UCL Americas Research Network Annual Conference: Histories of Inequality

The UCL Americas Research Network is delighted to present its sixth annual conference: Histories of Inequality, to be held virtually on 1 June 2021. Join an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the historical antecedents of our era’s entrenched injustices and inequities across the Americas. This one-day conference will consider the structural injustices that defined and continue to define the overlapping crises of 2020/21, including glaring health disparities, systemic racial and gender inequalities, growing economic stratification, and environmental degradation. 

We are excited to announce that Professor Gareth Davies (UCL) will deliver a keynote lecture on the racial politics of US disaster relief. Drawing on research from his forthcoming monograph, A Nation at Risk, Professor Davies’s lecture will examine the racial disparities at the heart of U.S. responses to Gulf Hurricanes in the latter decades of the twentieth century. You can consult the provisional conference programme via the link below:

Registration is open until 31st May 2021. Please direct any enquiries to: uclresnet21@gmail.com.