Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

02/06/2026

📢 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.

29/05/2026

📣🎙️ 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

26/05/2026

📢 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.

20/05/2026

📢 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.

20/05/2026

14/05/2026

🌱 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

12/05/2026

📢 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

05/05/2026

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term

Join us for this book presentation:

The Gendered Front: Latin American Women’s Cultural Agency during WWII

Vanesa Miseres (University of Notre Dame)
Chair: Stephanie Rohner (University of Cambridge)

📆 Thursday 14 May | 12:30pm
📍 Room S1, Alison Richard Building

This presentation will analyze the crossings between antifascist politics and culture in the work and exchanges among Latin American women intellectuals such as Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo during and after World War II. (...)

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

🔗 More info:https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Further%20information%20-%20Thursday%2014%20May%202026.pdf

30/04/2026

Recently, we were pleased to welcome a group of visitors to view rare and manuscript materials from our Argentine collections, held across the University Library, the Latin American Section at the Seeley Library, the MMLL Library, University of Cambridge and the Radzinowicz Library.

The group were taking part in an event organised by our colleagues at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (CLAS), marking the 50th anniversary earlier this year of the military coup that overthrew Argentine president Isabel Perón.

The coup, on 24 March 1976, led to a dictatorship (1976–1983) during which more than 30,000 people were disappeared or killed, and the human rights of many others were violated. Fifty years on, social, academic, and state responses to this period remain deeply contested.

Clara Panozzo Zénere, who works with our Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan collections at the MMLL and Seeley Libraries, showed the visitors materials from this period of Argentine history, including books, pamphlets and even football programmes. The event sparked lively discussions and discoveries!