Pedro Lasarte, professor of Spanish, has just been elected to a two year term on the NECLAS executive council. The NECLAS mission is to foster and develop interests in Latin American studies by scholars, researchers, teachers, students, and the general public primarily located in the New England region, to encourage more effective training, teaching and […]
Adela Pineda, Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was invited to speak as part of a slate of Hispanic Heritage Month education events at FMC-Devens, a Massachusetts federal men’s prison. “I went because I think our area studies should reach out to […]
We’re happy to inform you that Julie Klinger’s article “Rescaling China-Brazil Investment Relations in the Strategic Minerals Sector” has been published in the Journal of Chinese Political Science. A Spanish-language version “Minerales Estratégicos: Cambios de Escala de las Relations entire China y Brasil” has been published in the September-October issue of Nueva Sociedad. As part of her commitment […]
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At a recent event organized by the Latin American Studies Program, attendees learned about the rise of the barrio, or low-income neighborhood, as a unit of cultural and political power in Venezuela. “Barrio Rising” was both the name of the Oct. 20 event, held at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, […]
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that economic slowdown in Latin America doesn’t mean that China doesn’t have a huge stake in the region’s growth. Gallagher made the argument in an Oct. 12 article in the newspaper China Daily entitled “IMF Favorable About […]
For some students at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,taking advantage of one of the University’s numerous study abroad opportunities is their first chance to travel abroad and interact with different cultures. But for Jessica Depies, things were a little different. “Growing up, my mother was a flight attendant for […]
Professor Alan Smith to perform at Poets’ Cafe