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Stand Up Against Oil Extraction: Solidarity with Indigenous-led Labor Struggles in Colombia (06.28.22)

June 21st, 2022in Event Announcements

Join us at the Pardee School (121 Bay State Road) or via Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/laspbu) on Tuesday, June 28, at Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Célia Bianconi!

June 6th, 2022in Faculty News

We are delighted to announce that our colleague, Dr. Célia Bianconi, was awarded the 2022 Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award Read more

The Challenges Facing Colombia Today (06.08.22)

June 5th, 2022in Event Announcements

Join us on Wednesday, June 8, at 4:30 PM, for a meeting with Colombian Congresswoman-elect Karmen Ramírez Boscán, a Geneva-based Read more

Gran marcha hacia el abismo

May 31st, 2022in Faculty News

We are happy to announce that Carlos Blanco, a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies since 2016, Read more

Professor André de Quadros Award

May 16th, 2022in Faculty News

Our colleague and core faculty member, Professor André de Quadros, has been awarded a grant under the Social Sciences and Read more

Event Highlights: Politics, Narco-Strategies, and Violence in Central America

May 6th, 2022in Event Highlights

This talk on "The Art of Traficking" by Laura Blume, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Read more

Event Highlights: Devouring of Tradition as a Creative Practice in Brazilian Art and Culture

May 6th, 2022in Event Highlights

This talk – “Só a antropofagia nos une” – by Carolina Rodrigues Freitas took place on Friday, April 29, 2022. Read more

Event Highlights: Caminos, resistencias e identidades: Vivencias e investigaciones que conectan Brasil y México

May 6th, 2022in Event Highlights

This series of events - Caminos, resistencias e identidades: Vivencias e investigaciones que conectan Brasil y México - took place Read more

Event Highlights: Expanding Vaccine Access in the Boston Immigrant Community

April 25th, 2022in Event Highlights

Over the last two years COVID-19 has revealed large disparities in health and wellbeing in our communities and grave injustice Read more

Event Highlights: Social and Solidarity Economy in the Time of COVID-1

April 25th, 2022in Event Highlights

This virtual lecture on “Social and Solidarity Economy in the Time of COVID-19” by Pablo Baisotti, External Lecturer at Warsaw Read more

Statement on Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

At the Center for Latin American Studies, we believe in and practice respect for individual differences in life experience, sexual orientation, and religious belief, and we aspire to be free of intellectual parochialism, barriers to access, and ethnocentrism. We appreciate and deeply value the contributions and talents of every member of the Boston University community and invite you to learn more about us.