@UCLAmericas

UCL Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and teaching on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.

 51 Gd Square, London
ucl.ac.uk/americas/
Joined January 2013
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UCL Institute of the Americas ranked 1st in the UK in Area Studies and Impact in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF). Read more about our results 🔗 ucl.ac.uk/americas/research/… #UCLResearch #REFresults
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Screening: Runan Caycu (1973) by Nora de Izcue, Peru’s first female filmmaker. Florencia Portocarrero (PUCP) discusses it with Chilean screenwriter Gonzalo Maza, who wrote Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman 🏆 📅 Wed 28 Oct, 5.30 pm 📍 Room 103, UCL Institute of the Americas
Poster for a film screening event. The event features "RUNAN CAYCU (1973)," directed by Nora de Izcue. It will take place on 28 October at 5:30 pm in Room 103, Institute of Americas, UCL, London. Commentators include Florencia Portocarrero and Gonzalo Maza. Hosted by LARC, Latin American Research Community of PhDs.

ALT Poster for a film screening event. The event features "RUNAN CAYCU (1973)," directed by Nora de Izcue. It will take place on 28 October at 5:30 pm in Room 103, Institute of Americas, UCL, London. Commentators include Florencia Portocarrero and Gonzalo Maza. Hosted by LARC, Latin American Research Community of PhDs.

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🌐NEW BLOG tinyurl.com/nhdv9ujb 👉The fifth post in the LACIR Series discusses why redistributive policies remain relatively ineffective in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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🌐NEW BLOG 🔗tinyurl.com/3m8mtat6 Welcome to the new cohort of PhD students at UCL’s Institute of the Americas! In this post, four new PhD students joining the Institute of the Americas this October discuss their research projects and what brought them to the Institute.
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🌐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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🌐NEW BLOG 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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🌐NEW BLOG 🔗tinyurl.com/mr3n2heu 📌Par Engstrom considers the human rights dimensions of externalised migration control in the Americas and what role the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights can play in addressing accountability in the new migration regime.
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Join us for our next LARC event on Sept 23! Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Director of the King's Brazil Institute and Reader in Brazilian and Latin American Studies at King's College London, will lead a conversation on Brazil's 2026 presidential elections. All welcome!
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🔥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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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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🌐NEW BLOG 🔗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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🌎 Imperfect Labour Markets and Persistently High Inequality - The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (part 4) 🌐NEW BLOG 🔗tinyurl.com/c7t3aktm
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📢 We're hiring! Lecturer (teaching) in US History. See job posting for more details: 🔗tinyurl.com/5fek9j4j Deadline: 5th August 2026 Salary: £54,931-£64,644 Fixed-term position
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🌐NEW BLOG 👉 Beyond Compliance: Why Precautionary Measures Still Matter in Nicaragua by Clara Burbano-Herrera 🔗tinyurl.com/2eu2ecap What is the value of an international protection mechanism when a government systematically refuses to comply with, or ignores, its decisions?
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🌐 New blog post! 📌The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review: The Nature and Determinants of High Inequality of Opportunities by Daniel Alves 🔗tinyurl.com/94unubwj
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🌐 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: youtube.com/live/-Sm5d18UIn8…
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🔥 Now available for preorder! Circuits of Black Power: Global Networks of Caribbean Activism Edited by Dr Kate Quinn floridapress.org/97816834063…
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🌐 New blog post! 📌The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review: Indicators, Measurement, and Dynamics of Economic Inequality 🔗tinyurl.com/3y9t6577
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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..."
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loved this fascinating blog post by Christopher Heaney for @UCLAmericas Britain’s Andean Dead: Museums, Memory, and the Afterlives of Independence blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo…
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📅 10 June | 17:30 - 19.30 | In person 📌Room 103, 51 Gordon Square 🎟️ No registration necessary Thinking Latin American Cities brings together PhD students and early-career researchers working on urban themes in Latin America to share experiences, challenges and approaches.
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