November 2020 News

November 17, 2020
Jurados/Jury: Bea Gallardo, Víctor Gaviria, Cynthia Sabat. Categoría Largometraje de Ficción/ Feature Fiction Films Category MEJOR PELÍCULA -BEST FEATURE FILM Malpaso, de Héctor Valdez (República Dominicana/ Dominican Republic) Malpaso cuenta una...
Rio de Janeiro Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Professor Sérgio Guerra
November 10, 2020
The following interview is part of the European Studies Council and Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies collaborative collection titled “On the Ground Perspectives.” This new series features our international academic collaborators and...
Professor Emily Sellars
November 9, 2020
For our latest profile as part of our CLAIS faculty series, we were delighted to speak with Assistant Professor Emily Sellars. “Doing interdisciplinary research well requires some humility, I think. Every discipline or approach has limitations, and...
November 9, 2020
The latest installment of the new conference series, Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis in Cuba and Puerto Rico, was held online on October 29, 2020. This second panel delved into the burgeoning field of Environmental...
Daniel Alvarenga
November 3, 2020
As part of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies colloquia series, Poynter Fellow and Telemundo journalist Daniel Alvarenga presented on “Central Americans: Beyond the Headlines” on October 28. Mr. Alvarenga is a Salvadoran-American...
Margherita Tortora
November 2, 2020
One of Margherita Tortora’s passions is watching Latin American films. She has always incorporated them into her classes at Yale, where she is a Senior Lector II in Spanish and Portuguese. Not only do her students get additional language instruction...