IA Events
- Open House Event
- Redesigning Devolution: International Lessons for the UK
- Induction
- Talk: 'A history of bigamy in Quebec and Nova Scotia: social and legal trends from 1763 to 1962'
- Venezuelan Elections Panel
- Lecture: 'Does Latin America Exist?'
- Talk: 'The Caribbean in the Age of Free Trade'
- Book Launch: 'Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism 1898-1909'
- Talk: 'The Electoral Uses of Constitutional Decision: the Supreme Court, Obamacare and the Elections of 2012'
- Film screening: 'Golden Scars' (2010)
- US Elections Panel
- Talk: 'The Caribbean in the Age of Preferences (1900-1960)'
- Film screening: 'Impunity' (2010)
- Talk: 'The Lost World of American Conservatism'
- Talk: 'The Caribbean in the Age of Globalisation (1960-)'
- Panel on Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Book Launch: 'The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil'
- Book Launch: 'America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-century Europe and Latin America'
- Conference: 'Social Change and the Sporting Mega-event'
- Talk: 'Coups and talk of coups in Latin America again: what does it all mean?'
- Panel: 'The Left in Latin America: Recent Development and Future Prospects'
- Roundtable discussion: 'Violence against Women in Post-conflict Societies: Comparative Perspectives'
- Seminar: 'Daunting challenges still facing post-earthquake Haiti'
- Seminar: ''Anglo-Conformity': Assimilation Policy in Canada, 1890s - 1950s'
- Talk: 'International Development in Action'
- Seminar: 'Conflict and Convergence: US-Canadian relations since 1776'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Embodying Race in Colonial Spanish America'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Rent versus Production: Political Economy and Economic Culture in Venezuela, 1830-2010'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Conceiving Freedom: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'How (and Why) Brazilians Developed Dependency Theory and How They Have Come to Disprove it'
- Seminar: 'Women resist Exploitation in Central America and South Africa: what lessons can we learn?'
- Roundtable discussion: 'Colombia 2013: Towards ending the longest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere?'
- IHR Seminars on American History: ''I Didn't Think Rape': Gendered Expectations and Memories of the Leesburg Stockade Jail-in, 1963'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel': Un-Americans and The American Legion'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'Profits for Panthers: The Black Panther Party's publishing strategies and the financial underpinnings of activism, 1968-1975'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'Revisiting Sixties Historiography: The Links between Student Activism and the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Chicago'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'Ethnic Power! The Politics of White Ethnicity 1964-84'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'War, money, and the American State, 1783-1867'
- IHR Seminars on American History: ''The Old Lion is Dead': The Reception of Theodore Roosevelt's Death'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'Edward Isham's Honour: Manhood and Class in the Antebellum South'
- IHR Seminars on American History: 'Paradoxes of Marriage and Slavery in Early North America'
- Panel: 'Race and the Pink Tide'
- Talk: 'CalHERban's Reason: Women and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy'
- Panel: 'New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature'
- Film screening: 'Abuela Mambo' (Mexico, 2012)
- CANCELLED: Book Launch: 'Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America: Lessons from Costa Rica'
- Seminar: 'The New Commonwealth and Cultural Diplomacy in the 1960's: Canadian and Australian art at the Tate Gallery, 1962-1964'
- Seminar: 'The Canada-UK Colloquium, Vancouver, November 2012: a Report'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'The Crisis of Mexican Conservatism: What was it? What is it? And where does it go from here?'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Municipal Government and the Radical Challenge, Peru, 1870s to 1910s'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Imagining Democracy in Spanish America, 1800s - 1850s'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Joaquim Nabuco, Abolitionism and the End of Slavery in Brazil'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'The Anarchist Movement in Argentina in International Perspective'
- CANCELLED - IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Mitayos or Kajchas: Revisiting Labour and Government in Eighteenth-Century Potosi'
- IHR Seminars on Latin American History: 'Of Imperial Centers and Edges: The Problem of the Atlantic (World) for Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg Empire'
- Lunch Hour Lecture: 'Obama's America: The significance of the 2012 elections'
- Workshop: 'The Return of the PRI in Mexico: An Initial Assessment of the Pena Nieto Administration'
- Talk and Acoustic Performance by Cuban/British collaboration X Planet
- Symposium: 'Radical Americas'
- Seminar: 'The Changing Presidential Politics of Disaster: from Calvin Coolidge to Barack Obama'
- Panel: 'Economic Recovery in Obama's Second Term'
- Public Lecture: 'The Richard Neustadt Lecture on the American Presidency'
- Book Launch: 'Seeking a New Majority: The Republican Party and American Politics, 1960-1980'
- Talk: 'No Room for Fear: Mapping the Hollywood Transition, 1947-1962.'
- Talk: 'Canada and the Americas - Past, Present and Future'
- Inaugural Canadian Studies Lecture
- Symposium: 'Retracing America: Modernism after Paul Strand'
- Inaugural Lecture - Prof Iwan Morgan: 'The US Deficit Habit: What are its causes and what lessons does history offer for breaking it?'
- **CANCELLED** Inaugural Lecture - Prof Maxine Molyneux: 'Recent Migrations to, and within the Americas'
- Talk: 'Ignorant Negroes, Tyrannical Masters: William Burnley and Caribbean Slavery'
- Talk: 'Forty Years After: Politics and Society in Chile and Latin America'
- Seminar: 'King's North? Security and Sovereignty in the Canadian Arctic, 1939-1948
- Seminar: 'M.G. Smith and the Report on 'The Ras Tafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica' (1960): A Case Study of Applied Colonial Social Anthropology''
- Seminar: 'After the Referendum: Where next for UK-Argentine relations?'
- Panel: 'Confronting Water Injustices: Experiences from Latin America'
- Seminar: 'Affirmative Action in Brazilian Universities: Ethnography of a Social Movement'
- Conference: 'Movies for Hard Times: Hollywood and the Great Depression'
- Public Lecture: 'The Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture'
- Book Launch: ' US Presidents and Democracy Promotion'
- Public Lecture: Prof Bruce Cumings on 'Holding the Peace Since the Korean War? the Armistice at 60'
- Talk: Prof Mark Thurner on 'The Colonial Invention of Global History'
- Talk: Prof Hal Klepak: 'The First Signs of the Man He Was to Be: Churchill in Cuba, 1895'
- Conference: 'Quebec and the World'
- Book Launch: 'Politics and Power in Haiti'
- Book Launch: 'Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil'
- Talk: 'The impact of Chinese economic growth on development in Latin America'
- Talk: 'Ecuador's New Economic Vision: Growth, Redistribution and Sustainability'
- Seminar: '‘I’m Starting a War with Spain Tomorrow’: Inside Canada’s Fisheries Crisis of 1995'
- Panel: 'Venezuela After Chavez'
- Commonwealth Fund Colloquium Lecture: Gary Gerstle on 'The Liberal State in an Age of Consensus, 1945-1960'
- Talk and book launch: 'Toward a New International History of the Vietnam War'
- Book Launch: 'Cuba Under Raul Castro: Assessing the Reforms'
- Book Launch: 'Rethinking Reforms: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Escape Suppressed World Growth'
- Premiere of a new play: 'Razones por las que Luchar' and photography exhibition
- Talk: A Cinematic Lincoln for 1930s Hard Times: John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln
- Conference: 'Assessing Westminster in the Caribbean: Then and Now'
- Conference: 'China in Latin America'
- Talk: 'Propaganda in the Americas: A Historical Evaluation'
- Film screening: 'Suarez Gold: Afro-Colombian Miners Defending Their Heritage'
- Seminar: 'The Patriation of the Canadian Constitution 1980-1982'
- Talk: 'The 2013 Paraguay Elections'
- Book Launch: 'The Paraguay Reader'
- Talk: 'The Achievements and Limits of Political Regime Change under the PAN Governments in Mexico'
- Seminar: 'Reflections on the Radical Caribbean Intellectual: From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Walter Rodney'
- Book Launch: 'Che Wants to See You: The Untold Story of Che in Bolivia' (Verso, 2013)
Announcements
- New Courses for 2013/14
- Studentships are available for study at Masters' level
- MSc International Relations of the Americas
Tweets by @UCLAmericas
Induction
Publication date: Sep 24, 2012 8:33:20 PM
Start:
Sep 28, 2012 2:00:00 PM
End:
Sep 28, 2012 4:00:00 PM
All Research and Masters students 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PN
2.00 pm Welcome from Professor Molyneux Director UCL-IA
2.10 pm Introduction to UCL-IA Administrative Staff
2.15 pm Introduction to UCL-IA Academic Staff: teaching and research.
2.45 pm Breakaway groups:
Paulo Drinot: Research Students
Par Engstrom: Latin American Studies MA
Kevin Middlebrook: Latin American Politics MSc
Iwan Morgan: US Studies: History and Politics MA
Kate Quinn: Caribbean and Latin American Studies MA
Graham Woodgate: Globalisation and Latin American Development MSc
3.15 Staff available in their offices for individual queries.
4.00 PGA Reception
Friday 28 September - 4:30 to 6:30pm UCLU Phineas Bar, 25 Gordon Street
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