Welcome to the Institute for the Study of the Americas
The Institute for the Study of the Americas promotes, co-ordinates and provides a focus for research on the Americas - Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States.
- The State of the Union: Policy Consensus and Division in the US Administration
24/05/13 - 10:00, British Library - Yumkin – Mayan Experimental Music
31/05/13 - 15:30, Room G35 (Ground Floor) - The Right to Truth, Justice and Reparation in Latin America
04/06/13 - 09:30, The Court Room (Senate House, first floor)
- Forthcoming Deans Seminar: Enlightening the khipu: views on the Incas’ writing system in 18th century learned circles
- Relaunch of the Latin American and Caribbean Research Portal
- ISA opens call for Visiting Stipendiary Fellows for academic year 2013-14
- ISA conference grant scheme re-opens for 2013-14
- New regional seminar series grant scheme announced for 2013-14
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Latin America at a Crossroads: Between Globalisation and Regionalisation
23/05/2013 - 24/05/2013 -
CLIMATE AND CULTURE CHANGE IN THE ANDES FIELD SCHOOL
06/06/2013 - 21/08/2013 -
2013 Youth Summer School in Ecuador: Ecuador’s new model of development and the perspective for Latin American integration
22/07/2013 - 16/08/2013 -
SYMPOSIUM THINKING THE LATIN AMERICAN RIGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
23/01/2014 - 25/01/2014
Professor Linda Newson
Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas
Linda Newson is a Professor of King’s College London (KCL) specialising in Latin America during the colonial era. She is Chair of the British Academy’s Latin American and Caribbean Panel and member of its International Engagement Committee. Professor Newson is a former member of ISA’s Advisory Council and previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Cambridge, and is currently strategic reviewer for at the Arts and Humanities Research Council and serves on the international panel for Endangered Archives at the British Library.
Her research interests include: Latin America and the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period; the impact of colonial rule on indigenous societies; the Portuguese slave trade to Spanish America; and the history of medicine in early colonial Spanish America.
The Institute for the Study of the Americas is part of the School of Advanced Study
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