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Centre of Latin American Studies

 

Michaelmas Term 2022

Friday 21 October - Brown Bag Lunchtime Seminar - 1:15-2:15pm

Room 204, CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

De Benito Juárez a Fidel Castro. La historia de una familia y una imprenta popular en un siglo de revoluciones (1864-1959) en español
Jaddiel Díaz Frene (National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH) Visiting Scholar, CLAS, University of Cambridge)

Thursday 3 November - Brown Bag Lunchtime Seminar - 12:45-2:00pm

Room 204, CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

Between dreams and survival: the multiple forms of entrepreneurship in São Paulo’s peripheries
Leonardo Fontes (Postdoctoral researcher (CEBRAP), Visiting Fellow, Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC), LSE)

Friday 4 November - Book Presentation - 1:30-2:45pm

Room 204, CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

Presentación de libro en español - La flor del desierto. Un relato para Iquique
Verónica Alvarez Córdova (CV) en conversación con Jessica Sequeira, PhD Candidate, CLAS, University of Cambridge
Reseña La flor del desierto 

Thursday 17 November - Brown Bag Lunchtime Seminar - 1:15-2:15pm

Room 204, CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

Más allá de los métodos participativos: colaboraciones y co-diseño de gobernanza en territorios mapuche del sur de Chile
Noelia Carrasco Henríquez  Antrópologa, Universidad de Concepción, Chile & Visiting Scholar, CLAS, University of Cambridge en español

Wednesday 23 November - Illustrated Talk - 4:30-5:45pm

Room 204, CLAS, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

Waorani Indigenous People of the Amazonian Region of Ecuador 
Auden Mikalsen, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society &  University of Cambridge alumnus with a Master of Philosopy in Latin American Studies.
Audun recently visited Waorani Indigenous people in the Amazon region of Ecuador, on the river now dividing them from group members who have opted to live in voluntary isolation. He will give an illustrated talk with unique photographs of day-to-day life among this recently contacted people, whose territory is threatened by oil extraction and logging. (image)