📣 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!

🔔​ CLAS Events: Film Screening & Panel discussion: "Street Architecture in Covid-19 Sao Paulo" Fraya Frehse (University of São Paulo) Felipe Hernández & Professor François Penz (University of Cambridge) Tuesday 13 May - 5:00pm Room S1 - First Floor, ARB Come join us! #Architecture #Brazil

Recommended article: Jovens empreendedores e utopias periféricas na zona sul de São Paulo Author: Henrique Costa (formerly CLAS Visiting Scholar), Sue A. S. Iamamoto. rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/articl...

Recommended article: Re-framing popular governance in Brazil: Re-insurgent and entrepreneurial arrangements in the urban peripheries Author: Aiko Ikemura Amaral (CLAS Teaching Associate), Mara Nogueira, Gareth A. Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💠 #GenderStudies & CLAS present: "From the Centre to the Margins: Decolonial Intersectionality" Mara Viveros Vigoya (Simón Bolívar Professor) Wednesday 07 May | 5:00pm Room SG2 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building More info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe... #latinamericanstudies

📣 Joins us in the CLAS Events for Easter Term! 📍 Alison Richard Building Refreshments will be served after the events. All are welcome! We look forward to seeing you. 🎉 🔗 More info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latest-news-... #universityofcambridge #latinamerica #latinamericanstudies

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936 - 2025), prominent Peruvian writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, passed away at the age of 89. He was Simón Bolívar Professor at Cambridge 1977-78. We offer our deepest condolences to his family. www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/news/mario-v...

#SeeYou 🍃 A final thank you to our guest speakers who shared talks on their very varied and interesting research work at the Lent Term CLAS EVENTS. We close the past term and look forward to seeing you during the Easter Term events (programme coming).🎈

🌇 Join us for '#EntangledCities: Spaces of improvisation in contemporary Latin American urban culture' Explore how Latin American urban cultures open new ways of thinking through improvisation and creative assemblage 2-3 May 2025 St Catharine's College, Cambridge Register at buff.ly/qJytl9r 1/3

In Lent Term, we present 6 Lunchtime Seminars. In these, we share space with several current and former Visiting Scholars, reminding us of the great contribution to our academic community made by the researchers who pass through CLAS. We thank them all and hope to see them again soon. 🍀

Come to our panel on Climate Change & Resistance at @slaslatam.bsky.social I'll be talking on Water Protest Movements in Latin America plus Anabelle Dawson - green extractivism in Chile Danilo Rothberg & Isabela D’Avila - communicating climate change 1700 April 11th @clascam.bsky.social

We're looking forward to a talk "From the Centre to the Margins: Decolonial Intersectionality" by Simon Bolivar Professor Mara Viveros Vigoya, co-hosted with @clascam.bsky.social on 7 May! All welcome.

#TBT 🌺 We would like to take the opportunity of spring break to officially say goodbye to the Lent Term and thank all our students, staff and the general public for their participation in our Open Seminars. What did you think of the seminars? 🤔 #UniversityofCambridge #LatinamericanStudies #CLAS