I am delighted to be presenting at the 69th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). This will be my second time presenting at a CIES conference, and I also hope it will mark the third and final year of my PhD. This year, the conference will take place in Chicago, and the theme is Envisioning Education in a Digital Society.

Once again, we have organised a panel: Continuities & Disruptions: Exploring Historical Traces and Contemporary Legacies in Latin American Education. I will present my current PhD research, aligning with this year’s conference theme, in a paper titled Historical Debts and Digital Inequalities: The Experiences of First-Generation Women in Public Higher Education in Brazil and England in the Twenty-First Century.

📅 When: 22nd–26th March 2025 (panel date TBC)
📍 Where: The Palmer House Hotel, Chicago
🔗 Register: https://conference.cies.us

📣 Join us for our final CLAREC Cinema Session + Conversation of Lent 2025!

This time, we will screen Ken Loach’s iconic Kes (1969), with an introductory talk by Grace Batley, PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. As always, after the screening, we will engage in a discussion based on the themes that emerge from the film.

Kes (Dir. Ken Loach, 1969)

🍿 When: Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 11:00 AM–2:00 PM

📍 Where: Faculty of Education, Room GS1

CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations create a space for transnational and multilingual discussions inspired by film, where we alternate between British and Latin American films 📽️.

CLAREC is the Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective. We foster student-led initiatives at the Faculty of Education, focusing on themes relevant to Latin America and beyond.

📣 Anna Maria Del Fiorentino presents "A Degree with a Cost: Women's Sense of Belonging in Public Higher Education in Brazil and England" as part of the second panel, "Beatriz Nascimento in Atlantic Conversations," at the Abdias Nascimento Conference: Anti-Racist Education from a Transnational Perspective.

📅 When: 17–18 February 2025
📍 Where: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Registration and details:

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Abstract:

A Degree with a Cost: Women's Sense of Belonging in Public Higher Education in Brazil and England
Record numbers of students from under-represented backgrounds have gained access to public higher education in the twenty-first century, among them women who are the first in their families to pursue a degree. But at what cost? This study explores women's experiences in diasporic spaces at university from a transnational and intergenerational perspective, based on the lived experiences of first-generation university students and their mothers, comparing the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil and the University of Cambridge in England.

📣 Join CLAREC in our first off-campus cinema session at The Light Cinema, Cambridge, featuring 'I’m Still Here' ('Ainda Estou Aqui'), a Brazilian film nominated for the 2025 Oscars, with actress Fernanda Torres, also Oscar nominated for this role.

Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here) (with English subtitles)

🍿 When: 10 February 2025, 7:30 PM

📍 Where: The Light Cinema, Cambridge

CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations is a space where we encourage transnational and multi-language conversations brought together by films 📽️.

CLAREC is THE Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective. We foster student-led initiatives at the Faculty of Education on themes relevant to Latin America and beyond.

📣 Join us for the second CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations of the year!

In the morning, the CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations will present the Brazilian classic They Don’t Wear Black Tie (Eles Não Usam Black Tie) at the Faculty of Education. Brazilian postgraduate visiting scholars Larissa de Oliveira Farias (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ) and Nara Paixão Sacramento (State University of Bahia - UNEB) will introduce the film with a talk.

Eles Não Usam Black Tie (They Don’t Wear Black Tie) (with English subtitles)

🍿 When: 10 February 2025, 11:00 AM–2:00 PM

📍 Where: Faculty of Education, Room GS5

CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations is a space where we encourage transnational and multi-language conversations brought together by films 📽️.

CLAREC is THE Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective. We foster student-led initiatives at the Faculty of Education on themes relevant to Latin America and beyond.

📣 Join us for our first CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations of 2025!

A screening of Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 (2022), convened by PhD candidate Anna Maria Del Fiorentino.

Anna will introduce this inspiring documentary, which follows Jay Blades’ journey as he confronts undiagnosed dyslexia and learns to read at the age of 51. Having left school in London unable to read or write, Blades’ emotional story sheds light on the challenges and triumphs of adult literacy.

Following the screening, join us for a reflective conversation exploring the film’s themes.

🍿 When: 27th January 2025, 11am
📍 Where: Faculty of Education, Room GS5, University of Cambridge

CLAREC (Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective) brings together research and dialogue on Latin American educational themes.

📣 Join us for transnational conversations, convened by PhD candidate Anna Maria Del Fiorentino, at our final CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations of the year, featuring a screening of The Territory (2022), a powerful film about the Amazon’s Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people and their fight against deforestation by farmers and illegal settlers.

🌱 Carina Oliveira Silva, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the first Brazilian Indigenous visiting scholar at the Faculty of Education, will be our special guest to introduce the film.

Following the screening, we’ll engage in discussions featuring a very special guest, if all goes well, Neidinha Bandeira, who will join us online from Brazil. Neidinha is featured in the film and is an environmental and human rights activist, as well as the leader and co-founder of the nonprofit Kandidé Ethno-Environmental Defense Association.

🍿 When: Monday, 9th December 2024, 10am–1:30pm

📍 Where: Faculty of Education, Room GS5, University of Cambridge

CLAREC (Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective) brings together research and dialogue on Latin American educational themes.

Join us for a conversation with Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the UK, at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Brazilian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Antonio Patriota, will be visiting Cambridge. The Cambridge University Brazilian Society (CUBS) @cubsbrazil , with support from the Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective (CLAREC) @clareccam , is organising a conversation for the Brazilian community and interested attendees to explore the intersection of diplomacy, education, and the role of Brazil-UK relations in shaping global perspectives. This event offers the Cambridge academic community a unique opportunity to engage directly with the Ambassador on topics relevant to current global affairs and education.

👉 Register on Eventbrite to join in person or online, and feel free to share with friends!
https://CUBSconversation.eventbrite.co.uk - see link bio @cubsbrazil

Moderation: Larissa de Freitas Lyth, Anna Maria Zühlke O’Connor Del Fiorentino and Dr. Haira Gandolfi

Registration is required for both in-person attendance and to receive the link for the online broadcast. Please note that photographic ID will be required upon arrival for in-person participants. University of Cambridge staff or students may present their University card. Only registered participants will be admitted. If you have any specific requirements to attend the event or need further information, please feel free to reach out to us at cubs@cubsbrazil.org. We’re happy to assist with any questions or accommodations you may need.

Following this event, we invite you to attend a lecture by Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics. The lecture will be held on Monday, November 18, from 5 to 7 pm GMT in the Lubbock Room, Peterhouse, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RD, United Kingdom. Please note that a separate reservation is required, as seating is limited; link available on Eventbrite.

📅 Date: Monday, November 18, 2024
Time: 3 PM (GMT)
📍 Location: GS4 - Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
184 Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, United Kingdom

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📣 Join us for our second CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations, convened by PhD candidate Anna Maria Del Fiorentino.

This session features a screening of the Brazilian film AmarElo – It’s All for Yesterday (2020), with English subtitles. Directed by rapper and activist Emicida, the film celebrates the rich and vibrant legacy of Black Brazilian culture.

💛 Postgraduate visiting student Lucas Tavares from UFRJ will introduce the film. Following the screening, we will engage in conversations and reflections on its powerful themes.

🍿 When: 4th November 2024, 11am
📍 Where: Faculty of Education, Room GS5, University of Cambridge

CLAREC (Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective) brings together research and dialogue on Latin American educational themes.

📣 Join us for our very first CLAREC Cinema Sessions + Conversations, convened by PhD candidate Anna Maria Del Fiorentino, who will introduce the screening.

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You (2019) explores how the gig economy shapes the lives of a family in the North of England. The unemployed father dreams of becoming an entrepreneur as a van delivery driver, while his wife works as a care worker on a zero-hour contract.

Following the screening, we will engage in meaningful conversations about the film, precarity, and racial debates in the UK, inspired by the themes presented.

🍿 When: 14th October 2024, 10am
📍 Where: Faculty of Education, Room GS5, University of Cambridge

CLAREC (Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective) brings together research and dialogue on Latin American educational themes.

Cambridge Great Expectations - Women's International Day 2024.

What: Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) | 68th Annual Conference

Where: Miami Hyatt Regency Hotel, Miami (in-person only)

When: Tue, March 12, 4:45 to 6:15pm

Panel: Making visible the unseen: Interrogating Education in Latin America through Feminist and Intersectional Lenses

Presenters:

• Beyond productive labor and value production: feminist angles for examining teachers’ work and accountability policies - Rocío Fernández Ugalde (Cambridge University/Clarec)
• Localising and historicising privatization: Understanding education privatization's links to enclosure, othering and urban spaces - Maria Fernanda Rodríguez (Cambridge University/Clarec)
• Mothers and Daughters: (Un)Belonging of First-Generation Women at Elite Universities in Brazil and England in the Twenty-First Century - Anna Maria Del Fiorentino (Cambridge University/Clarec)
• Civic-military schools in Brazil as patriarchal, white supremacist, and queerphobic project - Dr Bruna Dalmaso-Junqueira & Dr Iana Gomes de Lima (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

Discussant: Professor Dalila Andrade Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

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Presenting our panel at CIES Miami 2024.

Very honoured to be invited to speak with Candida Costa from @comscienciaconecta about my academic research and book in her Instagram series on female overburden.

Our talk, titled 'Care Economy: Making the Invisible Visible' ('Economia do Cuidado: Tornando Visível o Invisível' in Portuguese), will explore the invisible paid and unpaid care work. The conversation will be in Portuguese.

📅 When: Friday, 16th June 2023, 11:00 am Brazil Time
📍 Where: Instagram @comscienciaconecta

The seminar ‘The role of education in the fake news era’ will promote debate on the phenomenon of fake news, which has become a global threat to democracy. We seek to understand what role does (or can) education play in times marked by the advance of misinformation and a social and political context with the rise of populist movements, global polarisation and technological advances increasing the potential for rapid dissemination of fake news.

The seminar will be chaired by Haira Gandolfi (Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge), with guest speakers Susan Robertson (Head of the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge), Márcia Tiburi (Philosopher and Lecturer, University Paris 8), Jean Wyllys (Journalist and scholar, University of Barcelona and Harvard) and Victor Fraga (journalist and filmmaker). By promoting the premiere of the documentary ‘The Coup d’État Factory’ before the seminar, we hope to enrich the debate with the presentation and contextualisation of a relevant case.

Convenors

• Alexandre da Trindade (University of Cambridge)
• Anna Maria Del Fiorentino (University of Cambridge)

Speakers

• Haira Gandolfi (University of Cambridge)
• Victor Fraga (writer and filmmaker, DMovies)
• Susan Robertson (University of Cambridge)
• Márcia Tiburi (University Paris 8)
• Jean Wyllys (University of Barcelona)

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To mark International Women’s Day, CLAREC (Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective) presents, as part of the CLAREC Whereabouts Seminar Series: Anna Maria Del Fiorentino’s research, Mothers and Daughters: Intertwined Memories, Healing Trauma, and the Rupture with Paid Domestic Work in Brazil.

Based on her MPhil dissertation in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge, this talk will take place in person at the Faculty of Education and will also be available online via Zoom.

📅 When: Monday, 7th March 2022, 2:00 pm UK Time
📍 Where: Auditorium, Homerton College, University of Cambridge