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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a faculty lunch talk with David H. Colmenares, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Prof. Colmenares will share the untold story of how an international network of scholars found a manuscript that was never lost and discovered the Aztec songs that had been hidden in plain sight for three centuries. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]