Josh Bruno, LASMA 2016, has accepted a position with the humanitarian NGO Mercy Corps as Assistant Program Officer for the organization’s activities in Latin America, including Colombia, Guatemala, and Haiti, with expansion envisioned for El Salvador and Peru. While a student in the Latin American Studies M.A. program in the Pardee School for Global Studies […]
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published an article that takes stock of China’s growing economic influence in Latin America, and examines the reforms Latin American states should pursue to avoid a commodity “bust.” Read more here!
Friday 12/2 8pm. CFA Auditorium The Afro-Latin Music of the Americas (ALMA) Ensemble studies and performs the musical forms of black populations in Latin America and the Caribbean and is dedicated to educating BU students and community about the cultural legacy and social realities of the descendants of Africans in Latin America. The Ensemble […]
Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon Edited by Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes One of Latin America’s most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions used to support wildly diverse–sometimes opposite–ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Cold War-era Slovenia, […]
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Amb. Paul Webster Hare, Senior Lecturer at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently quoted in an article discussing whether Cuba is in danger of an energy crisis. Hare was quoted in a September 12, 2016 article in América Economía entitled “Is Cuba Under Threat of an Energy Crisis?” Read more here!
The Latin American Studies Program, an affiliated regional center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, held its Fall Reception on September 13, 2016. Nearly 100 students, faculty, and friends of the Latin American Studies program filled the Pardee School to enjoy Latin American food as well as musical entertainment by […]