Join us via Zoom on Thursday, November 7, 3:30 to 4:45 PM, for a book talk by Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman. Dr. Freeman will be discussing her 2022 book, Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery (Cambridge University Press). A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the largest […]
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Lagos Rivera, a renowned theater researcher and dramatist from Chile, who will lead a conversation and theater workshop on Monday, November 4th, 2024, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Pardee School of Global Studies in 121 Bay State Rd. Dr. Lagos Rivera, who holds a PhD from University of […]
Please join Global House and the Department of Romance Studies for Open Silla, a multilingual and multicultural celebration of artistic expression, taking place on Thursday, November 21st, 2024, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM at the Global House in 610 Beacon Street. Inspired by the format of an open mic night, Open Silla (open chair […]
Please join us for a lecture by Renato de Gaspi, Lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies. Thursday, November 7, 2024 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Lunch provided. Please register using form below. Renato de Gaspi recently defended his PhD at Central European University, where […]
Over the past few decades, criminal and state violence have become a defining feature of everyday life and politics in Latin America. Why do some citizens pursue civic engagement after exposure to violence and not others? How is the left approaching insecurity, policing, and crime in Latin America? How is urban violence shaping urban governance […]
Join us for Cortazar Here and There with the Claudio Ragazzi Jazz Trio, featuring Zahili Zamora on piano and Edmar Colón on tenor sax, as well as readings by Alicia Borinsky and others. Thursday, October 24, 2024 • 5 PM Boston University Castle, 225 Bay State Road Free and open to the public • Reception […]
Please join us for a panel discussion on the crisis in Haiti with Pierre Noel, Executive Director of the Haiti Development Institute in Boston; Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies; and Wollenczy Gentillon, Major in US Army and MA candidate, Pardee School of Global Studies. Moderated by Amb. Paul Hare, Master […]
On October 9 – 10, the Seeing & Not Seeing Faculty Seminar will host Professors Loren Landau (Professor of Migration and Development, University of Oxford) and Anne McNevin (Associate Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research), who will discuss their collaborative research, together with Associate Professor Noora Lori on “Time, Mobility, and Political Possibilities.” They will discuss […]
Join us for a talk by Rodrigo Canales, Kelli Questrom Associate Professor in Management & Organizations at BU’s Questrom School of Business and faculty director of Questrom’s Social Impact Program. Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • 12:30 to 1:45 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Lunch provided. Prof. Canales’s work explores how […]