In Wërapara: chicas trans, director Claudia Fischer follows the lives of a group of six trans women from the Embera Chami community, located in the Karmata Rua Indigenous Reservation in Colombia. In an interview with CLAIS, Fischer spoke about the...
Entiendo que por su trabajo previo en las artes, usted ya tenía conexiones con algunas de las mujeres de la película. ¿Cómo llegaron usted y ellas a querer colaborar en este proyecto, especialmente dado su carácter muy personal?
Sí, por previas...
In this interview with CLAIS, Anais Taracena talks about her film, El silencio del topo, and her upcoming visit to Yale University for the 2022 Latin American & Iberian Film Festival, which is slated to start on November 7th and will run until...
In this interview with CLAIS, Professor Pablo Vidal talks about his research interests in climate change and its impact on the environment and humans. He highlights that climate change affects us unevenly, taking a higher toll on mountainous and...
The second edition of the Gender and Policy Forum of the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN), an interdisciplinary network with professionals in gender studies from all over the Americas, will launch on Friday, November 4.
LAIGN...
The first talk of the CLAIS’ colloquium series for the Fall semester took place on October 13, 2022, with a presentation from Dr. Giovanni Batz from the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Batz presented on his research on Ixil Maya...
This is the second part of the Summer 2022 Latin American Experience, a series featuring students who traveled to Latin America supported by CLAIS. This time Lucero Estrella, Ph.D. Student in American Studies, shares her experience in Mexico.
“I...
