Lent Term 2024
Wednesday 24 January - 12:30pm | Lunchtime Seminar
From #Metoo to the Feminist Funa in Chile. Online Public Shaming as a Feminist Practice for Social Change: a Critical Analysis of Current Feminist Movements in LA
Blanca Larrain (University of Cambridge)
Room 204 - CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Early Modern World History Seminar
Thursday 25 January - 3pm
Managing Difference in the Spanish Empire: From Medieval European Law to Native Custom in Colonial Mexico
Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University)
St Catharine’s College, Sidney Smith Room
Wednesday 14 February - 4pm
Do Myths Ever Die? Social Changes and Myth Telling in Indigenous Amazonia
Aparecida Vilaça (CLAS Simón Bolívar Professor, Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
Room 204 - CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
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Thursday 15 February - 5pm | Screening
The Invention of the Other, by Bruno Jorge, 2023, Brazil
Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, 14 Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QY
Wednesday 21 February - 12:30pm | Lunchtime seminar
Visual strategies and pastoral visitation around Lake Titicaca (end of 17th century)
Agustina Rodríguez Romero (CLAS Visiting Fellow, CONICET)
Room 204 - CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Thursday 22 February - 5:15pm
Book Launch
The Amazonian Puzzle: Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations
Véronique Boyer (CNRS)
Françoise Barbira-Freedman (University of Cambridge)
Natalia Buitron (University of Cambridge)
David Lehmann (University of Cambridge)
Room S3, Third Floor, Alison Richard Building
Tuesday 27 February - 2:30pm
The Birth of an Earth Being. How a River Became a Legal Person in Indigenous Amazonia
Aparecida Vilaça (CLAS Simón Bolívar Professor, Museu Nacional, UFRJ)
Room 204, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Further information
Thursday 7 March - 12:30pm | Lunchtime Seminar
Andean Primordial Titles and the Rise of Native Communes: Rethinking the First General Land Inspection in Colonial Peru
José Carlos de la Puente (Texas State University)
Room 204 - CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Wednesday 13 March - 12:30pm | Lunchtime Seminar
Book Launch
The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale
Thiago Aguiar (King's College London)
Room 204 - CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Thursday 14 March - 5:15pm
From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary
Philip Kaisary (Carleton University)
Room 204 - CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Also see CLAS Open seminars