Keep an eye on this page for updates on our 2024/25 events programme. New information will be added here periodically.
CRoLAC is teaming up with Latin American Geographies (LAG) this summer to host “Latin American Dialogues: the Third Encounter of Sociospatial and Socioterritorial Movements” (LATIMOV). LATIMOV is an international and interdisciplinary space for dialogue on and with a range of social movements, grassroots organisations and insurgent practices in and beyond Latin America. It follows two previous Encuentros – in São Paulo (2019) and La Plata (2021) – which brought together academics and activists from across Latin America to debate the shifting form and nature of contemporary social movements. The central objective of the third encounter – which will be hosted by Queen Mary University of London – will be to enhance the dialogues between Latin American and Anglophone (and in particular UK) Latin Americanist community, as well as scholars and activists more broadly.
This is our periodic check-in where we ask 4-5 Queen Mary colleagues to offer a digest of some of the key events and processes affecting countries in the region. If you are interested in attending this roundtable event, please get in touch with us for further details.
This is our work-in-progress series which takes place over lunchtime (hence the brown [lunch] bags!) in the Geography Common Room. We are open to works-in-progress from Queen Mary colleagues at all career stages – including our PhD colleagues – and we are aiming to hold one session roughly each month from October 2024 to May 2025.
Each academic year we host a ‘meet and greet’ for new and existing PhD students across the Faculty with a research interest in Latin America and the Caribbean. The aim of these events is to build a sense of community among our early career scholars – especially those who are newly arrived in London – and foster synergies and friendships across schools. The idea is a basic one: we eat, drink and we get to know one another.