Events archive

40 Years since Operation Condor: Justice without Borders

Javiera Blanco (Chile’s Minister of Justice) , Amerigo Incalcaterra (UN OHCHR) , Patricio Walker (President of the Senate) , Pablo Ouviña (Prosecutor in the Argentine Operation Condor trial) , Luz Palmás Zaldua (Centre for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina) , Laura Elgueta Díaz (survivor of Operation Condor) , Eduardo Contreras (human rights lawyer) , Alejandro Solis (former judge, Human Rights Unit of the Ministry of Defence, Chile)

17 December 2015 - 9:00am to 18 December 2015 - 1:00pm

Between late November and early December 1975, Operation Condor was formally created in Santiago at a meeting of South America’s security forces. It was a secret transnational network of intelligence... Read more

Latin American Main Seminar

Income and Wealth Inequality in Latin America: Is the region becoming more equitable?

Andrés Solimano, Professor of Economics, CAF Fellow 2015

4 December 2015 - 5:00pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk. Oxford

Latin American History Seminar

The Making of Modern Parliaments in the Hispanic World: Spain and New Granada from a Symbolic Perspective, 1810-1831

Jorge Luengo, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

3 December 2015 - 5:00pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Crime and Security in Latin America

Daniel Ortega (CAF-Development Bank of Latin America); Adam Baird (Coventry University); Annette Idler (University of Oxford); Graham Denyer Willis (University of Cambridge)

3 December 2015 - 2:00pm

InvestCorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford

Programme: 2.00-3.30 Presentation of the report 3.30-4.00 Coffee 4.00-6.00 Panel on: Crime, violence and security in Latin America

Latin American Main Seminar

The Transformative Constitutionalism of the Global South. How Do Some Constitutional Courts (e.g. the Colombian) Do What They Do and Get Away With It?

Aquiles Arrieta, Assistnat Magistrate at the Colombian Magistrate Court, Visiting Research at the Latin American Centre.

2 December 2015 - 2:00pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Latin American Main Seminar

Democracy & liberalism in Latin America: 50 years of historiography

Malcolm Deas and Eduardo Posada Carbo

1 December 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Malcolm Deas: "Strange and surprising similarities between Colombian and English liberalism in the politics of the mid-nineteenth century" Eduardo Posada-Carbo: “Democracy and liberalism in Latin... Read more

Latin American Main Seminar

Ethnography at the margins: Warrants, puzzles, and narrative strategies

Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin.

27 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford.

Book launch: "The Economic Accomplices of the Dictatorship in Argentina: Outstanding Debts to Settle"

Horacio Verbitsky; Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Leigh Payne; Gabriel Pereira; Camilo Sanchez; Chantal Mouffe

26 November 2015 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Argentine Ambassador’s Residence, 49 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8QZ

Horacio Verbitsky and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky bring together contributions, from more than twenty specialists, in this book that aims to reveal complicity that existed between economic and other... Read more

Latin American History Seminar