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What We Carry: The Packing List of Venezuelan Displacement (02.18.25)

January 30th, 2025in Event Announcements

Join us for a presentation by journalist Shandra Back, COM '25. Shandra is an international journalist specializing in Latin American Read more

Visiting Latin American Leaders Working to Address the Needs of Underserved and At-Risk Youth

January 23rd, 2025in Event Announcements

Please join us for a roundtable discussion with international leaders working to address the needs of underserved and at-risk youth Read more

Venezuela, Maduro’s Election Fraud and Inauguration: Lessons for the Trump Administration (01.30.25)

January 22nd, 2025in Event Announcements

Join us on Thursday, January 30, at 12:30 PM, for a lecture by Amb. Paul Hare, Master Lecturer in International Read more

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

January 22nd, 2025in Event Announcements

The Seeing and not Seeing Seminar is excited to host Atossa Abrahamian, independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe: Read more

Conversation on Literature and Culture with Arturo Fontaine Talavera & Alicia Borinsky (11.22.24)

November 18th, 2024in Event Announcements

Join us for CONVERSATIONS ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE with ARTURO FONTAINE TALAVERA. author of La vida doble, and ALICIA BORINSKY. Read more

Event Highlights: How Can Haiti Solve Its Many Crises?

November 18th, 2024in Event Highlights

This panel discussion on the crisis in Haiti with Pierre Noel, Executive Director of the Haiti Development Institute in Boston; Read more

What Side Are You On?: A Tohono O’odham Life across Borders (11.13.24)

November 5th, 2024in Event Announcements

Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery (11.07.24)

October 28th, 2024in Event Announcements

Join us via Zoom on Thursday, November 7, 3:30 to 4:45 PM, for a book talk by Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman. Read more

Echoes of Herstory: Exploring Generational Legacies and Cultural Belongings Through Chilean Theater (11.04.24)

October 16th, 2024in Event Announcements

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Lagos Rivera, a renowned theater researcher and dramatist from Chile, who will lead a conversation Read more

Open Silla (11.21.24)

October 15th, 2024in Event Announcements

Please join Global House and the Department of Romance Studies for Open Silla, a multilingual and multicultural celebration of artistic 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.