Events archive
1 December 2017 - 9:15am to 6:45pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
This conference looks forward to Colombia’s post-conflict era and asks what sort of challenges are to be expected. Specifically, presentations will focus on politics, equitable development, and... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Angel Smith, University of Leeds and St. Antony’s College
30 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Angel Smith is Reader in Modern Spanish history at the University of Leeds. His major monographs are Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923... Read more
30 November 2017 - 12:45pm to 2:15pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Guisell Morales is the Ambassador of Nicaragua in the United Kingdom (since 2015) and Ireland (since 2016). He arrived to the UK in 2012 as Chargée d’Affaires. Previously to that, she had developed... Read more
Julio Guzman
29 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Why Peru does not graduate: the elusive transition from growth to development Julio Guzman was a presidential candidate in 2016 whose candidacy was finally blocked owing to a technical deficiency... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Luisa Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
In recent years the UNHCR has hailed Latin America as the new avant-garde of generous refugee protection. Is there evidence for significant liberalization of refugee legislation in the region and how... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Romy Sánchez, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Jesús Sanjurjo, University of Leeds
27 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
Fourth François-Xavier Guerra Seminar – jointly organized with the Centre de reserche d’histoire de l’Amerique Latine at du monde ibérique (CRALMI), University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Please... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Alejandra Irigoin, LSE
23 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Alejandra Irigoin is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, where she teaches Latin American Economic History and Early Modern global history. Her research on... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Andreas Schedler, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
21 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
The common definition of “democratic consolidation” as a situation in which democracy has turned into “the only game in town” (Linz and Stepan 1996) describes a “self-reinforcing equilibrium” in... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Carlos Pérez Ricart, St. Antony’s College
16 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Carlos A. Pérez Ricart is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Contemporary History and Public Policy of Mexico at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Political Science and in Latin American Studies... Read more
16 November 2017 - 12:45pm to 2:15pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Roberto Calzadilla was appointed as Ambassador of Bolivia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in January 2014. He also serves as Bolivia’s Ambassador to Ireland and Permanent... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Mahrukh Doctor, University of Hull
14 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
The main argument presented is that institutional modernisation is a slow and incremental process in Brazil. It draws on research recently published in Business-State Relations in Brazil: Challenges... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, University of Winchester
9 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is currently principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th-20th centuries)’ in... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge
7 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
I will discuss my recent ethnographic work on the ethical lives and collective political action of two unions of state employees in Argentina. I examine how activists in both unions create themselves... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Monica Serrano, El Colegio de México
3 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
**Special Seminar - Please note this is a Friday** Although from the outset prohibitionist drug control policies have been at odds with human rights logics, academic research on the interaction... Read more
3 November 2017 - 12:45pm to 2:15pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Genaro Vicente Pappalardo Ayala was appointed as Ambassador of Paraguay to the United Kingdom in March 2017. Prior to that, he has served as the Ambassdor of Paraguay to India, Charge d'Affaires of... Read more