BLOG POST: Jacob Bright, a student on our MA Latin American Studies programme, writes about the research for his dissertation. Jacob's dissertation was awarded the Elsa Goveia prize for the best dissertation on the Caribbean. Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

Why Chile Voted for Kast: Insights from Experts José Antonio Kast marks the biggest rightward shift since 1990. Join our expert roundtable: ✅ What drove this dramatic turn? ✅ The issues that shaped the campaign ✅ Impact on Latin America 📅 21 Jan | 13:00 | In-person 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

New article Second Coming: Donald Trump’s Reelection and Its Consequences by Professor Iwan Morgan. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ICYMI - Dr Francesca Lessa wrote for @uk.theconversation.com a couple of weeks ago: "Operation Condor: the secret system that terrorised exiled South American dissidents 50 years ago" theconversation.com/operation-co...

🚨📺If you didn't make the event on 19 November, you can catch up now via our YouTube channel WATCH: youtu.be/Ef36ZoviDdc

BLOG POST: UG student Tom Hindley writes about his takeaways from our recent event reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the official founding meeting of Operation Condor. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

NEW BLOG POST In this post, Steve Cushion, Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of the Americas, and a former PhD student of the department, reflects on his most recent book. Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blog/

Have you read our first blog post yet? "Save for a total change of heart in Donald Trump, it is hard to see a reversal of the US military buildup off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast...." Read the full post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

Join us next week for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data. Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social. 🗓️ 8 December at 3pm 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Reminder: Our talk on 'Some place to live in: Fugitive Homemaking in the Archives of Slave Rebellions, 1816-1832' is happening tomorrow at 17.30 Join us 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... Looking forward to an insightful discussion—don’t miss it! 💬

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/

👇BOOK NOW: This book talk examines how political campaigns leveraged All in the Family for attention, funds, and votes. Centered on the 1972 presidential election and its legacy, it reveals how Nixon, Democrats, activists, and TV creators exploited America’s most popular show.

Join us for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data. Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social. 🗓️ 8 December at 3pm 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Next LARC Seminar: 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.

📚 Seminar: Capital and Labor: An Economic History of Mining in Bolivia, 1900–2025 with Dr. José Peres-Cajías. Explore how mining has shaped Bolivia’s economy, state formation, and labour relations over more than a century. 🗓 Thu, Nov 27 | 12–2 PM 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

We offer the UK's largest programme of undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees on the Americas. See what our master's programmes can offer at our next open event. 🗓 Wednesday 26 November 2025 ⌚ 5pm-6pm, ONLINE Register: app.geckoform.com/events-embed...

JOIN US! We're seeking to fill a fixed-term, part-time teaching position in Gender, Politics and Society in the Americas. The post is available from 5 Jan to 29 May 2026 on a part-time basis of 14.6hrs/week. Deadline: 24 November 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Please join us for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data. Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social. 🗓️ 8 December at 3pm 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Join Marley Lix-Jones for a powerful talk on the enslaved people who rose up in rebellion across Cornwall County in Jamaica, in what became the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. 📅 3 Dec | ⏲️17:30 – 19:00 |💻 Online 🔗 shorturl.at/dkhWQ

Canadian Studies Seminar: The Future of Modern Warfare 📅 19 Nov 2025 🕕 18:00–19:30 (UK) 📍 Online Zoom 🔗 tinyurl.com/yb8w9hmd Explore how drones & tech are reshaping the battlefield with our distinguished panel: Anthony Cary CMG | Nicolas Maclean CMG | Rear-Admiral Alex Burton | Thomas Nightingale.

🎉👇 Additional tickets just released! Don't miss out — book now before they’re gone! 🔥 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Join us to discuss how the iconic show All in the Family reshaped political discourse and campaigning in the United States—from Nixon to the rise of media-driven populism. 🗓️ Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 🕐 Time: 13:00–14:30 📍 Location: Gordon Square, London 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

I’ll Make Me a World: The Past, Present & Future(s) of Black History 18 Nov 6-8pm @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Prof Jarvis R. Givens will discuss what’s politically at stake in “black memory work” and what can be done to preserve & expand this important intellectual tradition. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📚 Book Launch Join us for the launch of Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World by Dr. Steve Cushion. 🗓️ Date: 12 November 2025 🕠 Time: 17:30–19:00 BST 💻 Location: Online 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Join us for our in-person Undergraduate Open Event! 📅 Sat 15 Nov ⏰ 10:30am-3pm - A chance to meet our staff and students - Campus tours led by our student ambassadors - Welcome talks introducing you to our programmes and to life at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... #ucl #openday

📢The Journal of Agrarian Seminar Series resumes with a hybrid event co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social Soledad Castro-Vargas presents her pioneering work on agrarian waterscapes 💧🌾, chaired by @enriquedcb.bsky.social More details and registration: 🔗 aqs.org.uk/event/agrari...

EVENT Dr Kloppe-Santamaría, author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, will lead a discussion on researching and writing about violence Sign-up form: forms.gle/vqvh6mVMAJ7v...

*Update: The event will now start at 13:00 — this is a change from the previously advertised time of 12:00.*

Our Canadian series begins this month with "The Quebec Referendum, October 1995: Thirty Years After". 📅28 October 2025 🕜18.00 ONLINE Register by 27 October 12noon 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... Join a panel of distinguished commentators on Quebec history and politics.

Reminder👇🗓️22 Oct 2025 ⏰17:30 Join Dr Camillia Cowing (Warwick) next week to discuss how a new slave society was forged through a bitter transformational set of struggles over human movement and place among enslavers, colonial officials, and enslaved men and women. 🌐🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Join our current Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Jarvis R. Givens, speak about his latest book on the political and economic links between black, native, and white schooling in the US. ➡️ www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

🔊 This Friday! Please join us for a conversation with Svitlana Biedarieva, author of 'Ambicoloniality and War'. Co-hosted by @uclamericas.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Join us for the first public seminar series of 2025/26!

Gonzalo Banda, doctoral researcher, was quoted in @nytimes.com & the FT on the ousting of President Dina Boluarte in Peru “It’s an opportunistic calculation, but one that reflects the precariousness of any politician in Peru, where in a matter of hours you can lose what little power you have.”

Please join us for a discussion with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva, who will focus on her notion of “ambicoloniality”, unpacking its significance to interdisciplinary area studies research. Co-hosted by @uclamericas.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

📣 Join us for a powerful roundtable marking 50 years since Operation Condor — a transnational terror network that facilitated the persecution of political dissidents across South America and beyond. 📍Hybrid 🕐19 Nov, 13:00–14:30 GMT 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... @hym-lasa.bsky.social

After nearly 20 years, Bolivia’s Government moves to the right. MAS fades, a new era begins. Join our roundtable to unpack this major political restructuring. 📅 Oct 29 | 🕛 12–1:30pm | 📍In-person 🎙️ Olivia Arigho-Stiles, Angus McNelly, @enriquedcb.bsky.social 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

📚 Seminar Alert! Jonathan Bell, Professor of American History at UCL, introduces his forthcoming book: The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics and Health in the U.S. since the Rights Revolutions 📅 15 Oct 2025 ⏰ 4pm 📍 51 Gordon Square 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice. 📅27 Oct, 2-4pm 📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Symposium: Useful Cinemas / Useful Archives: Labour, History and Mediation in Latin American Film & Video 7–8 Oct 4-8pm @uclselcs.bsky.social We're delighted to co-host this symposium that brings together scholars & filmmakers to reflect on ongoing research. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📣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. 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

We're thrilled to share our annual report for 2024-25! Whether you're an alumni, partner, funder, student or researcher, this report has something for you. Read the report for an overview of our event series, research, programmes of study & more. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

News from Plancondor.org, involving Dr Francesca Lessa! #OperationCondor

📢Join us for the first seminar of the 2025-26 Caribbean Seminar Series! "Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling 🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Calling all PhD students! Join the Latin America Research Community (LARC), hosted at @uclamericas.bsky.social, for their first event of the 2025-26 calendar, with a keynote talk from @paulodrinot.bsky.social 18 Sept, 5.30-7.30pm 103, 51 Gordon Square Register here: forms.gle/4koNCqEVPnso...

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📣Calling Early Career Researchers! We're inviting EOIs for fellowships offering: 🔸funding 🔸mentorship 🔸a unique opportunity to join a vibrant research community 🔸a platform to launch your independent career Submit your EOI to us by 5 September, just 3 weeks to go! 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/res...

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today! If you’re joining us this September, welcome to UCL Institute of the Americas. 💜 Got questions about Results Day? Visit the UCL Results Day page: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

✨Welcome to our new Lecturer in US Politics✨ Dr Proctor is a political scientist specialising in US politics and elections and joins us from 1 Sept 2025. Andrew will be facilitating modules on US elections and behaviour, research methods, and LGBTQ and identity politics.