Past events
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David Wood (UNAM) "The Andes on the Small Screen: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Translation"
16:00 - 18:00 21 October 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 21 October 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person (Samuel Alexander A202) and online. You can follow it online here: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36338882907128?p=PDbCvNZSujmLCT1nwZ Abstract:...
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Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin), Interactive Cartography: Saving the World one Map at a Time
11:00 - 12:30 14 October 2026
Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin), Interactive Cartography: Saving the World one Map at a Time co-hosted by the History Research Seminar and the Japanese Studies Sam Alex A 201
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Guillaume Candela (University of Cardiff) "Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstructing Trajectories and Experiences of Racialised and Enslaved Individuals in Colonial Paraguay"
16:00 - 18:00 7 October 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 7 October 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can follow it online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: Slavery and forced labour were the principal motor of Spanish...
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Laura Balán (Universidad de los Andes): When the Other Looks Back: Mock Ethnography and the Deconstruction of Otherness in O Peixe
16:00 - 17:30 6 May 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 6 May 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online. You can follow it here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: Through O Peixe (2016), I analyze the disruptive potential of mock ethnographic documentaries....
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Nathaniel Andrews (UoM, History): ''Anarchist childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945'
16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 22 April 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: At the turn of the twentieth...
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CLACS Seminar: Luis Schenoni (UCL): "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America"
17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 18 March 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: Did war make states in Latin...
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CLACS/Music Department WCLC event: Mbaporenda (La Esperanza) By Rafael Montero (World Première) and associated events
13:10 - 14:00 12 March 2026
This concert is organised by the Music Department and also forms part of the events series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust. They provide a wide-ranging...
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CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay
16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A THURSDAY, STARTS AT 4PM AND IS NOT IN THE SAM ALEXANDER BUILDING THURSDAY 26 Feb 2026, 4pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Mansfield Cooper 4.05. It can be followed...
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CLACS Seminar: Austin Zeiderman (LSE) "Racial Ecologies in Fluvial Colombia"
17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 4 Feb 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: The Magdalena River, linking Colombia’s...
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Agustin Diz (Edinburgh): After Abundance: Guaraní Settlements and the Making of the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier
17:00 - 18:30 10 December 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 10 Dec 2025, 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: The natural resources taken...
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