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 Spanish Language Classes

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 Simón Bolívar Prizes

Modules

Modules overview

Core Course

Core Course overview Research Methods and Frameworks

Core Course: Michaelmas 2026

Core Course: Michaelmas 2026 overview Latin American Urbanisation: Informality, Inequalities and Politics Race in Latin America Modern Latin American Politics A Contested Dichotomy Art and/as Revolutionary Politics in 1960s Latin America Geography and Geographers of Latin America Transitions in Latin America

Core Course Lent 2027

Core Course Lent 2027 overview Latin America in the World Shifting socioeconomic inequalities in Latin America The War on Drugs and its Alternatives Building Modernity Political Disappearance

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

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, Environmentalism, Indigenous Organisations 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 - Through the Lens of Culture: Indigeneity in Contemporary Latin America Bibliography: Being ‘Indio’ in Spanish and Portuguese 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: Mass Incarceration in Latin America Bibliography: Gender and Criminal Justice in Latin America Bibliography: Resource-led Development and the Commodity Consensus in Latin Bibliography: Industrial policy and catching-up in Latin America 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

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

Presents Past, Pasts Present: 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: Violent Materialities Bibliography: Third Cinema Feminisms Bibliography: Sexuality, Cinema and the Transnational Queer Bibliography: Waste Not Want Not: Film and Garbage Bibliography: Playing with (Post)memory Bibliography: Contemporary Experimental Ethnographic 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 The Missing Ones

Current PhD Students

Current PhD Students overview Clara Galperin Eréndira Derbez Mario R. Cépeda Cáceres Laurisa Sastoque Pabón Nora Paola González Solís Karen Domínguez Mendoza Daniela Meneses Sala Andrea Morales Loucil Axelle Tisseau Ana María Villaveces Galofre Lila Gaudêncio Nathan Huanacune 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 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2027 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition 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

The Latinamericanist Podcast

The Latinamericanist Podcast overview Episode 1: Mara Viveros Vigoya Episode 2: Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos Episode 3: Dawn Ades Episode 4: Jean Khalfa Episode 5: Leonardo Avritzer

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