Category: Event Highlights

Event Highlights: Perspectives from the Further South

This presentation – Perspectives from the Further South: Racial (In)justice in Brazil – by Fernanda Vieira, Visiting Researcher in Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies and a PhD candidate in Literature Studies at Rio de Janeiro State University – UERJ, took place on Friday, June 26, 2020. It was hosted by the Center for Latin […]

Event Highlights: Arqueología y literatura en México: Una conversación virtual con Juan Villoro

On Wednesday, April 29, Mexican novelist, playwright, and journalist Juan Villoro analyzed the relationship between Archeology and Literature in Mexico in a virtual conversation at Boston University. Through literary works by Mexican authors such as Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, José Emilio Pacheco, and Carlos Pellicer, as well as his own chronicles, Villoro reflected […]

COVID-19 in the Americas: Some Reflections on Public Health

On Wednesday, April 22, at the Center for Latin American Studies faculty meeting, Veronika Wirtz, Associate Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, gave a presentation on the challenges of Latin American countries in the face of the coronavirus crisis, among others, the high prevalence of comorbidity in the population, the weakness of health […]

The Wandering Nation

Last Thursday, March 26, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted an online lecture by Luis Miguel Estrada, a writer and a scholar of Mexican and Latin American literature, titled “The Wandering Nation.” From his personal experience teaching Mexican literature to Mexican American students, Estrada reflected on how contemporary literature articulates new imaginaries on the […]

Festival aims to promote Brazilian films, culture in Boston community

In Brazil — a country rich with culture and art — issues of creating and supporting filmmakers have arisen. However, the country’s largest film festival is working to change that. Mostra do Filme Livre, otherwise known as the Brazilian Free Spirit Film Festival, made its debut at the Boston University College of Communication last Friday. […]

BtH: Cuban Diplomat Speaks at Pardee School

The Beyond the Headlines, or BtH, series at the Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University continued on April 27, 2017 with conversation on the past, present and future of relations between the United States and Cuba with Miguel Fraga, First Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Washington, D.C. […]

The Cannibal’s Confession Video

The play “The Cannibal’s Confession” was a great success! If you weren’t able to make it we recorded the play as well. Please enjoy “The Cannibal’s Confession” by Sergio Rued.

Caravan Highlights

The Caravan event was to build bi-national solidarity against human rights violations in Mexico. And to draw attention to the events happening in Mexico.