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.

📢 New article “Grabbing Back: Capital Segments and Mechanisms in the Reversal of Land Redistribution” by @enriquedcb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/fjp...

Read this comment piece in @uk.theconversation.com from our Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Dr Emily Morris, on Cuba's economic crisis.

Happy to share our new article in the Journal of Peasant Studies. We define a future research agenda investigating the capital segments and grabbing mechanisms involved in grabbing back redistributed and restituted lands. @uclamericas.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Did you know 2025 marks the anniversary of the founding of Operation Condor in 1975? In this video, we tell you about that sinister plan which persecuted political activists in exile in South America & beyond. To learn more, visit plancondor.org/en

Honorary Researcher, @amayoap.bsky.social, with others from UCL & Essex, have undertaken a community mural project with refugees. Led by a renowned Colombian artist, a community of Venezuelan refugees & Colombian citizens created a large ‘climate displacement’ mural. youtu.be/Y5TimF34Xjc

From Brown v. Board of Education to the Stonewall Riots to the PATRIOT ACT, our US Studies: History and Politics MA offers you a way to understand how civil liberties have evolved throughout the twentieth century in the USA. Come join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/stu...

On 19 June, Dr Lessa was interviewed for radio programme, "El invitado de @rfi.fr". This followed her invitation to speak at a conference in Paris on the 50th anniversary of Operation Condor. Follow the link below for more, inc. how to watch/listen to the interview: www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/new...

🚨 **Reminder** 🚨 The deadline to apply for fellowship opportunities is **this Friday**! Don't miss out on this chance to advance your career and make a difference. 📅 Deadline: Friday 27 June 2025 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/new...

What is it like to be a student on our MA in US Studies? Oli tells us why they chose to pursue a Master’s in United States Studies: History & Politics, and the benefits the programme offers. #USPolitics #GradSchool #MakeYourMastersMatter

⭐Confirmed Presenters⭐ Fabio Senne, Centro Regional de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, (Brazil) María de Lourdes Martínez Villaseñor, Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial (Mexico) Rodrigo Durán, CENIA (Chile) Marcelo Mendoza (Universidad Catolica de Chile)

Thank you @brianjphillips.bsky.social for sharing our paper and for your generous support over the years. Grateful to the brilliant @universityofessex.bsky.social community of scholars, and to @peacerep.bsky.social, @uoelawschool.bsky.social, @uclamericas.bsky.social, and @flacsoecuador.bsky.social

Those interested in the underlying thinking & policies regarding community climate adaptation should take a look at this workshop. Workshop partners will bring case studies from Venezuela and Uzbekistan.

✨Don’t miss out on an opportunity to hear from leading scholars and representatives from area studies institutions across Europe providing fresh insights on how to foster collaboration in an era of shifting global priorities. Only a few seats left ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/eve...

💭What does decolonising praxis look like in public administration and public value? Join us for two workshops by IIPP and UCL STEaPP to brainstorm, dialogue, & reflect on this and more. 🔗Learn more: buff.ly/HiAmXIT ✍️Register here: buff.ly/NG9SXZP ❗️Apply by 10 June 2025, 17:00 BST

✨Binging together leading policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from Latin America to discuss emerging frameworks for the governance of AI across the region. Spaces are limited. Find out more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/eve...

⭐️1 more week to book⭐️ 🔶How do Latin American Studies fit within broader Area Studies frameworks? 🔶Is Latin America still a coherent and relevant category of analysis? 🔶What role should European institutions and journals like JLAS play in shaping the future of the field?

✨FILM SCREENING exploring representations and realities of extractivism in Latin American fiction and documentary cinema, focusing on how films portray workers’ and communities’ daily lives and struggles. ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhausted-...

Be exposed to prominent development theories & the most influential frameworks used by development practitioners today. Join the core module of our MSc International Development programme. 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/stu... #Development #Theory #Policy #Practice #postgrad

Alongside the Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS), we are proud to host a high-level panel that brings together the directors of major Latin American Studies centres in Europe to reflect on the future of the field. Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/eve...