Category: Outside Announcements
March 15th, 2016
in Conferences/Seminars, Outside Announcements
March 21 | LASP Lunch Talk: Rites, Rights, and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific
Starts: 1:15 PM Monday, March 21, 2016 Ends: 2:00 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd Floor (Eilts Room)
Free and Open to the Public
Join us for a lunch discussion with Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Assistant Professor of Music (Musicology and Ethnomusicology). Michael will discuss his forthcoming book, Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific. The book examines the feedback, interference, and overlap between different experiences of currulao music – as ritual sonority (“rites”), political resource (“rights”) and popular music (“rhythms”) – by tracking their historical emergence, development, and maintenance or abandonment as systems of meaning that frame musical sound at the present-day conjuncture of neoliberalism, cultural mobilization, and civil war in Colombia. A faculty meeting will precede the talk from 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM.
Please RSVP to nadyarq@bu.edu |
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March 21 | Do Crises Sell Newspapers? Covering Brazil’s Breakdown with Fabiano Maisonnave
Starts: 5:00 PM Monday, March 21, 2016 Ends: 6:30 PM Location: Pardee of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Rd. 1st Floor
Free and Open to the Public
Join the Latin American Studies Department for a conversation on Brazil’s simultaneous crises (Zika virus, economic recession, impeachment process) and their narratives in the Brazilian media with Fabiano Maisonnave, senior reporter and editorial writer for Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s largest newspaper. Since 2012, Fabiano has covered some of the country’s most important stories, from land conflicts in the Amazon to the 2014 presidential election. He has reported from 30 countries on events including the Haitian earthquake and China’s leadership change. |
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March 23 | Documentary Screening: Blessed Fruit of the Womb – A Fight for Reproductive Rights in Guatemala
Starts: 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Ends: 6:30 PM Location: Geddes Center 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 533 B
Free and Open to the Public
Join us for a screening of WINGS documentary. WINGS, fights to improve the quality of life for Guatemalan women, men, and youth through reproductive health services and education. Our documentary, Blessed Fruit of the Womb, is 26 minutes long and highlights the common obstacles one faces working in reproductive health, especially the barriers women encounter. The screening will be followed by a conversation with WINGS Development Coordinator Sally Parmelee. |
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April 6 | Peruvian Poetry and Exile
Starts: 6:00 PM Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Ends: 7:30 PM Location: Pardee of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Rd. 1st Floor
Free and Open to the Public
Please join us for a poetry reading and discussion with Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Raul Bueno and Pedro Angel Palou. Jose Antonio Mazzotti is Professor of Latin American Literature at Tufts University and Editor-in-Chief of the “Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana.” He has been a recepient of “International Quarterly’s” Crossing Boundaries Award in Poetry and Translation. Raul Bueno is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Spanish of Portuguese at Dartmouth College. He has written three volumes of poetry entitled Viaje de Argos y otros poemas (1964), De la voz y el estio (1966) and Lengua de vigia & memorando europeo (1986). Pedro Angel Palou is Professor of Latin American Literature and Studies and Chair of the Romance Languages Department at Tufts University. He published the book of poems Catalogo de las aves in 2010. Professors Mazzotti and Bueno will conduct a poetry reading and then will discuss Peruvian poetry and exile with Professor Palau acting as moderator. |
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April 7 | Cuba in the Global Health Landscape: A Panel Discussion
Starts: 1:00 PM Thursday, April 7, 2016 Ends: 2:00 PM Location: Crosstown Center, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston (Fendall Room CT305)
Free and Open to the Public
Join the Latin American Studies Department for a panel discussion on the transition of Cuba in the Global Health Landscape with four panelists from four different disciplines and schools. |
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April 11 | The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
Starts: 12:45 PM Thursday, April 7, 2016 Ends: 1:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Rd 1st floor
Free and Open to the Public
Join us for a lunch discussion with Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. He will be talking about his new book “The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus.” Lunch provided. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu. [A faculty meeting will proceed the talk from 12:00 to 12:45 PM] |
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Multi-Date Series| Spring Global Economic Governance Initiative
Starts: January 29, 2016
Ends: April 15, 2016 Time: Fridays from 12:00-2:00 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road 2nd Floor
Lunch is provided. Register by email: EventsPS@bu.edu
Free and Open to the Public
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March 15 | Electric Santeria: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Starts: 5:00 PM Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Ends: 6:30 PM Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline A discussion on the book with the author, Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Associate Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santería practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel.
Free and Open to the Public
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March 31 | Race: Cuba’s Unfinished Revolution
Starts: 5:30 PM Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Ends: 7:00 PM Location: Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Ave., Room 101
Join Professor Marcos Rohena-Madrazo for his talk “Perceptions of Spanish-Engilsh Phonology Switching.”
Free and Open to the Public |
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April 13 | Race: Cuba’s Unfinished Revolution
Starts: 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Ends: 6:30 PM Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline A discussion on the book with the author, Devyn Spence Benson, Asst. Prof. of History and African and African American Studies, Louisiana State University. Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. Drawing on Cuban and U.S. archival materials and face-to-face interviews, Benson examines 1960s government programs and campaigns against discrimination, showing how such programs frequently negated their efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolutionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials.
Free and Open to the Public
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May 3 | Soft Power and the Nation: Lessons from Angola and Cuba, 1970s to Today
Starts: 2:00 PM Thursday, May 3, 2016
Ends: 6:00 PM Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort St., Brookline Linda Heywood, Professor of African History and the History of the African Diaspora and African American Studies, Boston University discusses her book.
Free and Open to the Public
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March 10th, 2016
in Jobs, Outside Announcements
MONDAY, MARCH 21st, 2016
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Room L-210 (BU School of Medicine)
Pizza and drinks will be provided!
RSVP: sph.bu.edu/CareerLink
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March 8th, 2016
in Outside Announcements
The Boston University School of Social Work Equity and Inclusion Committee in partnership with our Professional Education Programs and Alumni Association invite you to join us for a special screening of Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World, a short documentary that follows students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
Refreshments at 5:30 p.m.
Film screening 6-7 p.m.
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Room 522
Click here to RSVP!
Join us for a discussion with the filmmakers and participants following the screening.
Two social work continuing education credits will be available at no cost.
March 4th, 2016
in Outside Announcements
2016 Dahod Breast Cancer Research Visiting Professor Lecture
Monday, March 14, 1-1:50 p.m.
BUSM Instructional Building, Room L110
Open to all BUMC faculty, students and staff
“Causal Inference in Cancer Health Disparities Research:
Where the Rubber Meets the Road”
Whitney R. Robinson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Robinson will use examples from her research on the associations between breast cancer risk and (1) menopausal hormone therapy and (2) premenopausal hysterectomy among White and Black women to demonstrate how causal thinking can inform health disparities research.
March 4th, 2016
in Outside Announcements
Humanitarian Speaker Series: Dr. Marilene Cherkesly
When: Friday, March 18th, 12:30-1:30pm
Topic: "Modelling and solving a community health care network design problem in remote regions"
Where: MIT Building E38, 6th floor conference room
Lunch provided.
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March 4th, 2016
in Outside Announcements
The Latin American Studies Program presents:
Blessed Fruit of the Womb
A Fight for Reproductive Rights in Guatemala
Wednesday, March 23 | 5–6:30 PM
College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 533 B (Geddes Language Center)
More Info
March 4th, 2016
in Outside Announcements
The Department of Community Health Sciences invites you to come listen to a talk by guest Naoki Knodo, Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo School of Public Health. He will be sharing his research and covering the necessary measures to address health inequality issues in the egalitarian countries Japan and Sweeden.
March 16th 2016
10:00-11:00am
Crosstown 4th floor - Room 460
801 Massachusetts Ave.
March 2nd, 2016
in Outside Announcements, Tips!
Whether you are currently job hunting or in your first semester, take advantage of this excellent opportunity to become familiar with this increasingly common type of interview!
Register Today!
Ace the Case Interview Workshop
Thursday, March 3, 1:00-1:50pm
Location: L209
Delivered by HPM Professor Dr. Chris Louis. Join us for this interactive workshop to help prepare you for case interviews!
RSVP: SPHCareerLink under Events/Workshops
February 19th, 2016
in Outside Announcements
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March 17, 2016, 6-8 PM
BU Photonics Center
8 St. Mary's Street
Boston, MA
Colloquium Room, 9th Floor
Wine & Cheese Reception
RSVP Today!
Psychiatrist Dr. Kevin Malone and artist Dr. Seamus McGuinness are visiting from Ireland to share their suicide research collaboration for a socially engaged art practice to connect with marginalized communities and policy-makers.
Two continuing education credits available at no cost.
February 19th, 2016
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