Yale Postdoctoral Trainees | Yale MacMillan Center Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

Las luchas por el aborto legal en América Latina / The Struggle for Legal Abortion in Latin America

Join us for a special webinar series slated to be held on the last Friday of every month as part of a collaborative effort with CLAIS, Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network, and The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to highlight gender studies and gender issues in Latin America.

The event on February 26 will feature scholars and practitioners discussing the struggles related to legalizing abortion in Latin America.
This event will be in Spanish with simultaneous English translation.

Yale and Brazil: Highlighting Institutional Partnerships

Join us for the second virtual event in the Yale and Brazil: Supporting Future Science Research series. This webinar “Highlighting Institutional Partnerships” will feature Yale Professor Michael Cappello and Yale alumni Silvia Nunes Szente Fonseca ’90 MPH, Corporate Director of Infectious Diseases at São Francisco Hospital, and Benedito Antonio Lopes da Fonseca ’94 PhD, Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo Ribeirão Preto Medical School.

Virtual: Jamaica y Tamarindo: AfroTradition in the Heart of Mexico Virtual Screening

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group, Yale Latino Networking Group, LGBTQ Affinity Group, and Working Women’s Network for a virtual screening of Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico. Following the documentary, Ebony Bailey, the film’s cinematographer and director will join us for a live discussion.

PRFDHR Seminar: Brothers or Invaders? How Crisis-Driven Migrants Shape Voting Behavior - Professor Sandra Rozo

Professor Sandra Rozo studies the electoral effects of the arrival of 1.3 million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia as a consequence of the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis. She exploits the fact that forced migrants disproportionately locate in places with earlier settlements of Venezuelans after the intensification of the crisis. She finds that larger migration shocks increase voters’ turnout and shift votes from left- to right-wing political ideologies.

PRFDHR Seminar: Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance - Professor Chris Blattman

Gangs rule millions worldwide. Professor Chris Blattman studies how gangs govern, why, and whether the state can reclaim dominance. He first interviews dozens of gang leaders and thousands of residents in Medellin, Colombia, documenting this clandestine world. They govern to preserve local monopoly rents, but also because the state is remote. To demonstrate, Professor Blattman first harness exogenous variation in exposure to the state across internal borders. Over the long run, places more distant from police and services increase gang rule.