Past Events
on Latin America
February 2010
Capitalising on Women's Social Capital? Gender and Microfinance in Bolivia
Kate Maclean, King's College London
Abstract and Bio
Monday 8 February, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room 275 (Stewart House)
Research Student Seminars
Carmen Sepulveda and Alejandra Serpente
Wednesday 3 February, 14:30 - 16:30
Venue: STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Impunidad ante la violencia sexual como arma de guerra en Colombia
Jineth Bedoya Lima, Universidad Central de Colombia
Abstract and Bio
Tuesday 2 February, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Jointly organised with Oxfam Link
The talk will be in Spanish but an interpreter will be available for a summary and questions in English
January 2010
The Political Contradictions of Incremental Innovation: Lessons from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination in Brazil
Ken Shadlen, LSE
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 27 January, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
This paper examines the political contradictions of neo-developmental patent regimes, which aim to foster wide use of knowledge by local actors while also encouraging incremental innovations. It uses the case of pharmaceutical patent examination in Brazil to illustrate the political tensions inherent to such a strategy.
Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
Maxine Molyneux (ISA), Gareth A Jones (LSE), Dennis Rodgers (Manchester), Caroline Moser (Manchester), Kees Koonings (Utrecht), Monique Sonnvelt (Utrecht), Graham Denyer Willis (MIT), Dominique Behague (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Tuesday 19 January, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: IALS
Seminar and Book Launch: Gareth Jones and Dennis Rodgers (eds.), Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
Book Flier (PDF)
Supported by the Crisis States Research Centre, LSE
In Dialogue with Brazilians in Diaspora
Programme
Confirmed speakers include:
Carlos Mellinger, President of Casa do Brasil
Gabriela Boeing, Communications, IOM (International Organization for Migration)
Daniel Clark, Baptist pastor
Dr Cathy McIlwaine, Queen Mary University of London
Claudio Souza, ABRIR (Associação Brasileira de Iniciativas Educacionais no Reino Unido)
Ambassador Valter Pecly Moreira, Brazilian General-Consulate in London
Tuesday 19 January, 17:00 - 21:00
Venue: Room 274 (Stewart House)
The main theme of the day is the ‘practical realities facing Brazilians in London today’. There will also be a ‘poster session’ for researchers to present their work (see programme for details).
December 2009
Lugo's First Year: Democracy and Governance in Paraguay
Peter Lambert, University of Bath
Wednesday 2 December, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G16 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Fifty Years on from the Cuban Revolution: The State of Things Today and Where Next?
Tony Kapcia, Nottingham University
Emily Morris, ISA and London Metropolitan University
Hal Klepak, Royal Military College of Canada
Abstracts and Bios
Tuesday 1 December, 14:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, Ground Floor)
November 2009
South American Archaeology Seminar
Programme
Saturday 28 November, 10:30 - 17:30
Venue: Institute of Archaeology
Sex and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Programme
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 November, 09:30 - 17:30
Venue: Other
A JISLAC seminar organised by CEDLA and NALACS in the Netherlands and supported by the British Academy
Latin American Music Seminar
Programme
Saturday 21 November, 10:30 - 17:30
Venue: Lecture Theatre, IALS
Jointly organised with the Institute of Musical Research.
Reflecting on four years of government of the MAS party and the 2009 Bolivian elections
Co-hosted by the Bolivia Information Forum
Programme
Friday 20 November, 14:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
This workshop will focus on the last four years of government of Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism Party, the key issues in the upcoming presidential elections and what the future may hold for Bolivia. The workshop will provide a forum for reflection and discussion of current Bolivian politics and society. Being held just before the national elections, the workshop will open a space to reflect more widely on events leading up to the poll, and to provide a broader evaluation of the first four years of the government of President Evo Morales.
Deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco: an ecological disaster?
Dr Jose Luis Casaccia Varas, Environmental Prosecutor in the Attorney General’s Office and former Paraguayan Minister of the Environment, and Dr Alberto Yanosky, Executive Director of Guyra Paraguay
Wednesday 18 November, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room G27 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The politics of plebiscites. Chavez in South American context
George Philip, London School of Economics
Wednesday 18 November, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: IALS
L103 and L102
Between statistics, the state and daily life: language policies and identities in the Andes
Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University
Wednesday 4 November, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Exploring La Milpa: a Classic Maya city in Belize
Norman Hammond, Boston University
Abstract and Bio
Monday 2 November, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
October 2009
The politics of presence in Latin America
Programme
Friday 23 - Saturday 24 October, 09:50 - 17:50
Venue: Other
A JISLAC seminar held at Cambridge University
The consequences of the Saint-Domingue revolution on the Spanish Caribbean: Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, 1791-1873
Antonio Pinto, ISA Visiting Doctoral Fellow
Abstract
Wednesday 21 October, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The Obama administration and Latin America
Laurence Whitehead and Abe Lowenthal
Monday 19 October, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Room G22 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Seminar and Book Launch
Book flier
Lunchtime Seminar on Brazil
Lula's Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency
John French, Duke University
Abstract and Bio
The Police Officer Was the Same Color as I' - Racial Insults, Injury, and Remedy in Brazil and the United States
Jan Hoffman French, University of Richmond
Abstract and Bio
Monday 12 October, 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
June 2009
Body, Language, and Ontology in Selected Latin American Vanguardist Poetry (Huidobro, Bandeira, Girondo, Trindade)
Bruce Dean Willis, Chair, Department of Languages, University of Tulsa and ISA Visiting Fellow
Wednesday 24 June, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Anthropology Room (ISA)
Canada and the Cuban Revolution
Speakers and Programme
Friday 19 June, 14:00 - 18:00
Venue: IALS
For more information please contact Phillip Buckner
(phillipbuckner@hotmail.com) or Kate Quinn (kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk)
Venue: Council Chamber, IALS, 17 Russell Square, WC1B
Latin America after Neoliberalism
Julia Buxton (University of Bradford), Nicola Phillips (University of Manchester), Francisco Panizza (LSE), Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (Oxford University), Pia Riggirozzi (University of Sheffield), Jean Grugel (University of Sheffield
Friday 5 June, 14:00 - 19:00
Venue: IALS
Abstract | Programme
May 2009
Respect, discrimination and violence: indigenous women in Ecuador. 1990-2007
Mercedes Prieto, FLACSO Ecuador
Tuesday 26 May, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Latin American Music Seminar
Programme
Saturday 16 May, 10:15 - 17:15
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Co-hosted by the Institute of Musical Research
Migration, Memory and Identities
Programme | Speaker Abstracts and Bios
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 May, 09:30 - 18:00
Venue: Other
Venue: Birkbeck College
30 Russell Square
South American Archaeology Seminar
Programme
Saturday 9 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Other
6th floor seminar room
The Institute of Archaeology
34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY
The Fujimori trial in Peru and its significance for the Colombian situation
Alirio Uribe Muñoz, President of Colectivo de Abogados de José Alvear Restrepo, Bogotá, Colombia
Thursday 7 May, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Convened by: Peace Brigades International – UK Section and the Peru Support Group.
PLEASE NOTE: Alirio's talk will be in Spanish, with English translation provided
Colombia: Recent Research in History, Literature and Film
Programme
Friday 1 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Other
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT LIMITED.
RSVP before April 23 to a.mcfarlane@warwick.ac.uk
A JISLAC seminar funded by the British Academy
April 2009
The Crisis of Public Security and Challenges to Judicial Reform in Mexico
Arturo Alvarado, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México
Thursday 30 April, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Labour Standards and Social Justice: Theory and Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean
Programme | Abstract
Friday 24 April, 14:00 - 17:30
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Latin America and the Caribbean in the Global Financial Crisis
Programme | Speaker Bios | Papers
Tuesday 21 - Wednesday 22 April, 10:00 - 16:30
Venue: IALS
Invitation only
Followed by book launch at 4.30 pm on Wednesday (all welcome)
March 2009
Middle America: Visual Culture in Mexico and Central America
Programme
Friday 20 March, 09:30 - 19:00
Venue: Other
University of Essex
Popular Sectors and Social Unrest. Peru during the War of Independence
Scarlett O'Phelan, Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge University
Wednesday 18 March, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Moctezuma II Symposium
Speakers | Poster
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 March, 13:00 - 17:00
Venue: Other
Venues:
Friday 13 – Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical research
Saturday 14 – UCL - Institute of Archaeology
Registration form
The impact of globalization on women in Central America
Sara Elizabeth Avilez Tome and Maria Amalia Reyes Cartagena, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer –Honduras (CEMH), a partner organisation of the Central America Women’s Network (CAWN)
Thursday 12 March, 10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Old Library Room, ISA
The United States and Latin America: the legacy of George W. Bush
Grace Livingston, former Guardian correspondent in Venezuela and author of America's Backyard: the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror (Zed, 2009)
Tuesday 10 March, 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
February 2009
Coffin Reading: Dreaming together: Jewish literature in Latin America
Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Academy of Letters
Monday 23 February, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Coffin Event - Organised by IGRS and co-hosted by ISA
For many centuries Jews are present in the history of Brazil and in other Latin American countries, both as marranos and immigrants. An interesting literature came out in the uneasy frontier between cultures; the work of Jewish-Brazilian writers will be analyzed.
How Truth led to Justice in Peru: The Fujimori Trial and Peru's Integral Model of Transitional Justice
Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University
Friday 20 February, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Convenor: Gaby Drinkwater, Coordinator, Peru Support Group
RSVP:gaby@perusupportgroup.org.uk
British Overseas Trade and Latin America on the Eve of Independence
Adrian Pearce, ISA
Wednesday 18 February, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Brazilian Anthropology Divided: notions of race in contemporary Brazil
Peter Fry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Tuesday 17 February, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Seminar Room 12, ISA
Abstract
Kindly supported by the British Academy
Agroecology and sustainable livelihoods: The MST in Brazil
Canrobert Costa Neto, Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro and ISA VRF
Tuesday 10 February, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Old Library Room, ISA