This event celebrates the publication of Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds. On Friday, March 12, the book’s editors Cynthia Vich, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Fordham University, and Sarah Barrow, Professor of Film and Media at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, were joined by Ignacio […]
Please join us in congratulating our dear colleagues David Carballo and Veronika Wirtz, who have been promoted to Full Professor. David Carballo, CAS, Anthropology, is a scholar of Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing specifically on the Pre-Hispanic civilizations of central Mexico. His current projects at the ancient city of Teotihuacan seek to better understand urbanization, neighborhood organization, the […]
The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University is hosting a virtual conference series titled“Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative” to examine the economic, social, political, and security impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Since the BRI cuts across regions and topics, all seven of the Pardee School’s regional and thematic centers are sponsoring […]
Join us Tuesday, April 27, for a conversation with Mexican documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and award-winning director Fernando Frías. Frías wrote, directed and produced his latest feature, I’M NO LONGER HERE, which was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters lab and won over 10 prestigious development, production and post-production grants. The film has gone on to win […]
Anna Howard Shaw Center Women in the World Conference March 26, 2021 from 10:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT Co-Sponsored by The National Association of Latina Methodist Clergy Women (ACLAMEN) More information can be found on our website: www.bu.edu/shaw/events/women-in-the-world-conference/
En este ensayo 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, que se […]
Jonathan Calvillo, Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston University School of Theology, discusses his new book, The Saints of Santa Ana (Oxford University Press, November, 2020). The book takes readers into the thriving Mexican-majority neighborhoods of Santa Ana, California, a city once dubbed the hardest place to live in the U.S. There, Jonathan […]
Congratulations to David Carballo, who has been awarded a Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant for his community-engaged archaeology project with youth living near the ancient city of Teotihuacan. Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grants support public-facing humanities projects at an earlier stage of development than the Public Engagement Fellowship, when resources can enable planning, help deepen […]
This virtual book presentation, celebrating the publication of the first ever English translation of Los días terrenales (Mexico, 1949), a novel by José Revueltas, took place on Friday, February 19, 2021. Translator Matthew Gleeson and publisher Pedro Jiménez were joined by writer Pedro Ángel Palou in a conversation moderated by David H. Colmenares, Assistant Professor […]
In this CLAS virtual lunch talk, which took place on Monday, February 22, 2021, Ambassadors Paul Hare and Jorge Heine discuss the political economy of the pandemic in Latin America. The Political Economy of the Pandemic in Latin America from BU Latin American Studies on Vimeo.