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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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This webinar was a part of the Reading Group Series "Decolonization, Neocolonialism, and Human Rights." In this week's session we read an article called "Regarding the Afro-Hispanic as Area Studies: On its ‘Content’ and ‘Discontent/s’" with Prof. Dr. Jerome Branche (University of Pittsburgh).
This conference brings together experts in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities from Columbia and outside institutions to participate in a highly interdisciplinary discussion of nature and society in Latin America. Engaging varied disciplinary and national perspectives, the conference takes a regional approach to land and natural resource use policies and politics on the premise that there are important social, economic, political, human rights and environmental interlinkages between different countries in the region that can provide the foundation for productively rethinking nature in Latin America.
This conference brings together experts in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities from Columbia and outside institutions to participate in a highly interdisciplinary discussion of nature and society in Latin America. Engaging varied disciplinary and national perspectives, the conference takes a regional approach to land and natural resource use policies and politics on the premise that there are important social, economic, political, human rights and environmental interlinkages between different countries in the region that can provide the foundation for productively rethinking nature in Latin America.