Join us on Thursday, November 18, at 12:30 PM for a Conversation about Literature & Translation event with Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish, Gloria Gervitz, and Mark Schafer. The topic of conversation is Gerwitz’s epic poem, Migrations, in English translation by Mark Schafer. Forty-four years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican […]
Join us on Tuesday, November 2, at 2 PM for a Conversation about Literature & Translation event with Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish, and Robert Croll. The topic of conversation is Hebe Uhart’s Animals (Animales) and Croll’s recent translation from the Spanish for Archipelago Books. Hebe Uhart (1936-2018) is one of Argentina’s most celebrated contemporary […]
Join us for our Fall Welcome event on Wednesday, September 29, at 5 PM in Marsh Chapel. Colombian tenor David Guzman, Assistant Professor of Music and Voice at BU’s College of Fine Arts will perform from his repertoire of Latin-American Art Songs. He will be joined by CFA colleague Douglas Sumi on piano. A reception […]
Join us on Thursday, October 14 at 5 PM for The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life, a book presentation by Sujatha Fernandes. Moderated by Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Musicology & Ethnomusicology, College of Fine Arts. Fernandes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. She taught at the […]
Join us Thursday, October 7, at 12:30 PM for our first lunch talk of the semester with Prof. James Iffland (Romance Studies). This event will be held in person at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road. A boxed lunch will be served. Please register for the talk using the form below. […]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, My role as Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Pardee School of Global Studies will come to an end on June 30, 2021. I am heading to Texas, where I will assume the directorship of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT Austin. […]
This virtual conversation with author Pablo Sánchez about his new book, Yo no he muerto en México (March 2021) took place on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The book tells the story of Alejandro Ramírez, a young Spanish literature professor who, tired of the Spain of the early 21st century, gets a job at a Mexican […]
During the spring of 2021, as a means of fostering the study and appreciation of Latin America as well as student engagement around the interrelated crises of COVID-19, democracy/inclusion, identity, immigration, and race, the Center of Latin American Studies at Boston University held a creative projects contest. The competition was open to students in any […]
Congratulations to our colleague Luis Menéndez-Antuña who has been awarded a sabbatical grant from the Louise Ville Institute to work on his book project. This book maps the field of cultural studies both outside and within the discipline of New Testament studies to foreground an intercontextual approach to biblical texts. Such an intercontextual approach interprets […]
We at the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University would like to express our deep concern over the brutal repression with which the Colombian government has responded to the social protests and civic demonstrations taking place throughout the country. As a Center dedicated to promoting the social good in Latin America and to bringing […]