Events archive

Between the Maya and the Mexican Revolution: Mestizo Politics and the New Peonage in Yucatan, 1920-1933

Ben Fallaw, Colby College
30 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room
Bartolomé García Correa (1893-1978) was Yucatán’s first mestizo (mixed race) governor (1930-33), co-founded Mexico’s long-ruling P.R.I. (1928-2000, 2012-?), and was ranked among the Revolution’s... Read more

A Tale of Two Forests - Comparing the Historical Patterns of Deforestation and Conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic and Amazon Forests - 1930-2012

Jose Augusto Padua, (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Rachel Carson Centre in Munich)
28 May 2014 - 5:00pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Centre

A Tale of Two Forests - Comparing the Historical Patterns of Deforestation and Conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic and Amazon Forests - 1930-2012

Jose Augusto Padua, (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Rachel Carson Centre in Munich)
28 May 2014 - 5:00pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Centre

Rubber/Oil/Banana: Latin American Literature in the Global Commodity Order

Ericka Beckman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
15 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Taylorian Institute, Seminar Room 3

Democracy in Colombia: Past and Present

Eduardo Posada Carbó
13 May 2014 - 5:30pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College

The political economy of Venezuela after Chavez: The end of the Revolution?

Dr Jose Manuel Puente
9 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room
Dr Puente is Professor of the Public Policy Centre at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA) in Caracas. Dr Puente is currently a Visiting Research Associate at the Latin... Read more

LAC Film Series Preview: Los Dos Escobars

The film will be presented by Annette Idler, Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow and DPhil candidate in Development Studies
7 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room
Violence, football and cocaine: by using these three topics, and two major Colombian figures, a footballer and a drug lord, The Two Escobars probes the greater problems of violence in Colombia. This... Read more

Human Development as Positive Freedom: Latin America in Historical Perspective

Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, and London School of Economics
6 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room

The Founding Period of Latin American Constitutionalism

Roberto Gargarella, Universidad Torcuato di Tella and UCL
2 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room

Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in Africa, Latin America and the Former Soviet Union

2 May 2014 - 9:00am to 3 May 2014 - 4:15pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Please see the Programme below.

Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in Africa, Latin America and the Former Soviet Union

2 May 2014 - 9:00am to 3 May 2014 - 4:15pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Please see the Programme below.

CAF 2013 Report Presentation by Daniel Ortega: Enhancing Productivity in Latin America: from Subsistence to Transformational Entrepreneurship

Daniel Ortega, Senior Research Economist, CAF Development Bank of Latin America
1 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room
CAF 2013 Report “Enhancing Productivity in Latin America: from Subsistence to Transformational Entrepreneurship” Latin America’s low aggregate productivity growth is reflected in an overwhelming... Read more