Institute of the Americas
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Events
Talk: 'The impact of Chinese economic growth on development in Latin America'
Start:
May 2, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End:
May 2, 2013 7:30:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas welcomes Prof Rhys Jenkins (East Anglia) to deliver the 2013 Annual Globalisation and Latin American Development Lecture.
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of China’s economic relations with Latin America, which have grown rapidly over the past decade and have made China the major trade partner for a number of countries in the region.
Commonwealth Fund Colloquium Lecture: Gary Gerstle on 'The Liberal State in an Age of Consensus, 1945-1960'
Start:
May 9, 2013 6:00:00 PM
End:
May 9, 2013 7:30:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) and UCL History Department welcome Gary Gerstle (Vanderbilt and Oxford Universities) to deliver the 2013 Commonwealth Fund Colloquium Lecture on 'The Liberal State in an Age of Consensus, 1945-1960'.
Talk: A Cinematic Lincoln for 1930s Hard Times: John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln
Start:
May 13, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End:
May 13, 2013 2:00:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) is pleased to invite you to this illustrated talk by Prof Iwan Morgan (UCL-IA), part of the UCL Festival of the Arts.
Inaugural Lecture - Prof Maxine Molyneux: 'Recent Migrations to, and within the Americas'
Start:
May 14, 2013 6:30:00 PM
End:
May 14, 2013 8:00:00 PM
Maxine Molyneux is a political sociologist specialising in Latin America. She has written widely on development theory and policy, citizenship and rights, social policy, social movements and gender inequality.
In this lecture, Prof Molyneux explores the two waves of migration began in the Americas commencing around 1960. One from the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to the USA, Canada and Spain; the other, a more moderate but still significant trend of inter-regional migration within Latin America. What light do these movements of people cast on the debates about migration? How far did they transform the societies that exported and imported these new migrant waves?
Premiere of a new play: 'Razones por las que Luchar' and photography exhibition
Start:
May 15, 2013 6:00:00 PM
End:
May 15, 2013 8:00:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) warmly invites you to a short play entitled 'Razones por las que luchar', created and performed by 'Latin American Girls Stand Up!', a group of young Latin American women migrants resident in London, directed by Amy Rosario of the Latin American Women's Rights Service. Please consult the program for the event here.
IHR Seminars on American History: 'Paradoxes of Marriage and Slavery in Early North America'
Start:
May 16, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End:
May 16, 2013 7:00:00 PM
Seminar: 'M.G. Smith and the Report on 'The Ras Tafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica' (1960): A Case Study of Applied Colonial Social Anthropology''
Start:
May 16, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End:
May 16, 2013 7:30:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) is truly honored to host distinguished Caribbean scholar, Prof Robert Hill (UCLA) to deliver this paper, part of UCL-IA's series of Caribbean seminars.
Film screening: 'Suarez Gold: Afro-Colombian Miners Defending Their Heritage'
Start:
May 17, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End:
May 17, 2013 8:00:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA), in conjunction with ABColombia, is pleased to invite you to the screening of “Suarez Gold: Afro-Colombian Miners Defending Their Heritage” (H.Morris).
Conference: 'China in Latin America'
Start:
May 21, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End:
May 21, 2013 5:00:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) gladly hosts and supports this conference, organised in conjunction with UCL History Department.
This one-day conference convenes specialists working on important aspects of China’s involvement with Latin America. The programme will begin with a history of the Chinese diaspora focusing on the different patterns of migration taken by Chinese workers on their journey to the Americas. Against this background speakers will then examine Sino-Latin American relations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This theme will be analysed through the two sides’ respective political economies and through the impact of China’s investments on emerging markets. Health diplomacy offers a final perspective through which to trace China in Latin America.
Public Lecture: 'The Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture'
Start:
May 22, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End:
May 22, 2013 8:30:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) is inaugurating an annual lecture to mark Eleanor Roosevelt's contribution to various aspects of American politics and history, notably liberalism, internationalism, the New Deal, the United Nations, civil rights, women's rights, and the Democratic Party. Each year we will host a distinguished scholar to speak on one of these subjects. Eleanor Roosevelt's own contribution may feature but this will not always be the case - the remit is to explore topics that engaged her.
Talk: 'Propaganda in the Americas: A Historical Evaluation'
Start:
Jun 10, 2013 6:30:00 PM
End:
Jun 10, 2013 8:00:00 PM
UCL-Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) gladly co-sponsors this talk, to take place at the Conference Center, British Library.
Book Launch: 'Cuba Under Raul Castro: Assessing the Reforms'
Start:
Jun 13, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End:
Jun 13, 2013 7:00:00 PM
UCL-Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) is truly honored to welcome Professor Carmelo Mesa-Lago (Pittsburgh) for the launch of this, his latest book.
Conference: 'Report on the Americas 2013: Economies in Flux'
Start:
Jun 14, 2013 9:45:00 AM
End:
Jun 14, 2013 8:00:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) hosts this conference, with the participation of eminent scholars and experts: Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will provide a keynote presentation, followed by a host of distinguished guest speakers, including Professor Carmelo Mesa Lago (University of Pittsburgh), Dr Diego Sanchez Ancochea (St Anthony’s College, Oxford University), Dr Mahrukh Doctor (University of Hull), John Bowler (Economist Intelligence Unit), Professor Ricardo Ffrench Davis (ECLAC) and UCL-IA's Professors Maxine Molyneux, Iwan Morgan and Victor Bulmer-Thomas, amongst others.
Conference: 'Assessing Westminster in the Caribbean: Then and Now'
Start:
Sep 19, 2013 9:30:00 AM
End:
Sep 20, 2013 7:00:00 PM
UCL - Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) proudly hosts this international conference, with keynotes by Professors Norman Girvan and Brian Meeks (both University of West Indies). Other distinguished scholars include Dr Henrice Altink (York), Dr Clifford Griffin (North Carolina State University), Prof David Hinds (Arizona State University) amongst others. Please consult the complete list of speakers.
