Author: Elizabeth Amrien

Latin American Studies (PLAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University

Tango y cultura urbana (09.23.20)

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Jose Luis Nogales Publishes Essay Collection

in Student News

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)

in Event Announcements

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

in Opportunities

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

in Faculty News

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 […]

A New String for the Mexican Lyre: The Literary Discovery of Aztec Poetry in 19th Century Mexico (09.25.20)

in Event Announcements

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. […]

New Voices in Mexican Cinema: Alonso Ruizpalacios (09.17.20)

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Event Highlights: 500 Years of African Presence in Mexican Music

in Event Highlights

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

in Event Highlights

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 […]

Statement on Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

At the Center for Latin American Studies, we believe in and practice respect for individual differences in life experience, sexual orientation, and religious belief, and we aspire to be free of intellectual parochialism, barriers to access, and ethnocentrism. We appreciate and deeply value the contributions and talents of every member of the Boston University community and invite you to learn more about us.