Yale Postdoctoral Trainees

Brazilian Concert: The Music of Pixinghinha & Reception

The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center invites you to the concert of the renowned Brazilian musicians Rogerio Souza and Stephen Guerra, who will perform the compositions of the beloved father of Brazilian popular music, Pixinghinha (1897-1973). After the concert, please join us for a reception.
Concert: 4.00-5.30 pm
Reception: 5.30-6.30 pm

Coloquio | Abordar el pasado: Memoria y Revolución en los medios y el cine cubano del siglo XXI

Presentación
Durante las últimas décadas, la producción audiovisual cubana ha configurado un
territorio crucial para el debate político y social; genera obsesivamente narrativas que
pretenden reordenar la historia cubana, aborda y discute nociones como la memoria,
la historia y el pasado como ejes fundamentales para renegociar el presente. El
coloquio Abordar el pasado: Memoria y Revolución en los medios y el cine cubano del siglo
XX busca propiciar la discusión y el debate sobre el cine cubano contemporáneo, la

Law, Authoritarianism, and Everyday Life in Vargas Era Brazil

The Latin American History Speaker Series
Melissa Teixeira, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will be speaking on campus on Thursday, 31 March 2022.
Meet in HQ 136 at 4:00 PM to discuss Professor Teixeira’s paper titled “Law, Authoritarianism, and Everyday Economic Life in Vargas Era Brazil”. RSVP to receive a copy of the paper (see registration).

Fernando Pessoa Unmasked? Biographer Richard Zenith in Conversation with Inês Forjaz de Lacerda

HYBRID Event
Celebrated translator and biographer Richard Zenith has spent much of the past three decades translating and writing about the great Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa.

At Yale, Zenith will talk about what - through all these years - led to some of his recent revisions to his translations and reflect on translation more generally.

PRFDHR Seminar: Promoting maternal mental health and early childhood development in communities exposed to violence and forced displacement in Colombia, Professor Andrés Moya

By the end of 2020, 1 out of every 6 children was living in a region affected by violence and armed conflict. Repeated and traumatic exposure violence at an early age can severely affect children’s mental health and can therefore hinder healthy development and derail their life trajectories. In this paper Professor Moya and his co-authors report the results from a cluster-based randomized trial of Semillas de Apego, a community-based psychosocial model for mothers of young children affected by violence and forced displacement.

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