Our colleague and core faculty member, Professor André de Quadros, has been awarded a grant under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative: 2021-22 Competition. The team, which includes lead applicant Andrea Emberly from York University, has been awarded $447,117.00 for the project entitled “Singing our stories: Networking community musical […]
This talk on “The Art of Traficking” by Laura Blume, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. She lays out her current book project, which uses ethnography to examine the ways in which political context impacts drug-trafficking […]
This talk – “Só a antropofagia nos une” – by Carolina Rodrigues Freitas took place on Friday, April 29, 2022. Carolina is a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Brasília and a Visiting Researcher at Boston University’s Center for Latin American Studies. Carolina’s research investigates the potential of Oswald de Andrade’s modernist concept of “antropofagia” […]
This series of events – Caminos, resistencias e identidades: Vivencias e investigaciones que conectan Brasil y México – took place via Zoom on April 14, 21, and 28. It was organized by Prof. Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Boston University, and hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies. […]
Over the last two years COVID-19 has revealed large disparities in health and wellbeing in our communities and grave injustice related to health services access, including vaccines. Many of these communities have a large Latinx population with immigrants from Brazil, Haiti and Central America. “Equity Now & Beyond” is a coalition led by immigrant community-based […]
This virtual lecture on “Social and Solidarity Economy in the Time of COVID-19” by Pablo Baisotti, External Lecturer at Warsaw University (Institute of Iberian and Ibero- American Studies) and Associated Researcher at the University of Brasilia (Department of Latin American Studies, ELA), took place on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Pablo Baisotti received his Ph.D. in […]
On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, the Center for Latin American Studies welcomed Juan Carlos Pinzón, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States. To commemorate the bicentennial of diplomatic relations between Colombia and the United States, the Ambassador spoke at length about the history of the countries’ binational relationship, their partnership, and the political challenges that […]
Join us on Friday, April 29, for a talk by Carolina Rodrigues Freitas:“Só a antropofagia nos une”: Devouring of Tradition as a Creative Practice in Brazilian Art and Culture. Carolina is a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Brasília and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies. Carolina’s research investigates the potential […]
On Friday, April 8, in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies, we hosted an “Open Mic” night. The artistic gathering was organized by BU graduate students Saraí Garcia and led by Sara Ladino Cano, both PhD candidates in Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
Día 01 (14 de abril de 2022 / 5 p.m- 7 p.m) – Resistencias – los movimientos de autonomía y otras prácticas de existencia en México Mediación: Profa. Dra. Estela Scheinvar (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) Andar preguntando por los caminos de Chiapas: comparticiones sentipensadas sobre la autonomía zapatista – Sebastián Granda Henao […]