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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 honor of the first Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 commemoration at Columbia University on 12 October 2020, different Institutes and Centers organized the event "Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and the Covid-19 Pandemic", featuring various speakers.
Una conversación sobre la reforma constitucional de Chile del 25 de octubre para determinar si la ciudadanía está de acuerdo con iniciar un proceso constituyente para generar una nueva carta magna.
In the book "The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America, these scholars turn the tables, showing the ways in which institutional weakness is itself a political strategy.