This lecture by Laureate Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya (Unesco World Press Freedom Prize 2020) took place at Boston University on Monday, December 13, 2021. Jineth Bedoya has been a critical voice in the search for justice for women victims of sexual violence in conflict in Colombia and worldwide. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights recently […]
This lecture by human rights activist Sergio Aguayo took place on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies. Sergio Aguayo is a Professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México, where he coordinates the Seminar on Violence and Peace and recently published a report investigating two mass killings […]
This presentation by Latin American Studies Visiting Researcher Jaime Puig took place on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies. Jaime Puig is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Hispano-American Literature at the University of Seville.
This virtual conversation about literature and translation with Alicia Borinsky, Gloria Gervitz, and Mark Schafer centered around Schafer’s translation of Gloria Gervitz’s epic work, Migrations, out this month from New York Review of Books. Forty-four years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gloria Gervitz’s book […]
On Monday, November 15, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted the former Ambassador of Italy to the Dominican Republic, Andrea Canepari, to discuss his new book, The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic: History, Architecture, Economics, Society. The virtual interview was conducted over Zoom by CLAS Director Rady Roldán Figueroa. Among the topics discussed […]
This conversation about literature and translation between Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish at Boston University and Robert Croll – centered around Croll’s recently published translation of Hebe Uhart’s Animales (Animals) for Archipelago Books – took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. Hebe Uhart (1936-2018) is one of Argentina’s most celebrated contemporary writers. Robert Croll is a […]
On Wednesday, October 13, David Colmenares, Assistant Professor of Spanish, hosted a virtual tour of the “Centro Histórico, Corazón de México” exhibition at the new Museo del Objeto del Objeto (MODO) in Mexico City with the exhibition’s curator, Aldo Sánchez. The twenty minute video tour, which you can also view on YouTube, was followed by […]
On Thursday, October 14, Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, joined us via Zoom from Australia to talk about her 2020 book The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life. The book is a collection of essays about Cuban life in the last two decades, since the end of the “special period.” […]
This virtual conversation with author Pablo Sánchez about his new book, Yo no he muerto en México (March 2021) took place on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. The book tells the story of Alejandro Ramírez, a young Spanish literature professor who, tired of the Spain of the early 21st century, gets a job at a Mexican […]
This conversation with Mexican documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and award-winning director, Fernando Frías, took place on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The subject of discussion was Frías’s latest feature, I’M NO LONGER HERE. The film, which Frias wrote, directed and produced, has gone on to win the feature film competition and audience prizes at the Morelia Film […]