This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world’s most unequal region. It explores how the gap between ...
Film Screening. Iran #3037 was a clandestine center of detention and torture under the brutal regime of Pinochet. Referred to as The Sexy Blindfold (La Venda Sexy) or the Discotheque, known for sexual violation and abuse. Today activists call for the house to be transformed into a feminist memorial site.
This public event will examine the old and new geopolitical challenges in the South Atlantic
The growing convergence of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, food and fuel shortages around the world, have all given rise to a perception that the world cannot be left to either US-Russia or US-China bi-polar relations. The recent announcement that ...
The growing convergence of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, food and fuel shortages around the world, have all given rise to a perception that the world cannot be left to either US-Russia or US-China bi-polar relations. The recent announcement that ...
The Observatory on Latin America and the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs invite you to the Lecture: UPDATE ON U.S. - CUBA RELATIONS IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD Lecture by: ERNESTO SOBERÓN GUZMÁN Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations Welcoming Remarks: MICHAEL COHEN Director, Observatory on Latin America REGISTER HERE Friday, […]
The Observatory on Latin America OLA, The Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, Universidad de los Andes, Colegio de Mexico and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, invite you to the International conference, Latin America on the Move: Two Panels · Continental Governance and the Impact of the US 2024 Elections on Latin America. […]
This event will bring together researchers from Latin America, North America, and Europe to discuss the main contemporary urban challenges. Over two days of conferences and thematic panels, topics such as urban development, planning, inequalities, low-income housing, urban violence, and urban neoliberalism will be addressed.
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Michael Cohen will take part as speaker at the 7th Urban Economy Forum UEF7, in Toronto, Canada. He will present on the global and urban impacts of U.S. trade tariffs during the Trump era, highlighting how macroeconomic shocks cascade through global value chains to local economies, deepening inequality and urban precarity. Wednesday 15, October, 2025
This collective book proposes feminist foreign policy (FFP) as a transformative strategy to globalize equality. FFP is presented here as an operative category and political praxis aimed at dismantling the historical tripod of ...
This session explores how municipal care systems, ranging from community support networks and social safety nets to public health and caretaking services, function as critical, frontline climate infrastructure.