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.
Join us for a virtual lunch talk with our Pardee School colleague Andrei Mamolea on Friday, March 26, at 12 PM. Mamolea will be talking about the Uruguayan feminist leader Paulina Luisi’s international thought and activism. Widely considered the “mother” of Latin American feminism, Paulina Luisi (1875-1950) dedicated herself during the 1920s and 1930s to […]
This event – a virtual reading and conversation with Huilliche-Chilean poet Jaime Luis Huenún – took place on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. Huenún grew up in Osorno, near the Rahue River, which appears in many of his poems. He normally writes in Spanish, and his work represents an effort to construct a new indigenous poetics […]
Join us for a virtual discussion of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2020) by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Loyola University Chicago. Moderated by Ana Villarreal, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University. From the University of California Press […]
Join us for a virtual discussion of Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (University of California Press, 2020) by Lina Britto, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. Moderated by Ana Villarreal, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University. From the University of California Press website: Before Colombia became one of […]
Join us to celebrate the publication of Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds with 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. This is the first English-language book to provide […]
This virtual lunch talk with Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology & International Relations at Boston University, took place on Monday, February 8, 2021. Prof. Eckstein discussed the special entitlements Cubans have received under various administrations and why US immigration policy has favored Cubans over other immigrants.
This presentation by Jaime Marroquín—Hidden in Translation: Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Science—was hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University and took place on Thursday, January 28, 2021. Prof. Jaime Marroquin is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University. His research focuses on the cultural history of knowledge and science […]
This roundtable discussion with Andy X. Vargas, MA State Representative and Pardee School alumnus, took place on Friday, January 29, 2021. Joining the discussion, which was hosted by BU’s Center for Latin American Studies and moderated by CLAS director Adela Pineda, were BU professors Cristian de la Rosa, Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and […]