Last month, the Making and Knowing Project by Professor Pamela Smith hosted the Environment, Craft, Language, Culture, and Knowledge in the Americas workshop. Learn more here: www.columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-cul...

Applications are open for Fall 2026 and funding opportunities are available for this competitive and comprehensive program.

🚨MARSLAC APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN Are you interested in #LatinAmerica, in the #Caribbean? Check out our Master of Arts in Regional Studies: Latin America and the Caribbean. Learn more: ilas.columbia.edu/content/mast...

Our Director @emoncada.bsky.social was interviewed by Dionisio Gutiérrez from Razón de Estado TV. Watch it here: youtu.be/xR9q05S9F0M?...

Our current Tinker Visiting Professor Mara Eskinazi will be presenting a talk On Cobogós, Frames and Filters at the University of Pennsylvania. November 5th, 2025 10:15 am

"La #elección de #NYC fue un voto contra Trump y fue a favor de llegar a fin de mes", said @vickymurillo.bsky.social in a conversation at @urbanaplay.bsky.social, #DeAcáEnMás. Watch it here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAF... #NYCMayoralElection

Violence and Thriving Economies in #Mexico Join us for a conference exploring how prosperity and violence intertwine across legal and illegal markets November 13, 2025 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 📍457 - Schermerhorn Extension Registration required: thrivingeconomies.eventbrite.com

“If #Milei cannot control inflation and translate his market-oriented agenda into tangible gains for a majority of #Argentines, the electorate that brought him to power may quickly turn elsewhere,” @vickymurillo.bsky.social for @foreignaffairs.com Read it here: www.foreignaffairs.com/argentina/mi...

2025 Brazilian Black Consciousness Abroad Colloquium Between "Where We Stand" and "#Amefricanity" Keynote Speaker: #Djamila Ribeiro Debaters: Tassiana Oliveira (SUNY/Albany) and Priscila Santana (TC, Columbia University) November 12, 6-8pm 📍Milbank Chapel, Teachers College

Join us for a special screening of the documentary "Fragmentos de otra historia" (Fragments of Another Story). We are thrilled to host directors Laura Vera Jaramillo for a live Q&A after the film. November 13, 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 📍IAB - Room 802 Registration: lnkd.in/d-29B4Uj

Join us for El Regreso '25, an event organized by the Latino Alumni Association at Columbia University (LAACU). November 15, 2025 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM 📍Pulitzer Hall Dress Code: Business attire Registration: events.blackthorn.io/en/i0gvMh6/g...

Professor Maria Uriarte, from the Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, had an article published in @apnews.com on how Hurricane Melissa hit areas vulnerable to landslides because of deforestation. Read it here: apnews.com/article/hurr...

Early Atlantic History & the Caribbean A discussion on the book: #Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in #Spain, #SantoDomingo, and #PuertoRico. * Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel * Dr. Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco * Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés November 18 5-6:30 PM 📍Casa Hispánica

How Housing Policies Shape Crime: Embedded Criminal Social Orders in #Chile and #Uruguay Speaker: Inés Fynn, Universidad Católica del Uruguay Discussion by ILAS Director Eduardo Moncada (@emoncada.bsky.social) * November 12, 12-1pm 📍IAB - Room 802 Register: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

Professor Cristóbal Otero's paper Managers and Public Hospital Performance has been published in the November issue of the @aeajournals.bsky.social. Read it here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🔉 Next week events: * 10/27: Venezuela at a Crossroads: Political Developments and U.S. Relations columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi... * 10/28: Argentina and Beyond columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi... * 10/29: Reclaiming the Lost Century of Growth events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

⚠️EVENT REMINDER: Make sure to register for our book talk with Andrés Velasco on The London Consensus. Moderated by Jeff Frieden * October 23: 12-1pm 📍IAB Room 802 events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

An amazing set of events at the @ilascolumbia.bsky.social coming up with an excellent group of scholars and experts, including @vickymurillo.bsky.social and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social and others. Join us!

Looking forward to this timely webinar that will take stock of Argentina’s debt bailout and elections, using both to probe the politics of U.S. foreign economic policy in an era of global economic uncertainty. Join us! @ilascolumbia.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Join us for “Drugs and Security: Shifting U.S. Policy in Latin America” — a panel featuring SIWPS Director @profsaunders.bsky.social, María Alejandra Vélez, @gramsey.bsky.social, & @emoncada.bsky.social. 📅 Oct 1 🕑 2–3 PM In partnership w/ @ilascolumbia.bsky.social & @columbiaigp.bsky.social ⬇️

👇🏽👇🏽 #Agendar ¡¡Lanzamos la convocatoria📣!! III Seminario Internacional "Política Subnacional en América Latina🌎" 📅Fecha límite para postulaciones📋: 14 de julio 🗓️Fecha del evento: 30-31 de octubre de 2025 🏫Lugar: CENUR Litoral Norte (UDELAR), Salto, Uruguay

I defended my dissertation today! A heartfelt thanks to my committee—@vickymurillo.bsky.social, John Marshall, Sarah Daly, @emoncada.bsky.social, and @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social—for their insight, generosity, and steady support, as well as the family and friends who've backed me every step of the way.

Any questions?

@emoncada.bsky.social , Claire Tow Associate Professor of Political Science at #BarnardCollege, #ColumbiaUniversity joins @nellylun.bsky.social for a timely discussion on the urgent and growing crisis of #extortion in #Peru and across #LatinAmerica 📖 Full piece: ojo-publico.com/entrevistas/...

Check out this new piece by @emoncada.bsky.social, Claire Tow Associate Professor of Political Science at #BarnardCollege, #ColumbiaUniversity on #Peru👇

Súper interesante esta entrevista a @emoncada.bsky.social sobre extorsión criminal en Perú. Puede leerse acá ➡️ larepublica.pe/politica/202...

Join us for a conversation on race, migration, and real estate in 19th century Buenos Aires with Michael Goebel, the Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin on April 10th. #GlobalHistory #UrbanStudies #RaceandMigration #LatinAmerica

Very excited to be in Lima this week to share findings from my book on extortion, new projects on crime and public goods in Latin America, and learn from colleagues.

Greater #Caribbean combo next week! Two events, one on visual #art, the other one on #embroidery with #PuertoRico textile expert Lulú Varona. Don't miss out! @barnardcollege.bsky.social

Venga a escuchar a dos defensores de Justice In Motion hablar de cómo proteger los #DerechosLaborales entre #fronteras. #Mexico #Guatemala Evento en #español

#Deportation and #Migration -- two topics affecting the #Caribbean. Come join the discussion. @barnardcollege.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social 🗓️ Mar 27, 2025 ⏰5:00 – 6:30 PM EST 🚩 Sobejano, @CasaHispanicaNY, Columbia

#Argentina and #Industrial #policy scholars, come join us for a paper presentation and discussion with Federico Accursi and Pablo Sanguinetti. @fundarpoliticas.bsky.social 🚩Room 802, IAB, or on Zoom: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Sharing letter w/4 Columbia colleagues @pagefortna.bsky.social @vickymurillo.bsky.social Allison Carnegie & Turku Isiksel in which we speak only for ourselves, imagining how we would respond to the govt. This is *not* an official university statement. Grateful to @dandrezner.bsky.social for posting.

BREAKING: We're filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to challenge the 'disappearance' of 48 New Mexico residents.

Hey academic friends — universities need to stand together in the face of this onslaught. Please help mobilize your faculties, boards of trustees, etc to get your university’s leadership to stand with those already getting hit. Hiding won’t work. They are coming for you next.

Had a wonderful time presenting the pilot study for this project at Rutgers University earlier this week. Fortunate to receive excellent feedback and suggestions from the faculty and graduate students in their Department of Political Science that will help inform the next few years of research.

The Challenges of Mexico Facing the Trump Administration 🗓️ Mar 10, 2025 ⏰ 4:30 – 6:00 PM 🚩 Room 1512, IAB, or live stream. Will Freeman, Council on Foreign Relations Alberto Ramos, Goldman Sachs Viridiana Ríos, Milenio and El País Moderated by @vickymurillo.bsky.social

ILAS's annual faculty grants competition for the academic year 2025-2026. Full-time members of the Columbia teaching or research faculty are eligible to apply. @vickymurillo.bsky.social The application deadline is March 14th, 2025. More info at ilas.columbia.edu/content/fund...

New book w @joco513.bsky.social is out! Really proud of this work. We took TV eps about school and paired them with articles from Curr Studies from that same year, 1979-2020. We put theory to work, aimed mostly at students being introduced to the field brill.com/display/titl... Discount code: 72535

Tonight, at ILAS, #Brazil seminar with José Maria da Silva 👇: @columbiabrazil.bsky.social

We are now receiving applications for the 2026-2027 Tinker Visiting Professorship. ℹ️ More info: ilas.columbia.edu/content/edwa... @vickymurillo.bsky.social

📌 Este viernes 22/11 cierre final de postulaciones a la conferencia de la red de economía política de Am Latina, REPAL. São Paulo 2025📌 forms.gle/zvMaUEnws8Hw... 👀 convocatoria a la pre-conferencia para estudiantes doctorales redeconomiapoliticaamlat.com/annual-meeti... cc: @emoncada.bsky.social