On Friday, May 8, Prof. Adela Pineda, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, presented the novel El Hogar by Argentine writer Jose Henrique via Instagram. The novel revisits the military dictatorship in the 70s and early 80s, from the point of view of an ex-militant who goes underground as a homeless beggar.
On Wednesday, April 29, Mexican novelist, playwright, and journalist Juan Villoro analyzed the relationship between Archeology and Literature in Mexico in a virtual conversation at Boston University. Through literary works by Mexican authors such as Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, José Emilio Pacheco, and Carlos Pellicer, as well as his own chronicles, Villoro reflected […]
On Wednesday, April 22, at the Center for Latin American Studies faculty meeting, Veronika Wirtz, Associate Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, gave a presentation on the challenges of Latin American countries in the face of the coronavirus crisis, among others, the high prevalence of comorbidity in the population, the weakness of health […]
Join us for a virtual talk with Juan Villoro: Arqueología y literatura en México: Una conversación virtual con Juan Villoro. Juan Villoro is an award winning novelist, playwright and journalist. He is currently a visiting professor at Stanford’s Center for Latin American Studies (2019-20). He has been a professor of literature at the Universidad Nacional […]
Last Thursday, March 26, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted an online lecture by Luis Miguel Estrada, a writer and a scholar of Mexican and Latin American literature, titled “The Wandering Nation.” From his personal experience teaching Mexican literature to Mexican American students, Estrada reflected on how contemporary literature articulates new imaginaries on the […]
As a means to foster the study and appreciation of Latin America, the Center of Latin American Studies at Boston University announces The Latin American Studies Student Essay Contest Eligibility Guidelines The competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students in all concentrations and classes at Boston University. Submissions are limited to one paper […]
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Boston University alumna Isabel Castro Escudero, who wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Adela Pineda, has published her first book a study of Ecuadorian writer Raul Andrade. Isabel is currently a full-time lecturer at Tufts University. Congratulations to Isabel!