Past events
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Felipe Tuxá (UFBA, Oxford): "Are ‘autodemarcações’ a form of refusal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco River, Brazil"
17:00 - 18:30 30 October 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 30 October 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: In Brazil, Indigenous struggles for territories generally...
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Quintijn Kat (Ashoka University; Warwick): "Latin America shaping US hegemony from below: deference and defiance in trade and counternarcotics policy"
17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 6 November 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: Do weaker states have agency in hegemonic order and can...
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AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern – Rupture and Reconstruction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948
16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing and Re-imagining political and cultural landscapes of the Middle East. AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern (University of Cambridge) – Rupture and...
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Leticia Marques (Rio de Janeiro State University): "Miscegenation as an insoluble debt: among stories, facts, and artefacts of the Baron of Juparanã's family"
17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 20 Nov 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: This presentation builds on my doctoral thesis—an ethnography...
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Pedro Mendes Loureiro (CLAS, Cambridge): The prison consensus: incarceration, investment, and inequality in Brazil
17:00 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 4 December 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: 30 years ago Brazil had incarceration rates comparable...
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WCLC: Maria Dafka (Bayan, Voice) and Dine Doneff (Percussion, Composition) in collaboration with ‘Defiance: Artists at Risk’, Russian and East European Studies / Department of MLC
13:10 - 13:55 5 December 2024
Festive rhythms and melodies blend with lyrical ballads deeply influenced by the Macedonian tradition. Presented by Music in collaboration with Russian and East European Studies / Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll...
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AMES Public Seminar: Dr Lindsey Moore – ‘Taking the Suit for a Walk’: Re-imagining Urban Modernity before the Nakba
16:30 - 18:00 11 December 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing and Re-imagining political and cultural landscapes of the Middle East. AMES Public Seminar: Dr Lindsey Moore (Lancaster University) – ‘Taking the Suit...
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Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados (Salamanca University): Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America
17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 29 January 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: During the last decades, political distrust has seemingly become a common trend across Latin American democracies,...
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Brazilian Indigenous Art and Environmental Thought
16:30 - 18:00 11 February 2025
A round table about Indigenous art from the Brazilian Northeast and its connection with environmental questions and land struggle. The Indigenous peoples from the Northeast of Brazil were the first to suffer the impact of colonisation after the landing of the Portuguese in the region in 1500. Centuries of continuous colonial violence forced many...
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Catherine Andrews (CIDE, Mexico). The Republic Needs a Man! The Plan of Guadalajara and the Debate about Dictatorship in Mexico, 1852-1853
17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: This event can be followed online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: This paper analyses the crisis which brought President Mariano Arista's presidency to an end in 1852 and culminated in the final presidency of...
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