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April 26, 2023
On Monday, April 24, a group of students, faculty, and staff gathered to attend a presentation by CLAIS Postdoctoral Fellow María de los Angeles Aguilar, the latest installment of the CLAIS Colloquium Series. The presentation was titled “Destruyendo...
April 18, 2023
Américo Mendoza-Mori is a Peruvian-born advocator of indigenous languages and Andean culture in the United States. He researches and teaches on U.S. Latinx and Indigenous studies at Harvard University’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR...
April 14, 2023
FESTIVAL DATES: The Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY) 2023 will be held from October 30 to November 5. It will be a hybrid festival with virtual and in-person presentations.     SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Filmmakers are asked to submit...
April 1, 2023
Dr. Rebecca Bria is an anthropological archaeologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas San Antonio. As the director of the PIARA archaeological project, her long-term commitment to communities in the northern part of the Callejón de...
March 31, 2023
In this interview with CLAIS, feminist political theorist and visiting professor at the Yale MacMillan Center, Amneris Chaparro-Martínez talks to us about the ever-changing definitions of feminism. On March 8th, she delivered a talk entitled Rags....
March 27, 2023
A fascinating discussion about the cultural and political connections between North Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America took place in Luce Hall on March 9th, through a talk co-organized by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (...
Amneris Chaparro Martinez, Visiting Professor and Rice Fellow, Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS)
March 8, 2023
On Wednesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD) was once again celebrated by women’s rights advocates to honor the social, economic, and political achievements of women and to raise awareness about continuing gender inequality around the...