This event celebrates the publication of Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds. On Friday, March 12, the book’s editors Cynthia Vich, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Fordham University, and Sarah Barrow, Professor of Film and Media at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, were joined by Ignacio […]
The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University is hosting a virtual conference series titled“Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative” to examine the economic, social, political, and security impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Since the BRI cuts across regions and topics, all seven of the Pardee School’s regional and thematic centers are sponsoring […]
This virtual book presentation, celebrating the publication of the first ever English translation of Los días terrenales (Mexico, 1949), a novel by José Revueltas, took place on Friday, February 19, 2021. Translator Matthew Gleeson and publisher Pedro Jiménez were joined by writer Pedro Ángel Palou in a conversation moderated by David H. Colmenares, Assistant Professor […]
In this CLAS virtual lunch talk, which took place on Monday, February 22, 2021, Ambassadors Paul Hare and Jorge Heine discuss the political economy of the pandemic in Latin America. The Political Economy of the Pandemic in Latin America from BU Latin American Studies on Vimeo.
This event – a virtual reading and conversation with Huilliche-Chilean poet Jaime Luis Huenún – took place on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. Huenún grew up in Osorno, near the Rahue River, which appears in many of his poems. He normally writes in Spanish, and his work represents an effort to construct a new indigenous poetics […]
This virtual lunch talk with Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology & International Relations at Boston University, took place on Monday, February 8, 2021. Prof. Eckstein discussed the special entitlements Cubans have received under various administrations and why US immigration policy has favored Cubans over other immigrants.
This presentation by Jaime Marroquín—Hidden in Translation: Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Science—was hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University and took place on Thursday, January 28, 2021. Prof. Jaime Marroquin is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University. His research focuses on the cultural history of knowledge and science […]
This roundtable discussion with Andy X. Vargas, MA State Representative and Pardee School alumnus, took place on Friday, January 29, 2021. Joining the discussion, which was hosted by BU’s Center for Latin American Studies and moderated by CLAS director Adela Pineda, were BU professors Cristian de la Rosa, Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and […]
This virtual roundtable with Latin American Studies faculty on the recent US Elections took place on Friday, December 4, 2020, and was hosted by Adela Pineda, Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University. Participants included Taylor Boas, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Paul Hare, Senior Lecturer; […]
On Tuesday, November 17, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted a book discussion with Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies, and Director of the African American Studies Program at Boston University, and Dylon Lamar Robbins, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. Chude-Sokei presented his 2105 […]