CLAS Open Seminar
Easter Term 2023 (other events here)
Mondays 5:15pm
SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Wednesday 10 May - 5:15pm
American post-colonial states, between the “concert of civilized nations” and the impossibility of “black Haiti”
Federico Navarrete (Simón Bolívar Professor, CLAS, University of Cambridge)
*Room 204, Second Floor, CLAS, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Monday 15 May - 5:15pm
Disappearances, Rule of Law, and the Dialectic of Impunity in Modern Mexico
Diane E. Davis (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design)
Monday 22 May - 5:15pm
Volkswagen, the Amazon and modern slavery in Brazil
Chaired by Grace Livingstone (CLAS)
Ricardo Rezende (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) – online
Rafael Garcia (Public Prosecutor, Brazilian Labour Ministry) – online
Antoine Acker (University of Geneva) – online
Matheus Faustino (SOAS, University of London) – in person
Brazil may sue VW amid claims firm used ‘slave labour’ under military rule | Global development | The Guardian – by Grace Livingstone and Matheus Faustino
Please note this is a hybrid event. To attend online please register here
Wednesday 24 May - 5:15pm
Mestizaje and racialized male power, family stories and national mythologies in the Americas
Federico Navarrete (Simón Bolívar Professor, CLAS, University of Cambridge)
*Room S1, First Floor, CLAS, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Tuesday 30 May - 5:15pm
The Environmental Humanities Turn in Latin America
Gisela Heffes (Rice University, Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Bristol)
*Room 204, Second Floor, CLAS, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
In this seminar, we will discuss the environmental humanities turn in Latin America, with a special focus on the role Latin America has played in relation to extractivism, the commodification of nature, toxicity, and the shifting landscape. We will consider different and key historical moments and will offer some examples of how Latin American aesthetics and cultural productions have been implicated in the ways we think and perceive nature. We will conclude by discussing the relevance of art and literature, especially creative work, in enhancing our understanding of the climate crisis. A selection of readings will be pre-circulated to participants who register for the seminar.
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Refreshments will be served after the seminar. All welcome.
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Past Open Seminars & CLAS event recordings