Past events
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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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Laura Balán (Universidad de los Andes): When the Other Looks Back: Mock Ethnography and the Deconstruction of Otherness in O Peixe
17:00 - 18:30 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. I argue that the fishermen in the...
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Guillaume Candela (University of Cardiff) "Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstructing Trajectories and Experiences of Racialised and Enslaved Individuals in Colonial Paraguay"
17:00 - 19:00 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 colonisation, and frontiers like colonial...
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David Wood (UNAM) "The Andes on the Small Screen: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Translation"
17:00 - 19:00 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: This paper addresses the cultural politics...
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Perla Polanco (Manchester) "Oil Nationalism and the Coloniality of Resource Extraction in Mexico" and Mauricio Rentería (Manchester) "Racialised Mobility Within Lima's Dominant Class"
17:00 - 19:00 11 November 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 11 November 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can follow it online here: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36338882907128?p=PDbCvNZSujmLCT1nwZ This is the first in an experimental format for the seminar series, in...
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Nicholas Trajtenberg "Do Opportunity Effects Travel?" and Olga Sanchez de Ribera "Evaluating a community-based domestic violence programme in the Dominican Republic”
17:00 - 19:00 25 November 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 25 November 2026, 5pm (UK time). The event will be in person and online. You can follow it online here: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36338882907128?p=PDbCvNZSujmLCT1nwZ This is the second in an experimental format for the seminar series, in...
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Laura Bunt-MacRury (Centro de Estudios Agropecuarios, Cusco, Peru) "The Political Ecology of Biodiversity in the Andes"
17:00 - 19:00 9 December 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 and online. You can follow it online here: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36338882907128?p=PDbCvNZSujmLCT1nwZ Abstract: In 1972, anthropologist Eric Wolf brought the term “political...
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Luis Medina Cordova (Birmingham, Languages) "The Andes beyond the Andean: Mangrove Networks in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature"
17:00 - 19:00 3 February 2027
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 3 Feb 2027, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can follow it online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: The 2010s and 2020s have been a history-making period for Ecuadorian literature, marked by the growing translation...
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