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CLAS Open Seminars

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Past Events

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  • 2013 - 14 events
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50th Anniversary: Centre of Latin American Studies 1966-2016

  • 50th Anniversary: Centre of Latin American Studies 1966-2016 overview
  • 50th Anniversary Symposium Presentations 

Centre of Latin American Studies: 50 years in Media

  • Centre of Latin American Studies: 50 years in Media overview

Memories and Reflections on CLAS

  • Memories and Reflections on CLAS overview
  • The Centre in the Early Years by Dr Rory Miller
  • Reminiscences on the establishment of the Simón Bolívar Chair from Francisco Kerdel-Vegas
  • Interview with Prof Sarah Radcliffe
  • Interview with Dr. David Lehman
  • 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 from Paul Merchant
  • Recollections from Dr Bruno Paes Manso
  • Letter of congratulations from Diamela Eltit
  • Letter of congratulations from Dr Clara Kriger
  • Mensagem ao CLAS, outubro 2016 / Message for CLAS, October 2016 (see below for English version)

MPhil and PhD

  • Overview of MPhil and PhD
  • Brazilian Portuguese Classes
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MPhil in Latin American Studies

  • MPhil in Latin American Studies overview
  • MPhil Latin American Studies Course Structure
  • Eligibility
  • How to Apply
  • Writing an MPhil research proposal
  • Finance and Funding
  • Continuing to the PhD
  • MPhil Handbook

Modules

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Core Course

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  • Research Methods and Frameworks

Core Course: Michaelmas 2025

  • Core Course: Michaelmas 2025 overview
  • Modern Latin American Politics
  • Race and Racism in Latin America
  • Feminist Strike (and Beyond)
  • From Revolt to Biography: the Historiography of Slavery in 19Th-Century Bahia
  • Latin American Urbanisation: Informality, Inequalities and Politics
  • Judicialization and Juridification in Latin America
  • Plant-human relations in Latin America and the ‘ontological turn’

Core Course Lent 2026

  • Core Course Lent 2026 overview
  • Latin America in the World
  • Building Modernity
  • Shifting socioeconomic inequalities in Latin America
  • Decolonisation in Latin American Cinema
  • The War on Drugs and its Alternatives
  • Political Disappearance
  • Art and Politics in Latin America since 1960
  • Latin America in the 1980s: a Decade of Transformation

Optional Modules

  • Optional Modules overview

Capitalism and Society in Latin America (MT)

  • Capitalism and Society in Latin America (MT) overview
  • Teaching Schedule

Key Issues and Texts

  • Key Issues and Texts overview
  • Bibliography: Latin America and the world market
  • Bibliography: Latin America, global value chains, and the zero-carbon agenda
  • Bibliography: The state and violence in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Social reproduction and capitalism in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Urbanisation in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Which development? For whom? Challenges from Latin America

The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture (MT)

  • The Politics of Nature in Latin American Culture (MT) overview
  • Teaching Schedule

Key Texts and Issues

  • Key Texts and Issues overview
  • Bibliography: Nature and Empire: Natural Histories and Colonial Rule
  • Bibliography: Romanticism: Reinventing América as Nature
  • Bibliography: Landscapes in the Anthropocene
  • Bibliography: Geology and extractivism
  • Bibliography: Postcolonial Ecologies: Nature, Catastrophe and Modernity

Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America (MT)

  • Power and Protest: Social Movements and the State in Latin America (MT) overview
  • Teaching Schedule

Key Issues and Texts

  • Key Issues and Texts overview
  • Bibliography: The Rise of Social Movements in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Social Protest in 20th Century Latin America
  • Bibliography: Social movements, popular participation, neo-extractivisim and indigenous protest
  • Bibliography: Transnational Activism
  • Bibliography: Feminisms and gender based social movements
  • Bibliography: Social Movements and social media

Indigeneity in Latin America (MT)

  • Indigeneity in Latin America (MT) overview
  • Teaching Schedule

Key Issues and Texts

  • Key Issues and Texts overview
  • Bibliography: Being ‘Indio’ in colonial Latin America
  • Bibliography: Race, nation-building, and the politics of dispossession

Development and Policy in Latin America (LT)

  • Development and Policy in Latin America (LT) overview
  • Teaching Schedule: Development and Policy in Latin America

Key Issues and Texts

  • Key Issues and Texts overview
  • Bibliography: Industrial policy and catching-up in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Mass Incarceration in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Gender and Criminal Justice in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Resource-led Development and the Commodity Consensus in Latin
  • Bibliography: Social policy under the (Post-) Washington Consensus
  • Bibliography: Social conflict and illegal economies

Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LT)

  • Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean (LT) overview
  • Key Issues and Texts
  • Teaching Schedule

Pasts Present, Presents Past: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American Writing (LT)

  • Pasts Present, Presents Past: Reflections on Literature and History in Latin American Writing (LT) overview
  • Key Issues and Texts
  • Teaching Schedule

The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (LT)

  • The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture (LT) overview
  • Teaching Schedule

Key Issues and Texts

  • Key Issues and Texts overview
  • Bibliography: Early Cinema and the Politics of Modernity
  • Bibliography: Film and the Politics of Domestic Labour in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Sex and Scandal: Exploitation Cinema in Latin America
  • Bibliography: Contemporary Documentary Film and the Law
  • Bibliography: Questioning Past Utopias: Race and Genre in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Afro-Futurism in the Brazilian Context
  • Bibliography: Jogo bonito: Representations of Football in Latin American Cinema
  • General Reading on Film and Visual Culture

PhD in Latin American Studies

  • PhD in Latin American Studies overview
  • How to apply
  • Writing a PhD research proposal
  • Finance and Funding
  • Career and transferable skills training
  • PhD Handbook
  • Latin America Research Guides

Current PhD Students

  • Current PhD Students overview
  • Nora Paola González Solís
  • Karen Domínguez Mendoza
  • Daniela Meneses Sala
  • Andrea Morales Loucil
  • Axelle Tisseau
  • Ana María Villaveces Galofre
  • Lila Gaudêncio
  • Nathan Huanacune
  • Rafael Shimabukuro
  • Ange La Furcia
  • Ana Lucía Pelaez Echeverría
  • Maria Victoria Cogorno
  • Arantxa Figueroa

Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium

  • Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium overview
  • Current Consortium students from SpanPort

Past PhD Students

  • Past PhD Students overview
  • Beatriz Santos Barreto
  • Alejandro Lerch
  • Andrea Aramburu-Villavisencio
  • Andrew Tillman
  • Anna Corrigan
  • Callie Vandewiele
  • Carlyn Rodgers
  • Chandra Morrison
  • Cherilyn Elston
  • Ed King
  • Elsa M. Treviño
  • Emily Baker
  • Erika Teichert
  • Geoffrey Maguire
  • Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada
  • Jessica Sequeira
  • Joey Whitfield
  • Jordana Blejmar
  • Joseph Brandim Howson
  • Katherine Anne Mato
  • Lucy Bollington
  • Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
  • Minyan Sun
  • Niall Geraghty
  • Oliver Balch
  • Oliver Wilson-Nunn
  • Parvathi Subbiah
  • Paul Merchant
  • Rachel Randall
  • Rachell Sánchez-Rivera
  • Ramona A. Braun
  • Rebecca Jarman
  • Sandra del Valle Casals

Funding for Postgraduate Study

  • Funding for Postgraduate Study overview
  • Funding for Prospective Students

Funding for Current Students

  • Funding for Current Students overview
  • Simón Bolívar Fund: Important Information for Student Applicants

Postdoctoral Research

  • Overview of Postdoctoral Research
  • British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition
  • Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026
  • Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow 2025 - 2028

Visiting Scholars / Fellow

Latin American Studies Fellowship

  • Latin American Studies Fellowship overview
  • Fellowship application procedure
  • Latin American Fellow 2023-24
  • Past Latin American Studies Fellows

Visiting Scholars

  • Visiting Scholars overview
  • Visiting Scholars 2023-4
  • Visiting Scholars 2024-5
  • Visiting Scholars 2025-6
  • Visiting Scholars Application Procedure

Visiting PhD Students

  • Visiting PhD Students overview
  • Current Visiting PhD Students
  • How to apply
  • Successful applicants

Simón Bolívar Chair

  • Simón Bolívar Chair overview
  • Simón Bolívar Professor 2024/2025: Mara Viveros Vigoya
  • Simón Bolívar Professor 2025/2026: João José Reis

Former Simón Bolívar Professors

  • Former Simón Bolívar Professors overview
  • Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
  • Diamela Eltit
  • Federico Navarrete
  • Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez
  • Leonardo Waisman
  • Maristella Svampa
  • Natalia Majluf
  • Rosalva Aída Hernández
  • Ángel Luis Viloria Petit
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