CLAS Open Seminars
Lent Term 2026 (other events here)
Mondays 5:15pm
SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP
Monday 26 January - 5:15pm
Book Launch: Plebeian Consumers. Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Ana María Otero-Cleves (University of York)
Chair: Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo (University of Cambridge)
Monday 02 February - 5:15pm
The Mummified Republic: Peruvian Independence and the “Inca” Dead in Britain, 1821-1893
Chris Heaney (The Pennsylvania State University)
Chair: Adrian Lerner Patron (University of Cambridge)
Monday 09 February - 5:15pm | Salvador Allende Lecture
On Impunity: From East West Street to 38 Londres Street
Philippe Sands (University College London)
Chair: David Lehmann (University of Cambridge)
Location: Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Berkowitz/Finley Lecture Hall (5 Cranmer Road, Cambridge CB3 9BL)
Monday 16 February - 5:15pm
Book Launch: The contradictions of science in Machado De Assis
Viviane Carvalho Da Annunciacao (University of Cambridge)
Commentator: Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (University College London)
Chair: Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge)
Monday 23 February - 5:15pm
Yiddishkayt on the Barricades: Forging a Jewish Working Class in Buenos Aires, 1890-1930
Walter Koppmann (CONICET)
Chair: Nathan Huanacune (University of Cambridge)
Monday 02 March - 5:15pm
To be confirmed
Monday 09 March - 5:15pm
Book Launch: The Joyful Passions of Feminism: How to Shake Up Contemporary Political Imagination
Nayla Luz Vacarezza (CONICET)
Chair: Geoffrey Maguire (University of Cambridge)
Monday 16 March - 5:15pm
Book Launch: Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile
Katia Chornik (University of Cambridge)
Chair: Arantxa Figueroa (University of Cambridge)
Refreshments will be served after the seminars. All welcome!
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