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Film Screening & Director Talk: Expedition Content (04.03.24)

March 6th, 2024in Event Announcements

The Seeing and Not Seeing Seminar invites you to the screening of the film Expedition Content, followed by the Q&A Read more

Beyond the Ballot: Key Factors Shaping the 2024 Mexican Political Landscape (03.07.24)

February 14th, 2024in Event Announcements

Join us for a lecture by Pardee School alumnus Marcelo Garcia: Beyond the Ballot: Key Factors Shaping the 2024 Mexican Read more

Conversations on Literature & Culture with Alicia Borinsky (Spring 2024)

February 12th, 2024in Event Highlights

Tuesday, February 20 • 2 PM Ana María Shua Ana María Shua (April 1951) is an Argentine writer and screen Read more

Disappearances in Mexico: Searching for Explanations Through Interdisciplinary Social Science (03.21.24)

February 1st, 2024in Event Announcements

Please join us on Wednesday, March 21, from 3:30 to 4:45 at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay Read more

The Education of Indigenous Children in Latin America: Progress, Challenges and the Historical Outstanding Debt (02.29.24)

February 1st, 2024in Event Announcements

Please join on Thursday, February 29, from 5 to 6 PM at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay Read more

Eckstein Distinguished Lecture Series on Latin America in the World (Spring 2024)

February 1st, 2024in Event Announcements

Monday, February 12, 2024 • 3:30 to 5 PM The Geopolitics of Climate Shaming: Evidence from Latin America Matias Spektor Read more

Workshop Cycle – Theory & Practice (February 2024)

January 23rd, 2024in Event Announcements

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 • 3:30 to 5 PM Creative and Academic Writing in Spanish María Datel • Master Lecturer Read more

Argentina: The Impact of Milei’s Election (02.08.24)

January 23rd, 2024in Event Announcements

What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina and its struggling economy? Join us for a conversation with Ivan Read more

David Carballo Publishes New Book

January 12th, 2024in Faculty News

Our colleague David M. Carballo, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies at Boston University, has a new book Read more

El Funeral: Film Screening & Director Talk (01.25.24)

January 10th, 2024in Event Announcements

Join us on Thursday, January 25, at 5 PM, at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Life Sciences & Engineering, 610 Read more

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.