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Science in Text and Culture in Latin America
Overview of Science in Text and Culture in Latin America
Oxford April 2015 / Science and Culture in Latin America: Transmission, Circulation, Exchange
Puerto Rico September 2015 / Science Fiction from Latin America: The (Re)invention of a Genre
Buenos Aires April 2016 / Science and Modernity in Latin American Culture
Cambridge July 2016 / Science and Culture in Theory and History: Latin America, France, and the Anglophone World
Being Human Festival: Science Fictions from Latin America
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America
Virtual Exhibition: Science in Text and Culture in Latin America
Overview of Virtual Exhibition: Science in Text and Culture in Latin America
Oliverio Girondo: Instantánea del cerebro de Ramón
Ricardo Güiraldes, ‘Síntesis de la primera conferencia de Marinetti en el Coliseo de Buenos Aires’
Cross-section of the volcano Chimborazo, Alexander von Humboldt, ‘Geographie des Plantes Equinoxiales’
Manuel Maples Arce, Untitled calligramme
Radio: Publicity for Cigar Company El Bueno Tono
Front Cover, Ana Roqué de Duprey’s Botánica Antillana
Title Page, Manuel Zeno Gandía’s 'Higiene de la Infancia al Alcance de las Madres de Familia'
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Postgraduate Courses
Overview of Postgraduate Courses
MPhil in Latin American Studies
Overview of MPhil in Latin American Studies
MPhil Course Structure
Modules
Overview of Modules
Core Course
Overview of Core Course
Core Course Michaelmas 2022
Overview of Core Course Michaelmas 2022
Modern Latin American Politics
Race in Latin America
Work and Workers in Contemporary Latin America
Agrarian Questions in Latin America
Political Ecology and Environmental Thought in Latin America
Urban Inequalities
The Caribbean in World History
Core Course Lent 2023
Overview of Core Course Lent 2023
Latin America in the World
Global Imaginaries
Picturing Lettered Cities under Spain
Music, Memory and Human Rights
Plant-human relations in Latin America and the ‘ontological turn’
Representations and Politics of Food in Latin America
Who is Indigenous, what is Indigeneity?
Research Methods and Frameworks
Optional Modules
Overview of Optional Modules
Capitalism and Society in Latin America (MT)
Overview of Capitalism and Society in Latin America (MT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Overview of Key Issues and Texts
Bibliography: Latin America and the World Market
Bibliography: Energy Politics in Latin America
Bibliography: Which Development? For Whom?
Bibliography: Global value chains and the zero-carbon agenda
Bibliography: Populisms, old and new
Bibliography: Capitalism, Social Reproduction and Inequality
The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture (MT)
Overview of The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture (MT)
Teaching Schedule
Key texts and issues
Overview of Key texts and issues
Bibliography: Nature and Empire: Natural Histories and Colonial Rule
Bibliography: Romanticism: Reinventing América as Nature
Bibliography: Postcolonial Ecologies: Nature, Catastrophe and Modernity
Bibliography: Nature and Indigenous Culture in Poetry and Film
Bibliography: Bioart and Ecoart: Interspecies Co-Creativity and Matters of Care
Bibliography: Landscapes in the Anthropocene
Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America (MT)
Overview of Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America (MT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Overview of Key Issues and Texts
Bibliography: The Rise of Social Movements in Latin America
Bibliography: Social Protest in 20th Century Latin America
Bibliography: Social movements and the new left governments: popular participation, neo-extractivisim and indigenous protest
Bibliography: Transnational Activism
Bibliography: Climate Crisis and Environmental Protest in Latin America
Bibliography: Media and Social Movements
Indigeneity in Latin America (MT)
Overview of Indigeneity in Latin America (MT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Overview of Key Issues and Texts
Bibliography: Being ‘Indio’ in Spanish and Portuguese America
Bibliography: Race, nation-building, and the politics of dispossession
Bibliography: Through the lens of Culture: Indigeneity in Contemporary Latin America
Bibliography: Shamanism, mimesis and alterity
Bibliography: Growing up 'indigenous' in Amazonia and the Andes in the 21st century
The Caribbean in World History (MT)
Overview of The Caribbean in World History (MT)
Key issues and texts: The Caribbean in World History
The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (LT)
Overview of The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (LT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Overview of Key Issues and Texts
General Reading on Film and Visual Culture
Bibliography: Violent materialities
Bibliography: The Transnational Queer
Bibliography: Waste Not Want Not
Bibliography: Afrofuturism in Brazilian Cinema: Pessimism and Dystopia
Bibliography: Screening Domestic Labour
Bibliography: The Representation of Politics in Brazilian Cinema: Crisis, Nostalgia, Hope, Defeat
Screenings
Race, racism, and anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LT)
Overview of Race, racism, and anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Interpretations of Latin America (LT)
Overview of Interpretations of Latin America (LT)
Key Issues and Texts
Teaching Schedule
Development and Policy in Latin America (LT)
Overview of Development and Policy in Latin America (LT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Overview of Key Issues and Texts
Bibliography: Urban Informality, Peripheries and Inequalities in Latin America
Bibliography: Popular Economies: Life, Labour and Collective Politics
Bibliography: Economic growth, industrialisation and industrial policy
Bibliography: Poverty, inequality, and social policy
Bibliography: International Aid and Development in Latin America
Bibliography: (Anti-) Drug Policy and Drug Trafficking Organisations
Present Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History (LT)
Overview of Present Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History (LT)
Teaching Schedule
Key Issues and Texts
Overview of Key Issues and Texts
Bibliography: The chronicle
Bibliography: The national romance
Bibliography: The slave (auto)biography
Bibliography: The indigenista narrative
Bibliography: The picaresque
Bibliography: War and the epic
Latin America in the International Order (LT)
Eligibility
How to Apply
Writing an MPhil research proposal
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Continuing to the PhD
MPhil Handbook 2022-23
PhD in Latin American Studies
Overview of PhD in Latin American Studies
How to Apply
Writing a PhD research proposal
Finance and Funding
Career and transferable skills training
Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium
Current PhD Students
Overview of Current PhD Students
Anna Corrigan
Ange La Furcia
Lila Gaudêncio
Nathan Huanacune
Daniela Meneses Sala
Andrea Morales-Loucil
Ana Lucía Pelaez Echeverría
Carlyn Rodgers
Beatriz Santos Barreto
Jessica Sequeira
Rafael Shimabukuro
Axelle Tisseau
Oliver Wilson-Nunn
Past PhD Students
Overview of Past PhD Students
Andrea Aramburu-Villavisencio
Emily Baker
Oliver Balch
Jordana Blejmar
Lucy Bollington
Joseph Brandim Howson
Ramona Braun
Cherilyn Elston
Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada
Niall Geraghty
Rebecca Jarman
Ed King
Alejandro Lerch
Geoffrey Maguire
Katherine Anne Mato
Paul Merchant
Chandra Morrison
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Rachel Randall
Rachell Sánchez-Rivera
Parvathi Subbiah
Minyan Sun
Erika Teichert
Andrew Tillman
Elsa M. Treviño
Sandra del Valle
Callie Vandewiele
Joey Whitfield
PhD Handbook 2022-23
Latin America Research Guides
Skills Training for Postgraduate Students
Brazilian Portuguese Classes
Spanish Language Classes
Funding for Postgraduate Study
Overview of Funding for Postgraduate Study
Funding for Current Students
Overview of Funding for Current Students
Simón Bolívar Fund: Important Information for Student Applicants
Funding for Prospective Students
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Overview of Research Facilities
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Overview of Library
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CLAS Open Seminar
Overview of CLAS Open Seminar
Past CLAS Open Seminars
Upcoming Events
Overview of Upcoming Events
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 2022-23
Past News and Events
Overview of Past News and Events
2022 - 23 Events
Overview of 2022 - 23 Events
Latin America Research Day 17th January 2023
2021 - 22 Events
Overview of 2021 - 22 Events
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 2021-22
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2021: Applications for hosting at CLAS, University of Cambridge
2019 - 20 Events
Overview of 2019 - 20 Events
Dr Maite Conde, MMLL and CLAS, University of Cambridge, to Receive MLA Prize
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2020: Applications for hosting at CLAS, University of Cambridge
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 2020-21
Watersprite Film Festival
2018 - 19 Events
Overview of 2018 - 19 Events
Winter School on the Global South, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Research to transform: Colombian UK 5th Annual Summit
New Centre Director: Dr Felipe Hernández
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2019: Applications for hosting at the Centre of Latin American Studies
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 2019-20
2017 - 18 Events
Overview of 2017 - 18 Events
Venezuelan Art Exhibition: José Luis Blanco T
The Tricontinental Tea Seminars
Critically acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker comes to Cambridge
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2018: Applications for hosting at CLAS, University of Cambridge
Art, Society & Urban Imaginaries: 24 April 2018
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 2018-19
2016 - 17 Events
Overview of 2016 - 17 Events
2 Mayors, 2 Cities: Urban Transformation in Cali and Medellín
Reimagining Public Space in Mexico: Relationality, Collectivity, Community in Art and Beyond
The Limits of the Human in Latin American Visual Culture
CLAS Open Event
Taller-Discusión-Lectura: Escritura de mujeres y crítica feminista (América Latina, años 80) Con Raquel Olea y Carmen Berenguer
University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2016
Salvador Allende Annual Lecture 2016: Pigmentocracies
Radical / Basic / Actual. 1970s Experiments in Print Media: Felipe Ehrenberg, Latin American Artists and the Beau Geste Press
2015 - 16 Events
Overview of 2015 - 16 Events
Re-vistas and the Expanded Present
Contagion and Containment
Agreement brings Cambridge closer to Mexico
José Bengoa: The Chilean Road to Capitalism
BP, Colombia, Oil and Ethics Event
2014 - 15 Events
Overview of 2014 - 15 Events
Conference: Ecuador's Buen Vivir
PILAS 2015
Arpilleras Dialogantes/Arpillera Conversations
Simposio: Adaptaciones del cuerpo
Overview of Simposio: Adaptaciones del cuerpo
Adaptaciones del cuerpo: crítica y cultura en el Chile actual
Beyond Borders: A Weekend of Contemporary Ibero-American Film
Mexico Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Narrative and Photography
Overview of Mexico Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Narrative and Photography
Mexico Noir: Notes on Speakers
Mexico Noir: Programme
Mexico Noir: Speaker abstracts
Mexico Noir: Elements of Darkness
Concrete Poetry
CLAS Open Evening: 24 November 2015
Poets of the New World
Mexican Culture: Programme of talks and screenings
Carlos Gamerro Lectures - 7 and 8 October 2015
2013 - 14 Events
Overview of 2013 - 14 Events
The Politics of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Politics in Contemporary Venezuela
The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Latin American Visual Cultures
Indigenous Media and Political Resistance in Latin America
Overview of Indigenous Media and Political Resistance in Latin America
Indigenous Media: Paper abstracts
The Catholic Church & Politics in Argentina
20 Year Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising
Rios de Encontro 2014
PhD Research Day on Latin America
Book launch: 'Colección Revelación Intramuros; narrativa, poesía y ensayo de mujeres en prisión'
Chile on Film Symposium
Overview of Chile on Film Symposium
Chile on Film Programme
Recent Publications from CLAS Staff
News archive
Overview of News archive
Report: Day of the (un)Dead, Festival of Ideas
Dr Charles Jones retires
CLAS Open Seminar: Aida Hernandez
50th Anniversary: Centre of Latin American Studies 1966 - 2016
Overview of 50th Anniversary: Centre of Latin American Studies 1966 - 2016
Anniversary Symposium Presentations
Centre of Latin American Studies: 50 years in Media
Overview of Centre of Latin American Studies: 50 years in Media
Memories and Reflections on CLAS
Overview of Memories and Reflections on CLAS
The Centre in the Early Years by Rory Miller
Reminiscences on the Simón Bolívar Chair from Francisco Kerdel-Vegas
Interview with Prof Sarah Radcliffe
Interview with Dr David Lehmann
Interview with Prof Bebbington
Recollections from Christine Hunefeldt
Recollections from Julie Koch
Recollections from Peter S. Cahn
Recollections from Maurizio Giuliano
Recollections from Niall Geraghty
Recollections from Geoff Maguire
Reflections by Paul Merchant
Recollections from Dr Bruno Paes Manso
Letter of Congratulations from Dr Diamela Eltit
Letter of congratulations from Dr Clara Kriger
Message from Prof José de Souza Martins
Visiting Scholars / Fellow
Latin American Studies Fellowship
Overview of Latin American Studies Fellowship
Latin American Fellow 2022-23
Fellowship application procedure
Past Latin American Studies Fellows
Visiting Scholars
Overview of Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars 2022-23
Visiting Scholars Application Procedure
Visiting PhD Students
Overview of Visiting PhD Students
How to apply
Successful applicants
Simón Bolívar Chair
Overview of Simón Bolívar Chair
Former Professors
Overview of Former Professors
Maristella Svampa
Ángel Luis Viloria Petit
Natalia Majluf
Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez
Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
Leonardo Waisman
Diamela Eltit
Aida Hernandez
Simón Bolívar Professor 2022/23: Federico Navarrete
Bibliography: The Popul Vuh and Indigenismo
Centre of Latin American Studies
Postgraduate Courses
MPhil in Latin American Studies
Modules
Optional Modules
Present Pasts, Pasts Present: Reflections on Literature and History (LT)
Key Issues and Texts
Bibliography: The chronicle
Bibliography: The national romance
Bibliography: The slave (auto)biography
Bibliography: The indigenista narrative
Bibliography: The picaresque
Bibliography: War and the epic
Teaching Schedule
Bibliography: The chronicle
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