The Center for Democracy in the Americas, a 501c3 organization in DC which promotes a U.S. policy toward the Americas based on engagement and mutual respect, is currently accepting applications for its remote spring internship program until November 15. The internship is paid and may be on either a part-time or full-time basis. Interns gain […]
Join us for a Book Talk with Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University, and Dylon Lamar Robbins, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. Chude-Sokei will present The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. […]
Join us for a discussion on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and its impact on higher education, particularly for Latin American students. Presenters: Cristian De La Rosa, Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and Practice & Director of Contextual Education and Community Partnerships, Boston University School of Theology; Alberto Fierro Garza, Consul […]
Adela Pineda presented The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pineda is a Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University. Her research interests focus on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Spanish American literature, […]
We are excited to announce the awarding of a 5-year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to co-PIs Dr. Natasha Hochberg (BMC/BUSM/BUSPH) and Maja Carrion, MPH (BU-Sargent) and Dr. David Hamer (BMC/BUSM/BUSPH) as co-investigator to study Chagas disease. Chagas disease, a vector-borne infection caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is […]
Join us for a presentation of Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo. Carballo offers a unique perspective on the history of encounter, with a focus on the physical world of places and things, their similarities and differences in trans-Atlantic […]
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