Sue Iamamoto presenting her book at @clascam.bsky.social
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🔔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
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.
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: https://loom.ly/COaO_cY
🌿 #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
📢 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
🌼 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
“Viva Zapata! Viva Sandino! Viva Zumbi!”
@clascam.bsky.social
A photograph of Cambridge University Library on a sunny day.
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: https://loom.ly/FSLQWrg
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
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
What will your event be?
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
https://bit.ly/3CaV97M
🔔 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
🔗 More info in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
📣 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!
🔗More info in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
📣 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!
🔗 www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/depa...
🔗 www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/depa...
🎓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...
🔗More info in: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
📣 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 🤩
🎓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...
Film trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hZY...
🔔 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!
🔗Explore deadlines and application details on our website: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/depa...
📣 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!
📣 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! 🤩
🔗 More info in bio: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
🔔 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!