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đź’ 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: tickettailor.com/events/clas…
All welcome!
🎉 🎓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: latin-american.cam.ac.uk/new…
📢 CLAS Events – Easter Term 2026
Join us for Digging for Hope, a book presentation & panel with Rosalva AĂda 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!
📣🎙️ 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.
📚🎧 Supported by CLAS, the podcast is produced by a team including David Lehmann, Natalia Buitrón, Adrián Lerner and Paola A. Lopez as producer.
🔗 Find out more here: latin-american.cam.ac.uk/lat…
🌎✨ The Latinoamericanist podcast is designed to be a source of stimulation, information and entertainment for Latin Americanists worldwide.
Episodes are in English, Spanish or Portuguese, depending on the guests.
The Centre for Geopolitics is taking applications for 3 new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions, with applications closing on 14th June 2026.
Visit our website for more information:
cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/postdocto…
📢 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
📢 CLAS Events
Policrisis: CĂłmo enfrentar el vaciamiento de las izquierdas y la expansiĂłn de las derechas autoritarias
Maristella Svampa (SimĂłn BolĂvar Professor 2022)
📆 Mon 01 June | 5:00pm
📍 Room S1, ARB
Free & open to all.
#LatinAmericanStudies#LatinAmericanPolitics
🌱 Talk | Garden politics: comparing experiences from Ecuador, Trinidad and Colombia
What is a garden?
đź“… Monday 18 May
🕞 3:30pm–5:00pm
📍 Room 204, Second Floor, ARB
✨ Free & open to all
📢 CLAS Events
Book presentation: The Gendered Front: Latin American Women’s Cultural Agency during WWII
Vanessa Miseres (Notre Dame)
Chair: Stephanie Rohner (Cambridge)
📆 14 May, 12:30pm
📍 Room S1, ARB
Free & open to all
#CLAS60Years
We are accepting applications for 3 Early Career Scholars. The programme is open to applicants with proven academic interest in either:
1. Middle East politics
2. Comparative politics
3. International relations
Closing date: 14 May 2026
More details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55353/
#SeeYouAtCLAS🍀
As we get ready for Easter Term, we’re looking back at conversations shaped Lent.
From book launches and screenings to seminars and performances, it was a term of exchanges on Latin America. Thanks to speakers, collaborators and all who joined us.
#CLAS60Years