Upcoming and recent events held by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies and at Schools across the University.
Event listing
Global Law and Sustainable Development
Join leading experts for this two-day in-person conference on sustainable development in the Latin American region in relation to international and global law.
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Co-producing Urban Resilience to Climate Change: Innovation for Integrated Risk Management
Join us online for a two-day event as we share experiences in relation to inclusive ‘Smart City’ solutions in Mexico City and aim widen the discussion around innovation in risk management .
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Book Culture in Buenos Aires: Growing Readerships
A CCLAS colloquium with a keynote by novelist and screenwriter, Claudia Piñeiro.
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Coimbra Group & Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) Summer School: Smart and Inclusive Cities
Reviewing, discussing and proposing means to achieve more inclusive, equal, sustainable and safe cities.
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V Latin American Cultural Colloquium
Join us for this year's Latin American Cultural Colloquium, with guest speaker Dr Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, from University of Texas-Austin.
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IV Latin American Cultural Colloquium
This year the colloquium focuses on the different cultural practices which record the shifting relationships between humans and nature.
Further informationII Latin American Symposium of Politics and Social Science
We are delighted to invite you to this one-day symposium of talks and round tables on the topic of democracy in Latin America.
Further informationDecolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and the Paradigms of Political Economy
This two-day course will discuss the cartography of power and the structures of knowledge of the world-system we have inhabited since the 16th century.
Further informationNuevas ficciones políticas en América Latina
Professor Eduardo Becerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) will be giving a seminar titled: "Nuevas ficciones políticas en América Latina".
Further informationChilean Day
Friends of Chile, join us for this year’s Chilean Day, with a documentary screening, a talk on Chile’s extraordinary natural beauty, and Chilean wine and food!
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Sustainability in Latin America
If you have ever wondered what the role of countries in Latin America have been in terms of sustainable practices? Come and join us for the day where we will attempt to find an answer.
Further informationLatin American Cultural Colloquium 2016
Scholars from the UK, Spain and Latin America will present papers on a range of Latin American cultural topics, from chronicles to banditry in literature, cumbia in Argentina to Hélio Oiticica's marginal art.
Further informationBook Launch: Bobby Sands desfallece en el muro
PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, Bárbara Fernández Melleda, will participate in the launch of Carmen Berenguer’s book Bobby Sands desfallece en el muro.
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Achieving Environmental and Social Policy Integration in the Latin American Context
Laura Rival will be giving a seminar titled "Achieving Environmental and Social Policy Integration in the Latin American Context" as part of the Human Geography Seminar Series hosted by Dr Marisa Wilson.
Further informationA Brazilian Evening
The Brazilian Evening is a celebration of the diversity of UoE’s research and teaching on Brazil. Edinburgh academics from across schools and three visiting researchers from Brazilian universities will give talks in order to showcase the dynamics of some of our research on Brazilian studies.
Further informationEdinburgh College of Art Simpson Lecture: "Good Neighbours?"
In a free public lecture at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), Professor Bergdoll will be discussing the Latin America in Construction, Architecture 1955–1980 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), of which he was one of the curators.
Further informationIs Mexico another BRIC? The successes and pathologies of a rising power
Professor Mark Aspinwall (Edinburgh, CIDE Mexico) will be giving a seminar on the topic of Mexico as a rising star among emerging economies.
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Mexican Society - Mexican Independence Party
The Mexican Society will be celebrating the Mexican Independence with Tacos in the Teviot student union.
Further informationLatin American Society - Welcome Party
Come and join the Latin American Society for an evening of drinks and dancing.
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