🔎What is the state of Argentina’s democracy today? Amid political tension, economic volatility, and social pressures, our panel will unpack what this anniversary means.
Speakers:
✨ Claudia Bacci (University of Buenos Aires)
✨ Jordana Blejmar (University of Liverpool)
✨ Francesca Lessa (UCL)
New blog post: "Explaining Human Rights Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Exercise in Thoughtful Wishing – Part II" by Par Engstrom, written on a pale sage background with a photo of Par.
BLOG POST:
In this post, the second of two, Par Engstrom, Associate Professor of Human Rights, continues his reflection on human rights trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of his work advising the European Parliament.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
We were excited to sign this Memorandum of Understanding with Universidad Católica de Santa María (UCSM) earlier this week.
Many thanks to all those involved in putting this together and looking forward to the resulting collaborations.
✨Join us for a talk that explores how a Caribbean insurgency not only revealed the vulnerability of Britain’s imperial system when confronted by revolutionary ideology but also comprised an unprecedented and disorientating situation for those sent to repress it.
🚨 Only a few tickets left! Book now before they’re gone! 🎟️
New blog post: "Explaining Human Rights Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Exercise in Thoughtful Wishing – Part I" by Par Engstrom, written on a pale sage background with a photo of Par.
BLOG POST
In this post, the first of two, Par Engstrom, Associate Professor of Human Rights, reflects on human rights trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of his work advising the European Parliament.
Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
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Might be of interest to @raioxford.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @historians.org
Discover how two major events reshaped corporate life in Peru in completely different ways:
🔍 The Lava Jato (“Car Wash”) scandal, and
📘 The launch of voluntary governance codes.
What happens when crisis meets reform?
🗓️18 Mar 2026 13.00
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
👇Only a handful of tickets left!
New blog post: "Megaprojects and State Transformation in Mexico: Understanding the 4T through the Lens of Regional Inequality" by Jack Phillips, written on a pale sage background with an image of Mexico's natural resources infrastructure.
BLOG POST: Megaprojects and State Transformation in Mexico: Understanding the 4T through the Lens of Regional Inequality
Jack Phillips, former MSc International Development in the Americas student, provides an account of his dissertation
Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
🔥More tickets just released – book now! 👇
🇨🇺 On Wednesday’s #F24Spotlight, @uclamericas.bsky.social's
Emily Morris highlights how #Cuba’s fuel crisis threatens the US
📣Call for Abstracts: Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge Workshop
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Want to know more about sugar cane plantations, dominoes, bodegas, electricity blackouts, salsa, reggaeton, and the history and politics of América and its peoples, from Chile to Canadá? Apply to our MA in Latin American Studies: History, Politics & Society
#BadBunny
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Film poster for Ensayos y errores. Black and white illustration of three people in smart casual dress.
EVENT: Gonzalo Maza, Chilean screenwriter & director, will present Ensayos y Errores, the 1st feature film by Chilean director Ignacio Rojas Vallejo
📅18/2 17.30
📍51 Gordon Sq
Organised by LARC: Latin American Research Community of PhDs
Register: forms.gle/QiJVJQ4dSHeb...
📢 Call for abstracts
We’re happy to be organising this one-day workshop on sex, reproduction, and the politics of knowledge at @uclamericas.bsky.social on May 26, 2026.
We invite 200-word abstract submissions by March 6.
🔗 Full details here: tinyurl.com/366fxscx
New blog post: "Bolivia’s ‘Capitalism for All’ Project Sparks Backlash for Selling-out on Natural Resources" by Enrique Castañón Ballivián, written on a pale sage background with a headshot of Enrique.
BLOG POST: In this post, first published in @uk.theconversation.com, Enrique Castañón Ballivián, Lecturer in International Development, discusses the natural resources policies of the newly elected administration of Rodrigo Paz Pereira in Bolivia.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
50 Years from the Coup d'État in Argentina, 1976-2026
This roundtable brings together academics from different disciplines to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the most recent civic-military takeover in Argentina.
📅 11 March 2026
🕐 13.00
HYBRID EVENT
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Two students in a lecture. Text at the bottom reading "Postgraduate Open Event. Social and Historical Sciences. Sat 21 Feb 2026, 11:00-13:00
Fascinated by the history & politics of the Americas?
Whether you'd like to focus on
- International Relations
- International Development
- Latin America
- the US
Our Postgrad Open Day is your chance to explore our courses.
📍 In person
📅 21 Feb
Book now: app.geckoform.com/events-embed...
We're hiring! Lecturer in International Relations of the Americas. Permanent position, UCL Grade 8. Deadline: 1 March. Photo of 51 Gordon Square town house, home of the Institute of the Americas. UCL logo.
JOIN US: Lecturer in International Relations of the Americas
Deadline: 1 March 2026
View the full job description and person specification and APPLY NOW:
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Campaigning and Counter - Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago - The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean.
📅04 Mar
⌚17:30
💻Online
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🎙️David Lambert, Professor of Caribbean History and former Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick.
Join us for a fascinating talk on The Black Press in the Jim Crow Courtroom - Photography and Racial Injustice in 1930s African American Newspapers
📅04 Mar 2026
⌚13:00
📍51 Gordon Square
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🎤 Dr Barnaby Haran , University of Hull
Chaired by Dr Kimberly Schreiber, UCL
New blog post: "Peasants, Bureaucrats, Archivists? The Living Archive of the Rondas Campesinas of Chota, Cajamarca" by Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, written on a pale sage background with a headshot of Sandra.
PhD Student, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, discusses a project of archival recovery in northern Peru
Read the blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
#Peru #archives #research #phd #PhDLife #fieldwork
🌎Is This Latin America’s Century?
Inaugurating our new seminar series, “The Americas in the News,” Michael Stott, Latin America editor of the FT, will reflect on the region where he has spent the last seven years.
🗓️26 Feb 2026
⏲️17:30
📍UCL Bentham House
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
📚Join us for the book launch of a major new contribution to authoritarian politics, unveiling fresh evidence on how factional dynamics shape legislative power across dictatorships
✍️Author: Emilia Simison
🗓️25 Feb 2026
⏲️13:00 – 14:30
📍51 Gordon Square
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
New blog post: "Cuba’s Past, Present, and Many Possible Futures" by William A. Booth, written on a pale sage background with a headshot of William (Bill).
BLOG POST: Cuba’s Past, Present, and Many Possible Futures
William A. Booth, Lecturer in Latin American Studies @UCLAmericas, reflects on Cuba after attending a conference marking the 60th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
#Cuba #Venezuela
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
📌SLAS-Eccles Institute Conference Access Award📌
Up to four awards of £500 for SLAS members who lack institutional or personal sources of income to attend the SLAS Annual Conference.
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The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s
29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm
We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.
📅12 Feb, 1-2pm
📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN
Dr Rosamund Greiner joins this session to discuss:
"Environmental exposure, disability, and reproductive justice."
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🌎 Coloniality in Kiskeya: organising on the Haitian-Dominican border
📅 11 Feb 2026
⏲️ 17.30 - 19.00
💻 Online
🎙️Aïda Roumer
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Power distribution in the borderlands between Dajabón and Wanament.
