Author: Elizabeth Amrien
2015 Colombian Conference at MIT – Harvard – BU (04.23.15 – 04.25.15)
III Colombian Conference: Building Peace Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 5:30 PM – Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 9:00 AM (EDT) Please join us to launch the Harvard-MIT-BU-Tufts 2015 Colombian conference “Colombia: Building Peace” this Thursday here at BU with the screening of Juan Manuel Echavarría’s documentary Requiem N.N. followed by a round table […]
How You Can Improve Healthcare in Latin America and What You Need to Know about Working There (04.27.15)
On Monday, April 27, Dr. Kirk Dearden of Boston University’s School of Health will give a talk as part of the “Improving Health in Latin America and Latino USA: Challenges and Opportunities” lecture series. The series is co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the School of Public Health at Boston University. “How You […]
What the Sociology of Immigrant Generations Leaves Undocumented: Lessons from Cubans in the US and Spain (04.17.15)
On Friday, April 17, Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology and International Relations (who has just won a Guggenheim fellowship to support her research on a project entitled “Cuban Immigration Exceptionalism: The Long Cold War”) will be giving a talk related to the project entitled “What Immigrant Analyses Leave Undocumented and Unexplained: Lessons from Cubans in […]
Is There an Original Language? Poetry, Translation, Authorship with Alicia Borinsky and Regina Galasso (04.22.15)
Applications Now Being Accepted for 2015 Latino Museum Studies Program
The Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC) is currently accepting applications for its 2015 Latino Museum Studies Fellowship Program, which offers an opportunity for graduate students enrolled or engaged in the fields of Latino and Latin American art, culture, and history to focus on developing museum practice. The Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP) was created in 1994 […]
Rethinking Violence and Civil Society in Mexico (04.09.15 – 04.10.15)
The Latin American Studies program is a co-sponsor of an upcoming symposium/teach in at the Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard entitled “Rethinking Violence and Civil Society in Mexico.” Mexico stands at one of the most challenging moments in its history. The disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero last September […]
Mexico at a Crossroads: Crisis, Civic Agency and Culture (04.01.15)
Remembering Roque Dalton (1935-1975): His Living Legacy for the XXIst Century (04.08.15 – 04.09.15)
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