CLAS Open Seminars
Lent Term 2025 (other events here)
Mondays 5:15pm
SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Monday 27 January - 5:15pm
When Plague Connected the World: Construction and Circulation of Microbiological Knowledge Between Brazil, India, and Europe (1894-1922)
Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva (University of St Andrews)
Chair: Rosanna Dent (University of Cambridge)
Monday 03 February - 5:15pm
From Mestizo Urbanism to Relational Territories: Disentangling Power, Racism, and Spatial Agency in Bogotá
Giulia Torino (King's College London)
Chair: Felipe Hernández (University of Cambridge)
Monday 10 February - 5:15pm
Excavating Mexico: Archaeology and the Making of Territorial Sovereignty
Andrés Bustamante (University of Oxford)
Chair: Adrián Lerner Patrón (University of Cambridge)
Monday 17 February - 5:15pm
Back to the (Amphibious) Future: Axolotl's Potentialities between Mexican Science Fiction and Indigenous Storytelling
Iris Montero (Brown University)
Chair: Stephanie Rohner (University of Cambridge)
Monday 24 February - 5:15pm
More degraded, but more open? The paradox of prison transparency in Argentina
Máximo Sozzo (Universidad Nacional del Litoral)
Chair: Graham Denyer Willis (University of Cambridge)
Monday 03 March - 5:15pm
El Salvador and the Bitcoin Experiment: Navigating Remittances, Dollarisation, and Global Monetary Change
Juan Grigera (King's College London)
Chair: Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge)
Monday 10 March - 5:15pm
Sonic extractivism in the Caribbean in the early Twentieth Century
Ana María Ochoa Gautier (Tulane University)
Chair: Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge)
Monday 17 March - 5:15pm
Simón Bolívar Seminar
Discursive, Organizational, and Mobilization Tactics of Black Middle Classes in the New Millennium: Challenging Power, Meritocracy, and Technocracy
Mara Viveros Vigoya (CLAS Simón Bolívar Professor 2025)
Chair: Mónica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge)
Refreshments will be served after the seminars. All welcome!
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