I've spent years visiting memory sites in Chile and Argentina. I wanted to visit memory sites in my home country, The Netherlands, with those experiences in mind: not to compare the violence, but to think about how different societies have commemorated it.

Visiting Dutch memory sites as a Latin Americanist: Kamp Vught

I've spent years visiting memory sites in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru. I've started doing the same in the Netherlands: Westerbork, the Oranjehotel, and most recently concentration camp Vught. My...

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Event in Leeds on July 27th with Ivanir dos Santos : Race, Religion and Resistance in Brazil Sign up: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... @slaslatam.bsky.social @mariekeriethof.bsky.social

⚖️ Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history Read more in @liverpooluni.bsky.social's Dr @mariekeriethof.bsky.social's latest article written for @theconversation.com ↙️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/19/b...

Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history - University of Liverpool News

Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history

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Help celebrate Tallersol's 48th Anniversary on Saturday August 30th @ 8pm with poetry, theatre, music... --> Compañia 2085 3er Piso, Plaza Brasil, Santiago @slaslatam.bsky.social @mariekeriethof.bsky.social @modarchivesucla.bsky.social

Article submitted this morning! On to the next project: my plan for the summer is to revise an article and finish another one.

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I’m on holiday in Rome but I can’t help popping into an archive I’m planning to visit in the future! Solidarity with Brazilian women and activism against torture in Brazil.

Memorial for Chile Democrático - one of the international networks for Chilean exiles - in Rome. I had seen the address on many documents and it was great to see the plaque in person.

Very sad to hear that Colin Henfrey has died, an iconic figure in Chile solidarity & Brazilian sociology. He gets an honourable mention in an article and a chapter I've written on Chile solidarity in Liverpool. I remember him as a very kind and passionate person. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Colin Henfrey obituary

Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain

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Lovely UKLAH social in Liverpool this evening. Hoping to pop my head in tomorrow to reconnect with old colleagues! @mariekeriethof.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

My latest blog post - "Before Chile: Vietnam War Protests and Solidarity in Liverpool" - in which I investigate the roots of local solidarity. Plot reveal: the rivalry with Manchester also matters in international solidarity! open.substack.com/pub/marieker...

Before Chile: Vietnam War Protests and Solidarity in Liverpool

The roots of international solidarity in student newspapers and local activism in 1960s Liverpool

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My latest book review: 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands. The book brings together three storylines: General Augusto Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998; the Nazi Walther Rauff who fled to Chile; and the human rights violations under the 1973-1990 dictatorship. open.substack.com/pub/marieker...

Book review: 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands

The role of the Nazis who fled to Latin America has long been a fascinating topic, including how they influenced the Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s.

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I went to the @livunilibrary.bsky.social to look at the @slaslatam.bsky.social archive in preparation for the Latin American History (UKLAH) conference next Friday. I found the very first conference programme from 1964, including a half-hour sherry break before lunch! Those were the days...

Learn more about our project Memories of Resistance, an online archive of dictatorship-era posters from Chile, and Tallersol, the graphic arts collective that created them. meap.library.ucla.edu/projects/mem... @richie-in-bradwell.bsky.social @slaslatam.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

New blog post about the glamour of archival research: working with microfilm. open.substack.com/pub/marieker...

Old Technologies for Modern Times: Working with Microfilm

The unglamorous realities of archival research

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Great event on anti-fascist solidarity and the Spanish Civil War in the League of Nations archives. Very inspiring to hear from the students who’ve been translating and analysing documents in Spanish & French.

And here's a link to the full article that resulted from this finding (free to read and download). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New blog post on how I ended up doing research on Chile in the Ford Foundation archives. There's always so much we can't include in our academic publications, including the origins of our ideas and the obstacles you encounter along the way. open.substack.com/pub/marieker...

New blog post on how I ended up doing research on Chile in the Ford Foundation archives. There's always so much we can't include in our academic publications, including the origins of our ideas and the obstacles you encounter along the way. open.substack.com/pub/marieker...

At the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War today, Latin American protests are often overlooked. Víctor Jara's El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (1971). Indochina es el lugar Más allá del ancho mar Donde revientan la flor Con genocidio y napalm La luna es una explosión Que funde todo el clamor

Is anyone watching the new El Eternauta TV series? Let me know what you think!

We invite you to read a new entry on our blog about #SLAS2025. Claudio Ogass, PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, shares his experiences presenting his research. Follow the link to read more: www.slasbristol2025.com/post/archive... @mariekeriethof.bsky.social

Archives and Activism in Latin America: My Experience at PILAS and SLAS 2025

This April marked my first PILAS Conference and my second SLAS Conference, following my participation in the 2023 edition in Queen’s Belfast. Both events – held at the University of Bristol – have bee...

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My latest article just out in the International History Review and it's free to download! Between Modernization and Human Rights: The Ford Foundation’s Response to the 1973 Coup in Chile. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you haven't gotten around to sending us a paper proposal yet, we're extending the deadline by two weeks!

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Call for Papers: UKLAH 2025 Annual Conference: Join us in the great city of Liverpool on June 6th 2025 @slaslatam.bsky.social @mariekeriethof.bsky.social uklah.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/c...

On the second day of the conference, we celebrated the SLAS AGM. Thanks to Marieke Riethof for her work leading the society now that she has finished her term. We welcome the new president, Sarah Bowskill (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social), and vice-president, Paul Merchant (@bristoluni.bsky.social)

Another important contribution to the REF2029 debate raising concerns over portability, and the risks to fairness of decoupling outputs from the researchers who authored them, thanks to @mmdelgado.bsky.social @rentravailer.bsky.social @milespadgett.bsky.social.

Portability within REF remains key to fairness

Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

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Very impressive exhibition about the surrealist Chilean painter Roberto Matta at Ca’ Pesaro, Venice. These are some of his more political works.

Latest news from Brazil: General Braga Netto imprisoned for coup attempt against Lula in 2022. It’s interesting to see that Brazil’s democracy has survived relatively unscathed. Also affects Bolsonaro’s aspirations for the future, which rest on military support.

Fellow Latin Americanists, what are your thoughts about Moyn's The Last Utopia? It's a sweeping argument that doesn't necessarily recognise nuances in Latin America. I also have issues with the argument that human rights eclipsed other ideologies >

We have joined Bluesky! We are the official account of SLAS, the Society for Latin American Studies, founded in 1964. We focus on all aspects of Latin American society and culture and regularly publish original research in The Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR). www.slasuk.org

SLAS | Society for Latin American Studies, UK | Latin America Research

Society for Latin American Studies objectives are to create and maintain contact between academics studying all aspects of the humanities produced by and connected to Latin Americans and Latin America...

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Just getting started over here!