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Chucho Valdés: Narrativas Musicales

Starts: Thursday, 12 PM PM   Ends: Thursday, 1:30 PM PM   Location: Leverett Library, 28 DeWolfe Street, Cambridge The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is one of the most influential figures in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. Born into a family of musicians in Quivicán, Havana province, Cuba, Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodríguez, has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban […]

ERC: Dissertation Boot Camp

This Spring, the Educational Resource Center is offering a week-long intensive version of its Dissertation Writing Group called the ERC Dissertation Boot Camp. This boot camp will provide all of the structure of our writing groups with even more time and support! Students chosen to participate in the camp will have at least five hours […]

Nogales Baena Wins BUCH Award

José Luis Nogales Baena, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, has won a graduate student award from the BU Center for the Humanities, for his work on relationships between Mexican and Soviet intellectuals during the Cold War. Great work, José!

David H. Colmenares to Join Romance Studies

The Romance Studies Department is pleased to welcome Dr. David H. Colmenares to our ranks. Dr. Colmenares will join us as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the 2019 fall term. A specialist in cultural exchanges between early modern Europe and colonial Latin America, Colmenares studies the production of knowledge and visual culture as well […]

HISP Doctoral Students Present in El Paso

Edgardo Tormos Bigles, Sarai Garcia Santos, and José Nogales Baena, all doctoral students in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented at this year’s XXIV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, in El Paso, Texas.