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.
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On September 24th, Ambassador Benedicto Fonseca Filho visited the Yale MacMillan Center to attend the conference “The Road Ahead, Brazil 100/200.” Fonseca Filho, recently appointed as the new Brazilian Ambassador in South Africa, has been serving as...
The 2022 Latin American & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY) is slated to start on November 7th and will run until November 13th. This year’s jury includes: Tatiana Rojas Ponce, Dahlia Fischbein, and Miguel Rueda. Three notable film experts...
In this third and final part of the series about elections in Brazil, we invited Junia Ferreira Furtado to respond our three questions. Professor Furtado, a renowned Brazilian historian, is the first Fullbright Distinguished Award holder at the...
Brazil held general elections last weekend and we wanted to know the opinion of three Brazilian women currently affiliated with the Yale MacMillan Center. In this second part of the series, we invited Doriane Meyer, Postdoctoral Associate at the...
Brazil held general elections last weekend. Two polarizing candidates, one current and one former president, battled vote by vote to get the 50% required to become elected in the first round. Neither the leftist former union leader Lula da Silva...
