Events
Would you like to organise an event with us? We are excited to collaborate on events, take part in upcoming activities and grow our network of researchers across the University. Get in touch at excelas@exeter.ac.uk.
Seminar series
Our regular seminar series combines a variety of activities, including:
- Research presentations from international and UK-based visiting scholars, artists, film-makers and NGOs
- Research-in-progress from Exeter staff and students
- Film screenings
We regularly co-host seminars with other research centres, such as the Centre for Translating Cultures, the Centre for Imperial and Global History, and the Centre for the Archaeology of the Americas.
Summer Seminar: Ancient Complex Agroecosystems and Their Legacies
Thursday 31 July 2025, 1:30pm-2:30pm
Join us for the EXCELAS-CAA Summer Seminar 2025 on Ancient complex agroecosystems and their legacies, comparing perspectives from Iberia and South America. Our invited speakers are Professor Margarita Fernández Mier (Medieval History at the University of Oviedo, Spain) and Professor Alejandra Korstanje (Archaeology at the University of Tucuman, Argentina).
This informal hybrid seminar will be held in Spanish and English. If you wish to join in person, the room is Laver LT3 or on Teams, please follow this link here. It is open to all, so please share this information with interested students and colleagues.
EXCELAS welcomes Women In Spanish and Portuguese Studies (WISPS) Annual Conference
Friday 31st October and Saturday 1st November 2025
See the original call for papers here. Hosted Prof Katie Brown, Dr Loreto Romero and Dr Natália Pinazza.
Short Stories Reading Group
Join our contemporary Latin American short stories reading group. We meet every other week to discuss two short stories. This is open to everyone both in and outside of the University.
We run through term times and will be starting again in September. Send an email to excelas@exeter.ac.uk for more information.
Workshops and Conferences
Here is a sample of recent workshops and conferences organised by EXCELAS members:
EXCELAS Workshop
Friday 16 May 2025, the workshop was an opportunity for EXCELAS members to present current research activities and interests followed by a discussion of potential for research collaboration. The Workshop was also attended by Miguel Ángel Najera Mora, Associate Dean for Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.
Maintaining and Strengthening Maya Cosmovision and Cosmoperception
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 with guest speaker Prof Mónica Good (University of British Columbia, Okanagan). This presentation explored the significance of Maya cosmovision and cosmoperception - the ways in which Yucatec Maya people understand and situate themselves in the world. To find out more about the event, click here.
Past seminars - Archive
| 11 Nov 2020 |
Dr Anna Brinkman-Schwartz (King’s College London): Balancing Power: International Law, Strategic Thinking, and Anglo-Spanish Maritime Conflicts in the Seven Years' War Co-organised with the Centre of Maritime Historical Studies, Exeter |
| 21 Oct 2020 |
Manny Medrano (St Andrews): Andean History in Knotted Cords: Khipu Decipherment from the Past to the Future |
| 7 Oct 2020 |
Dr Miguel Hernández (Exeter): "Low Type Peons, Catholics and Communists": Mexican Immigration and American Nativists' Attempts to Fortify the U.S. Border in the 1920s |
| 18 Feb 2020 |
Professor Bruno Gomide (University of São Paulo): Translating Russian literature in Brazil Funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020) through the RusTrans project |
| 6 Feb 2020 |
Dr Juan Carlos Berrio (University of Leicester): Late Pleistocene Landscapes of Colombia |
| 5 Feb 2020 | Screening of Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica and Q+A with director Jorge Bodanzky (Brazil), presented by Dr Natália Pinazza |
| 11 Dec 2019 | Dr Susan Conlon (University of Bristol): Negotiating Water in Colombia - Multi-level legal reforms and páramo water communities |
| 6 Nov 2019 | Dr Amelia Casas Pardo (Colombian Psychoanalytic Society): Psychology and Conflict in Peru and Colombia |
| 9 Oct 2019 | Dr Noelia Meza (Mexico/Visting Fellow, University of Leeds): Visualising Latin American Discourses from a Digital Rhetoric Perspective |
| 16 May 2019 |
Dr César Parcero Oubiña (INCIPIT, CSIC): Landscape Archaeology and Geospatial Technology |
| 20 Mar 2019 |
Adrián Oyaneder Rodríguez (Exeter): 'Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes’: Challenging aridity in the Atacama Desert |
| 13 Mar 2019 | Dr Joanna Page (University of Cambridge): Decolonizing Knowledge in Contemporary Chilean and Latin American Cinema |
| 6 Mar 2019 |
Professor Matthew Restall (Penn State): Uncovering the Shocking Truths at the Heart of the Spanish-Aztec Encounter |
| 27 Feb 2019 | Dr Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Universidade Federal Fluminense): Indian Women in the Conquest of South America: São Paulo and Asunción during the sixteenth century |
| 20 Feb 2019 |
Francesco Orlandi (Exeter): Modernity and Contemporaneity of Indigenous Rights: Reading Las Casas, Walking the Field |
| 13 Feb 2019 | Dr Natália Pinazza (Exeter): Colonialism in Latin American Road Movies |
| 16 Jan 2019 |
Dr Silvia Espelt-Bombín (Exeter): Deconstructing a European Frontier: Indigenous-European interactions between Brazil and French Guiana (17th-18th centuries) |
| 13 Dec 2018 |
Dr Ximena Senatore (CONICET, Argentina): Exploring Capitalism. Historical Archaeology and Heritage of the Modern Expansion into Antarctica |
| 5 Dec 2018 | Dr Katie Brown (Exeter): Venezuelan Literature and the Bolivarian Revolution |
| 27 Nov 2018 |
Professors Inés Quintero and Rogelio Altez (Universidad Central de Venezuela): ”Deconstruir” los mitos de la independencia suramericana |
| 21 Nov 2018 |
Dr Michael Goebel (Graduate Institute Geneva): Patchwork Cities: Urban Ethnic Segregation in the Global |
| 14 Nov 2018 | Professor Joe Foweraker (Exeter): Polity. Demystifying Democracy in Latin America |
| 7 Nov 2018 |
Dr Paul Merchant (University of Bristol) Presentation and screening of Tierra sola |
| 24 Oct 2018 | Dr Mark Harris (University of St Andrews): The Birth of Brazilian Amazonian Societies |
| 7 June 2018 | Dr Antoine Acker (Universität Zürich): Volkswagen in the Amazon |
| 6 June 2018 | Screening of A Fantastic Woman and Q&A with co-writer and co-producer Gonzalo Maza (Exeter), in discussion with Prof Sally Faulkner |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Dr Sabine Hyland (University of St Andrews): Writing with Twisted Cords: Two Newly Discovered Khipu Epistles |
| 22 Feb 2018 | Dr Raquel Ribeiro (University of Edinburgh): El lado de acá de la locura, or How the Novismos "Vietnamised" the Angolan War |
| 1 Feb 2018 | Prof Catherine Boyle (King's College London): Theatre, Translation and the Presence of Urgency. Seeing the Future from the Past |
| 8 Dec 2017 |
Prof Michael Chanan (University of Portsmouth): Memory and Politics in Argentina and Chile, and screening of Memoria Interrumpida (2013), directed by Michael Chanan |
