🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mr3n2heu 📌In this post, Par Engstrom considers the human rights dimensions of externalised migration control in the Americas and what role the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) can play in addressing accountability in the new migration regime.

🔥We’re pleased to publish our annual report for the academic year 2025-26! The report provides an overview of all our activities, including events, publications, and reports by staff and PhD students. The report can be read in full at the link below. tinyurl.com/muwk5cz7

Congratulations graduates! You have completed degrees that are intellectually demanding, unique, and critical for our times; degrees that prepare you to understand the complexities of several disciplines, especially of a region at the heart of global change.

🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p5adnu9 In this blog post, Mercedes Crisóstomo, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL History and a former PhD student at the Institute of the Americas, discusses her research on radical women in the Peruvian Andes in the 1950s and 1960s.

🌎 Imperfect Labour Markets and Persistently High Inequality - The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review 🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/c7t3aktm 👉The fourth post in the LACIR Series discusses how market imperfections exacerbate economic inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

📢 We're hiring! Lecturer (teaching) in US History. See job posting for more details: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/5fek9j4j Deadline: 5th August 2026 Salary: £54,931-£64,644 Fixed-term position

Check out the journal article by our Deputy Director, Caroline Parker, and Community Health and Translation Project Officer Daniela Larrain (UCL Anthropology)👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vnasza3 #Prisons #UCL #LatinAmerica #Health #Anthropology

🌐NEW BLOG 👉 Beyond Compliance: Why Precautionary Measures Still Matter in Nicaragua by Clara Burbano-Herrera 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2eu2ecap "What is the value of an international protection mechanism when a government systematically refuses to comply with, or simply ignores, its decisions?"

🌐 New blog post! 📌The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review: The Nature and Determinants of High Inequality of Opportunities by Daniel Alves 🔗https://tinyurl.com/94unubwj

🌐 New blog post! 📌The Brazilian Gender Quotas after 30 years 🔗Read now: tinyurl.com/39khccyz 🎞️Watch Malu's speech at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies: www.youtube.com/live/-Sm5d18...

🔥 Now available for preorder! Circuits of Black Power: Global Networks of Caribbean Activism Edited by Dr Kate Quinn floridapress.org/978168340631...

🌐 New blog post! 📌The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review: Indicators, Measurement, and Dynamics of Economic Inequality 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3y9t6577

EVENT: Thinking Latin American Cities brings together researchers to discuss urban scholarship in Latin America. Speakers: Prof Catalina Ortiz and Dr Fernando Gutiérrez 📅 10 June 26, 17:30 📍 @uclamericas.bsky.social, Free and open to all More info: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Thinking Latin American Cities: A Dialogue

Join a dialogue on researching Latin American cities, bringing together PhD students and early-career researchers to discuss urban scholarship, challenges and collective thinking.

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🌐 New blog post! 📌 Love Letter to Buenos Aires: A Year Abroad in Argentina 🔗 tinyurl.com/n3fcpbm4 "A year on, I am proud to say my accent is sickeningly Argentinian and I can now order at my butcher’s without receiving a confused glance over the chopping block..."

What does it means to document atrocity? Why does impunity so often outlasts the regimes that practiced it? What does justice look like? Dr Francesca Lessa interviewed by Casa Carlini on Operation Condor. Full interview: casacarlini.com/blogs/interv...

Institute of the Americas at LASA in Paris today! #LASA2026 Roundtable discussion: Designing Research for Social Impact in Latin America

🔥Now booking! 📅 03 June | 17:00 - 19.00 | LG26, Bentham House 🎟️ tinyurl.com/5n7kjs4f Dr Ursula Hackett delivers the UCL Institute of the Americas Annual Lecture

🌐NEW BLOG 👉From 26 to 30 May, the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) will hold its annual congress in Paris. UCL Institute of the Americas will have extensive representation. The theme of this year’s meeting is ‘Republic & Revolution’. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ynhdjpa4 By @paulodrinot.bsky.social

Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S-Mexico Talk by Prof Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social 📅 26 May | 16:30 | Room 103, Institute of the Americas UCL 🎟️ Free event | All welcome! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/mr4b5bua

🚨 TONIGHT! 6pm 🚨 'The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

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🌐NEW BLOG "Today’s modern Andean nations were never part of the British Empire. How, then, did their dead come to be here?" 👉Britain’s Andean Dead: Museums, Memory, and the Afterlives of Independence by Christopher Heaney: tinyurl.com/ycx48xrv

🥳 Congratulations to Sandra Wiñay Rodríguez Castañeda (PhD student, UCL Institute of the Americas) on being published in the Latin American Research Review! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2db623jb

Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire 13 May 6pm Unrelenting lawfare by non-elite Spaniards, Indigenous people, women & the enslaved, led to weakened theocracy, curtailed native lordship, reshaped law and forged an order in 1570s under viceroys, bishops & inquisitors www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

ucl.ac.uk

NEW BLOG tinyurl.com/mu8un5wy Why does inequality remain so persistently high in Latin America and the Caribbean, despite decades of notable social, political, and economic changes? 👉This is the first of a new series presenting the key findings of the Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review.

📅 Mark your calendars! Here are all upcoming events in term 3. Full details and registrations are available via the QR code or at the following link: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Join us! 🌐Lecture: Corruption, Economic Cycles, and Political Accountability in Latin America Carlos Scartascini is Leader of the Research Department Behavioral Economics Group and Principal Leader at the Inter-American Development Bank 📅 06 May | 14:00 - 16.00 | Room 103, 51 Gordon Square

🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐 👉In this post, Lea Happ discusses some aspects of her doctoral research on abortion, feminist movements, and the politics of knowledge in Argentina. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ysru6px2

For a decade, our Internship Programme has partnered with organisations across sectors to deliver real-world impact. Join us to celebrate this milestone and discover how you can collaborate with top-tier talent from one of the world’s leading universities. 🔗 Book your spot: tinyurl.com/soda10y

🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐 👉In this post, Malu A. C. Gatto reflects on her experience organising the Writing Academy, a training and mentorship programme to support Brazilian doctoral students in political science to publish in international journals. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2p5adnu9

I'll be delivering the UCL Institute of the Americas Annual Lecture on June 3 (5–7pm), marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence @uclamericas.bsky.social. Join us for 'The Declaration of Independence and the Politics of Inaction' - tickets here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

The Declaration of Independence and the Politics of Inaction

Dr Ursula Hackett delivers the UCL Institute of the Americas Annual Lecture

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