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Podcast archive of selected events (lectures, seminars, discussion panels, etc.), organised by UCL Institute of the Americas up until June 2021.
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Whiteness in Latin America
Dr Ericka Denise Edwards (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Dr Ignacio Aguiló (University of Manchester) and Dr Lamonte Aidoo (Duke University)
October 6, 2021
Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica
Dr Luke de Noronha (UCL Sara Parker Remond Centre)
October 20, 2021
The Politics of Social Protection during Times of Crisis: COVID-19 & Cash Transfers in Latin America
Professor Merike Blofield (GIGA, Hamburg)
October 21, 2021
The First Hybrid Regime: The Mexican political system during the Cold War
Professor Paul Gillingham (Northwestern University)
October 28, 2021
Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites
Professor Nadia E. Brown (Georgetown University)
November 8, 2021
Barbados’s transition to Republic status in regional perspective
Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles (UWI, Cavehill), H.E. Ambassador David Comissiong, Dr Derek O'Brien (Oxford Brookes), Professor Carolyn Cooper (UWI, Mona)
November 10, 2021
Alternative Grammars of Anti-racism in Latin America
Dr Mónica G Moreno Figueroa (Cambridge), Professor Peter Wade (Manchester)
November 25, 2021
Policy delinking: How Policymakers Protect Controversial Policies in Court
Dr Ursula B Hackett (Royal Holloway, University of London)
December 9, 2021
Cuba: An American History
Professor Ada Ferrer (NYU)
December 14, 2021
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World
Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Oxford)
January 13, 2022
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Professor Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
February 16, 2022
Labour Rebellions of the francophone Caribbean: the 1930 Darboussier Strike in Guadeloupe
Dr Kesewa John (UCL Institute of the Americas)
March 9, 2022
Can unconditional cash transfers encourage voters to cast ballots? Evidence from Brazil
Dr Victor Araujo (University of Zurich)
March 10, 2022
The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship Lecture: América and the Elites without History
Professor Ricardo López-Pedreros (Western Washington University / Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, UCL Institute of the Americas)
March 15, 2022
Book launch: High-Risk Feminism in Colombia. Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts
Dr Julia Zulver (Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM, Mexico))
May 12, 2022
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America
Professor Maria Victoria Murillo Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies | Professor in the Department of Political Science and in the School of International and Public Affairs (all at Columbia University)
May 26, 2022
Latin American Trans Histories | workshops and roundtables
An event organised by Dr Patricio Simonetto (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, UCL Institute of the Americas) and Professor Mir Yarfitz (Wake Forest University); various speakers and participants
July 7 & 8, 2022
The Chilean Way towards a new Constitution: Questions to elected members of the Convention
Professor David Lehmann and Carla Moscoso (both Cambridge) in conversation with Professors Cristina Dorador (Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile) and Fernando Atria (Universidad de Chile)
June 30, 2021
The UCL Americas 2021 Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Amy C. Offner on 'Sorting Out the Mixed Economy'
Dr Amy C. Offner (University of Pennsylvania)
June 3, 2021
Pre-book launch: Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic
Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf (CLACS, University of London)
June 2, 2021
The West India Regiments in the War of 1812
Professor Tim Lockley (Warwick)
May 19, 2021
Book launch: 'The Surrendered' by José Carlos Agüero
Professor Charles Walker, Professor Michael Lazzara (both UC Davies), Professor Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths)
April 29 2021
Riff: The Shake Keane Story: An Itinerant Caribbean Artist's Life
Philip Nanton (independent scholar, writer, poet and performer)
April 28 2021
Questions on Chile's Constitutional Convention
Professor David Lehmann and Carla Moscoso (both Cambridge) interview Professors Verónica Undurraga and Daniel Chernilo (both Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
March 30 2021
Colonies to Country: Canada 1763 to 1867
Presentation of Volume 35 of the London Journal of Canadian Studies (LJCS) hosted by the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) in collaboration with the Journal's chief editor, Dr Tony McCulloch (UCL Americas)
Sir Nicholas Bayne (former High Commissioner to Canada), Professor Damien-Claude Bélanger (University of Ottawa), John Bird (University of Saskatchewan), Professor Richard Pound (McGill University), Professor Victoria Slonosky (McGill University)
March 23 2021
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
Professor John Fabian Witt (Yale)
March 22 2021
The Coronavirus Crisis in Brazil: an Initial Historical Assessment
Professor Marcos Cueto and Dr Gabriel Lopes (both Casa Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro)
March 15 2021
Fanm Rebèl: Excavating the Histories of Haiti's Women Revolutionaries
Dr Nicole Willson (UCLAN-IBAR)
March 10 2021
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Immunity in Antebellum New Orleans
Dr Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford)
March 8 2021
Book Launch: Los Feminismos en América Latina
Professor Dora Barrancos (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Professor Gabriela Cano (El Colegio de México)
March 3 2021
Prospects of the Biden Presidency: Promise and Perils
Professor Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin College), Dr Julie Norman (UCL CUSP), Dr Emma Long (UAE), Dr Tom Packer (UCL CUSP/Institute of the Americas)
February 22 2021
The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
Professor Manuel Barcia (Leeds)
February 10 2021
Slave Drivers, Slavery and Managing Enslaved Labourers on British Caribbean Plantations
Dr Randy M Browne (Xavier University)
January 20 2021
Maradona: Global Icon
Professor Brenda J. Elsey (Hofstra University), Professor Matthew Brown (Bristol) and Dr Ernesto Semán (Bergen)
December 10 2020
Leo Zeilig on Walter Rodney's revolutionary organising and his trip to Hamburg in 1978
Dr Leo Zeilig (University of London)
December 9 2020
Race, Sex, and Disease in the Early Caribbean: Understanding Yaws and Syphilis
Dr Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
December 2 2020
Book launch: Soldiers, Saints and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940
Dr Nathaniel Morris (UCL History), Professor Benjamin Smith (Warwick), Dr Julie Gibbings (Edinburgh)
December 2 2020
Latin American Countries and Women's Rights and Needs during the Pandemic
Dr Constanza Tabbush, Dr Silke Staab, Dr Eleonor Faur, Dr Jasmine Gideon, Dr Bila Sorj, Dr Paola Jiron, Professor Maxine Molyneux
November 23 2020
The November 2020 Peru Parliamentary Coup: an Assessment
Viviana Baraybar, Mercedes Crisóstomo, Dr Alonso Gurmendi, Dr Rafael Novella
November 19 2020
The Referendum in Chile's Process towards a Constitutional Assembly
Professor Emmanuelle Barozet, Professor Javier Couso, Dr Hassan Akram, Dr David Lehmann
November 2 2020
Book launch: Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging: Latin Americans in London
Dr Patria Román Velázquez, Dr Jessica Retis, Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Professor Silvio Waisbord, Professor Maxine Molyneux
October 29 2020
Cuba and COVID-19
Professor Pedro Más Bermejo, Dr Emily Morris
October 28 2020
Mexico's Fourth Transformation under Andrés Manuel López Obrador: an interim assessment
Professor Alberto Olvera, Professor Laurence Whitehead, Professor Kevin Middlebrook
October 21 2020
States of Exception in American History - book launch
Professor Gary Gerstle, Dr Joel Isaac
September 24 2020
Sexing the Blue Tide: The Backlash Against Sexual and Gender Justice in Latin America
Professor Constanza Tabbush, Professor Jonathan Bell, Professor Maxine Molyneux
July 16 2020
The Covid-19 Crisis in the United States in Historical Perspective
Professor Gareth Davies
June 11 2020
Covid-19 in the Americas: a roundtable discussion
Professor Paulo Drinot, Professor Maxine Molyneux, Professor Iwan Morgan
June 4 2020
Giovanni Alvarez (Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace)
Mr Giovanni Álvarez
February 26 2020
US Foreign Policy Series: India-American Relations 1942-1962: Rooted in the Liberal International Order
Dr Atul Bhardwaj
February 10 2020
Vernacular Latin Americanisms: War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline
Professor Fernando Degiovanni, Professor Mark Thurner, Professor Nicola Miller
January 29 2020
US Foreign Policy Series: US Cold War Diplomacy in a Hostile Environment: From Indochina to Iran
Dr Alex Ferguson, Dr Darius Wainwright
January 27 2020
The UK, the EU and Brexit - a Canadian view
Professor Mel Cappe
November 25 2019
Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution and Refiguring Toussaint Louverture: CLR James's The Black Jacobins Flourishes Again
Dr Rachel Douglas
November 20 2019
Book launch: 'El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America'
Dr Carrie Gibson
October 30 2019
US Foreign Policy Series: The Changing Nature of US Warfare in the 21st Century
Panellists: Dr Chris Fuller, Dr Maria Ryan and Dr Tom Watts
October 22 2019
Mexico’s Transformation in the Shadow of Trump’s America
Laura Carlsen
October 8 2019
UCL Institute of the Americas Canadian Studies Conference 2019 Panel 3
'The Temptation of War: alcohol and the Canadian forces’ by Luke Flanagan
'The Khaki University of Canada – Hope for a Better Future’ by Diana Beaupré and Adrian Watkinson
July 5 2019
Book launch: The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt
Daniel Ozarow
June 18 2019
Colombia: Grassroots Perspectives on what makes for Peace
Chair: Louise Winstanley, Programme and Advocacy Manager, ABColombia
Panel: Danilo Rueda, Executive Secretary, Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission, Colombia, Sara Chandler, member of the Colombia Caravana UK Lawyers Group and Susi Bascon, Peace Brigades International UK
Organisers: ABColombia
June 11 2019
Political Socialities: Affect and Everyday Activism in Hell Yard, Trinidad
Maarit Forde
June 05 2019
Canada and Slavery in Lower Canada Newspapers, 1789-1793
Dr Eleanor Bird
Mar 18 2019
"The Slave Master of Trinidad": William Hardin Burnley
Professor Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Mar 12 2019
Canadian Planning and its British Connections
Catherine Mary Ulmer
Mar 04 2019
Leon Trotsky and Canadian POW camps in the First World War
Mark Minenko (PhD Law candidate at King’s College London)
Feb 04 2019
Decolonization without Independence: Nationalism and Assimilation in the Non-Sovereign Caribbean
Grace Carrington (Doctoral research student at LSE)
Jan 16 2019
The structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833
Dr Nick Draper (Director at UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership)
Nov 21 2018
The Caribbean Frontier: Learning from the ‘small’ islands - St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Philip Nanton (Honorary Research Associate at University of Birmingham)
Nov 14 2018
Québec General Election of October 2018: a panel discussion
James Kennedy (Edinburgh University), Christopher Kirkey (State University of New York), Jocelyn Letourneau (Laval University), Tony McCulloch (UCL Institute of the Americas)
Oct 15 2018
Challenges for the Cuban Revolution in the post-Castro Era
Professors Antoni Kapcia (Nottingham), Ricardo Torres (Centro de Estudios de la Economia Cubana), Jorge Pena Diaz (Universidad Tecnologica de La Habana), Joiselen Cazanave Macias (Universidad Tecnologica de La Habana)
May 18 2018
Book launch: 'Citizenship in Transnational Perspective - Australia, Canada, and New Zealand'
Dr. Jatinder Mann (Baptist University Honk Kong)
May 17 2018
Fruitful Fictions, Partial Truths: New Dilemmas in Caribbean Research
Richard and Sally Price (independent anthropology scholars)
May 14 2018
Book launch: 'Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada'
Professor Christabelle Sethna (University of Ottawa) and Dr. Steve Hewitt (Birmingham)
May 10 2018
An Hour of Canadian Poetry, Writing and Politics
Gary Geddes and Ann Eriksson (Canadian scholars and writers)
April 30 2018
Mining, social conflict and alternatives in Peru and Colombia
Panel discussion - various speakers
April 23 2018
The Pollution Bandwagon: The Fight Against Car Pollution in Montreal, 1960s-1970s
Dr. Valerie Poirier (University of Guelph)
April 9 2018
Representing Post-Soviet Cuba: Media, Literature and Cultural Memory
Dr. Ivan Darias Alfonso (Cuban scholar), Dr. Angela Dorado Otero (QMUL) and Dr. Juan Orlando Perez Gonzalez (Roehampton)
February 7 2018
Annual UCL Americas Richard Neustadt Lecture: David Sehat on 'Founders Chic: Why Americans Think the Founding Fathers Have All the Answers'
Professor David Sehat (Georgia State University)
February 1 2018
Historical antecedents and post-WW II regionalism in the Americas
Dr. Tom Long (University of Warwick)
January 31 2018
Hurricane 'Maria': Puerto Rico's Not-So-Natural Disaster
Dr. Patria Roman (University of Loughborough), Dr. Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia (University of Lancaster), Dr. Janialy Ortiz Camacho, Dr. Gibran Cruz-Martinez (University of Agder, Norway)
January 25 2018
Book launch: 'Winning our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960'
Dr. Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia)
December 7 2017
Brexit: Avoiding a Caribbean Hangover
Edwin Laurent (The Ramphal Institute)
December 6 2017
Activism in Zones of Violence and Institutional Fragility: The Case of Michoacan, Mexico
Dr. Trevor Stack (Aberdeen)
November 29 2017
The Political Futility of Counterinsurgency
Dr. Manuel Vogt (UCL)
November 23 2017
Trump's Wall at Nixon's Border: Operation 'Intercept', Hemispheric Drug War and the Border Wall
Dr. Patrick Timmons (journalist and writer)
November 14 2017
Dr. Aleida Guevara at UCL: Cuban Medical Internationalism
Dr. Aleida Guevara (Cuban paediatrician)
November 10 2017
Eva Perón and the Women's Vote: Credit Where It's Due?
Dr. Jill Hedges (Oxford Analytica)
November 2 2017
Assessing Argentina's October 2017 mid-term Elections
Various speakers
October 24 2017
Che: Myth, Man, and Legacy
Various speakers
October 9 2017
'Arguing around Toussaint': The Black Jacobin in an Age of Revolutions
Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
October 4 2017
Co-producing Brazilian Prison OrderDr Sacha Darke (University of Westminster) |
Book launch: 'City in Common: Culture and Community in Buenos Aires'Dr James Scorer (Manchester) |
Book launch: 'Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture'Dr John Crabtree (Saint Antony's College) and Dr Francisco Durand (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru) |
'Uberisation' of work: contemporary subsumption of the very modern and precarious 'independent worker'Dr Ludmila Abilio (University of São Paulo) |
Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin AmericaTodd Gordon (Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Canada), Jeffery R. Webber (Queen Mary University of London) |
Urban Protest and Informal Democracy in VenezuelaAlejandro Velasco (NYU) |
Annual UCL Quebec Lecture: The Rise and Fall of French Canadian LoyalismDamien-Claude Bélanger (University of Ottawa) |
'Cuba is already ours': Annexationists, filibusterers, and the United States' struggle to buy Cuba, c. 1820-1898Carrie Gibson |
Politics, Gender and Health: Insight from Argentina's ProvincesJames McGuire (Wesleyan University) |
Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Understanding the Relationship between Security and Taxes with Evidence from MexicoGustavo Flores-Macias (Cornell) Book launch: 'The Last Day of Oppression and the First Day of the Same'Jeffery R Webber (Queen Mary University of London) |
Rating the American Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump: A UK PerspectiveMichael Patrick Cullinane (Roehampton), Iwan Morgan (UCL Americas), Simon Rofe (SOAS) |
Canada-UK Colloquium report on the UK, Canada and Global WarmingPhilip Peacock, Nicolas Maclean (both Canada-UK Council) and Lucien Goergeson (UCL Geography) |
Trump's Triumph and Early Days: a Historian's PerspectiveElizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University, Chicago) |
Magical Realities: Staged authenticity and the Haida People of CanadaJane Lovell (Canterbury Christ Church University) |
'1.5 oC to stay alive'?: climate change, imperialism and 'co2lonialism' in the CaribbeanLeon Sealey-Huggins (Warwick) |
The Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Sir Keir Starmer, MP on Human RightsSir Keir Starmer MP |
The politics of left-wing militants' confessions to past violence in Latin AmericaLeigh A. Payne (Oxford) |
Inside the 'Car Wash': corruption scandal or a systemic 'illicit financial Quid Pro Quo' in Brazil?Fernanda Odilla V. de Figueiredo (KCL Brazil Institute) |
Coalitions and Compliance: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin AmericaKenneth Shadlen (LSE) |
Whiteness and Weddings in the 'Post'-Colonial, Neo-liberal Economies of the CaribbeanKaren Wilkes (Birmingham City University) |
Explaining the Role of Violence in the Brazilian StateAnthony Pereira (KCL Brazil Institute) |
Cuba after FidelHal Klepak (UCL Americas Visiting Fellow), Jean Stubbs (UCL Americas Associate Fellow) |
Is CARICOM Sustainable? Assessing the (Youth) Participation DeficitTerri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts (University of West Indies) |
Book launch: 'Reagan: American Icon' (I.B.Tauris, 2016) with author Iwan MorganIwan Morgan (UCL Americas) |
'Happy Go Lucky Fellow': The 1966 Bombing on Parliament Hill and Lone-actor Terrorism in CanadaSteve Hewitt (Birmingham) |
The 2016 Presidential Election: A RoundtableClodagh Harrington (De Montfort), Tom Packer (Oxford), Timothy Stanley (The Telegraph) |
Creative Economy in Peru: Balance and PerspectivesFelix Lossio (Newcastle), Richard Naylor (BOP Consulting), Cristina Rosemberg (Technopolis Group) |
Cirque du Soleil - and Beyond: Quebec's Expanding Circus WorldsProfessor Charles R. Batson (Union College, Schenectady, NY) |
White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Case of the ArroganteProfessor Manuel Barcia (Leeds) |
Beyond Tragedy: The Grenada Revolution, Remebrance and RenewalProfessor Shalini Puri (Pittsburgh) |
Transitional Justice in Latin America: The Uneven Road from Impunity towards AccountabilityCath Collins (Ulster), Pilar Domingo (ODI), Par Engstrom (UCL Americas) |
13 Presidents: On the Road with the American PresidentsMarisa Futernick (author), Iwan Morgan (UCL Americas) |
Colombia's Peace Agreement: Challenges of ImplementationGrace Livingstone (ILAS), Nick Morgan (Newcastle), Louise Winstanley (ABColombia), Par Engstrom (UCL Americas) |
Drug Violence and Human Rights in MexicoMonica Serrano (El Colegio de Mexico) |
Varieties of Capitalism and Crisis in Latin America: Labour Policies and Union Power (in Spanish only)Graciela Bensusán (UAM Xochimilco, Mexico; FLACSO Mexico) |
Cuba: Redefining the ModelBert Hoffmann (GIGA Hamburg), Laurence Whitehead (Oxford), Vegard Bye (Oslo); discussant: Maxine Molyneux (UCL Americas) |
Disappearances in Mexico Two Years After (and Three Years Before!) Ayotzinapa
Leticia Hidalgo (FUNDENL), Ed Vulliamy (The Observer, The Guardian), Thomas Rath (UCL History)
September 21, 2016
Growth and Development through Economic Integration in Central America
Javier A Gutierrez (Secretariat of Economic Integration of Central America)
May 31, 2016
Black Power and the Struggle over Public Education in Atlanta, 1960-1980
Dr Tom Adam Davis (Sussex)
May 19, 2016
What Future for Caribbean-EU Relations? Reflections on a Challenged Partnership
HE Ambassador Dylan Vernon (Belizean ambassador to the EU)
May 18, 2016
'Stop Asking the Women to Workshop You': Cultures of Inequality in Higher Education
Dr Say Burgin and Dr Kate Dossett (both from Leeds University)
May 12, 2016
Language rights and indigenous people in Peru: new articulations of hegemony?
Dr Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle)
May 11, 2016
Principled Agents: Human Rights and Regulatory Politics in Latin America
Dr Tom Pegram (UCL Global Governance Institute)
May 4, 2016
Book launch: A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
Dr Steve Cushion
April 27, 2016
Tax Compliance in Latin America: When Do People Respond?
Dr Carlos Scartascini (Inter-American Development Bank)
April 19, 2016
The Richard E Neustadt Annual Lecture: Everybody Believes in Democracy Until He Gets to the White House: The Unilateral Legacy of Barack Obama
Professor Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin College, Maine)
March 21, 2016
Scotland and the Caribbean: Atlantic Archipelagos
Dr Michael Morris (Liverpool John Moores)
March 16, 2016
The UCL Annual Canadian Studies Lecture: Justin Trudeau's First 100 Days
Professor Christopher Kirkey (State University New York, Plattsburgh)
March 14, 2016
The Jewish Indian Theory: the Problem of the Origin of the American Populations (XVIth - XVIIth Centuries)
Professor Nathan Wachtel (Collège de France)
March 9, 2016
Book launch: 'Latin America's Leaders'
Professor Laura Tedesco (St Louis University, Madrid; book's author)
March 7, 2016
Police Violence and the Internet in Brazil: New Visibilities of Historical Patterns?
Dr Graham Denyer Willis (Cambridge)
March 2, 2016
Canada's Response to its October 2014 Terrorist Attacks
Professor Kent Roach (Toronto)
February 29, 2016
America's Global Power and its Foreign Policy Thinkers
Professor John A Thompson (Cambridge); Dr David Milne (East Anglia)
February 25, 2016
Canada, NAFTA, CETA and TPP
Professor Earl H Fry (Toronto)
February 22, 2016
Making 'Race': the work of the slave-owners
Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History)
February 17, 2016
Slave Rebellion, Race and Radicalism in Early Nineteenth-century England
Dr Ryan Hanley (Oxford)
January 27, 2016
Recognition as the Social Practice of Citizenship in Postemancipation Colombia
Dr Jason McGraw (Indiana)
January 20, 2016
Decolonizing Development: Kichwa and Tsachila women's engagement with postcolonial development
Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge)
On Fiction and Crime in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Professor Pablo Piccato (Columbia)
December 4, 2015
Book launch: Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968
Professor Colin Clarke (Oxford; book's author)
December 2, 2015
Quebec in the British American Orbit 1760-1774
Gareth Davis (UCL History)
November 30, 2015
Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy
Professor Daniel Geary (Trinity College Dublin)
November 23, 2015
Arrangements of Convenience: Conflict, Crime and Security in Colombia's Borderlands
Dr Annette Idler (Oxford)
November 18, 2015
The American Civil War and Canadian Confederation
Professor Phillip Buckner (University of New Brunswick, and UCL Americas Honorary Professorial Fellow)
November 18, 2015
Gender and Protest at Morant Bay and in Post-Emancipation Caribbean
Professor Gad Heuman (Warwick, and UCL Americas Associate)
November 4, 2015
The Chilean Road to Capitalism: the role of agrarian reform and peasant revolt before the coup
Professor Jose Bengoa (Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago de Chile)
October 28, 2015
Argentina: Analysing the Results of the General Elections
Professor Francisco Panizza (LSE), Dr Ana Margheritis (Southampton), Dr Celia Szusterman (Institute of Statecraft)
October 27, 2015
Canada decides: the outcome of the Canadian general elections
Professor Michael Hawes (Queens University, Ontario), Professor Steve Hewitt (Birmingham), Professor Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburgh), Dr Jocelyn Létourneau (Laval University)
October 26, 2016
Newfoundland, North America and the British Empire, 1900-1914
Professor James K Hiller (Emeritus, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
October 12, 2015
Inequality in the Americas: An International Perspective
Professor Andres Solimano (CIGLOB, Santiago de Chile)
October 7, 2015
Book launch: 'Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History'
Professor Marcos Cueto (book's co-author; Fundaçâo Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Dr Chris Abel (UCL)
October 5, 2015
'Am I not a Man and a Soldier?' (Re-)imagining the West India Regiment in the Age of Abolition
Professor David Lambert (Warwick)
September 30, 2015
Ayotzinapa: One Year After
Dr Thomas Rath (UCL History), Maria de Vecchi (UCL Americas), Rupert Knox (University of Sheffield and formerly from Amnesty International), Professor Monica Serrano (Colegio de Mexico), Dr Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick)
September 22, 2015
The Annual UCL Canadian Studies Lecture: So Near and Yet So Far: Lessons from the Quebec Referendum of 1995
Sir Nicholas Bayne KCMG (LSE; former British High Commissioner to Canada, 1992-6)
July 2, 2015
The Challenges of Cyberspace in Canada and the UK: Living and Working in a Digital Era
Philip Peacock and Nicolas Maclean CMG (both Canada-UK Council)
June 22, 2015
The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? Caribbean Myths and Realities
Dr Rosamond S. King (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
June 16, 2015
Cocaine Trafficking from Latin America to Europe: Research Methods and Recent Trends
Dr Damian Zaitch (Utrecht University)
June 10, 2015
Prospects for the Creation of a NAFTA-EU Trade and Investment Partnership
Professor Earl H. Fry (Brigham Young University)
June 8, 2015
C.L.R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain
Dr Christian Høgsbjerg (independent scholar)
June 3, 2015
Latin America Five Years After the Storm: Economic and Social Challenges
Professor Juan Carlos Moreno Brid (UNAM, Mexico)
May 21, 2015
Commonwealth States and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Dr Harold Young (Georgia State University)
May 19, 2015
Leadership in the Cuban Revolution - The Unseen Story
Professor Antoni Kapcia (Nottingham)
May 13, 2015
Latin America 2005-2015: A Lost Decade or a Won Decade?
Professor Francisco Panizza (LSE)
May 1, 2015
Genomics, Race and Multi-culturalism in Latin America
Dr Peter Wade (Manchester)
April 30, 2015
Freedom of expression, power and the media in Mexico: the case of Carmen Aristegui
Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge) and Jose-Antonio Brambila (Sheffield)
April 21, 2015
Book launch: 'The Politics of Autonomy: the Art of Organising Hope'
Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (Bath; book's author)
April 10, 2015
Book launch: 'Your Time is Done Now. Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Wars of Dominica (1813-1814)'
Polly Patullo, book's author and publisher
March 19, 2015
Violence Against Women in Mexico and Central America
Laura Carlsen (Americas Program - Center for International Policy CIP), Marilyn Thomson (Central America Women's Network CAWN), Lorena Fuentes (Birkbeck College)
March 9, 2015
Mexico - Europe 1914: Total War
Professor Alan Knight (Oxford)
November 19, 2014
China and Latin America: from Cyberspace to the Farm Gate
Dr Adrian Hearn (Melbourne) and Professor Ariel C. Armony (Pittsburgh)
October 27, 2014
Inaugural lecture: Trans-national Americans: Latin American Perspectives on Recent Trends in Pan-American Immigration
Professor Maxine Molyneux (UCL Americas)
March 25, 2014
Gender Equality and Women's Rights in Latin America
Professor Maxine Molyneux (UCL Americas)
March 6, 2014
Obama's America: The Significance of the 2012 Elections
Professor Iwan Morgan (UCL Americas)
January 17, 2013