidate in Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is working on a dissertation entitled “El reggaetón en España: industria musical, […]

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Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

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