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Keloids and Maroons: A Conversation with Cuban Contemporary Artist Alexis Esquivel (02.26.25)

From South Central to Southside: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City (03.26.25)

Join us via Zoom on Wednesday, March 26, 2:30 to 3:45 PM, for a book talk by Dr. Adam Baird, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. When he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from […]

“I’m Still Here” and Echoes of the Dictatorship (02.26.25)

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Join us on Wednesday, February 26, at 4:30 PM for a discussion of the Oscar-nominated Brazilian political biographical drama, I’m Still Here (Portuguese: Ainda Estou Aqui). Walter Salles’ film, which was selected as Brazil’s official submission for this year’s Oscars and was additionally nominated for best international feature and best actress for Fernanda Torres, has […]

Beyond the Carnival: The History and Resilience Behind Brazil’s Inequality (02.20.25)

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Join us for a presentation by Nivea Canalli Bona, Master Lecturer in Media Science at BU’s College of Communication. Thursday, February 20, 2024 • 3:30 to 4:45 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Lunch provided. Register using form below. Nivea Canalli Bona truly believes that communication can change the world. She […]

What We Carry: The Packing List of Venezuelan Displacement (02.18.25)

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Join us for a presentation by journalist Shandra Back, COM ’25. Shandra is an international journalist specializing in Latin American migration. She serves as the Podcast Director at the BU Center on Forced Displacement. Tuesday, February 18, 2024 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Lunch provided. Register […]

Visiting Latin American Leaders Working to Address the Needs of Underserved and At-Risk Youth

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Please join us for a roundtable discussion with international leaders working to address the needs of underserved and at-risk youth across Latin America. Learn about model violence intervention programs, efforts to promote youth development through sports and entrepreneurship, and mentorship programs for young women. Tuesday, February 11, 2025 • 12:30 to 2 PM Pardee School […]

Venezuela, Maduro’s Election Fraud and Inauguration: Lessons for the Trump Administration (01.30.25)

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Join us on Thursday, January 30, at 12:30 PM, for a lecture by Amb. Paul Hare, Master Lecturer in International Relations at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. Hare was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. He […]

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

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The Seeing and not Seeing Seminar is excited to host Atossa Abrahamian, independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, in conversation with Quinn Slobodian. The event takes place at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, on Tuesday, February 4, at 4 PM. Abrahamian will discuss the […]

Conversation on Literature and Culture with Arturo Fontaine Talavera & Alicia Borinsky (11.22.24)

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Join us for CONVERSATIONS ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE with ARTURO FONTAINE TALAVERA. author of La vida doble, and ALICIA BORINSKY. This event will take place in Spanish via Zoom on Friday, November 22, 2024, at 11 AM. All are invited. Sponsored by the Center of Latin American Studies and the Department of Romance Studies at […]

What Side Are You On?: A Tohono O’odham Life across Borders (11.13.24)

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Statement on Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

At the Center for Latin American Studies, we believe in and practice respect for individual differences in life experience, sexual orientation, and religious belief, and we aspire to be free of intellectual parochialism, barriers to access, and ethnocentrism. We appreciate and deeply value the contributions and talents of every member of the Boston University community and invite you to learn more about us.