Past events
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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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CLACS Film screening: 'Madan Saras'
17:00 - 18:30 25 March 2026
Film screening organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in affiliation with the SPLAS Cine-club and with the support of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. Wed 25 March, 17:00, Samuel Alexander Theatre. After the screening, there will be a Q&A with Lu Childs (Co-Executive Producer), who will join online. 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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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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