David Shames, Graduate Student in Spanish specializing in Latin American Literature will deliver the paper “Bolaño, Baudelaire and Nietzsche at the Crossroads of Bohemia” at Wellesley College, as part of a conference dedicated to the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, one of the most significant writers of the twentieth and twentieth-one centuries. Click here to read […]
Doctoral graduate student, José Luis Nogales Baena, received a Latin American Studies Program (LASP) travel grant that allowed him to complete research at the National Library and in the National Newspaper and Periodicals Library of Mexico, both of which are an integral part of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). The travel grant also […]
Marina Menegazzo and María José Coni were visiting Ecuador when they were found killed. The government, the police and the media criticised them for travelling alone I travel alone. I’ve been travelling alone since I was 16. Most of the time I would be with my friends. I am a girl and I travel alone, […]
Jessica Depies, a junior and double major in International Relations and Economics at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been awarded the 2016 Truman Scholarship, which recognizes young leaders who are committed to a career in public service. Depies, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese and is interested in Latin American development issues, was one of 775 […]
All University students and staff in BU Study Abroad programs in Ecuador are safe and unharmed by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the coast of that country Saturday evening. Joseph Finkhouse, associate director of health, safety, and security for Global Programs, reports that all 7 students in the Latin American Studies Program in Quito are safe, […]
For the second time in two years, 13 Boston University students applied to participate in BU Hillel’s Alternative Spring Break trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Giving up their vacation to perform community service? Trading in the beaches on Cancun for the dirt and sweat of the Pluma Hidalgo mountains in Southern Mexico? Believe it or not, […]
The Latin American Studies Program, an affiliated regional center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has revamped the curriculum for its Latin American Studies Masters of Arts (LAS MA) program. “Boston University has superb resources in Latin American Studies, ranging from literature to archaeology to history to politics. The […]
Some interesting news about Latin America: Here’s some good news for Latin America: after decades of relative academic isolation, the region’s two biggest countries — Brazil and Mexico — are dramatically increasing their numbers of students attending U.S. universities. New data from the Institute of International Education’s “Open Doors” report show that Latin America is […]
The Latin American Students Association is launching a newspaper, El Universitario, this December. They are currently accepting submissions for their first edition and welcome faculty contributions. They are accepting two submissions for each of the following sections: Socio-Economic Political Cultural-Arts Every piece needs to be related to Latin America, whether it is an essay […]