UCL Institute of the Americas
uclamericas.bsky.social
UCL Institute of the Americas
@uclamericas.bsky.social
UCL Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and teaching on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.
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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
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Why Comparative Area Studies Needs Area Studies - and Vice Versa
Magnifying the Impact of Qualitative Research in an Era of Big Data
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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.
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📚 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
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November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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/...
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by UCL Institute of the Americas
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...
Why Comparative Area Studies Needs Area Studies - and Vice Versa
Magnifying the Impact of Qualitative Research in an Era of Big Data
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
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November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🎉👇 Additional tickets just released!
Don't miss out — book now before they’re gone! 🔥
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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
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November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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.
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I’ll Make Me a World: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Black History
UCL Institute of the Americas and Sarah Parker Remond Centre welcome Prof Jarvis R. Givens, whose talk identifies what’s politically at stake in “black memory work,” and more importantly, what can be ...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📚 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...
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📢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...
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
*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 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...
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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
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Join a panel of distinguished commentators on Quebec history and politics.
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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...
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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/...
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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🔊 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...
Researching Ambicoloniality: Theory, Method, Positionality
A special session of the PhD Forum on Critical Area Studies and PPV; with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva, author of Ambicoloniality and War
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
📍 51 Gordon Square
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October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by UCL Institute of the Americas
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...
Researching Ambicoloniality: Theory, Method, Positionality
A special session of the PhD Forum on Critical Area Studies and PPV; with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva, author of Ambicoloniality and War
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📣 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
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM