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Mexican Literature, Culture, & Film Across Borders

“Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration and Frontiers,” a two-day conference organized by the Center of Latin American Studies at Boston University, will take place on October 26 and 27, 2018, from 9 AM- to 6 pm at the Pardee School of Global Studies.  The central aim of the conference is to […]

Voices from Latin America : A Reading & Conversation with Héctor Abad

Date:  Monday, September 17, 6 to 7:30 PM Location:  Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering (CILSE), 610 Commonwealth Avenue  — Join us for a reading & conversation with Colombian author Hector Abad, author of The Farm (Archipelago Books, 2018).  Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the […]

Alexis Ortiz Begins Job as Assistant Professor

Alexis Ortiz, a 2018 graduate of our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has been hired as an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Brescia University. Alexis says of his new job: I am thrilled to start teaching this fall at Brescia University. I look forward to working with faculty and staff to promote the […]

The Americas Film Festival of New York

I would like to invite you to the Fifth Edition of The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY), which showcases feature films in fiction and documentary as well as shorts and animations that represent the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas. The Festival begins Thursday, June 7, 6:30pm, at the […]

Spanish-Brazilian Flamenco Night

Join us at the Dorchester art project gallery for a brilliant Spanish-Brazilian flamenco night!! Join Brazilian Guitarist and singer Tarciso Alves and Blanca Rosas Spanish-pop bossa nova singer. With ANTONIO “TIRITI” TRAN Spanish-flamenco guitarist and vocalist ANA MARÍA VILLA of Flamenco Boston. Tickets are only $14 for general admission. To buy tickets please go to […]

Instituto Cervantes at Harvard – Rashaping Hispanic Cultures Symposium

Date:  May 11 – 12 Location:  Observatorio. 2 Arrow St. 4th floor. Cambridge RSVP:  info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu For the third consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute at Harvard University organizes the symposium “Reshaping Hispanic Cultures” and focuses on researchers who are beginning their professional career. During the symposium, unpublished papers will be presented with topics as diverse as literature, music, […]

Alan Smith Soto Poetry Reading

Our very own Alan Smith Soto, Professor of Spanish, will be doing a poetry reading later this month, along with his brother, Mark Smith-Soto. Date:  May 24 Time:  7:30 pm Location:  Cambridge Public Library

David Shames Wins GRAF

David Shames, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language and Literatures program, has won a GRS Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF). Shames will use his fellowship to do archival research exploring the relationship between cinema cultures and the new ways intellectuals began to visualize and imagine the city in post-revolutionary, 1920s Mexico.  In particular, Shames […]

Adela Pineda Publishes Book on Steinbeck

Prof. Adela Pineda has published a new book, Steinbeck y México. The book explores US/Mexico relations through the lens of Steinbeck, film, and literature on both sides of the Rio Grande from the 1930s to the 1960s. Pineda said she found that Steinbeck’s intellectual anxieties from the Great Depression through the beginning of the Cold […]