Harvey Young, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, announced during the last Faculty Meeting, on May 6, that Benjamín Juárez had been granted the title of Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus. Dean Young mentioned that after serving as Dean of CFA for five years, Benjamín’s faculty position was not exclusive to any single school, […]
Join us on Tuesday, May 25, for a conversation (in Spanish) with author Pablo Sánchez about his new book, Yo no he muerto en México (March 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 […]
Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Latin American Studies, and American and New England Studies Ana María Reyes has received the ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book award for The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics. The award recognizes a distinguished book on the art of Latin America from the Pre-Columbian era to the present.
This conversation with Mexican documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and award-winning director, Fernando Frías, took place on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The subject of discussion was Frías’s latest feature, I’M NO LONGER HERE. The film, which Frias wrote, directed and produced, has gone on to win the feature film competition and audience prizes at the Morelia Film […]
ANLE (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española/ North-American Academy of the Spanish Language) announced today that Alicia Borinsky has been given the Enrique Anderson Imbert Award for her lifelong career as a scholar and creative writer. The award is given yearly on April 23 in celebration of Miguel de Cervantes.
Call for Papers Context While Gayl Jones is best known for her debut novel Corregidora (1975), she has published many other literary works including multiple novels, poetry, a short story collection, a play, as well as an academic book on oral traditions in African American literature. Our virtual symposium in Spring 2022, exclusively dedicated to […]
En esta charla, Lina Meruane rastrea, a través de textos canónicos y contemporáneos de la enfermedad, la emergencia histórica de un nuevo sujeto político que opera a la vez en el ámbito local y global: el del paciente impaciente que desconfía de diagnósticos conjeturales y tratamientos de dudosa efectividad, que pide explicaciones y segundas opiniones, […]
A VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM AT THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ❦ Keynote address: “Translation Generation: Constructing the Colonial Encyclopedia in a Lisbon Printing-House” NEIL SAFIER (BROWN UNIVERSITY) Click Here to Register via Zoom Printed Afterlives: Early Hispanic Books and Manuscripts in the 19th Century May 7, 2021 ❡ Organized by Anita Savo (BU), David H. Colmenares (BU) […]
This virtual talk by Lina Britto, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, took place on Thursday, March 25, 2021. The subject of discussion was Britto’s book Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (University of California Press, 2020). Combining deep archival research with oral history, the book deciphers a puzzle: […]