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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌐NEW BLOG tinyurl.com/562pjpce What happens when an archaeological site, increasingly regarded as national heritage, occupies the same land as one of the most powerful US corporations in Central America?

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌐NEW BLOG 🔗https://tinyurl.com/37apt7z2 📌The idea for the conference stemmed from a simple realisation: while UCL boasts an extraordinarily rich array of expertise on the Americas across diverse fields and disciplines, its scholars remain widely dispersed.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🌐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.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🔥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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🌐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.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🌎 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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📢 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

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UCL Social Data Institute @uclsocialdata.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🌐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?"

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🌐 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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🌐 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...

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies @slaslatam.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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...

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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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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🌐 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..."

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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...

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🔥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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🌐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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🌐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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🥳 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

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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...

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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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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📅 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...

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🌐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

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UCL Social Data Institute @uclsocialdata.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🌐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

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Ursula Hackett @uhackett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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...

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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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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐 How can higher education institutions play a stronger role in supporting their local communities? By Emily Morris, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of the Americas. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc5hpd2f

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐 What Insights Can Latin America Offer on Global Politics in the Trump Era? By Dr Pablo Uchoa, a former PhD student at the UCL Institute of the Americas. 🔗 tinyurl.com/j4mbvvnr

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🗓️Mark your calendars! 🔗Full list of events with registration details available on our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My review of Carlos Aguirre’s and William Fisher’s terrific book on the Lima prison printworks.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🥳UCL Americas staff nominated for 2026 Student Choice Awards🥳 We are delighted to announce that several of our colleagues have been nominated for Student Choice Awards at the UCL Student Union! 👉 tinyurl.com/aue94yy9

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐 Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared? By Prof Francesca Lessa and Prof Lorena Balardini. 🔗 tinyurl.com/27vfd2cy

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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Emma Day at @uclamericas.bsky.social looks at how, in the late 20th c., the American prison system expanded in ways that denied women—esp. working-class & women of color—adequate medical care for HIV-AIDS and reproductive, chronic, and other illnesses. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Fire Inside: Women Protesting AIDS in Prison since 1980 | Modern American History | Cambridge Core

The Fire Inside: Women Protesting AIDS in Prison since 1980 - Volume 5 Issue 1

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📢Are you a doctoral student in/around London looking for teaching experience? We are looking to hire postgraduate teaching assistants (PGTAs) for our BA History and Politics of the Americas programme, starting Sept 2026. Apply: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 8 April 2026

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared? Prof Francesca Lessa and Prof Lorena Balardini discuss the future of memory, truth and justice in Argentina. tinyurl.com/yeyeztjw

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Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared?

Javier Milei has taken steps to dismantle Argentina’s human rights policy since entering office in 2023.

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

NEW BLOG POST How does the Chilean state justify lithium extraction as ‘green’ while Indigenous communities document water depletion, ecosystem damage, and the erosion of their territorial rights? 🔗 tinyurl.com/3ebpts9v

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis Prof Gareth Davies 📅 25 March | 14:30 - 16.00 | Room 103 🎟️ Free tickets → tinyurl.com/msc847sd Why do efforts to protect Americans from disaster often leave them more vulnerable to catastrophic loss?

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Event tomorrow! Take-up, Resistance & Transformation of Corporate Governance Codes in Peru Speaker: John Lawrence ⏲️ 13.00 - 14.30 📍 Room 103, 51 Gordon Sq 🔗 tinyurl.com/uvfkdhn2

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

BLOG POST: Caribbean Politics and the British Monarchy: Decolonisation, Republics and Reparations In this post, Grace Carrington, Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of the Americas, discusses the research she conducted as part of the Visible Crown project. tinyurl.com/5n6bm2bd

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

BLOG POST: The Anti-Monumentas and the Politics of Public Space in Mexico City Fernando Gutiérrez discusses findings from his PhD thesis, part of which was published in the research article ‘Feminists versus monuments? From protests to anti-monuments in Mexico City’ blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

New blog post: "The Anti-Monumentas and the Politics of Public Space in Mexico City" by Fernando Gutierrez, written on a pale sage background with a photo of Hemiciclo a Benito Juárez.

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