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AUGM and Coimbra Group collaboratively organised the "Smart and Inclusive Cities" summer school at the University of Edinburgh, which took place from the 1st to the 8th of July.

Around 60 people gathered for the launch of Bobby Sands desfallece en el muro by Carmen Berenguer in its third cartonera edition by La Joyita Cartonera at Café Literario Parque Bustamante in Santiago de Chile.

We welcome panel and abstract submissions for papers engaging with questions of decolonization/decoloniality. We welcome scholars working in and on any geographical region, but we are particularly interested in work on the Americas and Africa and dialogues between them.

The 3rd Cultural Colloquium of the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies (CCLAS) at the University of Edinburgh is now open for proposals by postgraduate students wishing to present papers on some aspect of cultural production (music, art, film, literature, architecture, photography and other cultural manifestations) in Latin America.

The inaugural ESFF will take place from the 8th to the 12th of October 2014 at Filmhouse and the University of Edinburgh.

The University of Edinburgh has become the first European member of the US Consortium of Latin American Studies Programmes.

Dr Charlotte Gleghorn (School of LLC) successfully secured funding from the Institute of Latin American Studies in London to organise a seminar series on creativity in contemporary Latin American culture.

Spanish and Latin American Film Screenings in the Cinema Room at 50 George Square.

In July 2014, the Principal and Dalinda Perez Alvarez, Director of the Office of the Americas visited Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil.

The Latin American Society and the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies of the University of Edinburgh are pleased to announce the First Latin American Cultural Week, starting Monday 5th of May.