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The Centre of Latin American Studies was founded in 1966 to promote research and teaching on Latin America in the University of Cambridge.

It offers an MPhil course and doctoral studies; sponsors research projects and organizes conferences, among others. In addition to offering a taught MPhil (Masters) course in Latin American Studies, the Centre provides supervision for PhD (doctoral) students, sponsors research projects, organizes conferences and invites scholars from Latin America and universities around the world to speak at weekly open seminars. It hosts the prestigious Simón Bolívar Chair of Latin American Studies, a visiting professorship for distinguished Latin American intellectuals. CLAS also maintains a library containing over 12,000 volumes, together with an important archive of more than 500 Latin American films.

28/10/2026

📣 CLAS Seminar | Wednesday 4 November

The Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, invites you to:

Whose Land, Whose Rules? Drug Trafficking and Territorial Governance in Rural Honduras

Dr Emilia Ziosi (University of St Andrews; Associate Member, University of Oxford)

Chair: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro (University of Cambridge)

“Honduras is a key transit hub for co***ne trafficking, yet the actors involved in its wholesale transportation, known as transportista groups, remain understudied.”

“Drawing on fieldwork across Honduras and the analysis of thousands of pages of judicial documents, I trace the evolution of two transportista groups in two understudied departments between 2000 and 2018, up to the arrest of their leaders.”

📅 Wednesday 4 November | 5.00 pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge

Free and open to all. Refreshments afterwards.

23/10/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents:

Book Launch: Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America

Speakers:
Professor Peter Wade
Professor Lúcia Sá
Dr Ignacio Aguiló
(University of Manchester)

“This seminar presents the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America (CARLA) and two of its principal outputs: an online exhibition and an edited volume, Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America (CUP, 2026).”

Chair: Professor Mónica Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge

📅 Monday 2 November · 5:15 PM
📍 SG1, Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building

All welcome. Refreshments afterwards.

Further information via the link in bio.

22/10/2026

🎓 Thinking about postgraduate study at Cambridge?

Join the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Day and discover our MPhil and PhD programmes in Latin American Studies.

Learn more about our interdisciplinary approach to research and teaching, and bring your questions about studying at CLAS!

📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026
🕑 2:00–2:45 pm (UK time)
💻 Online

🔗 Register via the link in our website.

20/10/2026

📣 CLAS EVENTS presents:

Thread Stories (Historias de hilo)

A book presentation by Valentina Gajardo, University of Cambridge.

Chair: Professor Geoffrey Kantaris, University of Cambridge.

“Where words fall short, the thread can become a voice, a symptom, and a narrative.”

📅 Thursday 29 October · 5.00 pm
📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building

Free and open to all. Refreshments afterwards.

🔗 Further information via the link in bio.

19/10/2026

📣 CLAS EVENTS presents:

The Right to Avoid Development: Rethinking Power and Fossil Fuels in the Age of Climate Change

With Dr Daniela Soto Hernandez, University of Sussex.

“By looking at 4 case studies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile) I advance the idea of a "right to avoid Development", to rethink the relationships between climate change, power, development, and fossil fuel production.”

Chair: Dr Grace Livingstone, University of Cambridge

📅 Wednesday 28 October · 12:15 PM
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

Free and open to all. No registration required. Refreshments afterwards.

🔗 Further information in CLAS website

12/10/2026

📢 Applications are now open for researchers seeking to be hosted by the Centre of Latin American Studies for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2027.

We welcome applications from early-career researchers working on Latin America in any eligible field supported by the Leverhulme Trust.

Internal deadline: 12 noon, Friday 23 October 2026.

Find eligibility criteria, required documents and application details via the link in our profile.

12/10/2026

📣 CLAS EVENTS presents:

Reinterpretation of Andean Music

With Vivi Guerrero, Singer & Songwriter, and John Jairo Pantoja, Charango player.

“This talk explores how music can be used to reshape stories that have often been told through narrow perceptions, and how music moves across ancestral, urban, tropical and performative styles.”

Chair: Dr Grace Livingstone, University of Cambridge

📅 Wednesday 21 October · 6:30 PM
📍 Room S1, First Floor, Alison Richard Building

Registration required. Refreshments afterwards.

🔗 Registration details are available via the CLAS website linked in our profile.

08/10/2026

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS presents:

The Unmaking of an Indigenous Saint: The Lives and Afterlives of Nicolás Ayllón

Speaker: Dr María Gracia Ríos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

“By tracing the successive revisions, reinterpretations, and contestations of the evidence, I will show how sanctity was negotiated through the production, circulation, and validation of texts.”

Discussant: Dr Stephanie Rohner, University of Cambridge

📅 Monday 19 October · 5:15 PM
📍 SG1, Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building

All welcome. Refreshments afterwards.

Further information on our website.

05/10/2026

✨ CLAS Events are back for Michaelmas.

Join us for a varied programme of roundtables, workshops, lunchtime seminars, book presentations and talks, bringing together our wider community at the Centre.

Free and open to all
📍 Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
🥂 Refreshments afterwards

Explore the programme so far:
https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latest-news-and-events

01/10/2026

🍂 Our first Open Seminar of Michaelmas is coming up!

Book launch: From Megachurch to Metachurch. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

Professor David Lehmann, CLAS Senior Research Associate

"Drawing on ethnographic research in 13 countries from Brazil and Spanish America to Europe, North America and Israel, David Lehmann demonstrates how the church’s practices and those of Pentecostalism in general, are reshaping contemporary concepts of ritual and the supernatural."

📅 Monday 12 October · 5:15 PM
📍 SG1, Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building. 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Organised in partnership with the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.

All welcome. Refreshments afterwards.

Further information via the link in bio.

Address

University Of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road
Cambridge
CB39DT

Website

http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/

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