A professor of religion and Latinx studies at Harvard Divinity School and Romance languages and literatures at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR), the interdepartmental program that focuses on the group’s title categories, paying particular attention to Asian American, Latinx, and Native American studies.

Rivera took that chair last fall. We asked her about her vision for EMR’...

 The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University presents 

Lupe under the Sun

 Film Screening & Director Talk

Lupe Under the Sun“Lupe Bajo el Sol” | Mexico, United States, 2016 | 79 Minutes

Directed by Rodrigo Reyes

 Saturday

10.27.18

In 2016, DRCLAS inaugurated the Arts and Sciences Workshop Series, a faculty initiative co-chaired and moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Brian D. Farrell, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The objective of this series is to foster scholarly discussions centered on the work of leading academics in the fields of the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Pre-circulated papers are used as reference for a discussion...

Boston University has a long tradition of literary translation. BU’s first lecture series on translation was offered in 1978, at a time before Translation Studies was even a recognized field. Since then, invited speakers from around the world, including many of the most accomplished translators and literary figures of the last half-century, have been guests at the Boston University Literary Translation Seminar. The Seminar has in turn fostered the literary careers of generations of BU students, teaching them the art of translation and bringing them into fruitful contact with established...