David Brion Davis has passed after a long illness. The historical profession, the GLC, and countless friends have lost a giant of a figure. The GLC team and network of hundreds of scholars,...
On April 10, the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies hosted Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj and Rigoberto Quemé Chay, two prominent figures in the Guatemalan indigenous community, for a...
The cornerstone of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) Cuba Initiative is an undergraduate course (History and Culture of Cuba) that includes a two-week class trip to Cuba...
After a marathon meeting that began at 6 p.m. Wednesday and concluded at 1 a.m. Thursday, less than 48 hours before the United Kingdom, having failed to approve the withdrawal agreement and political...
We live in a globalized world where emails, international stock exchanges, and long-haul flights contract time and space. But does our modern fixation with globalization lead us to underestimate the...
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with David Simon, who directs the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, on the 25th anniversary of the start of Rwanda’s genocide. (go to NPR site...
There have been any number of extraordinary moments over the past three years in the long-running Brexit saga. But the events of the past week, occurring as they did in the shadow of the looming...
On March 28, the Indu Bhatt Annual Memorial Lecture welcomed Rukmini Banerji, an economist and CEO of Pratham, a research group aimed at addressing gaps in India’s education system with a focus on...
An international conference, “Bangladesh in the Next 30 Years: Challenges and Prospects,” organized by the Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI) and hosted by the South Asian Studies Council at the...
Brexit expert Vernon Bogdanor CBE and Professor of Government at the Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College, London, will give a series of four lectures this month on “Britain and...
When Frederick Douglass was growing up on a plantation, he discovered an old school reader containing Enlightenment-era speeches and a “how-to” introduction to oratory. On Sunday afternoons, when he...
Ernesto Zedillo ’81 Ph.D., the Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, will be among a group of diplomats who will visit Beijing, China April 1-3 to meet with...
