This 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, took place on Thursday, November 14, 2024. The panel was moderated […]
These conversations with Argentine musicians Charo Bogarín and Enzo Buono (“Revitalizando las lenguas originarias a través del canto”) and with with Brazilian Art Educator Lucia Fernanda Jofej Kaingang and poet and geographer Márcia Wayna Kambeba took place as part of this year’s Indigenous History, Languages and Cultures Week. The two-day program was convened by Célia […]
Tuesday, February 20 • 2 PM Ana María Shua Ana María Shua (April 1951) is an Argentine writer and screen writer. From flash fiction, poetry, and drama to novels, children’s literature, film scripts, short stories and other literature categories, her narratives have been read around the world. Join Zoom meeting: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/92390988112?pwd=RGlHbjQvOFBjZG52SHEwNGlWSThOdz09 Thursday, March 7 • […]
On Tuesday, September 26, the Center for Latin American Studies welcomed Wilfred Labiosa, PhD (CGS ’91, CAS ’93) back to campus for a discussion of his new book, The LGBT Cuban Revolution. The book offers a comprehensive chronology of the LGBT rights movement in Cuba, highlighting the significant milestones, setbacks, and triumphs of this long and arduous journey. […]
On Wednesday, September 27, the Center for Latin American Studies kicked off National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) with – in what has become an annual tradition for the Center – a concert of Latin American art songs curated by Prof. David Guzman. This year’s concert featured solo piano repertoire and accompaniment […]
This poetry reading & conversation with José Olivarez took place via Zoom on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The event, moderated by Saraí García, celebrated the release of Olivarez’s second poetry collection, Promises of Gold (Promesas de Oro) this February. Saraí García is a PhD candidate in Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies. Below are her […]
This week long series of talks by indigenous artists, writers, activists, and educators was co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies and funded by the Boston University Center for Humanities, the Boston University Arts Initiative, and Boston University Diversity and Inclusion. The aim of the events, featuring indigenous […]
The first annual Crossroads in Latin American Studies lecture at BU’s Center for Latin American Studies – Political Reactions to Changing Societies in Latin America – was given by Maria Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, on Monday, […]
This lecture by Peter Taylor Klein, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental and Urban Studies and Chair of the Environmental and Urban Studies Program at Bard College, took place on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Klein’s research focuses on public participation, urban and environmental change, and collective action in Amazonia and Rio de Janeiro. The subject […]
Drawing from her current book project, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence, Maia Gil’Adí, Assistant Professor of English and Latinx Literature at Boston University, shows how portrayals of violence and destruction paradoxically foreground pleasure in humor, narrative beauty, and the grotesque. The pleasure she identifies in Doom Patterns highlights the beauty found […]