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Roundtable to mark anniversary of Che's death

UCL Americas was honored to organise and host a roundtable to mark the 50th anniversary of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's execution in Bolivia. Eminent scholars and eye witnesses to the event got together to offer their views and insights on different aspects of Che's complex personality, as a man, policy-maker and legend. This event, which took place on October 9th, was convened by Dr. Emily Morris, UCL Institute of the Americas Honorary Research Fellow and chaired by Dr. Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History, UCL Institute of the Americas and editor ofChe's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America. A podcast of the presentations and discussions is available here.

Publication date: 16 October 2017

Chilean University Delegation Visits UCL Americas

Professor Ana María Yévenes, Director of the Department of Family Studies of Finis Terrae University in Santiago, Chile, visited UCL Institute of the Americas with ten of her students to meet with Professor Maxine Molyneux. The purpose of the visit was to meet with scholars in the field and to make students aware of the opportunities in Europe for further study and research in  family and gender studies. To this end, UCL Institute of the Americas and Cambridge were the two UK universities that were selected to visit. Professor Molyneux was asked to talk about her current policy-related research on gender and the family and a lively seminar and exchange of information about ongoing research took place.

Publication date: 2 October 2017

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 18th 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

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

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

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

Sir Keir Starmer 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

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