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December 12, 2019
On December 12, the Common Room on the second floor of Luce Hall was filled with the sound of laughter, ping pong balls ringing, and sprinkles pouring as the MacMillan Center enjoyed a respite from the end-of-semester hustle with pizza and holiday...
November 22, 2019
On Oct. 18, the Universidad de San Andrés and Yale University co-sponsored the conference, “Perspectives on Poverty and Human Development (link is external)” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event was held as part of the celebrations to mark the...
PSOE leader and Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias signing a preliminary agreement last Tuesday to form a coalition government.
November 19, 2019
On Nov. 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 won a majority of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies. Nor, in the...
Spanish Acting Prime Minister and Socialist party leader Pedro Sánchez celebrating yesterday’s election.
November 11, 2019
On Sunday, Spanish voters went to the polls for the fourth time in the last four years. And as happened in December 2015, June 2016, and last April, no party won a majority. The fact that elections have become almost an annual event and that no...
October 31, 2019
Pablo Vidal talks about the impact of mobile phones on nomadic herders in Morocco.   Professor Vidal is the Director of the Anthropology Research Institute at the Catholic University of Valencia in Spain. His research interests include the...
October 14, 2019
On Friday, October 11th, scholars from Cuba and the U.S. academic community gathered in Luce Hall to explore the history, cultural and social impact, and future of Casa de las Américas in Havana. The event was organized by Anibal González-Pérez,...
October 7, 2019
Resistance in the Caribbean - Part I | Fugitive Modernities: The Politics of Freedom from Africa to the Americas How is it that we write about histories of the African diaspora? How is it that we write about Caribbean histories? What are “...