We are delighted to have resumed our faculty lunch talks! On Tuesday, February 14, Taylor Boas, Associate Professor of Political Science, talked about his newly published book, Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World (Cambridge University Press, January 2023). Drawing on research Brazil, Chile, and Peru, Boas examines why it […]
We were delighted this October to have joined with BU’s School of Music to welcome Trios Palos y Cuerdas Hermanos Saboya to our campus. Trios Palos y Cuerdas Hermanos Saboya are one of the most versatile and prominent ensembles of the Colombian Andean music scene. Brothers Diego, Daniel, and Lucas are experienced composers and performers […]
This talk by Waldemar Dalenogare Neto, a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies, took place on Thursday, November 17, 2022. It was moderated by Taylor Boas, Associate Professor of Political Science. Dr. Neto received his PhD from the Department of History at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in […]
This presentation by CLAS Visiting Researcher Carlos Blanco took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Thursday, November 3, 2022. Carlos Blanco holds a PhD from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. He has taught several courses on Latin American politics at Boston University. His present research has been […]
On October 27, 2022, in the lead up to the midterm elections in the US, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted a faculty roundtable to explore Latinx electoral politics. The speakers included Taylor Boas (Political Science), Susan Eckstein (Pardee School), Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy (Pardee School), Jorge Heine (Pardee School), and Rachel Meade (Political Science). The […]
On Monday, October 17, 2022, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted the Colombian photojournalist Jesús Abad Colorado and curator María Belén Sáez Ibarra for a presentation of their new book: El Testigo. Memorias del Conflicto Armado Colombiano, en el lente y la voz de Jesús Abad Colorado. Conversaciones con María Belén Sáez de Ibarra. The […]
This talk, by CLAS Visiting Researcher Marina Arias Salvado, took place at the Howard Thurman Center at Boston University on Thursday, October 17, 2022. Marina Arias Salvado is a PhD candidate in Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is working on a dissertation entitled “El reggaetón en España: industria musical, […]
This conversation with Colombian Congresswoman-elect Karmen Ramírez Boscán, a Geneva-based indigenous Wayúu woman who was selected to represent overseas Colombians in the Congress, took place on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies. Karmen Ramírez Boscán is founder of Fuerza Mujeres Wayuu and a member of the coalition Pacto Histórico.
This talk on “The Art of Traficking” by Laura Blume, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. She lays out her current book project, which uses ethnography to examine the ways in which political context impacts drug-trafficking […]
This talk – “Só a antropofagia nos une” – by Carolina Rodrigues Freitas took place on Friday, April 29, 2022. Carolina is a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Brasília and a Visiting Researcher at Boston University’s Center for Latin American Studies. Carolina’s research investigates the potential of Oswald de Andrade’s modernist concept of “antropofagia” […]