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Dr. Adanna Kai Jones, Assistant Professor of Dance at Bowdoin College, leading the first event in the Caribbean Studies Working Group’s Spring 2020 Embodied Interventions Series.   Photographs by Teanu Reid, Ph.D. Candidate in African American Studies and History.
April 9, 2020
The Caribbean Studies Working Group is an interdisciplinary group of scholars dedicated to the study of Caribbean culture, identity and society. We do not limit our study solely to the geographical area of the Caribbean Basin, but encourage the...
Kiloya Dashevski
April 9, 2020
On March 4, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the European Studies Council (ESC) hosted presentations to highlight student research projects that were funded by these councils’ travel grants. The event consisted of a...
Photo by Julia Brown
February 17, 2020
The fifth annual Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean conference, centered on the themes of people, capital and natural resources, drew more than 150 students, faculty and community members to Kroon Hall on February 14. The...
February 4, 2020
The Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies hosted our second Brazil Activities Fair on Friday, January 24, 2020 from 4 - 6pm.  More than 100 people came to Luce Hall to learn more about the diverse array of research, activities, and...
Oriol Junqueras, president of the Republican Left of Catalonia, speaking in the Congress of Deputies, May 2019.
January 21, 2020
In last November’s Spanish election, the center-left Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) headed by Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won 28 percent of the vote and 120 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and the left-of-PSOE Unidas Podemos led...
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved the new Socialist-Podemos government yesterday.
January 8, 2020
On November 10, Spanish voters went to the polls for the fourth time in the last four years and, as happened in the elections in December 2015, June 2016 and last April, no party or, for that matter, likely coalition of parties, won a majority of...
December 18, 2019
The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the European Studies Council (ESC) invites Yale Students who have conducted academic travel, research, or internship experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean, or Europe to submit...