• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Fridays 5:00 pm
• Web Address: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home
• Organising department: Latin American Centre

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable: Current debates on Drug Policy in Latin America
  Jonas von Hoffmann (University of Oxford), Thomas Grisaffi (University of Reading), Marie Nougier (TBC) (International Drug Policy Consortium (TBC))

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Past and Future Spread of Mosquito-Borne Viruses in the Americas
  Moritz Kraemer (University of Oxford, Department of Zoology)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Brazilian Studies Programme Annual Conference Roundtable: Informality in a changing political-economic system in Brazil
  Andreza A de Souza Santos ( University of Oxford), Timothy Power (University of Oxford), Flavia Biroli ( University of Brasilia), Mariana Batista (University of Pernambuco), Gabriel Ulyssea (Department of Economics, University of Oxford)

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Racial Locations and Dislocations among Latin American Women Migrants in London
  Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews)

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: US Hegemony and the Americas: Power and Economic Statecraft in International Relations
  Arturo Santa-Cruz (Universidad de Guadalajara )

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Latin America in an Era of Discontent
  Michael Reid (The Economist)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Manager Selection and Student Learning: Evidence from a National Reform in Peru,
  Renata Lemos (World Bank)

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The (un)making of the resilient subject in Guatemala’s colonial disasterscape
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Julie Cupples (The University of Edinburgh )

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Inaugural Lecture / Technological Opportunities and a Dynamic Post-Covid future for Latin America
  Online event. Please check: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  Carlota Pérez (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.)

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Volatility Curse: Exogenous Shocks and Representation in Latin America
  Online event, go to https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  Dani Campello (Vargas Foundation), Cesar Zucco (Getulio Vargas Foundation)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Impact of Covid-19 on the Economies of Latin America
  Online event, go to https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University)

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Is Latin America Immune to the Populist Radical Right? Analysing the Case of Chile
  Online event, go to https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Diego Portales University)

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - COVID-19 and Social Protection Responses in Latin America
  Online event, go to https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  Merike Blofield (GIGA)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Implementation of the Final Peace Accord in Colombia: Current State, Challenges and Opportunities
  Online event, go to https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  Josefina Echavarría Alvarez (Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame,), Felipe Roa-Clavijo (Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The (un)making of the resilient subject in Guatemala’s colonial disasterscape
  Julie Cupples (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa
  Kathryn Hochstetler (LSE)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The matters with evangelical lives in Brazil: Ethnographic notes about race and religion in 21st century Brazil
  Juliano Spyer (Behup, Brazil)

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Confronting ongoing Legacies of Violence and Division: Ethnographic Research in Violent ‘Transitioning’ Societies
  Roddy Brett (University of Bristol)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Creative Construction: The Rise of Mass Infrastructure in Latin America
  Alisha Holland (Harvard University)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Indigenous Resistance to Narco Rule: Social Movements, Participatory Institutions, and Grassroots Community Policing in Mexico
  Professor Guillermo Trejo (Notre Dame)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Estallido - The beginning of the end for neoliberalism in Chile?
  Hassan Akram (Wake Forest University’s Chile Centre)