Category: Event Announcements

Book Presentation: Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress (10.15.26)

Who Gets to Narrate the Sounds of the Past? An Anamnesis of Music Historiography in Espírito Santo, Brazil (11.02.26)

Wesley Higino will offer a critical perspective on musicological research in peripheral economic and cultural contexts in Brazil – in this case, a periphery within the periphery. Drawing on his ongoing doctoral research into the social memory of sonic practices in Espírito Santo, a Brazilian state with no university-level music research institution, the talk surveys […]

The Mexican Revolution and the Peasant International: A Struggle over the Shape and Meaning of Agrarian Reform (09.30.26)

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Join us for The Mexican Revolution and the Peasant International: A Struggle over the Shape and Meaning of Agrarian Reform, a lecture by Juan Coddou Wilson, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Law, Letters, and Society Program (LLSO) at the University of Chicago. Moderated by Mariana Díaz Chalela, Assistant Professor of International History, Pardee School of Global Studies. […]

Geopolitics and Critical Minerals in the EU-Latin American Relationship (11.09.26)

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Join us for Geopolitics and Critical Minerals in the EU-Latin American Relationship, a lecture by Roberto Dominguez, Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Suffolk University. This event takes place as part of the Center for the Study of Europe’s Decentering Europe Series. Monday, November 9 • 4 to 5:30 PM Pardee School of Global […]

Peace, Policy, and the Ethnic and Racial Communities in Colombia (10.14.26)

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Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement signed by the state and the FARC-EP guerrillas included an “Ethnic Chapter” designed to safeguard the collective rights, territories, and prior consultation processes of Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and other ethnoracial communitiesin the country. This presentation examines the constitutional and regulatory framework for the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter. In particular, it focuses […]

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (09.25.26)

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Join us for a presentation “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance” by co-author Petra Rivera-Rideau, Class of 1966 Associate Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. Friday, September 25 • 2:30 to 4 PM Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline Rivera-Rideau researches Latin music and racial politics. […]

Art and Mourning in Latin America (10.19.26)

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Gabriela Polit Dueñas is Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research interests have been focused on the representation of narcotrafficking and social suffering in fiction and non-fiction. More recently, she is interested is the exploration of fantasy in contemporary women’s literary and film production and how […]

Resonancias: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Through Latin American Music (10.02.26)

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The Eduardo Rojas Residency Finale • Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 Join us for the culminating concert of the Eduardo Rojas Residency, presented in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month 2026. Internationally acclaimed Colombian pianist Eduardo Rojas will perform a program of solo piano works and collaborate with outstanding CFA School of Music voice […]

Art Gallery Photography Opening (03/30/26)

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Gallery talk: Laura Roush, photographer, in conversation with History of Art and Architecture’s photography expert Kim Sichel. Opening remarks by Juliet Floyd, BUCH. Exhibits: LAURA ROUSH On the insomnia in Zamora: Grief, silencing, and sidewalk memorials in Michoacán, Mexico. SAMUEL FERNANDO RIVERA ANDRADE Pressing onward: Injured bodies and spaces of care in migration across Mexico. […]

A Conversation on Immigration (04/21/26) [RESCHEDULED]

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RESCHEDULED: Join us for a conversation with BU Maxwell Professor of Political Science Elizabeth F. Cohen and Boston Globe Immigration Reporter Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio. This event was originally scheduled on February 24, 2026 and was postponed due to the blizzard. New date and time are confirmed for April 21, 2026 at 12:30pm. Please […]

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.