The Latinoamericanist
Conversations across languages, cultures and borders. Hosted by David Lehmann from the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge.
Episodes
Leonardo Avritzer: Understanding the Brazilian election – Second-round update
Following the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, Leonardo Avritzer returns to discuss the results and the political context ahead of the second round.This short update was recorded on 12 October 2026 and is intended to be heard alongside the main conversation, recorded on 1 and 8 September 2026.Listen to the main conversation and find further information and bibliography on the CLAS we
Leonardo Avritzer: Understanding the Brazilian election
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 Brazi
Jean Khalfa: Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and revolutionary
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
Dawn Ades: Surrealism in Latin America
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 an
Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos: The judicialization of politics
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 hu
Mara Viveros Vigoya: Raza y género en la vorágine colombiana
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,
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