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December 9, 2022
On Friday, December 2, the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN) held its third annual conference in Mexico City. The conference was titled “Irrupciones feministas anti-sistema en América Latina” and was the first large in-person...
December 7, 2022
On Friday, December 2, as part of the annual meeting of the LAIGN Conference in Mexico City, I held the second session of the Second Edition of the Forum on Gender & Public Policies on Leadership and Political Participation of Women. The Gender...
December 5, 2022
Dr. Sara Kozameh is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean, specializing in the Cuban Revolution, social movements, agrarian history, and Black radicalism. She is currently an ACLS Emerging Voices postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University...
November 30, 2022
Conceived of as a forum for policymakers and civil society to converse directly with scholars affiliated with the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN), the forum first held six sessions between January and May 2022 with a new...
November 27, 2022
Launched in 2020 as a joint effort between CLAIS and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through CIEG (Center for Research on Gender Studies), the Latin American Studies Gender Network (LAIGN) brings together faculty, scholars,...
November 14, 2022
On Sunday night, Margherita Tortora, LIFFY Founder & Executive Director, along with this year’s jury, announced the winners of LIFFY 2022. Carajita, a Dominican drama directed by Sylvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra, received the award for...
November 12, 2022
On Thursday, November 10, a panel of esteemed filmmakers who participated in LIFFY joined the Yale International Alliance Film Society (YIAFS) for a conversation about the current state of Latin American Cinema. Maria Lopez-Bresnahan and Guillermina...