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Department: Latin American Centre
Talks:
Tuesday 21 October 2025
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 October 2025
Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Adrian Lerner Patrón (Cambridge)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 October 2025
División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Laura Cucchi (Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC),
Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 November 2025
The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 6 November 2025
Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Miriam Melton-Villanueva (University of Nevada, USA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA),
Andreza de Souza Santos (King's College London),
Saul Tourinho,
Malu Gatto (University College London),
Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser:
Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 November 2025
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
TBA
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers:
TBA
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Tuesday 18 November 2025
Round table on Brazilian elections
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 20 November 2025
Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
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Friday 21 November 2025
Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
Date: 21 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker
:
Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
Venue Details: Paris
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
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Tuesday 25 November 2025
Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 28 November 2025
The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Date: 28 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Niall Geraghty (UCL),
Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 2 December 2025
US and Latin America
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
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Thursday 4 December 2025
Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA