The Seeing and Not Seeing Seminar invites you to the screening of the film Expedition Content, followed by the Q&A with the filmmakers, Veronika Kusumaryati and Ernst Karel. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 3, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, in the College of Communication, Room B-05. This nearly imageless film documents the strange […]
Tuesday, February 20 • 2 PM Ana María Shua Ana María Shua (April 1951) is an Argentine writer and screen writer. From flash fiction, poetry, and drama to novels, children’s literature, film scripts, short stories and other literature categories, her narratives have been read around the world. Join Zoom meeting: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/92390988112?pwd=RGlHbjQvOFBjZG52SHEwNGlWSThOdz09 Thursday, March 7 • […]
Please join us on Wednesday, March 21, from 3:30 to 4:45 at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road for a lecture by Diane Davis: Disappearances in Mexico: Searching for Explanations Through Interdisciplinary Social Science As of early this year the total number of people classified as disappeared in Mexico since the […]
Please join on Thursday, February 29, from 5 to 6 PM at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road for a lecture by Dina Castro: The Education of Indigenous Children in Latin America: Progress, Challenges and the Historical Outstanding Debt Dr. Dina C. Castro is director of the Institute for Early Childhood […]
Monday, February 12, 2024 • 3:30 to 5 PM The Geopolitics of Climate Shaming: Evidence from Latin America Matias Spektor • Professor of Politics and International Relations at the School of International Relations, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil Monday, March 4, 2024 • 3:30 to 5 PM Hello Lenin: Students and Socialism in Venezuela David […]
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 • 3:30 to 5 PM Creative and Academic Writing in Spanish María Datel • Master Lecturer in Spanish, Boston University María Datel studied Literature with a focus on Argentine and Latin American literature. She is is interested in pedagogy and works to create a more inclusive curriculum for her classes (incorporating […]
What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina and its struggling economy? Join us for a conversation with Ivan F. Julio, Assistant Professor of Administrative Sciences at Boston University and Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
Our colleague David M. Carballo, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies at Boston University, has a new book in the Cambridge Elements series Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century titled Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica. Co-authored with Gary M. Feinman, the book’s official release date is January 31, 2024. The […]
Join us on Thursday, January 25, at 5 PM, at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Life Sciences & Engineering, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, for a private screening of El Funeral, a short film by Sofía Blanco about two Venezuelan-born siblings residing in New York who are unable to physically attend their grandfather’s funeral due to the collapse […]
The Seeing and Not Seeing Seminar presents a lecture by Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware. Monday, November 20, 2023 4 to 5:30 PM Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Julie Klinger’s talk examines the material relations through which contemporary human engagements […]