Author: Elizabeth Amrien

Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Spring 2021)

We are delighted to  be participating in the Pardee School’s Belt & Road Initiative with a talk by Jorge Heine on Friday, March 5 at 9 AM.  The topic of discussion will be: “Is China’s New Silk Road Lending a Helping Hand in Latin America’s Current Crisis?” Register in advance for this webinar: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SeOT6ukiTb6BbkSwG8Q0PA After […]

Book Presentation: Earthly Days – A Novel by José Revueltas (02.19.21)

Join translator Matthew Gleeson, publisher Pedro Jiménez, and writer Pedro Ángel Palou in celebrating the publication of the first ever English translation of Los días terrenales (Mexico, 1949), a novel by José Revueltas.  Mexican author Revueltas was a lifelong militant whose political activities stretched from the 1930s Communist Party to the 1968 student movement—and sent […]

Latinx Perspectives on the US Elections (01.29.21)

Join us on Friday, January 29, at 4 PM for a virtual roundtable discussion on Latinx Perspectives on the US Elections with MA State Representative and BU alumnus Andy X. Vargas. Mr. Vargas will be joined by Cristian De La Rosa, Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and Practice and Director of Contextual Education and […]