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

May 6th, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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

Event Highlights: The Bicentennial of the U.S.-Colombia Relationship

April 22nd, 2022

On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, the Center for Latin American Studies welcomed Juan Carlos Pinzón, Ambassador of Colombia to the Read more

Event Highlights: “Open Silla”

April 15th, 2022

On Friday, April 8, in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies, we hosted an "Open Mic" night. The artistic Read more

Event Highlights: Indigenous History, Languages & Cultures Week

April 3rd, 2022

This week long series of talks by indigenous artists, writers, activists, and educators was co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Read more

Event Highlights: Alicia Borinsky & Maureen Shaughnessy

April 3rd, 2022

This conversation with Maureen Shaughnessy on literature and translation happened over Zoom on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The focus of Read more

Event Highlights: “Raíces y alas”: Puerto Rico y el archivo transnacional de Juan Ramón Jiménez

February 11th, 2022

This virtual lecture (in Spanish) by Laurie Garriga, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross (MA), took 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.