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 […]
This virtual poetry reading by poet, teacher, and feminist activist Victoria Guerrero Peirano took place via Zoom on Friday, November 20, 2020. The conversation was moderated by Rocío Ferreira, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Culture and Cinema and Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. Guerrero Peirano’s […]
This talk by Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios about his work in the Mexican and global context of cinema was hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University and took place on Thursday, September 17, 2020. Alonso Ruizpalacios is a rising star among the new generation of Mexican directors, after Guillermo del Toro […]
This panel discussion on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and its impact on higher education, particularly for Latin American students, was hosted by BU’s Center for Latin American Studies and took place via Zoom on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. The presenters included Cristian De La Rosa, Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology […]
This book presentation of David M. Carballo’s new book, Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain, was hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University and took place on Friday, October 23, 2020. The book offers a unique perspective on the […]
On July 17, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Boston University hosted a virtual event titled “500 years of African presence in Mexican Music.” The event featured Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music and Chair of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University, and Benjamín Juárez, Professor of Fine Arts at Boston University. […]
On Tuesday, August 4, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) held a virtual roundtable discussion, in Spanish, of Incurables: Relatos de dolencias y males (Spanish Edition), an anthology of short stories touching on the experience of disease. The stories treat a variety of ailments, whether of body, mind, or soul, experienced by a group […]
“Colombia – preserving Afro-Colombian Culture through song” © UN Women/Ryan Brown On Monday, July 27, Kevin Gallagher and Janine Ferretti from BU’s Global Development Policy Center joined us for a discussion on the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America and its disproportionate affects on indigenous people and Afro-descendants. The pandemic, they argued, has laid bare the deep […]
This round table discussion took place via Zoom on Wednesday, July 8. It was moderated by Adela Pineda (Romance Studies and Latin American Studies). The presenters included Andrea Berlin (Religion and Archaeology), David Carballo (Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies), and David Colmenares (Romance Studies and Latin American Studies). Memorials have always served the purposes […]