Join us for a book launch event to mark the publication of Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law in Latin America (Routledge/CAF), by Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead! 📅 Date: Tuesday, March 25th 🕓 Time: 5pm 📍 Location: Latin American Centre

Qué emoción recibir este gesto del Pdte. Lagos y de Luisa. Su liderazgo me ha inspirado desde siempre. Desde los 80 luchamos por la democracia, y hoy seguimos caminando con los mismos principios. Gracias por el ejemplo, el apoyo y por inspirarnos a creer en Chile.

📢Job! We're looking for a fixed-term Teaching Associate in Political Theory/History of Political Thought, deadline 6 May💥 Do share and apply!🎉 Feel free to PM me with any questions👍🏻 jobs.ac.uk/job/DMU375/tea…

If you require a visa to study in the UK, the deadline for applications for the MA in Latin American Studies: History, Politics and Society at UCL is 27 June 2025. If you have any questions about the programme, please get in touch. ucl.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Upcoming IHR Latin American history seminar with Gema Kloppe-Santamaría on Thursday June 12 UCL Americas 📢Please retweet📢

L'historien et éditeur Pierre Nora, membre de l'Académie française, est mort lundi à l'âge de 93 ans, a annoncé sa famille à l'AFP.

Call For Papers: Special Issue on War and the State in Latin America 📢 please retweet 📢

Estamos de regreso. Start the 2025–2026 academic year with the Latin American Research Community and a keynote by Professor Paulo Drinot at UCL Americas. More details in the link below. Nos vemos pronto. x.com/UCLAmericas/st…

Exciting programme this term at the IHR Latin American History seminar. Papers by Andrés Bustamante (Oxford), Mariana Labarca (Universidad de Santiago de Chile), Andre Jockyman Roithmann (QMUL), Jerónimo Rilla (UCL) and Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos (UNAM). history.ac.uk/news-events/se…

📢 We are now welcoming applications for the UCL Institute of the Americas PhD Programme, starting September 2026!🎓Join an inspiring community specialising in the study of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. 🔗ucl.ac.uk/social-histori…

Excellent program this term at the IHR Latin American history seminar, ft. archaeologists, healers, murderers, republicans, personifiers, and cartographers. 📢please retweet📢 history.ac.uk/news-events/se…

¡Tenemos carátula!

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría UCL Americas this Wednesday, 29 October.

We had an incredible and generative conversation on researching about violence and on how to "build an archive" when writing on extra-legal forms of violence at UCL Americas Thank you Benjamín Concha, Luis Orlando Perez, Yasmin Getirana, and everyone for the invitation!

Tomorrow at 5:30pm Institute of Historical Research!👇🏻 history.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

My colleague Kevin Middlebrook, a distinguished political scientist, passed away a couple of years ago. Together with Par Engstrom, I organised a festschrift to bring together his close collaborators and students to remember him and honour his work. link.springer.com/book/978303213…

Josefina Vidal Miranda’s work explores women-led textile traditions in southern Chile, while Gina Robinson’s work focuses on women’s leadership in Afro-Brazilian capoeira, using embodied practice to reflect on how resistance, voice & storytelling are negotiated through movement.

Launching our new blog! You’ll find contributions from our staff, students, alumni, and visiting scholars, exploring a wide range of topics that deepen understanding of the Western Hemisphere. Read, reflect, and share our posts within your networks! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blog/