Alumni

Black and Indigenous Mobilization and Politics in 20th Century Colombia

Dr. Laura Correa Ochoa is a social historian of modern Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on Colombia. She specializes in histories of race, ethnicity, political violence, and Afro-Latin American and Indigenous social movements and politics. Her work explores how ideas of race and ethnic difference have shaped political conflicts and how Indigenous and Black people have mobilized in the face of persistent discrimination and violence.

Le Ojer Tzij: Teaching Maya K'iche' Language in Historical Context

Manuela Tahay is a Maya K’iche’ educator from Nahualá, Guatemala. She teaches Maya K’iche’ language and culture, with over a decade of experience working with beginning to advanced students. She currently teaches K’iche’ language and culture at UT-Austin (academic year) and Tulane University’s Maya Language Institute (summer); she previously taught at Vanderbilt University.

Lunch will be served.

Part of the Latin American History Speaker Series.

***Please Note: The location of this event has changed to HQ 134***

The Mismeasure of Inca Skulls: American Anthropology's Peruvian Foundations

Dr. Christopher Heaney (YC ‘03) is an assistant professor of Latin American History at the Pennsylvania State University (University Park). He is the author of two books: Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Foundations of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), a history of the conflict between Peru and Yale over the excavation and possession of the burials of Machu Picchu.

Lunch will be served.

On the Ground that she was a Free-Woman’: Navigating Race, Gender, and Freedom in 19th Century Caribbean Central America-- Melanie Y. white

Dr. Melanie Y. White is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean Studies in the Department of African American Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University, an M.A. in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference 2023, Day 2

What is the future of economic growth in the face of climate change, and how should we measure it? How will low-income countries achieve significant poverty reduction without using carbon-intensive approaches or further degrading the environment? Have we been able to measure the economic value to natural resources accurately? How well do macroeconomic models capture the assumptions in climate models, and vice versa?

Yale Climate, Environment & Economic Growth Conference 2023, Day 1

What is the future of economic growth in the face of climate change, and how should we measure it? How will low-income countries achieve significant poverty reduction without using carbon-intensive approaches or further degrading the environment? Have we been able to measure the economic value to natural resources accurately? How well do macroeconomic models capture the assumptions in climate models, and vice versa?

Playing With Fire: Incandescent Pedagogies and Critical Politics (Mexico City, 2016-22)

This conference focuses on the ways in which the protest- in particular young feminist and student protest in México City- can be visualized, translated, most of all read and theorized as crucially pedagogical and critically political. Much of what is expressed, drawn, painted during the protest (graffiti, murals, pintas) fades or vanishes below the surface. My aim is to stay with what vanishes and fades, with what is incommensurable or difficult to be narrated or placed together, and may be constitutive of a political discourse or a pedagogical intervention.

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