UCL Americas
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UCL Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and teaching on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.
51 Gd Square, London
Joined January 2013
UCL Institute of the Americas ranked 1st in the UK in Area Studies and Impact in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF). Read more about our results 🔗 https://t.co/JJe0BqyBAa
#UCLResearch #REFresults
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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: https://t.co/DkV01KHTVp
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*Update: The event will now start at 13:00 — this is a change from the previously advertised time of 12:00.*
After nearly 20 years, Bolivia’s Govt moves firmly 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 🔗 https://t.co/ULahlrkJ4o 🎙️ Olivia Arigho-Stiles, Angus McNelly, @ECastanon_B
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The next conservative era has arrived. Join the movement rebuilding America from the ground up.
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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 🔗 https://t.co/kEoMi6oKY8 Join a panel of distinguished commentators on Quebec history and politics.
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Reminder 🔔 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. 🔗 https://t.co/4d1rlDm7oO
ucl.ac.uk
Join Dr Camillia Cowing, University of Warwick, to discuss how a new slave society was forged in Cuba’s nineteenth century through a bitter, transformational set of struggles.
📢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🔗 https://t.co/4d1rlDmFem
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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. ➡️ https://t.co/NFl8QoGmPz
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🔊 This Friday! Please join us for a conversation with @SBiedarieva, author of 'Ambicoloniality and War' (@Palgrave). Co-hosted by @UCLAmericas. 🗓️ 17 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️
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A special session of the PhD Forum on Critical Area Studies and PPV; with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva, author of Ambicoloniality and War
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Join us for the first public seminar series of 2025/26!
📚 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 📍In-person 🔗 https://t.co/QAVydqAsk1
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You can read the full articles here: New York Times (£): https://t.co/CAxcPoMErL FT:
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Vote in congress ends tenure marked by a surge in crime and plunging approval ratings
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Gonzalo Banda @UCLAmericas was quoted in @nytimes & @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.”
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Please join us for a discussion with @SBiedarieva, who will focus on her notion of “ambicoloniality”, unpacking its significance to interdisciplinary area studies research. Co-hosted by @UCLAmericas. 🗓️ 17 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ https://t.co/hoGpsauwmS
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📣 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 🔗 https://t.co/WR9SnxDExs
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After nearly 20 years, Bolivia’s Govt moves firmly 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 🔗 https://t.co/ULahlrkJ4o 🎙️ Olivia Arigho-Stiles, Angus McNelly, @ECastanon_B
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📚 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 📍In-person 🔗 https://t.co/QAVydqAsk1
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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. https://t.co/7khBZzV8tg
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Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.
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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).
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📢 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. 🔗 https://t.co/IR1cA6VU0W
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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. https://t.co/x75pXJHLeN
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📢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🔗 https://t.co/4d1rlDmFem
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🔴NEWS🟠 Today we launch two new features: 🗄️mass download & export of all resources 📖 all docs OCR compliant. These good practices promote: ✅access to information ✅easily share content ✅new projects & knowledge. 📺Watch this video to find out more https://t.co/SgJQYKpD6u
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🔵 50 years after Operation Condor, the @CancilleriaUy released 60 new documents on the repressive coordination from its Archives. This is the result of the inter-institutional and international collaboration between @CancilleriaUy @OperationCondo3 @UCLAmericas @ucl 🧵1/2
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