Join us for an evening with Guilherme Whitaker, director of Brazil’s largest independent film festival, the “Mostra do Filme Livre” (MFL). The festival takes place in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasília and others. In 2016, the MFL screened 200 films, ranging from shorts and experimental pieces to features and […]
Join us for a presentation by Mexico’s new Consul General in Boston, Emilio Rabasa Gamboa, and two young artists from the Colectivo Comunitario de Fotografía of San Pablo del Monte: Alma Janaí Calvario López and Jacqueline Mastranzo Capilla. Moderated by Adela Pineda, Director of the Latin American Studies Program at BU. Ten young people from […]
Linda Heywood, Professor of African History and the History of the African Diaspora and African American Studies, Boston University, discusses her new book. Tuesday, May 3, 2016 | 2 to 6 PM African American Studies Program Building 138 Mountfort St., Brookline Free & Open to the Public
Join BU’s African American Studies Department for a discussion on the book with the author, Devyn Spence Benson, Asst. Prof. of History and African and African American Studies, Louisiana State University. Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate […]
Join colleagues in African American Studies for a discussion on the book with the author, Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Associate Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De […]