This talk on “The Art of Traficking” by Laura Blume, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. She lays out her current book project, which uses ethnography to examine the ways in which political context impacts drug-trafficking […]
This talk – “Só a antropofagia nos une” – by Carolina Rodrigues Freitas took place on Friday, April 29, 2022. Carolina is a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Brasília and a Visiting Researcher at Boston University’s Center for Latin American Studies. Carolina’s research investigates the potential of Oswald de Andrade’s modernist concept of “antropofagia” […]
This series of events – Caminos, resistencias e identidades: Vivencias e investigaciones que conectan Brasil y México – took place via Zoom on April 14, 21, and 28. It was organized by Prof. Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Boston University, and hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies. […]
Over the last two years COVID-19 has revealed large disparities in health and wellbeing in our communities and grave injustice related to health services access, including vaccines. Many of these communities have a large Latinx population with immigrants from Brazil, Haiti and Central America. “Equity Now & Beyond” is a coalition led by immigrant community-based […]
This virtual lecture on “Social and Solidarity Economy in the Time of COVID-19” by Pablo Baisotti, External Lecturer at Warsaw University (Institute of Iberian and Ibero- American Studies) and Associated Researcher at the University of Brasilia (Department of Latin American Studies, ELA), took place on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Pablo Baisotti received his Ph.D. in […]
On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, the Center for Latin American Studies welcomed Juan Carlos Pinzón, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States. To commemorate the bicentennial of diplomatic relations between Colombia and the United States, the Ambassador spoke at length about the history of the countries’ binational relationship, their partnership, and the political challenges that […]
On Friday, April 8, in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies, we hosted an “Open Mic” night. The artistic gathering was organized by BU graduate students Saraí Garcia and led by Sara Ladino Cano, both PhD candidates in Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
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 Arts Initiative. The aims of the series were to showcase the discrimination indigenous cultures and languages face and how the arts […]
This conversation with Maureen Shaughnessy on literature and translation happened over Zoom on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The focus of the discussion, which took place in the context of Alicia Borinsky’s Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic Texts course, was Shaughnessy’s translation of The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart for Archipelago Books. “The […]
This virtual lecture (in Spanish) by Laurie Garriga, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross (MA), took place on Thursday, February 10, 2022. Garriga’s research analyzes the Spanish Nobel Laureate poet Ramón Jiménez’s transatlantic path and his relationship to Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico as expressed in his archival practices […]