May 2023 News

May 22, 2023
Nearly one-third of New Haven’s population is Hispanic or Latino, yet many local Spanish-speaking community members have not heard of Yale’s Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the numerous Spanish-language academic and...
May 21, 2023
CLAIS is pleased to publish the proceedings from last year’s five-part conference series focused on climate health and resilience in Puerto Rico and Cuba. The year-long virtual series was in collaboration with Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la...
May 15, 2023
On Friday, May 5, a group of scholars and policymakers came together to participate in the latest installment of the Spring 2023 Gender and Policy Forum, titled “Ending Violence Against Women.” The panel took place on Zoom and was live-streamed to...
May 4, 2023
CLAIS fellow David Alzate (Jackson School)has written this article on CLAIS faculty affiliate Christopher Neilson (Department of Economics.) It has been originally published at the EGC site. Due to its relevance to CLAIS, we reproduce it here...
May 3, 2023
Julia Wand Del-Rey Cani is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the University of Sao Paulo. Thanks to the Fox International Fellowship, she has spent the academic year 2022-23 at the Yale MacMillan Center. In this interview with CLAIS, she shared her views...
May 1, 2023
On Wednesday, April 19, CLAIS continued its Spring Colloquium Series with a presentation by Jose Ignacio Carvajal Regidor, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at UC San Diego. The talk was titled “Translating Ch’akatajik:...