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Film Series: Celebrating Cinema from Latin America (Spring 2023)

January 24th, 2023in Event Announcements

MIRIAM LIES (MIRIAM MIENTE) NATALIA CABRAL, ORIOL ESTRADA / SPAIN, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / 2018 / 90 MIN Film Discussion: Thursday, Read more

Ethno-Nationalism Without Ethno-Racial Politics in the Dominican Republic (02.28.23)

January 21st, 2023in Event Announcements

This event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule it during the fall of 2023. Please join us for the Read more

Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World (02.14.23)

January 21st, 2023in Event Announcements

Our faculty lunch talks have returned! Please join us on Tuesday, February 14 at noon for a talk by our Read more

Congratulations to Dr. María Datel

December 8th, 2022in Faculty News

Our colleague, María Datel, Master Lecturer in Spanish and Overall Coordinator of the Spanish Language Program in BU's Department of Read more

Event Highlights: Trio Palos y Cuerdas Hermanos Saboya

December 7th, 2022in Event Highlights

We were delighted this October to have joined with BU's School of Music to welcome Trios Palos y Cuerdas Hermanos Read more

Event Highlights: American’s Role in the 1964 Military Coup in Brazil

November 23rd, 2022in Event Highlights

This talk by Waldemar Dalenogare Neto, a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies, took place on Thursday, Read more

Multicultural Art Night (11.18.22)

November 14th, 2022in Event Announcements

Join BU Graduate Students for a Night of Culture, Artmaking, and Art-sharing. Friday, November 18, 2022 4:30 to 6:30 PM Read more

Reggaetón Scholarship Today (11.21.22)

November 9th, 2022in Event Announcements

Join us for a roundtable discussion, moderated by Michael Birenbaum Quintero, featuring three short presentations of 10-15 min each by Read more

Film Screening: Out of Breath (11.16.22)

November 9th, 2022in Event Announcements

Event Highlights: Venezuela and the Left Turn in Latin America

November 7th, 2022in Event Highlights

This presentation by CLAS Visiting Researcher Carlos Blanco took place at BU's Pardee School of Global Studies on Thursday, November 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.