Author: Nadya Rojas Quiroz

The Cannibal’s Confession Video

The play “The Cannibal’s Confession” was a great success! If you weren’t able to make it we recorded the play as well. Please enjoy “The Cannibal’s Confession” by Sergio Rued.

Paid Summer 2017 Opportunity at Yleana Leadership Academy

The Executive Director of the Yleana Leadership Foundation, Alyssa, is reaching out to you today in an effort to recruit students for their summer opportunity, the Yleana Leadership Academy – which seeks to decrease the achievement gap with low-SES students from urban areas (Baltimore, Boston, North Shore, NYC, and Philadelphia) through SAT score increase.  Over 50% of their kids […]

Norms versus Action: Voting Against Malfeasance in Brazil (04.26.17)

Research in Comparative Politics Workshop (http://www.bu.edu/polisci/workshops-seminars/workshop-in-comparative-politics/) April 26, 2017 12:00 noon 232 BSR, rm. 505 (African Studies) ABSTRACT: Given the prevalence of official wrongdoing in democracies around the world, whether voters punish malfeasant politicians is a substantively important question. In this paper, we show that Brazilian voters strongly sanction malfeasant mayors when presented with hypothetical […]

Donate to the LAS Program this Giving Day 2017

Why we cannot ignore the growing importance of Latin America The growing relevance of Latin America in the world scenario is beyond dispute. Changes in trade and diplomatic agreements with emerging superpowers in Asia and other parts of the globe, as well as anti-immigration policies, particularly those of the US toward its Southern Latin American […]