Do I know anyone with access to the article "Reconstruindo uma história esquecida: origem e expansão das favelas no Rio de Janeiro" in Espaço & Debates (1994)? Would love a pdf!

Ya salió mi librito sobre la Independencia! Traté de explicar de manera clara y atractiva un tiempo histórico fascinante y un proceso de crisis, guerra e invención política Cabe en la bolsa y se puede leer en una tarde. Por lo pronto está a $50 en la librería de @UNAM_Historicas

Very cool Latin American history job alert! Two-year postdoc to work with Jaime Pensado at Notre Dame on the New Left in Latin America during the global sixties and seventies. Details:

🚨Join us next week for our @UCLAmericas public seminar series to discuss contesting autocracy and opposition strategies in Venezuela 🇻🇪 🗓️ 20/11 🕰️ 16:30-18:00 🎙️ @MaryhenJimenez @OSGAOxford 🪑 @UruguayFran Please register to attend: https://t.co/m7e0hnQmEb

A wonderful opportunity to join albeit temporarily the fantastic Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies language team at UCL...

.⁦@CaiusCollege⁩ is advertising a one-year Visiting Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities for scholars from the Global South. Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Spread the word! 📣

"Somewhere during the third reading, I stopped being Pip and became Joe, and “What larks, Pip” became one of the most heartbreaking lines ever written." https://t.co/aBDYUsFao0

Latin American Scholars Grant DEADLINE  15 November 2024 ​Supports scholars based in Latin America to allow them to attend & present at the annual SLAS conference. More info here: https://t.co/9s7P4uz2JF

Note that there's a tight application deadline, 31 October. And sadly the position is only open for candidates with the right to work in the UK, i.e. the university is unable to sponsor international candidates for a visa.

Job opening for historians of modern Latin America at the University of Edinburgh. This is for a Grade 7, fixed-term, 18 months teaching and research fellowship. https://t.co/CTMBrXK3r0

I'm very excited that Benedetta Rossi will be giving the 2024 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery at Edinburgh University @EdGlobalHistory on 17 October: The Problem of African Slavery in the Age of Abolition. https://t.co/dRwODPQlm0 Please join us!

Starting the final year of my contract so any tips on suitable jobs to apply for over the next several months will be much appreciated! Latin American history, Cold War history, histories of the left etc.

"Jarquín argues that without diplomats, the Sandinista Revolution would have looked very different—and may not have happened at all." @TimoHSchaefer reviews:

My review of @mateojarquin 's impressive The Sandinista Revolution now out with the @LAReviewofBooks How crucial is diplomacy to the history of revolutions? The book suggests to me it's more crucial at some times than others - but you can't ignore it.

The @SLASLatAm 2025 conference will be at @BristolUni on 10-11 April! We're now accepting submissions (until 15 Oct). Come join us...@mariekeriethof @BowskillSarah @catrionamca @ogden_rebecca @maguiregeoff @BristolHiPLA @BristolSML

If you want to understand what’s going on in #Venezuela, I suggest you also follow @RosalesAntulio @svitalem @juanchotrak @LissetteCGA @sketa0 @puzkas @XabierCosco @GTAveledo @marianodealba. Even if original posts are in Spanish you can easily see a translation on X.

There's still lines and phrases I can't make out, but the gist of this case is clear enough. We're in Santa Fe (Bogotá), it is 1563. Luisa, an 'india ladina', demands back wages for 15 years of servicio from Juan de Montalvo: a total of 300 pesos 'de buen oro'.

* twelve mantas, sorry