Events archive

Latin American History Seminar

The Roots of an Elusive Andean Identity: A Brief History

Enrique Ayala, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar

5 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Enrique Ayala Mora was until recently Rector of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador. He completed his DPhil in modern history at Oxford and has published extensively on the history and... Read more

Latin American History Seminar

'The Late Spanish Translation of The Federalist in Latin America and the Concept of ‘Federalism’ in Argentina'

Rebeca Viguera Ruiz, University of La Rioja and St. Antony’s College

28 April 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Rebeca Viguera-Ruiz is PhD in Modern History. Associate Professor at University of La Rioja since 2011. She is currently a Senior Visitor at Oxford University (St. Antony´s College), and she has also... Read more

Latin American History Seminar

‘Revolutionary elections in the Americas, 1800-1910’

Professor Andrew Robertson (CUNY, New York), Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó

10 March 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

The RAI, 1a South Parks Road

Andrew Robertson is Associate Professor at the City University of New York. His publications include The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in Britain and the United States, 1790-1900 (1995);... Read more

Latin American History Seminar

‘Migrants, monuments, and the emergence of a Hispanic history of the United States, 1900-40’

Dr Carrie Gibson

3 March 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Latin American History Seminar

‘Lawless robbery under the volcano: British cultural commentators on revolutionary Mexico, 1920-40’

Professor Alan Knight

25 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Alan Knight is Professor Emeritus of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Antony's College. He works on C20 Latin America, chiefly Mexico, with a focus on... Read more

Latin American History Seminar

‘Music in the colonial “Republic of Indians”: Appropriations, resistance, success stories’

Professor Leonardo Waisman (Cambridge)

18 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford

Leonardo Waisman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Argentine National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) and the current Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at the University... Read more

Latin American History Seminar

‘The invention of nature: Alexander von Humboldt's new world’

Andrea Wulf, in conversation with Professor Yadvinder Malhi

11 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

The RAI, 1a South Parks Road

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf’s 'The Invention of Nature' (John Murray, 2015) reveals the profound influence of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von... Read more

Latin American History Seminar

The Anti-totalitarian Utopia? Solidarność and the Global South During the 1980s

Kim Christiaens (University of Leuven), Paul Betts (discussant)

4 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

The European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

"From the moment the independent Polish trade union Solidarność developed into the first mass opposition movement in Eastern Europe, supporters inside and outside Poland have been keen to... Read more