The Latinoamericanist

Episodes

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  Leonardo Avritzer: Understanding the Brazilian election 04.10.2026 50m

  Leonardo Avritzer, of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, is a leading Brazilian political scientist and the author of numerous books and articles in Portuguese and in English, especially on participatory politics. He is also a frequent contributor to the magazine Carta Capital. In this podcast, recorded on 1 September, Leonardo Avritzer explains background essential for understanding the Brazilian election. Bibliography for Leonardo Avritzer podcast CHEIBUB, José Antônio. Presidentialis...
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  Jean Khalfa: Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and revolutionary 05.08.2026 48m

  Jean Khalfa is an unusual figure: a French intellectual who was joint editor of Les Temps Modernes, the famous journal founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, yet who has spent most of his academic career at Trinity College Cambridge, and a cultural entrepreneur who has organized exhibitions about the Caribbean avant-garde poet and politician Aimé Césaire and the Cuban-born surrealist artist Wifredo Lam. But it is on account of his major contributions to the understanding of Frant...
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  Dawn Ades: Surrealism in Latin America 08.07.2026 38m

  Dawn Ades is a world-renowned curator and authority on surrealism. She curated the landmark London exhibition Dada and Surrealism In 1978 and the Art in Latin America show in 1989 and was an advisor to the recent major exhibition Surrealism beyond Borders which was shown in New York (2021) and London (2022). In this conversation she begins by providing an outline of surrealism as a set of ideas and we then discuss its development in Latin America through the travels of André Breton and the Pe...
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  Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos: The judicialization of politics 09.06.2026 39m

  Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos is Professor of Comparative & Judicial Politics and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He first came to prominence with his book entitled The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America: Power, Norms and Capability Building (2020) in which he showed how judges in Mexico, Peru Chile and Argentina came to be influenced both by civil society expertise in the field of human rights and also by international human rights law. The book won prizes from the American Poli...
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  Mara Viveros Vigoya: Raza y género en la vorágine colombiana 18.05.2026 40m

  Welcome to The Latinoamericanist, the podcast from the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. I am David Lehmann, and today we have the honour and pleasure of welcoming Mara Viveros Vigoya, a distinguished figure in Colombian public life, writer, professor, and pioneer in the study of gender, race, and the relationship between the two. Mara has served as President of LASA, the Latin American Studies Association based in the United States, which today brings together ...