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October 26, 2022
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...
October 24, 2022
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...
October 20, 2022
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...
October 18, 2022
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...
October 16, 2022
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...
October 14, 2022
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...
October 10, 2022
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...