CLAS Events
Michaelmas Term 2026
Wednesday 14 October - 5:00pm | Roundtable
Access to Rural and Urban Land, Education and Political Participation
(Joint event with the Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective – CLAREC)
Rosana Fernandes (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST)
Teresa Ribeiro (Instituto Popular Paulo Freire)
Lutgardes Freire (Instituto Paulo Freire)
Chair: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge)
Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building
Wednesday 21 October - 6:30pm | Workshop
Andean Music: Latin Carnival Sounds
Vivi Guerrero (Singer & Songwriter)
John Jairo Pantoja (Charango player)
Chair: Dr Grace Livingstone (University of Cambridge)
Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building
Wednesday 28 October - 12:15pm | Lunchtime Seminar
The Right to Avoid Development: Rethinking Power and Fossil Fuels in the Age of Climate Change
Dr Daniela Soto Hernandez (University of Sussex)
Chair: Dr Grace Livingstone (University of Cambridge)
Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Thursday 29 October - 5:00pm | Book Presentation
Thread Stories (Historias de hilo)
Valentina Gajardo (University of Cambridge)
Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building
Wednesday 18 November - 5:00pm | Seminar
Prisons, Pollution, and Justice: Infrastructural Violence and the Socio-Environmental Dimensions of Incarceration in Contemporary Brazil
Dr Rafael Godoi (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Chair: Dr Bruna Angotti (University of Cambridge)
Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building
Thursday 19 November - 12:30pm | Book Launch
Disputed Territories: The Rights of Nature and the Indigenous Worlds of Western Amazonia
Jan Schulz (Author)
Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building
Wednesday 25 November - 12:15pm | Seminar
Technologies, Power and Extraction: On the Sociotechnical Transition in Chilean Lithium
Dr Iván Ojeda-Pereira (LUT University)
Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building
Thursday 26 November - 5:00pm | Talk
Indianising the Energy Transition: Sociotechnics and Ontological Diplomacy among the Palikur-Arukwayene
Dr Duvan Escobar (State University of Campinas / IFCH)
Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building