Author: Elizabeth Amrien

Event Highlights: Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century

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 […]

Congratulations to David Carballo and Veronika Wirtz

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 […]

Event Highlights: Is China’s New Silk Road Lending a Helping Hand in Latin America’s Current Crisis?

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 […]

Latinas and Religious Leadership (03.26.21)

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/

Jonathan Calvillo: The Saints of Santa Ana (03.31.21)

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 […]

David Carballo Receives Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant

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 […]

Event Highlights: Earthly Days Book Presentation

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 […]