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The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships

Start: May 10, 2013 10:00:00 AM
End: May 1, 2014 5:00:00 PM

The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships
The Institute of Archaeology’s new student exhibition, The Key Ingredient: Food in Social Relationships, opens to the public from 10 May 2013.

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Stable light isotopes offer new perspectives on early hominin dietary ecology

Start: Mar 17, 2014 4:00:00 PM

Julia Lee Thorp
Julia Lee Thorp (University of Oxford) will give the penultimate seminar in the Term II Institute Research Seminar series on Isotopes in Archaeology on 17 March.

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Canada, the UK and Global Health – the report of the annual Canada-UK Colloquium, November 2013

Start: Mar 17, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End: Mar 17, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Philip Peacock and Nicolas Maclean CMG - The Canada –UK Joint Declaration of September 2011, renewed and updated in February 2014, is dedicated to establishing 'A Stronger Partnership for the 21st Century between Britain and Canada'.

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Globalization and Latin American Development Annual Lecture 2014 - Joan Martinez-Alier on 'Mining Conflicts in Latin America: Drawing on Activist Knowledge'

Start: Mar 18, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 18, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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UCL-Institute of the Americas welcomes Prof Joan Martinez-Alier (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade [EJOLT]) to deliver the 2014 edition of the Globalization and Latin American Development (GLAD) Annual Lecture.

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Implications of Values-Based Approaches to Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation III

Start: Mar 19, 2014 6:00:00 PM

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A series of workshops exploring heritage values and their implications for cultural heritage management and conservation will take place at the Institute, the third of which is scheduled for 19 March.

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'Are e-petitions the junk food of democracy?' (Policy and Practice)

Start: Mar 20, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 20, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Anthony Zacharzewski set up the Democratic Society in 2006, which is a leading organisation supporting democracy and political participation. The Democratic Society undertakes projects that connect citizens and government in new ways. Current projects include working with the UK's National Health Service to create a new democratic governance structure, and creating a network of local civic activists in Sussex. The Democratic Society is the Government's civil society partner on Open Policy Making and Good Law. Before starting Demsoc Anthony worked for the UK Government, as a civil servant in the Treasury and Cabinet Office, and as director of strategy for Brighton & Hove City Council.

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Lecture: The Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ in Jeopardy: US-UK relations since 1945

Start: Mar 20, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End: Mar 20, 2014 8:00:00 PM

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Professor Alan Dobson (St Andrews) - The Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ continues to generate discussion and controversy almost seventy years after the phrase was first made famous by Winston Churchill in his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech delivered at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, in February 1946. In this lecture, Professor Dobson confronts the issue of just how special the ‘special relationship’ has been since the end of the Second World War and examines the main threats to Anglo-American harmony in that time. In so doing, he pays particular attention to the role of economic issues in Anglo-American relations rather than to better known diplomatic rows such as the Suez Crisis of 1956.

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Heritage conservation futures in an age of shifting global power

Start: Mar 21, 2014 5:00:00 PM

Heritage conservation futures in an age of shifting global power
Tim Winter (Deakin University) will give a seminar hosted by the Heritage Studies Section at the Institute on 21 March.

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Public Space and Sacrifice in Midnight Terror Cave

Start: Mar 21, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Public Space and Sacrifice in Midnight Terror Cave
James E. Brady (California State University) will give a seminar organised by the Institute's Mesoamerican Study Group on 21 March.

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Loaves or fishes? Reconstructing individual 5000-year-old dietary histories for the children of Shetland's first farmers

Start: Mar 24, 2014 4:00:00 PM

The view from southern Shetland to Fair Isle in the South
Janet Montgomery (University of Durham) will give the final seminar in the Term II Institute Research Seminar series on Isotopes in Archaeology on 24 March.

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Second Annual UCL-IA Canadian Studies Lecture: Hector Mackenzie on: Canada and the (Re)discovery of the Americas - An Historical Perspective

Start: Mar 24, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End: Mar 24, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Hector Mackenzie (Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development) - One of the distinctive emphases of the current Canadian government has been its development of an overall strategy for Canada’s relations with the Americas and the treatment of its bilateral and multilateral dealings with its neighbours in the Western Hemisphere as one of its key priorities in foreign, trade and development policies.

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Pendlebury at Amarna: Film Screening and Discussion

Start: Mar 25, 2014 5:00:00 PM
End: Mar 25, 2014 6:00:00 PM

John Pendlebury at Amarna in the 1930s
A film screening and discussion event organised by the Institute's History of Archaeology Research Network will be held on 25 March.

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'Is Russia Trying to Revive the Soviet Union?'

Start: Mar 25, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 25, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Roderic Lyne will examine the Ukrainian crisis in the wider context of Russian policy and attitudes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. What triggered the Russian threats to Ukraine? What are Russia’s objectives there? How does this fit into Russian policy towards the “post-Soviet space”? Is Russia expansionist or defensive, resurgent or vulnerable? Are we still coping with the aftershocks of the Soviet implosion – and for how long? Does Russia’s behaviour reflect a view of the world which will last beyond the Putin regime?

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IHR Latin American History Seminars: War and Independence in Spanish America

Start: Mar 25, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 25, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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The Institute of Historical Research (IHR - University of London), with the support of UCL-Institute of the Americas, hosts Anthony McFarlane (Warwick), to deliver this seminar, part of IHR's series on Latin American History. For further details, please contact the IHR directly.

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Inaugural Lecture - Prof Maxine Molyneux (UCL-Institute of the Americas) on Transnational Americans: Latin American Perspectives on Recent Trends in Pan-American Migration

Start: Mar 25, 2014 6:30:00 PM
End: Mar 25, 2014 8:00:00 PM

Prof Maxine Molyneux
Commencing around 1960, two new waves of migration began in the Americas, 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.

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The BrANCH Post Graduate and Early Career Workshop

Start: Mar 26, 2014 10:00:00 AM
End: Mar 26, 2014 6:00:00 PM

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The BrANCH (British American Nineteenth Century Historians) PG Workshop brings together UK-based postgraduate scholars working on any aspect of American history across the long nineteenth century for the constructive consideration and discussion of thesis chapters, potential journal submissions and conference papers. 

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'Panel Discussion: Chinese Investment Overseas' (Policy and Practice)

Start: Mar 27, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 27, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Lecture: Cuba in the Americas: New Developments and Possibilities

Start: Mar 27, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 27, 2014 7:00:00 PM

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Raul Rodriguez (Universidad de La Habana) -This presentation will look at Cuba´s foreign policy in the western hemisphere. It will examine the implications of recent changes in the continent for Cuba’s place in the region, including the rise to prominence of left and centre-left governments and developments in US politics.

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The Annual Canadian Studies Conference: Canadian Cities: Past into Present

Start: Mar 28, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: Mar 29, 2014 5:30:00 PM

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The conference begins at 5.30pm on Friday 28 March with a plenary session and a reception until 8.00pm. It resumes at 9.30am on Saturday 29 March with a full day of presentations until 5.30pm. You are welcome to attend for some or all of the conference. Speakers include Michèle Dagenais (Université de Montréal), Damaris Rose (INRS, Montreal), Phillip Mackintosh (Brock University), Nicolas Kenny (Simon Fraser University) and Richard Anderson (York University).

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Seal impression and the Administration of Judah during the Time of the First Temple

Start: Mar 31, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Judahite bulla with the name Hilkiyahu, son of Ma’as, from excavations at Lachish
The Institute of Archaeology and Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society will jointly host a lecture by Yuval Goren (Tel Aviv University) at the Institute on 31 March.

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Thin Section Petrography of Archaeological Ceramics Training Course 2014

Start: Apr 7, 2014 11:00:00 AM
End: Apr 18, 2014 5:00:00 PM

Thin Section Petrgraphy of Archaeological Ceramics
An intensive training course on Thin Section Petrography of Archaeological Ceramics will be run at the Institute from 7-18 April 2014 and taught by Patrick Quinn.

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Silver and Other Economies in the Viking World

Start: Apr 23, 2014 9:00:00 AM
End: Apr 24, 2014 5:00:00 PM

Viking silver arm ring
A two-day conference exploring the role of silver and other media in Viking society and economy will be held at the Institute and British Museum on 23-24 April.

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Accordia Lecture: Perceptions of Prophecy

Start: May 6, 2014 5:30:00 PM

Accordia
Nancy De Grummond (Florida State University) will give the final Accordia Lecture of the 2013-14 series at the Institute on 6 May.

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Runestone images and visual communication in Viking Age Scandinavia

Start: May 6, 2014 6:00:00 PM

Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar series 2013-14
The penultimate seminar in the 2013-14 Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series will be given by Marjolein Stern (University of Nottingham).

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Leverhulme Lecture II - Roberto Gargarella on: Two Centuries of Constitutional Debates in the Americas

Start: May 6, 2014 6:30:00 PM
End: May 6, 2014 8:30:00 PM

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Professor Roberto Gargarella (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina), is the 2014 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA). During his six-month Visiting Professorship (January-June 2014) Professor Gargarella will engage in a range of activities, including lectures, workshops, seminars, and skills exchange visits to UK universities. The full schedule of events is available here.

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Inaugural Lecture@UCL: Mike Parker Pearson

Start: May 6, 2014 6:30:00 PM

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Mike Parker Pearson will give his Inaugural Lecture entitled 'On the Road to Stonehenge' at UCL on 6 May.

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Lecture: The Politics of Coalitional Presidentialism in Latin America

Start: May 7, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: May 7, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Tim Power (Oxford) - Elections in Latin America frequently produce presidents whose parties do not command a majority in the legislature, thus forcing these executive to fashion multiparty coalitions in order to govern. This presentation examines the tools which presidents use to form and maintain interparty coalitions in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador, while assessing the impact of these same tools on governance and on democratic quality.

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Medieval Copper, Bronze, and Brass Conference 2014

Start: May 15, 2014 12:00:00 AM
End: May 17, 2014 12:00:00 AM

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This international conference, to be held in Dinant in Belgium, celebrates the rise of the copper alloy industry of Wallonia between the 12th-16th centuries and the impact it had on Medieval Europe. It is sure to be of great interest to any medieval and historical archaeologists and metallurgists.

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Archaeometry 2014

Start: May 19, 2014 12:00:00 AM
End: May 23, 2014 12:00:00 AM

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The largest gathering of archaeological scientists will be next be hosted by the Getty Conservation Institute and UCLA in Los Angeles. It promises a packed program which will most certainly include a large section on metallurgy and related pyrotechnologies.

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Methods Workshop: The Study of Democracy, International Human Rights Courts and Punishments in Latin America

Start: May 28, 2014 2:00:00 PM
End: May 28, 2014 5:30:00 PM

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UCL-Institute of the Americas hosts and co-organises together with the London Transitional Justice Network (LTJN).

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Book Launch: 'Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nature and Science in Latin America'

Start: May 28, 2014 5:30:00 PM
End: May 28, 2014 7:30:00 PM

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Introduced by co-author Peter Wade (Manchester). In genetics laboratories in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, scientists have been mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the genetic basis of complex diseases and trace population histories. As part of their work, geneticists often calculate the European, African and Amerindian genetic ancestry of populations and some scientists link their findings explicitly to questions of national identity, racial-ethnic difference and (anti-)racism, bringing their science to bear on issues of politics and identity.

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Americas Plural Lecture: Marie Arana on 'Bolivar: American Liberator'

Start: Jun 16, 2014 6:45:00 PM
End: Jun 16, 2014 8:30:00 PM

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Drawing on her new biography of the revolutionary leader, novelist and journalist Marie Arana discusses the colourful and dramatic life of Simon Bolivar.  In 1813, he launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia and Venezuela, commencing a dazzling career that would take him across the rugged terrain of South America. From his battlefield victories to his ill-fated brief marriage and legendary love affairs, Bolivar emerges as a man of many facets: fearless general, brilliant strategist, consummate diplomat, passionate abolitionist, and gifted writer.

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