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October 1, 2020
Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico, was an online forum held on September 23 as the first event of a new conference series, sponsored by CLAIS, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez, YSE, The Caribbean...
September 24, 2020
Professor David Jackson was recently featured as a speaker on the journalism of Patrícia Galvão, a renowned Brazilian writer, hosted by Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Please see link to his talk here.   
September 16, 2020
Erika Helgen is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Christianity at the Yale Divinity School. Professor Helgen is also a graduate of Yale’s PhD program in Latin American History, where she worked closely with Professors Stuart Schwartz...
September 10, 2020
Tolerance from Below  How did everyday people shape the modern world?  Throughout his half-century career as a historian of the Iberian Atlantic, George Burton Adams Professor of History Stuart Schwartz has broadened our understanding of the role...
September 8, 2020
The “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” is a virtual academic event to be held on September 16 and 17, 2020, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC) or 13:00 to 17:00 hours (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), that...
Photo caption: (From left) Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Professor of History at the University of Havana and Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at Yale University; Liliana Nuñez Velis, President of FANJ; and Claudia Valeggia, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, gather to sign a “celebration statement” at FANJ on March 10, 2020 to inaugurate the memorandum of understanding between Yale University and FANJ.
September 8, 2020
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center at Yale University and Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez (FANJ) in Cuba are delighted to announce a Memorandum of Understanding and partnership to work together to...
August 15, 2020
Florencia Montagnini is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment and the Director of the Program in Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry(PTFA) at the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. Previously, she was on the faculty...