Past events
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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 on the novel Una corona con cantáridas (2018),...
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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 from the hills and semi-arid plains that make...
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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 Andean interior and Caribbean coast,...
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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 online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract:...
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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 programme to suit all tastes and are...
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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 America? My book "Bringing War Back In: Victory,...
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Film screening: 'Madan Saras'
17:00 - 18:30 25 March 2026
Film screening organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, with support from the SPLAS Cine-club. Wed 25 March, 17:00, Samuel Alexander Theatre. 'Madan Saras' is a documentary film directed by Etant Dupain and produced by Lu Childs (Street Team Productions). Synopsis: The...
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Nathaniel Andrews (UoM, History): ''Anarchist childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945'
17:00 - 18:30 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 century, Argentina possessed one of the largest...
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