Past events
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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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Nate Millington (Geography, Manchester): Infrastructural repurposing and repair in São Paulo, Brazil
17:00 - 18:30 26 February 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 26 February 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 analyse the politics of repairing...
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History Research Seminar: Narratives and Identities of Syrian Fighters
13:00 - 14:30 12 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. This talk explores the journey of Syrian fighters from combatants driven by revolutionary fervour to key actors within the evolving military structure of post-Assad Syria. I analyse how emotional solidarity, collective trauma and combat experience shaped fighters’ sense of...
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Maria Paula Prates (Oxford). Other ways of extracting: reproductive (in)justices and Indigenous body-territories in Brazil
17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 12 March 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can also be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: In this paper, I address and make visible the interconnection...
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Mauro Greco (Buenos Aires, Conicet): “The Aesthetics of the Argentine Dictatorship: Arts and Ethnography at the Crossroads of Collective Responsibilities”
17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Manchester. It is co-organised with the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 19 Mar 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed...
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Agata Serranò (Autónoma de Madrid): Participación de las mujeres en los procesos de justicia transicional. Propuestas de construcción de paz desde Colombia, Guatemala y Perú
17:00 - 18:30 26 March 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: En esta charla presentaré el proyecto de investigación “La participación de las mujeres en los procesos de justicia transicional. Propuestas...
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Dylan Bradbury (UoM): "Sounds that tell a world": Mapuzugun, orality and auditory regimes in Argentina
17:00 - 14 May 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 14 May 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 talk I draw from my doctoral research to explore how Mapuzugun, the...
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Gemini and Mercury Remastered Heritage Lecture
19:30 - 21:00 25 September 2025
To coincide with his latest exhibition, NASA digital restoration expert Andy Saunders delivers a special Heritage Lecture sharing the untold story of humanity’s first ventures into space – and the extraordinary images that captured them.
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