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Welcome to the official account of the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Cambridge. MPhil & PhD degrees.

Find us at https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/
Entering the New Year at CLAS ✨

As the year begins, we share moments from recent CLAS events — seminars, films, conversations and our end-of-term lunch — reflecting the care, curiosity and engagement that shape our work.

Thank you to our speakers and community.

#CLAS60Years #CambridgeUniversity
January 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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I've written an explainer on Venezuela:

Why did Chavez revolution go wrong?
Who are the factions in Venezuela today?
History of US involvement in Venezuela
Why Trump did not go for regime change
lab.org.uk/venezuela-th...

@latinamericabureau.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @nujlfb.bsky.social
Understanding Venezuela -- an explainer | Latin America Bureau
Grace Livingstone, author of America’s Backyard, analyses the Chavista revolution, what went wrong,  the different factions in Venezuela today and the long history of US intervention in the country.  ...
lab.org.uk
January 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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I'll be talking about Venezuela and Trump's plans for Latin America

Just turn up in person, or for online book below

For more on my book America's Backyard see: grace-livingstone.com/2018/09/14/a...
January 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
✨ Closing a wonderful 2025 at CLAS! ✨

Thank you to all students, scholars, speakers, and attendees of our Open Seminars—your curiosity and engagement made every session inspiring. 🌎💬

Here’s to reflection, celebration, and recharging for the year ahead! 🥂📚

#CLAS60Years #CambridgeUniversity
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
From Brazil to Cambridge 🇧🇷📚

In the 1970s, CLAS hosted Brazilian economists like Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Celso Furtado & Pedro Malan, who debated development, dependence & the state's role in Latin America. 📝🌎

Research: @rshimabukuro

#Brazil #Economists #CLAS60years #LatinAmerica
December 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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🎥 Indexed Beings, a film by artist Helen Knowles with members of Indigenous communities in the Putumayo, Colombia

Join @clascam.bsky.social and the Decolonising Plant Knowledge Network for this special screening and Q&A

1 December from 3-5pm, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/48yZUZI
Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents:

Film Screening / Q&A: Malês (2024)

This film was developed with the historical consultancy of Professor João José Reis, and was inspired by his chapter ‘Slave Rebellion in Brazil’ (2010).

📆 Tuesday 02 December - 5:00pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, ARB

Come join us! 🤩
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🌱 Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles (Filmmaker) and Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo (Indigenous leader in Colombia)

📆 Monday, 1 Dec 2025 15:00 - 17:00
📍Room SG1, ARB, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📣 The last CLAS OPEN SEMINARS of term:

What can anthropology say about inflation? Lived Experience, Politics of Prices, and forms of living in Contemporary Argentina

Mariano Perelman (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

📆 Monday 01 December | 5:15pm
📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB

Come join us! 🤩
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Did you know…?

For almost 60 years, CLAS has welcomed distinguished Latin American scholars as visiting fellows.

Among them are two authors who would later receive the #NobelPrize in #Literature: Octavio Paz (1990) and Mario Vargas Llosa (2010).

Research by: Rafael Shimabukuro

#CLAS60years
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents:

Book Launch in Spanish: 'Nieves de los Andes'

Veronica Alvarez-Cordova (Author)

📆 Wednesday 26 November | 12:30pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, ARB

The event is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents:

Writing Between Languages: Translingual Dynamics in 21st-Century Latin American Narrative

Ilse Logie (Ghent University)

📆 Monday 24 November | 5:15pm
📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building

Come join us! 🤩
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents:

Engendering the Archaeological Imaginary of Peru

Carito Tavera Medina (University of Barcelona)

📆 Wednesday 19 November | 12:30pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, ARB

The event is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents:

Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America. The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru

Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago (University of Amsterdam)

📆 Monday 17 November | 5:15pm
📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building

Come join us! 🤩
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📢 Virtual Open Day – Centre of Latin American Studies: MPhil & PhD

Missed the live session? No problem!

Get practical advice, tips, FAQs, and all the insights from our info session. 🗣️

Don’t miss out on discovering your next academic adventure!

🔗Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNc...
PGOD 2025: Centre of Latin American Studies - PhD and MPhil
YouTube video by Postgraduate Open Day
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS:

Los retos de una investigación acción colaborativa: ¿cómo y con qué objetivos estudiar el fenómeno cultural de la champeta (Caribe colombiano) desde el Norte global?

Lise Segas (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)

📆 Monday 10 November | 5:15pm
📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS:

Intimacies of Violence: Memory and Affect in Postconflict Peru

Jelke Boesten (King's College London)

📆 Monday 03 November | 5:15pm
📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB

More info 🔗 in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe...

The seminar is free and open to all! 🤩
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Join us for the inaugural POLIS Lecture.

Our speaker, Desmond King, Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at @ox.ac.uk, will discuss political violence and the American nation.

🕓Thurs, Nov 6, 4 - 6pm
📍Alison Richard Building

Register now: polislecture.eventbrite.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Join us on to discuss the strategic partnership between Spain and the UK in a challenging global landscape with the Ambassador of Spain to the UK and N Ireland, José Pascual Marco Martínez.

🗓️Mon, 27 Oct 2025
🕑14:00 - 15:00
📍SG1/2 ARB

Register now: spain-uk-relations.eventbrite.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🔔 CLAS EVENTS

Poesía expandida en Chile durante la Guerra Fría (1952–1989)

- Talk in Spanish -

Alejandro Arturo Martínez (Universidad Diego Portales)

📆 Tuesday 28 October | 5:00pm
📍 Room S1, First Floor, ARB

The event is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS:

The Caribbean Routes of William Carlos Williams
Peter Hulme (University of Essex)

📆 Monday 27 October | 5:15pm
📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB

More info 🔗 in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/furthe...

The seminar is free and open to all. Come join us! 🤩
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Virtual Open Day 2025 - Postgraduate 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

Join us here to find out more about our subjects. Get practical advice, tips, FAQs and more in this information session. 🔍

📆 Tuesday 04 November | 14:00 to 14:45

🔗 You must register in advance: postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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If you are in Cambridge / @clascam.bsky.social come and join our reading group.
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🔔 CLAS EVENTS presents:

A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
Pablo Piccato (Columbia University)

"Mexico is not essentially violent. Each form of Mexico’s violence has a history."

📆 Friday 24 October | 5:00pm
📍 Room S1, First Floor, ARB

Come join us!
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM