Past events
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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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Annual Language Partner Event 2025
17:30 - 19:30 27 November 2025
Join the Manchester Confucius Institute and UoM Chinese Studies to practice your language skills and make new friends. We’ve heard that students are finding it a challenge to meet a native speaking language partner so we teamed up with the Chinese Studies Department to create this unique opportunity...
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Nicolle Alzamora (UoM): A Tale of Two Invasions: Fictional Excavations of Panama’s Difficult Pasts
17:00 - 18:30 26 November 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 26 Nov 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: In this presentation, I focus...
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Ed King (Bristol): Addressing Algorithmic Bias through Video Game Design in Brazil
17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Co-organised with the Centre for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture. Wed 12 November 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online...
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