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: […]
EVENT POSTPONED TO FALL 2021! Join us Friday, April 23, at 12 noon, for a virtual lunch talk with CLAS colleague James Iffland, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Boston University. Prof. Iffland will discuss “The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet: The Case of Roque Dalton (1935-1975).” […]
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) presents the Second International Colloquium on African Studies: Migration, Security, and Inequalities in the African World. March 24-26, 2021 Hosted by: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa UNAM–Boston UNAM–South Africa University of Massachusetts, Boston Boston University View the program at […]
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 […]