“Colombia – preserving Afro-Colombian Culture through song” © UN Women/Ryan Brown On Monday, July 27, Kevin Gallagher and Janine Ferretti from BU’s Global Development Policy Center joined us for a discussion on the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America and its disproportionate affects on indigenous people and Afro-descendants. The pandemic, they argued, has laid bare the deep […]
Roles and Responsibilities Maintaining, creating and building individual and organizational relationships region-wide with religious and academic institutions, social and political movements, peace and justice groups, and international solidarity organizations Planning and executing a inter-regional Fall speakers tour and regular virtual events/meetings Recruiting for and supporting regional solidarity delegations to Cuba, Colombia and Honduras Participating in […]
Join us on Monday, July 27, at 12 noon, for “In Search for Equity and Inclusion for Indigenous People and Afro Descendants in the Time of Crisis: A Presentation by Kevin Gallagher and Janine Ferretti.” The pandemic has laid bare the deep fault lines of inequality around the world. In Latin America, Covid-19 is exacerbating […]
Join us on Tuesday, August 4 at 12 noon, for a roundtable discussion of Incurables: Relatos de dolencias y males (Spanish Edition) with editor Oswaldo Estrada and contributor Carlos Villacorta. The twenty stories in this anthology center touch on the experience of disease. The stories treat a variety of ailments, whether of body, mind, or soul, experienced […]
Join us on Friday, July 17, at 12 noon (ET), for “500 years of African presence in Mexican Music: A Conversation between Michael Birenbaum Quintero and Benjamín Juárez.” Profs. Birenbaum Qunintero and Juárez will discuss African contributions to the rich musical heritage of Mexico and African involvement in the formation of la música de México. […]
This round table discussion took place via Zoom on Wednesday, July 8. It was moderated by Adela Pineda (Romance Studies and Latin American Studies). The presenters included Andrea Berlin (Religion and Archaeology), David Carballo (Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies), and David Colmenares (Romance Studies and Latin American Studies). Memorials have always served the purposes […]
In collaboration with the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University, we are hosting on Tuesday, July 21 at 4 PM (EST) a Zoom discussion on Even the Rain (Spanish: También la lluvia), a 2010 Spanish movie directed by Icíar Bollaín. The plot of the movie centers on Mexican director Sebastián (Gael García […]
In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding DACA, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music, Chair of the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department, and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Latin American Studies, spoke first with Magalis Troncoso, Executive Director of the Centro Dominicano in Boston, and then with Heloisa Galvão, […]
This presentation – Perspectives from the Further South: Racial (In)justice in Brazil – by Fernanda Vieira, Visiting Researcher in Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies and a PhD candidate in Literature Studies at Rio de Janeiro State University – UERJ, took place on Friday, June 26, 2020. It was hosted by the Center for Latin […]
Memorials have always served the purposes of the periods in which they are constructed rather than the times in which the commemorated events took place – but it is equally true that as years pass and societies change, so too do the messages of the memorials and their reception by viewers. Parallel to conversations and […]