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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...
Professor Carla Rothlin
July 28, 2020
The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies recently had a chance to speak with Professor Carla Rothlin at the Yale School of Medicine. See below for her bio and brief Q&A related to her research and a new immunology virtual series....
Bruce Ackerman
July 17, 2020
Introductory Note: This is an expanded version of an essay written by Bruce Ackerman,  Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, originally published in Portuguese by the Correio Braziliense on Monday, July 13, 2020. Here is an English...
June 2, 2020
This past year Leslie Harkema was asked to serve on the reading committee for the translation prize given by the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in New York City. The prize was for the best English translation of Spanish-language poetry from Spain...
June 2, 2020
Professor Claudia Valeggia, chair for the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS), and Professor Ana De La O, Director for Undergraduate Studies for the Latin American Studies major, are pleased to announce that three students—Delia...
Colum O'Connor
May 29, 2020
A Cuban-American from Brooklyn, New York, Colum O’Connor is a Yale College Class of 2018 Latin American Studies graduate. A talented drummer and musician with a passion for educational equity, O’Connor is now a second-grade teacher...