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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new academic year is almost here. Earlier this summer, Evan Grandidge de Paz and Vedanitya Dharwar were each awarded two 2025–26 Simón Bolívar Prizes. 🎓🎉 Read the full story: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/news/celebra...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✨ CLAS Open Seminars | Michaelmas 2026 Our new term programme is now live. We look forward to welcoming our community and visitors to the Centre. Mondays · 5.15pm · Alison Richard Building Open to everyone. www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/clas-open-se... #CLAS60Years

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Conflict Textiles @conflicttextiles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On Tuesday 22 Sept #internationaldayofpeace we will open The Silent Vocal Language of Textiles exhibition at D Contemporary Art Gallery London. The textiles are currently being installed. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Study Latin America at Cambridge. Applications are open for 2027 entry to CLAS’s MPhil and PhD programmes. 🤩 Take the next step: explore our programmes and apply. www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/depa...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As part of CLAS’s 60th anniversary, we revisit the Centre’s creation and longer history of #LatinAmericanStudies at #Cambridge. Formally created on 11 June 1966, CLAS built on earlier teaching and research at the University. Research by Dr Rafael Shimabukuro, CLAS Research Associate. #CLAS60Years

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📢 Call for Papers CLAS Director Pedro Mendes Loureiro is co-editing a special collection for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications on crisis and resilience in Latin American politics. Submit by 12 November 2026: www.nature.com/collections/...

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Crisis and resilience in Latin American politics

This Collection seeks to explore continuity and change in Latin American politics in both historical and contemporary perspectives.

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌎 Interested in pursuing an MPhil or PhD in Latin American Studies at Cambridge? Explore funding through Cambridge’s webinar series for international postgraduate applicants. Upcoming: USA, 28 August | Latin America, 15 September. Details: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/inter...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Recommended Article 📚 Fujimorismo popular: cinco propuestas desde abajo By Rafael Shimabukuro, CLAS Research Associate El 5 de abril de 1992, Alberto Fujimori anunció la disolución del Congreso y el Poder Judicial por televisión. […] 🔗 Read it here: tramacritica.pe/perspectivas...

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El 5 de abril de 1992, Alberto Fujimori anunció la disolución del Congreso y el Poder Judicial por televisión. Las Fuerzas Armadas, coautoras del autogolpe, tomaron el control de puntos clave alrededo...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Recommended article 📚 Growing in and from Crisis: Environment, Labor, and Capital in Brazil’s Exponential Prison Expansion Authors: Bruna Angotti, Graham Denyer Willis, Pedro Mendes Loureiro & Luiz Fernando Toledo (CLAS academics) Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Growing in and from Crisis: Environment, Labor, and Capital in Brazil’s Exponential Prison Expansion

Although there is widespread academic recognition of the damage effected by carceral systems, of the accelerating climate fallout, and of the unequal and crisis-ridden nature of capitalism, these t...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

✨ Ideas, encounters and community at CLAS A look back at some of the conversations, collaborations and gatherings that brought Easter Term to life. From seminars and screenings to student achievements and time together as a community. Thank you to everyone who joined us! #CLAS60Years

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thinking about an MPhil or PhD in Latin American Studies at Cambridge? 🌎 Funding webinars for prospective postgraduates: Chevening Brazil: 2 Jul Chevening Mexico: 24 Jul USA/Marshall: 28 Aug Plus Africa, Europe, East Asia & South Asia. Register: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/inter...

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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are you a prospective international student, thinking of joining one of our postgraduate programmes? Tomorrow (Friday 26 June) is the next Postgraduate International Q&A Webinar from 9am - 10am. Bring your questions and sign up now: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/internationa...

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International visits and events | Postgraduate Study

We offer a range of online and in-person events for international students, and regularly attend postgraduate recruitment events around the world. You might also be interested in our UK Events and Ope...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for two seminars on capital controls, financial crises and industrial policy in emerging and developing economies. 📆 Wed 24 June | 4:00–5:30pm 📍 Room S2, ARB Chair: Pedro Mendes Loureiro More info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

💠Moving Margins of the Human Sciences: Geopolitics, Gender and Disciplines A two-day symposium on how knowledge is produced recognised and contested across gender, geopolitics and disciplines. 📆 18–19 June 📍 Room S1, ARB Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/clas/... All welcome!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🎉 🎓Warmest congratulations to Dr Ange La Furcia, who completed her PhD at the CLAS and has been awarded the 2026 LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award. A well-deserved recognition of her doctoral research.✨ 🔗 Read more: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/news/clas-ph...

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026 Join us for Digging for Hope, a book presentation & panel with Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, on feminist ethnography, women-led search collectives in Mexico, care and collective memory. 📆 Thu 11 June, 12:30pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Open to all!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 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.

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📢 CLAS Event Feeling Activism: Emotions, Abortion Rights, and Feminist Politics in Argentina Barbara Sutton (University at Albany, SUNY) Discussant: Nayla Luz Vacarezza (CONICET) 📆 Thu 04 June | 5pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Free & open to all. #FeministPolitics #Argentina @cambridgegender.bsky.social

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📢 CLAS Events Policrisis: Cómo enfrentar el vaciamiento de las izquierdas y la expansión de las derechas autoritarias Maristella Svampa (Simón Bolívar Professor 2022) 📆 Mon 01 June | 5:00pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Free & open to all. #LatinAmericanStudies #LatinAmericanPolitics

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🌱 Talk | Garden politics: comparing experiences from Ecuador, Trinidad and Colombia What is a garden? 📅 Monday 18 May 🕞 3:30pm–5:00pm 📍 Room 204, Second Floor, ARB ✨ Free & open to all

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢 CLAS Events 🎬 Yo Soy El Bosque / I Am the Forest Film screening (Spanish/English subtitles) Inés Ruiz Alvarado (UNESCO Chair) Chair: Françoise Barbira F. 📆 Wed 20 May | 5:30pm 📍 McDonald Institute, Cambridge Free & open to all. #CLAS60Years #LatinAmericanStudies

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Margaret Anstee Centre, Newnham College @ansteecentre.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Looking forward to hearing from Victoria Cogorno: A Cultural Genealogy of the Patagonian Giants from Magellan to Darwin, 12.30pm, 7 May @newnhamcollege.bsky.social - info: newn.cam.ac.uk/event/cultur... @crasshlive.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term Book presentation: The Gendered Front: Latin American Women’s Cultural Agency during WWII Vanessa Miseres (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Stephanie Rohner (Cambridge) 📆 14 May, 12:30pm 📍 Alison Richard Building Free & open to all #LatinAmericanStudies #CLAS60Years

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Recently, we were pleased to show a group of visitors items from our Argentine collections. This was part of an event organised by @clascam.bsky.social, marking the 50th anniversary earlier this year of the coup that overthrew Argentine president Isabel Perón.

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#SeeYouAtCLAS🍀 As we get ready for Easter Term, we’re looking back at conversations that shaped Lent. From book launches and screenings to seminars and performances, it was a term of rich exchanges on Latin America. Many thanks to our speakers, collaborators and all who joined us. #CLAS60Years

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🔔The Argentine Golpe - 50 Years Later 📅 21 April 2026 🕐 13:00–18:30 📍 ARB On 24 March 1976, a military coup against Argentine president Isabel Perón initiated a dictatorship (1976-1983) that disappeared or killed over 30,000 people. Open to all – Registration required

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Not sure where to start with our collections, services, or workspaces? Join one of our free 45-minute taster tours and get a guided introduction from our friendly library team. 📅 Upcoming dates: 15 April, 18 April, 9 May, 13 May, 10 June, 13 June. 🔗 Book now: loom.ly/COaO_cY

A bright, high-ceilinged library reception area with chandeliers and large arched windows. A staff member stands behind a curved wooden “Reader Services” desk, speaking with a visitor who is holding a phone. Other people and computer workstations are visible in the background, with books stacked on the counter.

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🌿 #TBT | Lent Term at #CLAS60Years 8 seminars, 8 powerful conversations on histories, inequalities & political imaginaries across Latin America and beyond. Thank you to all who joined us! 🌼 Easter Term programme now live. #LatinAmericanStudies #CambridgeEvents

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📢 CLAS Events Book presentation: Memories and Social Struggles in Contemporary Bolivia Sue Iamamoto (UFBA) | Chair: Sian Lazar 📆 15 April, 2pm 📍 Room S1, ARB Free & open to all + refreshments 🔗 + info: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #LatinAmericanStudies #Bolivia #CLAS60Years

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🌼 Easter Term at CLAS We’re hosting a series of talks, book presentations and discussions on Latin America in Cambridge. 📅 April–June | 📍 Cambridge Free & open to all + refreshments 🔗 www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latest-news-... #LatinAmericanStudies #CambridgeEvents #CLAS60Years

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

What's on this week at Cambridge University Library? 📚Visit our new exhibition, Living Water. 📚Take a break and read some poetry in new Reading Nook in the North corridor. 📚We are closed for Easter, 3 April to 6 April inclusive. 🔎Exhibition opening times: loom.ly/FSLQWrg

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Conference Announcement: Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 2026: A World in Common Dates: Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th July 2026 Location: St Catherine's College, Oxford To register, email: jlacs2026@gmail.com

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Nísia Floresta, subject of our next episode, is often called "the Brazilian Mary Wollstonecraft." We sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to find out how accurate that label is with Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke from @clascam.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyE9... #PhilSky #WomensHistoryMonth

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Nísia Floresta: Roving Philosophical Report

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫 Have you got an idea that may: - Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures? - Forge new collaborations ? - Bring academic research to wider publics? - Explore research and artistic practice? Apply by 17 May 2026 bit.ly/3CaV97M

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🔔 CLAS & @camgeopolitics.bsky.social presents: Colombia’s Armed Conflict in Regional and Global Context: Peace Prospects, Venezuela Spillover, and Geopolitics Ahead of Elections Dr @annetteidler.bsky.social (University of Oxford) 📆 Wednesday 18 March | 5:00pm 📍 Room S1, ARB 🔗 bit.ly/4qVgSY2

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: Book Launch: Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile Katia Chornik (University of Cambridge) 📆 Monday 16 March | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB Refreshments will be served after the seminars. All welcome!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: Book Launch: The Joyful Passions of Feminism: How to Shake Up Contemporary Political Imagination Nayla Luz Vacarezza (Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET) 📆 Monday 09 March | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB All welcome!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🎓Quer se candidatar a um mestrado na Universidade de Cambridge? Neste vídeo explicamos o processo geral de candidatura a programas de mestrado, direcionado a estudantes e pesquisadores na América Latina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTZl...

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Como se candidatar a um mestrado na Universidade de Cambridge | Guia Cambrigia

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents: Book Presentation: Inside Criminalized Governance. How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro Nicholas Barnes (University of St Andrews) 📆 Monday 02 March | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB The seminar is free and open to all 🤩

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🎓Guía Cambrigia ¿Quieres aplicar a un máster en la Universidad de Cambridge? En este video explicamos el proceso general de postulación a programas de máster, dirigido a estudiantes e investigadores en América Latina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Girp...

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Cómo aplicar a un máster en Cambridge | Guía Cambrigia

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🔔 Film Screening / Q&A: A Place in the City (English subtitles) Gabriel Silvestre (Newcastle University) 📆 Wednesday 25 February | 5:15pm 📍 Room S1, First Floor, ARB This film examines hope, resistance, and collective action in Latin American cities. Open to all!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📣 Applications are now open for postgraduate study at the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Cambridge 2026–27 🎓 Programmes available: • MPhil in Latin American Studies • MPhil (Thesis only) • PhD in Latin American Studies 🔗Check the deadlines!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents: Yiddishkayt on the Barricades: Forging a Jewish Working Class in Buenos Aires, 1890-1930 Walter L. Koppmann (Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET) 📆 Monday 23 February | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB Come join us! 🤩

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🔔 CLAS Event: A Chilean New Song Francisco Carrasco (@lumacreationsorg) 📆 Wednesday 18 February | 5:15pm 📍 Room S1, ARB This talk takes you on a journey into the history of the powerful Chilean New Song movement, incorporating live songs and visuals. Open to all!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents: The contradictions of science in Machado de Assis Viviane Carvalho (University of Cambridge) "This talk explores the role of science in the short stories of Machado de Assis, focusing on works such as ‘O Alienista’ (1882) (...)" Open to all.🤩

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🔔 CLAS Event Talk: Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil Rafael Xucuru-Kariri (King's College London) Suzane Lima Costa (University of London) 📆 Wednesday 11 February | 5:15pm 📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building The event is free and open to all. Come join us!

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CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

💠 Salvador Allende Lecture 2026 'On Impunity: From East West Street to 38 Londres Street' by Philippe Sands KC (University College London) 📆 Monday 9 February | 5:15pm 📍 Lecture Hall at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, CB3 9BL Registration required.

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