✨ Lent Term 2026 ✨ Join us for our Open Seminars & CLAS events, including talks, film screenings, concerts and more. 🎟️ Free & open to all 🔗 Full programme: latin-american.cam.ac.uk/clas-open-se... #CLAS60Years #LatinAmericanStudies

Entering the New Year at CLAS ✨ As the year begins, we share moments from recent CLAS events — seminars, films, conversations and our end-of-term lunch — reflecting the care, curiosity and engagement that shape our work. Thank you to our speakers and community. #CLAS60Years #CambridgeUniversity

I've written an explainer on Venezuela: Why did Chavez revolution go wrong? Who are the factions in Venezuela today? History of US involvement in Venezuela Why Trump did not go for regime change lab.org.uk/venezuela-th... @latinamericabureau.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @nujlfb.bsky.social

I'll be talking about Venezuela and Trump's plans for Latin America Just turn up in person, or for online book below For more on my book America's Backyard see: grace-livingstone.com/2018/09/14/a...

Rio Tinto’s plan to mine lithium in Chile could threaten water sources say indigenous communities - my story www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @clascam.bsky.social @latinamericabureau.bsky.social @criordor.bsky.social @gcabana.bsky.social

✨ Closing a wonderful 2025 at CLAS! ✨ Thank you to all students, scholars, speakers, and attendees of our Open Seminars—your curiosity and engagement made every session inspiring. 🌎💬 Here’s to reflection, celebration, and recharging for the year ahead! 🥂📚 #CLAS60Years #CambridgeUniversity

From Brazil to Cambridge 🇧🇷📚 In the 1970s, CLAS hosted Brazilian economists like Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Celso Furtado & Pedro Malan, who debated development, dependence & the state's role in Latin America. 📝🌎 Research: @rshimabukuro #Brazil #Economists #CLAS60years #LatinAmerica

🎥 Indexed Beings, a film by artist Helen Knowles with members of Indigenous communities in the Putumayo, Colombia Join @clascam.bsky.social and the Decolonising Plant Knowledge Network for this special screening and Q&A 1 December from 3-5pm, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/48yZUZI

🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents: Film Screening / Q&A: Malês (2024) This film was developed with the historical consultancy of Professor João José Reis, and was inspired by his chapter ‘Slave Rebellion in Brazil’ (2010). 📆 Tuesday 02 December - 5:00pm 📍 Room S2, Second Floor, ARB Come join us! 🤩

🌱 Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles (Filmmaker) and Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo (Indigenous leader in Colombia) 📆 Monday, 1 Dec 2025 15:00 - 17:00 📍Room SG1, ARB, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP

📣 The last CLAS OPEN SEMINARS of term: What can anthropology say about inflation? Lived Experience, Politics of Prices, and forms of living in Contemporary Argentina Mariano Perelman (Universidad de Buenos Aires) 📆 Monday 01 December | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB Come join us! 🤩

Did you know…? For almost 60 years, CLAS has welcomed distinguished Latin American scholars as visiting fellows. Among them are two authors who would later receive the #NobelPrize in #Literature: Octavio Paz (1990) and Mario Vargas Llosa (2010). Research by: Rafael Shimabukuro #CLAS60years

🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents: Book Launch in Spanish: 'Nieves de los Andes' Veronica Alvarez-Cordova (Author) 📆 Wednesday 26 November | 12:30pm 📍 Room S2, Second Floor, ARB The event is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents: Writing Between Languages: Translingual Dynamics in 21st-Century Latin American Narrative Ilse Logie (Ghent University) 📆 Monday 24 November | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building Come join us! 🤩

🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents: Engendering the Archaeological Imaginary of Peru Carito Tavera Medina (University of Barcelona) 📆 Wednesday 19 November | 12:30pm 📍 Room S2, Second Floor, ARB The event is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents: Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America. The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago (University of Amsterdam) 📆 Monday 17 November | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building Come join us! 🤩

📢 Virtual Open Day – Centre of Latin American Studies: MPhil & PhD Missed the live session? No problem! Get practical advice, tips, FAQs, and all the insights from our info session. 🗣️ Don’t miss out on discovering your next academic adventure! 🔗Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNc...

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: Los retos de una investigación acción colaborativa: ¿cómo y con qué objetivos estudiar el fenómeno cultural de la champeta (Caribe colombiano) desde el Norte global? Lise Segas (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne) 📆 Monday 10 November | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: Intimacies of Violence: Memory and Affect in Postconflict Peru Jelke Boesten (King's College London) 📆 Monday 03 November | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB More info 🔗 in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe... The seminar is free and open to all! 🤩

Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture. Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation. 🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm 📍Alison Richard Building Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk

Join us on to discuss the strategic partnership between Spain and the UK in a challenging global landscape with the Ambassador of Spain to the UK and N Ireland, José Pascual Marco Martínez. 🗓️Mon, 27 Oct 2025 🕑14:00 - 15:00 📍SG1/2 ARB Register now: spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk

🔔 CLAS EVENTS Poesía expandida en Chile durante la Guerra Fría (1952–1989) - Talk in Spanish - Alejandro Arturo Martínez (Universidad Diego Portales) 📆 Tuesday 28 October | 5:00pm 📍 Room S1, First Floor, ARB The event is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: The Caribbean Routes of William Carlos Williams Peter Hulme (University of Essex) 📆 Monday 27 October | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB More info 🔗 in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe... The seminar is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩

Virtual Open Day 2025 - Postgraduate 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 Join us here to find out more about our subjects. Get practical advice, tips, FAQs and more in this information session. 🔍 📆 Tuesday 04 November | 14:00 to 14:45 🔗 You must register in advance: postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

If you are in Cambridge / @clascam.bsky.social come and join our reading group.

🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents: A Brief History of Violence in Mexico Pablo Piccato (Columbia University) "Mexico is not essentially violent. Each form of Mexico’s violence has a history." 📆 Friday 24 October | 5:00pm 📍 Room S1, First Floor, ARB Come join us!

🌱 Join us for the first event by the 'Decolonising Plant Knowledge' research network on 15 October This interdisciplinary seminar series explores aspects of Rau as a crucible of creative epistemic frictions between botanical narratives and colonised plant worlds 2-5pm, Pembroke College, CB2 1RF

Join us @clascam.bsky.social for a one-day symposium on Visual Activisms in the Southern Cone. With talks from Nayla Vacarezza, Erika Teichert, Anna Corrigan; and a film screening of Piotr Cieplak’s (Dis)Appear. 1pm-7pm, Friday 21 November @cam.ac.uk. Register below! 📸 🎥

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance Claudio Palomares-Salas (Queen's University) 📆 Monday 20 October | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB More info 🔗 in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe... Free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩

The Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Cambridge, invites applications for hosting from applicants for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships, to be taken up from October 2026. 🔗 Link: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/leverhulme-t...

💠 Legacies of Enslavement & CLAS present: "Manoel Joaquim Ricardo, A Successful Hausa Freedman in Bahia, c. 1806-1865" João José Reis (Simón Bolívar Professor) 📆 Monday 13 October | 5:15pm 📍 Lecture Theatre at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ Come and join us!

🔔New events coming soon! In addition to our Open Seminars every Monday, we have CLAS Events with various activities on the agenda. We look forward to seeing you there. 📍Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge + Info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latest-news-... #latinamericanstudies

📣 We are delighted to present our Open Seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025! 📅Mondays 🕐5:15pm 📍Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, @cambridgeuniversity All welcome! We look forward to seeing you. 🎉 *Please note that the first seminar will be held at a different location.

✨We are very pleased to welcome #SimónBolívarProfessor 2025: João José Reis✨ João says: "I'm eager to learn from and discuss with CLAS graduate students and professors about their work." Read more: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/simon-boliva... #Brazil #LatinAmericanStudies

Anglo American accused of causing: human illness animal deaths contamination of air and water & drilling under glaciers My report from Chile @clascam.bsky.social @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social @nujlfb.bsky.social @latinamericabureau.bsky.social @waronwant.bsky.social www.com/global-devel...

📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN! 26-27 ❗️ Deadline: 02 December for funding. All who apply will be considered for a scholarship. 🎉 + info: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/depa... #postgraduate #masterstudy #phdstudies #cambridgeuniversity #latinamericanstudies #scholarship

📖Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin. 📆Thurs 18 Sept 🕠5:30 - 7PM 📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #Democracy @kingscollege.bsky.social

We officially said goodbye to the 2024/25 academic year! 🎉 Thank you for your support! Our open events are designed to promote the growth of our students and encourage more informed discussions about Latin America among individuals in the UK interested in the region. Have a Happy Summer! ☀️

📌 CLAS & CDS are hiring a Research Associate in Latin American Development (Fixed Term) If you have a deep engagement with Latin America and Development Studies and the skills to carry out archival research, apply now: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51764/ #Apply #WorkWithUs

CLAS MPhil Research Day 🗣📖 This internal event provided an opportunity for our students to explore preliminary aspects of their research, test arguments with colleagues and develop new ideas before presenting their dissertations. Graduation season is coming up!🤩 #cambridgeuniversity #MPhil #Latam

📌 JOB OFFER: Assistant Professor in Spanish Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College invite applications for a joint College Lectureship in Spanish (fixed term) for nine months commencing on 1 October 2025 and running to 3 July 2026. Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK109/a...

Recommended article: "Phantom Limbs: Affect, Haptics and ‘Partes De Mucha Gente’ in Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra Parte De Noche" Author: Ana María Villaveces Galofre (CLAS PhD Student) READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Bravo, Ana María! 🎉

Award-winning Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist Karim Aïnouz will be in Cambridge from 2-6 June, participating in a series of public screenings and workshops. A symposium on Aïnouz's work will be held on Friday 6 June from 1-6pm. Open to all! www.film.cam.ac.uk/about/news/k...

US company Chiquita has sacked thousands of banana plantation workers in Panama for going on strike They were striking about new laws that affect their pension rights Last week, the company ended all their contracts, Radio Temblor reports www.radiotemblor.org/chiquita-des...

Folks in Cambridge! Join us this Friday at 7PM for the opening of an exhibit featuring a series of transmedia art pieces created by communication students at the Universidad Iberoamericana & @homertoncollege.bsky.social.

Friday, 30 June (all day), SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site Sexual Ecologies ¦ Space, nature and queer cinema convened by Dr Jules O’Dwyer and Dr Geoffrey Maguire. CRASSH and Cambridge Film & Screen Register here lu.ma/k2w1uh56 by midnight TODAY, 28 May.

🔔​CLAS Events "Recreating the World: Crisis and Historical Projects in Indigenous Amazonia" Maria Luísa Lucas (@usponline) Chair: Natalia Buitron (@Cambridge_Uni) 📆 Tuesday 27 May - 12:30pm 📍 Room S1 - First Floor, ARB The event is open to all! #Indigenous #Amazonia

🔔​ Workshop: "The Policrisis in Latin America" Fernando Calderón (@unsamoficial) Resources 🔗 in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe... 📆Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 May 3:00pm - 5:00pm 📍 Room S1 - First Floor, ARB Open to all! #Policrisis #Latinoamerica #SocialSciences

The Seeley space in the West Room @theul.bsky.social is open until 9.30pm on weekdays this term. Extra time to enjoy our lovely new space @camhistory.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social

🔔​ CLAS Events: Film Screening: "Urukurenda: In Search of the Land Without Evil" Penelope Anthias (Durham University) Chair: Sarah Radcliffe (University of Cambridge) More info 🔗 in: latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe... 📆 Thursday 15 May - 12:30pm 📍 Room S2- Second Floor, ARB Come join us!