News & Events

Speaking the Truth, Seeking Justice: the struggle against impunity in Colombia
Wednesday, October 13th, 7:00pm, Barnum 008
Flor Hilda Hernández lost her son Elkin Gustavo in 2008 when he and 16 other innocent young men from his neighborhood were kidnapped and murdered by Colombian soldiers in order to collect rewards for each “guerrilla” killed in combat. Ms. Hernández will describe her family’s experience while attorney and human rights advocate Pilar Castillo will describe how Elkin’s story is emblematic of the thousands of cases of forced disappearance, murder, and massacre resulting from Colombia’s long-running war between insurgent, government, and paramilitary forces.
Download flyer >

Maestro Pablo Soler - Spanish Guitar Concert
Thursday, October 7th, 8:00pm
Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall
Maestro Soler, an acclaimed Spanish guitar player, will present a concert of Spanish and Latin American music to celebrate the Latino Heritage month.
Download flyer >

Rewriting the Self in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction (in English)
Wednesday, October 6th, 6:00pm
Olin 012
Maria Scaff Rocha Ribeiro of Michigan State University will lead the workshop. Organized by the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies program.
Download flyer >

Mexico: Its Revolution and Beyond. An International Symposium.
Friday, October 1st, 9 am-6:15 pm
Raab Room in Lincoln Hall (9-11:45am), Cabot 7th fl (1:45-3:45, 4:30-6:15)
An interdisciplinary one-day symposium that explores the cultural and political legacy of the Mexican Revolution from a contemporary perspective. Scholars from Mexico, Canada and the US discuss the way visual, historical, and political changes introduced by the revolution have shaped and defined contemporary Mexico.
Download flyer >

Langsam-Barsam-Simches Lecture: “The Novel Without the Letter E and the Unlikely Collaboration of Borges and Georges Perec” (in English)
Pablo M. Ruiz (Tufts University)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:00pm
Olin Center, Room 011
Learn more >
View bio >

Spring 2010 Film Series
- ITALIAN FILM SERIES (PDF)
- PORTUGUESE FILM SERIES (PDF)
- SPANISH FILM SERIES (PDF)
- FRENCH FILM SERIES (PDF)

The Gifford Lecture: “How We Learned To Love Nostradamus (Paris, 1840)” (in English)
Stéphane Gerson (New York University)
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6:00 pm
Barnum Hall, Room 104
Event flyer: THE GIFFORD LECTURE (PDF)

On Rimbaud (in French)
Jérome Thelot (Univerisité Jean Moulin, Lyon)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:30 pm
Olin Center, Room 011, (FR169 – “Les Poétes maudits”)

Dislocated Immigrant Identities: Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal” (in English)
Raquel Medina (Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6:00 pm
Olin Center, Room 011

"La música del folklore latinoamericano (A Musical Lecture)" with Héctor Martínez Morales
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6:00pm, Barnum 104
Download flyer >

Tufts Journal
December 17, 2009
"A Radical Behind the Lens"
Legendary Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri, a friend of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Fidel Castro, was a visiting professor last semester.