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.
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...
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...
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
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...
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...
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
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...
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...
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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...
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/
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/
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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/
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...
"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...
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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...
"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...
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/
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/
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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/
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/
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.
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
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.
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
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🗓 Thu, Nov 27 | 12–2 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📚 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...
🗓 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...
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
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...
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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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📅 3 Dec | ⏲️17:30 – 19:00 |💻 Online
🔗 shorturl.at/dkhWQ
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
📅 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.
📅 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
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.
📅 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.
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...
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025
🕐 Time: 13:00–14:30
📍 Location: Gordon Square, London
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 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
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025
🕐 Time: 13:00–14:30
📍 Location: Gordon Square, London
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
📚 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 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
📚 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 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
📅 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
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
📅 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...
More details and registration:
🔗 aqs.org.uk/event/agrari...
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📢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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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.
📅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.
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 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
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Join a panel of distinguished commentators on Quebec history and politics.
📅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.
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/...
➡️ www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 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/...
➡️ www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
📣 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
📍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
📣 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
📍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...
📅 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
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...
📅 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...
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...
October 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📚 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...
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...
📣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...
🎓Join an inspiring community specialising in the study of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States.
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📣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...
🎓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...
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...
September 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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...
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...
September 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM