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March 7, 2023
Ana Ramos-Zayas is the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration and Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research primarily examines systems of power and cultures of privilege...
March 6, 2023
Last week, Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera (Assistant Professor of Latin American & Latinx Studies and Anthropology at Lake Forest College) visited CLAIS to give a talk titled “Mestizo Geographies: Race, Gender, and Environment in Oaxaca.” In this...
March 3, 2023
 On Wednesday, March 1, a group of students, faculty, and staff gathered to attend a presentation by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, the latest installment of the CLAIS Colloquia Series. The presentation was titled “Mestizo Geographies: Race,...
February 28, 2023
On Friday, March 3, the new session of our Gender & Policy Forum was dedicated to discuss sustainable development in relation to territory, society, and gender. One speaker was Dr. Margarita Velázquez-Gutiérrez, PhD in Social Sciences from the...
February 27, 2023
El pasado viernes 3 de marzo, se desarrolló una nueva sesión, la primera de 2023, de nuestro Foro de Género & Políticas Públicas, esta vez dedicado a discutir el desarrollo sustentable en relación con el territorio, la sociedad y el género. Una...
February 14, 2023
Patrícia Lino is a poet working at the intersections of the verbal, sonic, and visual. In addition to her artistic work, she has developed groundbreaking approaches concrete and expanded poetics, coining the concept of “infraleitura”, which she...
February 13, 2023
On Friday, February 10, a panel of journalists and scholars gathered on Zoom for a presentation on the topic of “Democratic Backsliding in America.” The talk was co-sponsored by CLAIS, the University of Chicago’s Center on Democracy, and the Poynter...