Drawing from her current book project, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence, Maia Gil’Adí, Assistant Professor of English and Latinx Literature at Boston University, shows how portrayals of violence and destruction paradoxically foreground pleasure in humor, narrative beauty, and the grotesque. The pleasure she identifies in Doom Patterns highlights the beauty found […]
We are delighted to welcome Brazilian poet and performer Ricardo Aleixo to Boston University. The week of activities will include a live poetic performance, a screening of his audiovisual work, and a meeting with students. Aleixo is currently considered one of the most important living artists in the country, integrating avant-garde poetry with Afro-Brazilian culture. […]
The Department of Romance Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies present: Indigenous Languages & Cultures Week 2023 Monday, April 3 • 4 to 5:30 PM (In Person) Renzo Aroni • Humanities Fellow, Columbia University “Música testimonial y teatro escolar en la conmemoración de la Masacre de Cayara (Perú, 1988)“ Pardee School of Global […]
José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by the Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along […]
The Latin American Studies Association is pleased to announce the LASA2023 Kalman Silvert Awardee: Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology and International Relations at Boston University, and Past President of the Latin American Studies Association. The award committee concluded that Dr. Eckstein richly deserves this lifetime career recognition, on the grounds of prolific, high-quality, interdisciplinary scholarship, truly exceptional […]
We are delighted to have resumed our faculty lunch talks! On Tuesday, February 14, Taylor Boas, Associate Professor of Political Science, talked about his newly published book, Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World (Cambridge University Press, January 2023). Drawing on research Brazil, Chile, and Peru, Boas examines why it […]
Join us for a faculty lunch talk with Maia Gil’Adí, Assistant Professor of English and Latinx Literature at Boston University. Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge Tuesday, March 21, 2023 • 12 to 1:15 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Drawing from her current book project, Maia Gil’Adí examines […]
Join us for a lecture by Peter Taylor Klein, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental and Urban Studies and Chair of the Environmental and Urban Studies Program at Bard College. Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam Tuesday, March 28, 2023 • 4 to 5:30 PM Pardee School of Global Studies • 121 Bay […]
Join us for a lecture by Natália Alves da Silva, PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Afrodiasporic Cities: Spacial Histories of Race and City in Belo Horizonte / Cidades afrodiaspóricas: histórias espaciais de raça e cidade em Belo Horizonte Friday, April 21, 2023 • 2 […]