Author: Elizabeth Amrien

Jose Luis Nogales Publishes Essay Collection

Congratulations to Jose Luis Nogales, PhD candidate in BU’s Department of Romance Studies, whose collection of  essays on the work of Uruguayan writer Mario Levero has just been published by Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla.

Reading the Archive: Uncovering African Legacies in Latin America (10.09.20)

Join us for a faculty lunch talk with Dr. Amina Shabani, Lecturer in Spanish. The topic of discussion will be Reading the Archive: Uncovering African Legacies in Latin America. Amina Shabani’s teaching and research interests include foreign language pedagogy; service-learning; creative writing; African, Afro-Latin American, Caribbean and U.S Latino literatures. Born in Belgium and raised […]

Call for Artists

Are you Latinx in the Greater Boston area, and have you also have been creating, writing, painting during the pandemic? Would you like to have your work be part of a digital display and a print catalogue? ¿Sos latinx en el área de metropolitana Boston? ¿Has estado creando, escribiendo y pintando durante la pandemia? ¿Te gustaría que tu trabajo […]

David Colmenares Awarded Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship

Please join us in in congratulating our colleague, David Colmenares, who was selected for the Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship. This three-year award recognizes the exceptional quality and promise David shows as a Junior faculty member. David Horacio Colmenares’s research bridges modern Iberian and Mesoamerican studies, incorporating Romance languages, linguistics, historical anthropology, reception studies, and […]

Event Highlights: 500 Years of African Presence in Mexican Music

On July 17, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Boston University hosted a virtual event titled “500 years of African presence in Mexican Music.” The event featured Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music and Chair of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University, and Benjamín Juárez, Professor of Fine Arts at Boston University. […]

Event Highlights: Incurables: Relatos de dolencias y males

On Tuesday, August 4, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) held a virtual roundtable discussion, in Spanish, of Incurables: Relatos de dolencias y males (Spanish Edition), an anthology of short stories touching on the experience of disease. The stories treat a variety of ailments, whether of body, mind, or soul, experienced by a group […]

A Conversation with David Carballo about the Fall of the Aztec Empire

David Frum talks to David Carballo, Associate Professor of Archaeology and a specialist on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico, about the fall of the Aztec empire, in the latest issue of the Atlantic. Carballo’s new history of the overthrow – Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the […]

1st EU-LAC Essay Contest on the Bi-Regional Partnership

The European Union – Latin America and Caribbean Foundation (EU-LAC Foundation) was created in 2010 by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) member states. Its Members are the Member states of the EU and CELAC as well as the EU […]