Have you signed up for our Q&A session taking place on 22 April?

If you're interested in studying with us, join the online Q&A to meet our staff & students 💬

In the meantime, learn more about student experiences with us: buff.ly/3xb9ulf

#UCLOpenDays

The Information Session for our History & Politics of the Americas BA programme is now live ✨🎓

Join us for a live Q&A on 22 April to learn more about our programme from staff & students

Register & watch the pre-session video here: buff.ly/3xjQNfd

#UCLOpenDays

EVENT: Join us on 7 May for the first annual Graham Woodgate Lecture on Interdisciplinarity.

This event is hosted by UCL Arts & Sciences BASc in collaboration with Institute of the Americas.

📅7 May, 3.30-5pm
📍UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Register to attend👇

Read the latest article by Francesca Lessa (she/her/ella) 'No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America,' co-authored with Lorena Balardini, published in International Studies Quarterly

academic.oup.com/isq/article/68… 👏

Yesterday was the 94th anniversary of José Carlos Mariátegui’s death. Today, Journal of Latin American Studies publishes my article ‘Global Mariátegui’. A small contribution on, and to, attempts to reassess the affordances of his intellectual and political work. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to Francesca Lessa (she/her/ella) on further praise for latest book!
Head to our website to read about the most recent award for the Spanish translation of The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America ucl.ac.uk/americas/news/…

Penguin Uruguay

Calling all undergraduate offer holders! There are two chances this week to join a Q&A with current students. Register to book your place!

EVENT✨In the 2nd event in the series linked to the 2024 US election, join a panel of speakers, including our own Prof Jonathan Bell, to unpack issues from sexual orientation & gender identity, to gender equality & LGBTQ+ rights
📅23 April, 6pm
Tickets: ucl.ac.uk/social-histori…

✨Delighted to present #TheCondorTrials at UCL Americas this evening with Paulo Drinot and Nestor Castañeda, and many other colleagues 🙂
Such a great turnout and to top it off amazing alfajores from Argentalia London to celebrate 🎉🥂

Many congratulations to Neil Kinghan, winner of South Carolina Historical Society's George C. Rogers prize for his superb biography, based on his UCL PhD, A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina (Louisiana State UP, 2023).

Looking forward to the lecture this Thursday by Professor Cupples! There are still a few places available.
Joa AP Sophie Brockmann Nestor Castañeda Enrique Castañón Ballivián Mercedes Crisóstomo Francesca Lessa (she/her/ella) Paulo Drinot André Jockyman Roithmann Par Engstrom Nicolás Prados Kate Saunders-Hastings

Details on how to register below.👇

EVENT✨Feeling stressed about upcoming exams? Not sure how best to manage your time? Looking for something fun to do during a break? Your SHS Student Advisers have the event for you!
🧁Cakes/Mindfulness/Arts&crafts
💡Revision tips & tricks
Sign up here ➡️ outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/S…

EVENT✨Join us for the UCL Institute of the Americas International Development Lecture 2024 by Julie Cupples 'Transmedia Geographies of Central America'
🗓️14 March 2024
⏲️5.30pm to 7.00pm
📌Darwin Building, Gower Street
Register here➡️ucl.ac.uk/americas/event…

EVENT✨Join Professor Maxine Molyneux✨ discussing the representation and roles of women, among other gender dynamics, in Latin American politics. canninghouse.org/events/women-p…
🗓️7 March 2024
⏲️15.00 - 16.15
📌Online - Zoom

A chance to hear Francesca Lessa (she/her/ella) talk about her ground-breaking book on Plan Condor

Using archives from several countries, she showed how South American military dictatorships worked together to track down opponents

📢 Less than a week to go until our panel event. We're sold out in person but online tickets are still available.

UCL Institute of Archaeology
UCL Americas
UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy

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EVENT✨Dr Francesca Lessa will be presenting her award-winning book The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America in conversation with Paulo Drinot chaired by Nestor Castañeda
🗓️20 March
⏲️16.30
📌51 Gordon Sq
Register here ➡️ucl.ac.uk/americas/event…

Join us on Wednesday 6 March where Thomas and other experts from UCL Social & Historical Sciences will be delving into the pressing issues of this historic election year.

Book now: bit.ly/3I31R2l

UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy
UCL Institute of Archaeology
UCL Americas
UCL Centre on US Politics (CUSP)
Thomas Gift
Nadia Hilliard

Join our own Dr Nick Witham & Nadia Hilliard (among others) to explore the dynamics of power, reflect on historical democratic structures and address why the integrity of American democracy isn't fundamentally 'at stake' in the 2024 US election.
📅6 March, 6-7pm
Tickets👇

See yourself as one of our postgraduate students? Register for our graduate open days to find out more!

MA Latin American Studies - Thurs 15/2 10-11am & 4-5pm

MSc International Relations & MSc International Development - Fri 16/2 10-11am & 4-5pm
ucl.ac.uk/americas/study…