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 […]
Join us on Friday, June 26, from 12 to 1 PM, for an online presentation 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. Moderated by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at […]
This is the fifth in a series of interviews conducted by Boston University School of Public Health students Alejandro Alvarez and Juliana Barounis as part of their practicum requirement for the MPH. The goal of their project, which is being supported logistically by the Center for Latin American Studies as part of a larger look […]
This is the fourth in a series of interviews conducted by Boston University School of Public Health students Alejandro Alvarez and Juliana Barounis as part of their practicum requirement for the MPH. The goal of their project, which is being supported logistically by the Center for Latin American Studies as part of a larger look […]
This is the third in a series of interviews conducted by Boston University School of Public Health students Alejandro Alvarez and Juliana Barounis as part of their practicum requirement for the MPH. The goal of their project, which is being supported logistically by the Center for Latin American Studies as part of a larger look […]
This is the second in a series of interviews conducted by Boston University School of Public Health students Alejandro Alvarez and Juliana Barounis as part of their practicum requirement for the MPH. The goal of their project, which is being supported logistically by the Center for Latin American Studies, is to explore the current pandemic […]
This is the first of a series of interviews conducted by Boston University School of Public Health students Alejandro Alvarez and Juliana Barounis as part of their practicum requirement for the MPH. The goal of their project, which is being supported logistically by the Center for Latin American Studies, is to explore the current pandemic […]
Latin American Studies Essay Contest As a means of fostering the study and appreciation of Latin America at Boston University, earlier this spring the Center for Latin American Studies announced, on March 19, an essay contest with separate prizes for graduate and undergraduate students and separate juries for each competition. Gradaute essays were judged by […]
Prof. Jeffrey Rubin, Professor of History at Boston University and an affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies, has co-authored a piece with a BU graduate student Gana Ndiaye on Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the disparate impacts of the virus on vulnerable populations, and community efforts to fight […]