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Centre of Latin American Studies

 

 

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Refreshments will be served after the seminars. All welcome!

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