23/12/2025
Our collective had a busy and meaningful year. We hosted powerful encounters at the Faculty of Education and beyond, through the work of current and alumni members of CLAREC and our wider communities.
From the regular CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations, founded by Anna Maria Del Fiorentino Women's Sense of Belonging, which brought education and lived experience into transnational dialogue through British and Latin American films, with thought-provoking contributions from Heidy Marie , Grace Batley, Nara Paixão, Larissa Farias and Ewa.
Since CLAREC’s foundation, International Women’s Day has been a key moment in our collective calendar. This year, deep exchanges were facilitated by Heidy, Alicia Garcia Montufar M.Q., Mafer Ro and Anna, alongside the first cohort of the Abdias Nascimento Anti-Racism in Education Programme from Brazil. Together, we honoured the women who came before us in our families and intellectual trajectories.
Heidy and Mafer convened the powerful event Together We Are More, creating a collective space to process international political elections and their impacts in Latin America and beyond. This was a space to express feelings, share concerns and explore how to support one another and society.
Our CLAREC Whereabouts seminar series facilitated exciting exchanges with Latin American scholars in Cambridge, including visiting scholars Juliana Nogueira and Gabriel Lisboa de Melo. As we do every year, we welcomed both new and returning members, Latin American and non-Latin American, at our Michaelmas welcome meeting, convened by Mafer and Anna.
CLAREC has increasingly become a platform that extends beyond Cambridge, supporting popular education spaces in Latin America, including a CLAREC-supported Reading Group and workshops of the Popular University of Social Movements, fostering pedagogies of articulation between traditional and academic knowledges. We were also inspired by conversations with CLAREC alumni Alexandre da Trindade and Rocío Fernández , who shared their post-PhD journeys beyond Cambridge.
This year, CLAREC members and alumni were visible at conferences and events across different parts of the world, showcasing the collective’s ongoing intellectual and political commitments. We also strengthened relationships with Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Brazilian Society - CUBS , and took part in wider Latin American events in Cambridge, from seminars and cinema screenings and debates to community gatherings.
The CLAREC community wishes all our friends a restful and joyful break. We look forward to more togetherness, dialogue and collective work in 2026. 🌿✨
