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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships call for applications opens August 23 2017

UCL Institute of the Americas is pleased to announce the latest British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships call for applications, with a first stage deadline of Wednesday 18^th October 2017. Initially, we ask that applicants interested in pursuing their research at UCL Institute of the Americas first contact Dr Paulo Drinot (paulo.drinot@ucl.ac.uk) to discuss research interests and approach a potential mentor at the Institute, after which the applicant should complete a draft application on Flexi-Grant, the British Academy’s online grant application system (available from 23rd August). The draft application should not be submitted on the online system but downloaded and sent along with one referee report to Institute Manager Abi Espie at ia-manager@ucl.ac.uk by our internal deadline of Friday 15th September. Further details of this scheme can be found via this link to the British Academy website.

Publication date: 17 August 2017

Kevin Middlebrook BBC Interview on NAFTA Renegotiations

Kevin Middlebrook, Professor of Latin American Politics at UCL Institute of the Americas, talks to BBC's Dan Damon about the rounds of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ) negotiations starting this week between Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Publication date: 17 August 2017

UCL Americas success at first undergraduate open day

We are pleased to report on the success UCL Americas met at its debut presentation to prospective undergraduate candidates over the latest UCL-wide open days held on June 30 and July 1. UCL Americas has just launched two undergraduate programmes, BA History and Politics of the Americas (UCAS code T7V1) and BA History and Politics of the Americas with Year Abroad (UCAS code T7V2), for first intake in September 2018. We would like to thank all those who attended our open presentations to full house capacity and came to visit us at the drop in sessions. Prospective candidates are invited to contact us for inquiries and to arrange individual visits to the institute.

Publication date: 3 July 2017

Canada-UK Foundation reaffirms significant long-standing funding to UCL Americas Canada programme

The Canadian Studies programme at the UCL Institute of the Americas - now in its fifth year - is to receive further external funding for 2017-18 from the Canada-UK Foundation, which is the main organisation in the UK dedicated to providing funding for Canada-related academic and other programmes.

Publication date: 30 June 2017

UCL Americas supports campaign to celebrate LGBT+ pioneers

As part of the two week Pride Festival in London, UCL Institute of the Americas proudly collaborates with Proximity London, who have created Love Lived Here, a campaign to celebrate pioneers of the LGBT+ movement throughout British history.

Publication date: 26 June 2017

UCL Americas Sebastian Smart Co-edits Book on Human Rights in Chile

We are pleased to announce the imminent of 'Chile and The Inter-American Human Rights System' co-edited by Sebastián Smart, PhD candidate at UCL Americas, together with Karinna Fernández and Cristián Peña.

Publication date: 23 June 2017

UCL Americas New Undergraduate Degree Programmes

We are very pleased to launch our first undergraduate degree programmes in 2018. Students will be able to choose from our History and Politics of the Americas BA or our History and Politics of the Americas BA with a Year Abroad. Learn more about this exciting development here.

Publication date: 26 May 2017

Iwan Morgan's Article on 'the White House battle'

The Prospect has published an article by Iwan Morgan, Professor of US Studies at UCL Americas and Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at UCL History, on the 'turf war between Steve Bannon’s group and cabinet officials'. Read the article in full here.

Publication date: 12 May 2017

Funding Success for UCL Americas Alumna

The Institute of the Americas congratulates Phoebe Martin, a former student of the Institute, who has been awarded doctoral funding by the LAHP/AHRC consortium. Phoebe will work under the supervision of Dr Paulo Drinot, UCL Institute of the Americas, and Dr Jelke Boesten, KCL Department of International Development, on a project on feminist activism and cultural contestation in contemporary Peru.

Publication date: 12 May 2017

Dr Nick Witham wins the Society for US Intellectual History Dorothy Ross Prize

Dr Nick Witham, Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of the Americas, has been awarded the Society for US Intellectual HIstory’s 2017 Dorothy Ross Prize.  The prize is awarded each year to the best article is US intellectual history written by an emerging scholar. Nick's article, “Popular History, Post-War Liberalism and the Role of the Public Intellectual in Richard Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition (1948)”, was published in the Historical Journal in December 2016. 

Publication date: 11 May 2017

Successful book launch of 'Intermediation and Representation in Latin America: Actors and Roles beyond Elections'

UCL Americas was honored to host the launch of 'Intermediation and Representation in Latin America: Actors and Roles beyond Elections', one of the latest titles to appear in the Palgrave series Studies of the Americas. Two of the co-editors, Gisela Zaremberg (FLACSO Mexico), left, and Valeria Guarneros-Meza (De Montfort), right, discussed their work and engaged in a productive Q&A session with our guests.The session was chaired by Professor Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology at UCL Americas and chief editor of the series.

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Maxine Molyneux Interviewed by Argentina's Pagina 12

Read Pagina 12's interview to UCL Americas Professor of Sociology, Maxine Molyneux. (Spanish only).

Publication date: 27 March 2017

UCL Americas Course at Foreign and Commonwealth Office

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship at UCL Americas

We are pleased to announce the success of our bid to gain one of these competitive awards, led by Dr Kate Quinn (UCL Americas) and Dr Elizabeth Cooper (The British Library). The Institute of the Americas (University College London) and the British Library are now inviting applications for the fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship: Future Pasts: British-Caribbean Popular Culture and the Politics of History, 1948-1998. The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm, Friday, 14 April 2017 and shortlisted candidates will be invited promptly for interviews held on 24 April 2017.

Publication date: 7 March 2017

Sir Keir Starmer MP delivers the UCL Americas Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture

credit photo: Vickie Flores - http://www.vickieflores.com Publication date: 2 March 2017 UCL Americas announces successful bids for research funding Maxine Molyneux and Par Engstrom have both been awarded funding for Global Exchange projects. Professor Molyneux’s funding is to establish a comparative oral history of Second Wave Feminism in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Dr Engstrom’s is for the development of a collaborative project on drug policy and human rights in Latin America. We warmly congratulate them. Publication date: 9 December 2016 Professor Maxine Molyneux to serve on DFID Advisory Panel Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology at UCL Americas, has been appointed to serve on the advisory panel of a large scale research project on Social Accountability in Social Protection at the Department for International Development (DFID). The research will be conducted in 5 countries and is to be carried out by Development Pathways. Publication date: 8 December 2016 UCL Americas Team Produces Report on Colombian Peace Process for PBI UCL Americas PhD candidates Jaskiran Chohan and Ivan Lobo produced a report for Peace Brigades International UK (PBI UK), on the occasion of two separate visits of two distinguished Colombians to the UK: President Santos and renowned Colombian human rights lawyer Reinaldo Villalba from the organisation José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers' Collective (CCAJAR). UCL Americas had the honour of meeting the latter during his stay in London. To read the report please follow this link to the PBI UK's website here. Publication date: 2 December 2016 Iwan Morgan's Reagan Book Named One of Best Politics Books of 2016 by The Times Professor Iwan Morgan's book 'Reagan: American Icon' has been named one of the best politics books in 2016 by The Times. Read the article here - registration is required. Publication date: 28 November 2016 Global Drug Policy, Human Rights and Public Security: Perspectives from Latin America - Report This report is based on the discussions of a workshop convened by the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), UCL Institute of the Americas, and UCL's Global Governance Institute in June 2016 to assess the outcomes of the United Nations Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS). The event, which brought together representatives from academia, civil society, and government, was held under Chatham House Rule. Please follow this link for the full document.  Publication date: 18 November 2016 UCL Americas Hosts Renowned Human Rights Lawyer UCL Americas was delighted to host Reinaldo Villalba from the renowned Colombian human rights organisation José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers' Collective (CCAJAR) and Susi Bascon from Peace Brigades International (PBI) UK on Thursday 3 November. Together with UCL Americas PhD students Jaskiran Chohan, Ivan Lobo, and Sebastian Smart, Dr Par Engstrom expressed his gratitude to Reinaldo for the invaluable opportunity to discuss with him the current state of the peace talks and the important work of CCAJAR in Colombia. Publication date: 18 November 2016 International Journal of the Commons Publishes UCL Americas PhD Candidate Ivan Lobo's Article on the Colombian Pacific Region Building upon case-based evidence this paper explores the role of leaders in Ecomanglar, a community-based enterprise in the Black collective territory of La Plata-Bahía Málaga in the Colombian Pacific Basin, whose purpose is to provide eco and ethno-tourism services. The paper proposes an analytical framework to understand the role of these leaders based on the interaction of two dimensions: institutional transfer channels and operational capacity. It also analyses leaders as essential ‘brokers’ to initialise and sustain collective action. The findings challenge approaches which view collective action as an emergent decentralised group-oriented outcome. Read the article here. Publication date: 19 October 2016 Iwan Morgan CNBC Interview on Clinton's Nomination Iwan Morgan, Professor of U.S. Studies at University College London's Institute of the Americas, says Hillary Clinton must convince Americans that she represents change. Watch the interview here.  Publication date: 9 August 2016 View archive of all news, past and future