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Professor Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
December 7, 2020
Professor of Archeology in Yale’s Department of Anthropology, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos earned his Ph.D. in 1996 at Vanderbilt University. His dissertation focused on the pre-Columbian city of Cotzumalhuapa, near Guatemala’s Pacific coast. In...
December 7, 2020
On November 20, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) through the Center for...
Professor Valmor Tricoli
December 1, 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...
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...
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...
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...