Apr 5, 2022 | Argentina, LAC and the World, Latin America, South America, Uncategorized
Image 1: A hyperreal depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Tierra Santa. Credit: Brigid Lynch By Brigid Lynch (CLACS) 23 March 2022 marked the second anniversary of the first UK lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown and the restrictions that...
Apr 12, 2019 | LAC and the World, Latin America
By Dr. Elisa Sevilla (University of San Francisco, Quito) The LAGLOBAL workshop on “Darwin, Darwinism and Latin America” took place on 31 October 2019 with the participation of leading scholars on Darwin and Darwinism in Latin America, including Prof. Rosaura Ruiz...
Dec 5, 2017 | LAC and the World, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
by the Latin America Bureau (LAB) In Latin America, a new generation has come of age over the last twenty years or so. This is a generation which has grown up in a period of relative prosperity in what has historically been one of the world’s poorest regions. It is a...
Nov 13, 2017 | Argentina, LAC and the World, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America
by Dr Catriona McAllister (Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Reading) Ariana Harwicz’s novel Matate, amor is rebellious, energetic, and almost impossible to summarise. It inhabits a space between poetry and prose, offering an...
Mar 15, 2017 | Andean studies, Argentina, LAC and the World, Latin America
by Mercedes Del Río Ana María Lorandi died in Congreso, a district of Buenos Aires, on January 31st 2017 at the age of 80. First archaeologist, later historian, she pioneered the study of Andean Ethnohistory in the University of Buenos Aires following the radical...
Aug 29, 2016 | Brazil, LAC and the World
by Giselle Datz, Associate Professor of Government & International Affairs, Virginia Tech Paradoxically ritualistic and idiosyncratic, the Rio Olympics were set against a background of perplexing global and local dynamics which converge around the challenge of...
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