Cinemix Film Screening: La Práctica
La Práctica (Martín Rejtman, 2023, DCP, 89 mins)
La Práctica (Martín Rejtman, 2023, DCP, 89 mins)
The European Studies Council and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale present a talk by Dr. Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes (Central European University; Austria / Federal University of Minas Gerais; Brazil) on “Gender in the Courtroom: Overlooked Factors in Decision-Making and Their Impact on Rights Adjudication.”
Lunch at 11:45am ET, talk at 12:00pm ET
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
Co-Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Ana María Miranda Mora, Yale Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate, Dresden University of Technology, on “Gendering Democratic Theory from an Intersectional Perspective”
Lunch @ 12:30 pm ET, Talk @ 1:00 pm
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 2nd fl, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
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.
Spring 2024 Colloquia Series: “Indigenous Epistemologies from Latin America”
This series seeks to bring together a myriad of voices from the Latin American and Caribbean region to explore current issues that are at the center of the lives of Indigenous peoples and their communities.
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***
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.
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.
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?
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?