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Combine general mastery of a discipline of your choice with critical language and cultural skills, all while learning from Columbia’s renowned faculty.
This interdisciplinary program provides a broad social science-based approach to modern and contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
ILAS offers a certificate program to graduate students who complete an interdisciplinary program in conjunction with their own departmental degrees.
ILAS hosts visiting faculty and scholars through a variety of funded and unfunded opportunities, including an open call for Visiting Scholars.
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In the month of November, two Category 4 hurricanes struck the Afro-Indigenous Moskitia region of Central America -- a region already in the throes of a COVID-19 outbreak. In this event, two Miskitu activists and one Afro-Creole political leader from the region reflect on the wider sociopolitical and economic context giving shape to the hurricanes and their aftermath.
Directora del Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (ILAS) Maria Victoria Murillo conversó con el ex-presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales. El evento fue organizado por los estudiantes latinoamericanos de SIPA de la Universidad de Columbia.
This interdisciplinary reading group is a colloquium among peers, and dedicated but not limited to terms of intersectional discrimination, inequality, Human Rights, and colonial history. The discussions will have a special focus on Latin America, and be centered around key concepts such as Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism, Abolitionism, and Decolonization.
This session will focus on Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh's "On Decoloniality". It is accompanied by Dr. Walter Mignolo (Duke University).