Recent and Past Events
Michaelmas 2018
Friday & Saturday 21 - 22 September
Research to transform: Colombian UK 5th Annual Summit
Further information/ Registration
Tuesday 9 October
Lunchtime seminar 12.30 - 13.45pm, Seminar Room 204, CLAS
The Amazon, Patagonia, and Postcolonial Colonialism in the Age of Empire
Álvaro Bello Maldonado, Universidad de La Frontera, Chile & Alberto Harambour Ross, Universidad Austral de Chile
Thursday 11 October
Lunchtime seminar 12.30 - 13.30pm, Seminar Room 204, CLAS
Ageing, illness and care in militarized territories of Rio de Janeiro
Camila Pierobon, Postdoctoral Researcher, Brazilian Centre of Analysis & Planning (CEBRAP), São Paulo, Brazil
Saturday 20 October
Festival of Ideas, screening + Q&A Las lindas (The Pretty Ones) 4.30pm (poster)
Alison Richard Building, S1 First Floor. Further information >
Friday 2 November
Centre of Latin American Studies OPEN EVENT 5-6.30PM
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Further information >
Thursday 8 November
Roundtable: 5 - 7pm, Fitzpatrick Hall, Queen’s College, Cambridge, CB3 9ET
The far right rises in Brazil: what explains and what to expect from Bolsonaro’s electoral victory
Further information >
Friday 9 November
ARTIVISMO: The Place of Art and Politics in Latin America
Graduate Conference
Free Registration now open and further information here
Thursday 13 November
Lunchtime seminar 12.30 - 13.30pm, Seminar Room 204, CLAS
The political organization of the shantytown dwellers in the City of Buenos Aires (1946 - 1983)
Julieta Pacheco, PhD History, Researcher, CONICET, Argentina & Visiting Scholar, CLAS, Cambridge
Thursday 22 November
Lunchtime seminar 12.30 - 13.45pm, Seminar Room 204, CLAS
La lucha por la legalización del aborto en Argentina (junio - agosto) 2018 (in Spanish)
Julieta Pacheco, PhD History, Researcher, CONICET, Argentina & Visiting Scholar, CLAS, Cambridge
Monday 26 November
Screening & roundtable discussion 2 - 4pm, Seminar Room 204, CLAS
50 years on……….. Revolutionary Cinema: Remembering Latin America's 1968 through film
El grito (Mexico, 1968, Leobardo Lopéz Aretche)
La hora de los hornos (Argentina, 1968, Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas
No intenso agora (Brazil, 2017, João Moreira Salles
Followed by roundtable discussion with David Wood (Institute of Aesthetic Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) & Visiting Scholar, CLAS, Cambridge
Ana Maria Mauad, Celso Furtado Visiting Fellow, St John’s College, University of Cambridge & Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
Erika Teichert, PhD Candidate, CLAS, Cambridge
Tuesday 27 November
Lunchtime seminar 12.30 - 13.45pm, Seminar Room 204, CLAS
Brazil on the Threshold
Dan Baron Cohen, Eco-cultural activist in the Amazon for the last 15 years
Tuesday 27 November
Screening and Q&A 5 - 8pm, Cripps Court Auditorium, Magdalene College, 1 - 3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, CB4 3AD
O Processo (The Trial), 2018 (documentary about the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff)
Further information >
Wednesday 28 November
Workshop: 10.15am - 6.30pm, St John's College, Old Divinity School, Lightfoot Room, Cambridge
Envisioning Modern Brazil through Images: Photography, Cinema and Literature
This event is free but for catering purposes please register here
Further information >
Tuesday 4 December / Martes 4 de diciembre de 2018
Simposio internacional:
Relaciones intermediales e interdisciplinarias en la cultura argentina
Programa y résumenes