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Professor Claudia Valeggia views each of the photographs in the exhibit.
April 16, 2019
On April 9 the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) hosted an exhibition of 28 photos from graduate and undergraduate students working in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal. According to Claudia Valeggia, Chair of...
April 12, 2019
The cornerstone of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) Cuba Initiative is an undergraduate course (History and Culture of Cuba) that includes a two-week class trip to Cuba during spring break. Professor Albert Laguna and Dr....
April 9, 2019
On April 8, the graduate student affiliates at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center presented the research they conducted this semester with the support of the CLAIS Student Network Fellowship Fund....
Pilar Velasco
March 28, 2019
Pilar Velasco is a Spanish journalist currently working at Cadena SER (Prisa Group), the radio network leader in Spain. Specializing in investigative and data journalism, she has exposed political and economic malpractices in Spain and uncovered...
March 8, 2019
On Thursday, February 22nd, Hannah Dreier, immigration reporter at ProPublica and previous Venezuela correspondent for The Associated Press, gave a talk about the difficulties and challenges of reporting in Venezuela about the current situation...
Photo by Kai Nip
February 28, 2019
The Critical Innovation Fund —  a collaborative effort by the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, La Casa Cultural and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center — announced the five winners of its prize for...
Hannah Dreier
February 22, 2019
The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center and the Poynter Fellow in Journalism hosted a conversation with Hannah Dreier on “Reporting in the Era of Fake News in Venezuela and the U.S.” on February 21. Currently a...