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Bolsonaro’s Impact on Global Markets
November 28, 2018
Brazil’s President-elect Bolsonaro may follow Trump’s playbook as populist and defy the right-wing agenda in global markets NEW HAVEN: Weary of corruption, Brazilians elected former Army Captain Jair Messias Bolsonaro from the far-right Social...
Margherita Tortora, executive director and founder of LIFFY, introduces the film to the student audience.
November 13, 2018
More than 200 students from the New Haven public schools attended the 9th annual Latino & Iberian Film Festival at the Whitney Humanities Center on November 8 and enjoyed a private screening of La Formula del Doctor Funes, a children’s...
November 12, 2018
The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies invites Yale Students who have conducted academic travel, research, or internship experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, or Portugal to submit photographs taken during their...
Some graduate students who attended Professor Schwarcz's presentation.
November 12, 2018
On November 7, anthropologist and historian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz offered a talk entitled, “Lima Barreto: A sad visionary in Brazil at the beginning of the XX century” as part of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Lunchtime Colloquia...
The winning team (from left to right): Qusay Omran, Abigail Leonard, Henry Suckow-Ziemer, and Jake Mezey
October 31, 2018
On the morning of October 13, 350 undergraduate students from 46 different schools converged upon SSS 114 to kick off the most recent iteration of the Yale Undergraduate International Policy Competition. During the competition, students engaged with...
Anne Eller, William Rankin, and Anna Zayaruznaya
October 30, 2018
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research by...
Photo from “Tras la sierra (Behind the Hills)” by Juan Pablo Sasiain (Argentina)
October 29, 2018
The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), sponsored by the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, opens on Wednesday, November 7 and runs through...