Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026

Join us for two seminars exploring key questions in economic policy, financial crises and development in emerging and developing economies.

Seminar 1: Capital Controls and Financial Crises in Emerging and Developing Economies

by Dr Aderbal Oliveira Damasceno(Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)

Seminar 2: Industrial Policy in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: Regional Patterns and Heterogeneity

by Dr Ana Paula Macedo de Avellar (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)

Chair: Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge)

📆 Wednesday 24 June | 4:00–5:30pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

The seminars will examine the relationship between capital controls and financial crises, as well as recent patterns in industrial policy across emerging markets and developing economies.

💠 Moving Margins of the Human Sciences: Geopolitics, Gender and Disciplines 💠

Join us for a two-day symposium exploring what counts as knowledge — and whose knowledge counts — from the late nineteenth century to today.

The symposium will centre actors and fields on the moving margins of the histories of the human sciences, with particular attention to Latin American actors, women from the Americas, and shifting forms of recognition, erasure and subordinate inclusion.

The programme will also include a tour of the exhibition Stitching Women’s Voices, with curator Valentina Gajardo and artist Francisca Aninat.

📆 Thursday 18 June & Friday 19 June
📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building

🔗 Please register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/clas/2200294

All welcome!

🎉 🎓 Warmest congratulations to Dr Ange La Furcia, who completed her PhD at the Centre of Latin American Studies and has been awarded the 2026 LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award.

The award recognises her doctoral thesis, Sea Antics: The Politics of Beauty and Transwomen in the Colombian Western Caribbean.

We are delighted to celebrate Ange’s achievement and this well-deserved international recognition of her research. ✨

🔗 Read the full story: https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/news/clas-phd-alumna-dr-ange-la-furcia-wins-prestigious-lasaoxfam-america-dissertation-award

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026

Join us for this book presentation and panel discussion:

Digging for Hope. A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo (Simón Bolívar Professor 2013–14)

📆 Thursday 11 June | 12:30pm
📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building

Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, Digging for Hope documents the courageous work of women-led search collectives in Mexico, exploring resistance, care, collective memory and the refusal to forget in the face of disappearance and violence.

Chair: Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Commentators: Graham Denyer Willis and Joey Whitfield

✨ Free & open to all. Refreshments will be served after the event.

📣🎙️ The Latinoamericanist Podcast is now live!

Conversations across languages, cultures and borders from the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge.

Hosted by David Lehmann, The Latinoamericanist podcast is designed to be a source of stimulation, information and entertainment for Latin Americanists worldwide.

Supported by CLAS, the podcast is produced by a team including social scientist David Lehmann, anthropologist Natalia Buitrón, historian Adrián Lerner and Paola A. Lopez as producer.

🌎✨ The podcast consists of conversations that will appeal to Latin Americanists across the world. Episodes are in English, Spanish or Portuguese, depending on the guests.

📚🎧 We aim to range widely across all the disciplines and periods encompassed by Latin American Studies, inviting gifted communicators whose teaching and writing crosses boundaries established by convention, by ideology, or by informal epistemic networks.

We welcome comments and suggestions. You can reach us by writing to [email protected]

🔗 Find out more here: https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latinoamericanist-podcast

📢 Join us for this talk!

Feeling Activism: Emotions, Abortion Rights, and Feminist Politics in Argentina

Barbara Sutton (University at Albany, SUNY)

Discussant: Nayla Luz Vacarezza (Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET)

📆 Thursday 04 June | 5:00pm
📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building

This talk explores the emotional dimensions of abortion rights activism in Argentina amid the “green tide”, and considers wider feminist activism in the context of the contemporary resurgence of right-wing politics.

✨ Free & open to all. Refreshments will be served after the event.

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026

Join us for this book presentation (in English):

Polycrisis. Environmental collapse, the rise of the far right, and competing narratives. A View from Latin America

Maristella Svampa (Simón Bolívar Professor 2022)

📆 Monday 01 June | 5:00pm
📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building

This presentation will explore the challenges facing progressive politics in Latin America and beyond, the expansion of authoritarian right-wing forces, and the possibilities for collective organisation in a time of systemic polycrisis.

✨ Free & open to all. Refreshments will be served after the event.

🌱 Talk | Garden politics: comparing experiences from Ecuador, Trinidad and Colombia

What is a garden? Three scholars working across Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, and Colombia reflect on the politics, relationships and histories that shape gardens and multispecies worlds.

📅 Monday 18 May
🕞 3:30pm–5:00pm
📍 Room 204, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

Discussants:
• Nehemías Pino (University of Copenhagen)
• Mika Hyman (University of Cambridge)
• Johanna Goncalves Martín (Visiting Fellow at CLAS)

✨ Free & open to all

📢 CLAS Events | Easter Term 2026

Join us for this film screening and discussion:

🎬 Yo Soy El Bosque / I Am the Forest
(Subtitles in Spanish & English)

Ines Ruiz (Universidad Científica del Sur / UNESCO Chair)

Chair: Françoise Barbira Freedman (University of Cambridge)

📆 Wednesday 20 May | 5:30pm
📍 McDonald Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, CB2 3ER

This event explores memory, territory and Indigenous struggles through documentary film and conversation.

✨ Free & open to all