Author: Yahia Bakour

Mexico’s Drug Violence During the Peña Nieto Presidency (10.19.18)

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CLAS Presents Enough With Catcalling (10.10.18)

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Film Screening & Director Talk “O Processo” (10.12.18)

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Applications due in two weeks! Stanford FoCUS Conference for Students on US-Mexico Relations (10.13.2018)

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We are representatives from the U.S.-Mexico Forum for Cooperation, Understanding, and Solidarity (FoCUS), a program organized jointly by Stanford University, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) and we are reaching out to you to share a fantastic opportunity to get involved in our initiative and we hope that you will […]

David Scott Palmer Graduate Student Research Grants on Latin America

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES David Scott Palmer Student Research Grants on Latin America 2018-2019 The Latin American Studies Program at Boston University is pleased to announce this year’s competition for funding to sponsor graduate research on Latin America. Projects on Latinos in the US will also be considered. In particular, this initiative […]

David Scott Palmer Undergraduate Student Research Grants on Latin America

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES David Scott Palmer Student Research Grants on Latin America 2018-2019 The Latin American Studies Program at Boston University is pleased to announce this year’s competition for funding to sponsor undergraduate research on Latin America. Projects on Latinos in the US will also be considered. In particular, this […]

Venezuela Today, Challenges from Within and Abroad (10.03.18)

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LAS Center Travel Grants – Sarai Garcia

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As part of a scholarship granted by the Latin American Studies program, I travelled to Mexico City in order to locate documents pertaining to the SEP’s radio station, now housed at the “Archivo General de la Nación.” I reviewed the letters of the intellectuals of the avent-garde Estridentismo who completed national projects for the SEP, […]

Seeking A Holy Death: The Meteoric Rise of Mexican Folk Saint, Santa Muerte (10.25.18)

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With a Cuban Song in the Heart | Con Una Canción Cubana en El Corazón (10.05.18)

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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.

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