Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Archived Events

  • International Conference Rethinking difference: beyond language, culture, and indigeneity

    Date/Time: 30 March 2017 - 31 March 2017, 09:30 - 16:00

    Venue: Percy Building G.05

  • Vanessa Knights Memorial Lecture

    Date/Time: 16 March 2017, 17:00 - 18:30

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, 1.46

  • New Research(ers) Forum

    Date/Time: 16 February 2017, 16:00 - 17:00

    Venue: Research Beehive, Old Library Building

  • Documentary film screening with Q&A

    Date/Time: 22 February 2017, 16:00 - 18:00

    Venue: Devonshire G.27

  • Professional Development Master Class

    Coping with the Challenges of PhD Research

    Date/Time: Wednesday 22 February, 13.00 - 15.00

    Venue: Percy 1.05

  • Professional Development Master Class

    Publishing in peer reviewed Journals.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 19 April, 13.00 - 15.00

    Venue: Percy 1.05

  • Research Seminar: Carlos Sánchez Avendaño, University of Costa Rica

    Date/Time: 27 April 2017, 16:00 - 17:00

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.20, Old Library Building

  • Postgraduate Conference, Bregando: Navigating the Everyday

    Date/Time: 28th April 2017, 09:30 - 18:00 followed by drinks reception

    Venue: Research Beehive, Old Library Building

  • Slavery: dialogues across time and place

    This workshop brings together scholars to discuss the definitions, experiences, and legacies of slavery.

    Date/Time: Friday 12th May 2017, 09:00 - 17:00

    Venue: Newcastle University

  • After the thaw: cultural approaches to research on Cuba

    Date/Time: 12 May 2017, 15:00-17:00

    Venue: Research Beehive, Old Library Building

  • Translation as Mediation

    The role of Spanish and Maya interpreters in ecclesiastic and civil courts in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

    Date/Time: Thursday 18 May, 16.00 - 17.00

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.20

  • Professional Development Master Class

    Working with non-academic partners in the research process.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 24 May, 13.00 - 15.00

    Venue: KGVI 2.37

  • Spotlight on Brazil

    You are invited to this University networking event to help generate cross-disciplinary collaborations in sustainable development in Brazil

    Date/Time: Wednesday 14th June 2017, 13:00-14:30

    Venue: tbc

  • Spotlight on Brazil

    You are invited to this University networking event to help generate cross-disciplinary collaborations in sustainable development in Brazil

    Date/Time: Wednesday 14th June 2017, 13:00-14:30

    Venue: tbc

  • The Right to the City – And the Wrongs of Urbanisation

    Date/Time: Wednesday 5th July 2017 13:00-14:30

    Venue: Armstrong Building 2.48

  • Researching everyday geopolitics in Latin America

    Date/Time: Friday 8th September 2017 09:00-17:00

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.22, Old Library Building

  • La paz es ahora: Examining the question of peace and violence in Colombia

    Date/Time: Friday 29th September 2017, 09:30 - 17:30

    Venue: Armstrong Building 2.16, Newcastle University

  • Welcome Event and Research Round up

    Date/Time: Thursday 19th October, 16:30-18:30

    Venue: Courtyard Lounge, Old Library Building

  • Seminar: Labour politics and the left in power in Brazil: From Lula to Dilma

    Date/Time: Thursday 26th October 2017, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Armstrong Building 2.49, Newcastle University

  • Seminar: Maya Art and Maya Kingship: the Aesthetic of a Pre-Columbian Élite

    Date/Time: Thursday 9 November 2017 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Armstrong Building 2.16, Newcastle University

  • Seminar: The Sacred and the Satiated: History, Archaeology, and the Liminal Space of Black Resistance

    Date/Time: Wednesday 22nd November, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Armstrong 1.05

  • Seminar: "Standardisation: friend or foe of minority language survival? Experience of Amazonian Kichwa in a comparative perspective"

    Date/Time: Thursday 23rd November 2017, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre 1.46

  • Seminar: “We do not consent”: Indigenous rights and the Nicaraguan inter-oceanic canal project

    Date/Time: Thursday 30th November 2017, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.22, Newcastle University

  • The narratives of Latin-American Civilizing Project: Moral Confidence, Neoliberal Reasoning and Criminal Subjectivity

    Date/Time: Tuesday 30th January 2018, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.22, Old Library Building

  • Seminar: Legacies of Slavery, Anti Racism and Cultural Agency in Caribbean Contemporary Art

    Date/Time: Thursday 8th February 2018, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.22 Newcastle University

  • Research Forum on Interdisciplinarity in Practice

    Date/Time: Thursday 15th February 2018, 3:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building G.08, Newcastle University

  • PGR Workshop: Fieldwork

    Date/Time: Tuesday 20th February 2018, 1:00-2:30pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building G.08, Newcastle University

  • Seminar: Zombies and the City in Latin American Comics

    Date/Time: Wednesday 28th February 2018, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.22 Newcastle University

  • Seminar: Nadia Lie, KU Leuven, Belgium

    Date/Time: Wednesday 7th March 2018, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre B.32

  • 'The Day The World Changed: Montezuma, Cortés, and One of History's Greatest Lies' Vanessa Knights Memorial Lecture 2018

    Date/Time: Thursday 15th March 2018, 17:00-18:00 followed by a drinks reception

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, B.32

  • Abolition of the Army in Costa Rica, 70 years on: Issues of Institutional Violence, Power, and Political Economy

    Date/Time: Tuesday 24th April 2018, 1:00-6:00pm

    Venue: Research Beehive 2.21

  • PGR Workshop: Decolonising methodologies

    Date/Time: Wednesday 25th April 2018, 1:00-2:30pm

    Venue: Percy Building G.09

  • Research Seminar: Lusophone Black Atlantic Abolition: Mendonça’s Freedom Discourse, Brazil, Africa and Europe, XVII Century

    Date/Time: Wednesday 2nd May 2018, 4-5pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building 1.05, Newcastle University

  • Seminar: Art Collectives and the Pedagogies of Dissent in Peru

    Date/Time: Thursday 3rd May 2018, 16:00-17:00

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre 1.46

  • Seminar: Dialogical Cosmopolitics: Rethinking violence, gender, and indigeneity in Highland Mexico

    Date/Time: Thursday 17th May 2018, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 6.02

  • PGR Workshop: 'Participatory action research and the work of Orlando Fals Borda´ with Nick Morgan

    Date/Time: Thursday 31st May 2018, 1:00-2:30pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 6.02

  • From Senate House to the River Plate - the British Ministry of Information in Argentina, 1939-1946

    Date/Time: Wednesday 3rd October 2018, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building 1.04

  • Water Justice, Rights and Conflicts. The Politics of Exclusion, Inclusion and Rooted Resistance in Latin America

    Date/Time: Thursday 4th October 2018, 4:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building 3.38

  • Teaching Against Politics: Cuba in an American Classroom / La Metástasis Videotópica de Breaking Bad: A Hybrid Look at Film Noir Fiction for TV

    Date/Time: Tuesday 9th October 2018, 3:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building 1.03

  • Welcome Event and Research Round up

    Date/Time: Wednesday 24th October 2018, 4:00-5:30pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building G.08

  • RENEWAL exhibition

    Date/Time: Monday 15th October (launch at 3pm) until Friday 26th October

    Venue: Atrium and Long Gallery spaces of the King Edward VII Building

  • Challenges to the Brazilian agribusiness competitiveness and an overview on trade perspectives

    Date/Time: Monday 26th November 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Agriculture Building, 3.05

  • La Gunguna + Q&A with Ernesto Alemany

    Date/Time: Tuesday 4th December 2018, 6:15-8:30pm

    Venue: Tyneside Cinema

  • Philosophical Polemics, School Reform, and Nation-Building in Uruguay, 1868-1915: Reforma Vareliana and Batllismo in Transnational Perspective

    Date/Time: Wednesday 12th December 2018, 4:00-5:30pm

    Venue: Percy Building G.13, Newcastle University

  • The Driveress and the Nurse: Childcare and Other Work under Caribbean Slavery, Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh

    Date/Time: Wednesday 30th January 2019, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong 1.04

  • Youth Cultures and Place in two Brazilian Middle Cities

    Date/Time: Wednesday 6th February 2019, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.22

  • FASCISTIZACIÓN Y FIDELIZACIÓN JUVENIL EN DICTADURA. Del Frente de Juventudes al Frente Juvenil de Unidad Nacional (Chile – España, 1973-1983)

    Date/Time: Wednesday 13th February 2019 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Percy Building G.13, Newcastle University

  • Cities of the Undead: Zombies in Latin American Comics

    Date/Time: Wednesday 20th February 2019 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building G.08, Newcastle University

  • Cities of the Undead: Zombies in Latin American Comics

    Date/Time: Wednesday 20th February 2019 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building G.08, Newcastle University

  • Increasing women’s access for well-being after resettlement: The Belo Monte hydropower dam project

    Date/Time: Wednesday 13th March, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.22

  • Increasing women’s access for well-being after resettlement: The Belo Monte hydropower dam project

    Date/Time: Wednesday 13th March, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.22

  • Venezuela in Crisis

    Date/Time: Wednesday 27th March 16:30-17:30

    Venue: Armstrong Building, room G.09 (Keaton Lomas Lecture Theatre)

  • Konesans: New Perspectives on Haitian Studies in Europe

    Date/Time: Thursday 4th - Friday 5th April 2019

    Venue: Armstrong Building 1.06

  • The French penal colony as site of memory: dark tourism, difficult heritage and the politics of the past. Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool

    Date/Time: Wednesday 1st May 2019, 1:00-2:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.20

  • Gendered Touristic Security in La Antigua Guatemala. Sarah Becklake, Lancaster University

    Date/Time: Wednesday 22nd May 2019, 1:00-2:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.20

  • Carnival Stories: Connections between the Caribbean and the North East

    Date/Time: Friday 12th July 2019, 4:30-7:00pm

    Venue: Alphabetti Theatre

  • Welcome event and research round-up

    Date/Time: Wednesday 9th October 16:00-17:30

    Venue: Armstrong Building, G.69/70

  • Multilingual Choir

    Date/Time: Wednesday 16th October 17:30

    Venue: OLB 2.22

  • Research Workshop- Critical Language Research: Applied Linguistic and Anthropological Approaches

    Date/Time: Friday 25th October 2019, 9:00am-6:00pm

    Venue: Howden Room, KGVI Building

  • What is going on in Chile?

    Date/Time: Wednesday 30th October 2019, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, 1.46

  • CLACS Panel on the current events in Bolivia

    Date/Time: Wednesday 20th November 2019, 4:30-5:30pm

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, 1.46

  • POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Representations and Peripheralization of the Cordillera de los Andes North of Chile

    Date/Time: Wednesday 27th November 2019, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, 1.46

  • The role of ‘new generation’ feminism in the current Chilean social rebellion. Prof Veronica Schild

    Date/Time: Thursday 13th February 2020, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.20

  • Climate change and water management in the Andes

    Date/Time: Wedneday 24th March 2021, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Zoom

  • Conference: La calle para tod@s: Critical creativity in the everyday of Latin American and Iberian cities

    Date/Time: 14th -16th July 2021

    Venue: Online

  • Conference: La calle para tod@s: Critical creativity in the everyday of Latin American and Iberian cities

    Date/Time: 14th -16th July 2021

    Venue: Online

  • 2021-22 CLACS welcome event

    Date/Time: Wednesday 6th October 2021, 4:00-5:30pm

    Venue: Zoom

  • Online Conversation: ‘A Fox with a Camera’

    Date/Time: Wednesday 13th October 2021, 4:00-5:00pm (UK)

    Venue: Zoom

  • SEMINAR: Technology, Identity, and Political Violence in Latin America

    Date/Time: Thursday 4th November 2021, 4:00-5:00pm

    Venue: Zoom

  • Un conversatorio virtual sobre la exposición "A Fox with a Camera: The Photography of José María Arguedas’.

    Date/Time: Wednesday 10th November, 6:00-7:30pm

    Venue: Zoom

  • Virtual book launch: Fertile Visions

    You are invited to the virtual launch of Dr Anne Carruthers' book Fertile Visions: The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas published as part of the Thinking Cinema series at Bloomsbury

    Date/Time: Thursday 11th November 2021, 3:30-5:00pm

    Venue: Zoom

  • 'Territorio: de lo rural a lo urbano' Dr Nick Morgan, School of Modern Languages

    Date/Time: Wednesday 24th November, 1:00pm (UK time)

    Venue: Online - Facebook live

  • “Save a carnation for me”: Voices of struggle between Brazil and Portugal (1968-1983)

    SML Research Seminar

    Date/Time: Wednesday 27th April, 4-5pm

    Venue: Old Library Building, 2.29

  • Contested Territories - learning from Latin America

    CLACS Festival

    Date/Time: Wednesday 4th May, 4-5pm

    Venue: Online

  • Cuba's Life Task - Combatting Climate Change

    Star and Shadow, Film for the Maypole

    Date/Time: Thursday 5th May, 7.30pm

    Venue: Star and Shadow Cinema

  • Vanessa Knights Memorial Lecture: Professor Benjamin T. Smith

    CLACS Festival

    Date/Time: Wednesday 11th May, 4-6pm

    Venue: Bedson Building (Barbara Strang Teaching Centre) room 1.46

  • H.E Chad Blackman, Ambassador of Barbados visit

    CLACS Festival

    Date/Time: Monday 16th - Tuesday 17th May

  • Josefa González-Blanco, Ambassador of Mexico to the UK

    CLACS Festival

  • CLACS Student Showcase

    CLACS Festival

    Date/Time: Wednesday 25th May, 3pm

    Venue: Armstrong Building G69/G70

  • Bamboo in Haitian Construction Symposium

    Date/Time: Friday, 27th May

  • Rafael Sega on Getúlio Vargas

    In association with SML Seminar Series

    Date/Time: Wednesday 1st June, 1-2pm

    Venue: Old Library Building 2.01

  • Film Screening: Helena from Sarayaku

    CLACS Festival

    Date/Time: Tuesday 14th June, 5-7pm

    Venue: Star and Shadow

  • DJLU on Colombian Street Art

    CLACS Festival

    Date/Time: Thursday 16th June, from 6pm

    Venue: Cullercoats Crescent Club