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Sydney University Research Community for Latin America
Advancing knowledge of Latin America in Australia
We are an academic research network encouraging ideas, debate and research strategies. Our members come from history, sociology, anthropology, political sciences, gender studies, media and cultural and literary studies.
About us
We provide a dynamic forum for scholarly communication and interaction with the common goal of advancing knowledge of Latin America in Australia.
We promote interdisciplinary research and teaching on Latin America. While we are based at the University of Sydney, we foster academic and cultural links with other Australian institutions as well as bringing students and scholars from different Latin American countries to the University.
We are the nation's leader in Latin American Studies research*, and aim to establish links with professional and community-based organisations and institutions as a way of increasing the visibility of the University of Sydney's significant expertise in Latin American Studies.
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Our events
We offer a series of research seminars and cultural events and invite staff, students and colleagues from other universities and the general public to attend.
Where Are We Heading?’ The state and future of Iberian and Latin American research in Australia and New Zealand
When: Wednesday 26 April 2023, 5pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
The Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA), together with the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS) and the Sydney University Research Community Latin America (SURCLA) presents an online symposium to showcase and promote current HDR and ECR research projects that are driving the future of Iberian and Latin American research in Australia and New Zealand.
Past events
- Friday 3 December, 10am | SURCLA and AILASA Seminar: Witral Memory, Collectivism and Representation of the Mapuche with renowned poet Daniela Catrileo
- Saturday 25 September, 9am | SURCLA and AILASA Roundtable: Reflections on Decolonial Feminisms
- Tuesday 25 May, 5pm | SURCLA and AILASA HDR and ECR Research Symposium
- Tuesday 27 April, 6pm | #TrueDreamersEvent2021 for international students
- 5 Nov–3 Dec, 9–10.30am | The Public Health Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America Webinar Series (ANU)
- 10 March 2020, 5pm | The challenges of self-translation and bilingual writing
- 2 Oct, 5pm | The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon
- 24 Sept, 5.30pm | Feminist Activism in Mexican hip-hop culture: Mare Advertencia Lirika and Batallones Femeninos
- 28 August, 6pm | Poetry night with Cristian Aliaga
- 22 August, 5.30pm | Carlos Gamerro: Indians, Estancieros and Missionaries in Tierra del Fuego, 1884-1922
- 30 June, 5.30pm | Book Launch: Mapping South-South Connections (2019)
- 4 June, 5pm | Spanish Bureaucratic Silencing of the Disappeared in Clandestine Graves
- 21 May, 5pm | ‘Dead of a Lesser God’: Victims’ Voice and Representation in the Colombian Press
- 7 May, 5pm | Evita: The Documentary (2012) with discussion by Dr Peter Ross
*The Australian Research special report 2019–2020
