Forthcoming Events
An active programme of seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences creates an opportunity for informed dialogue on matters of contemporary and historical relevance.
Established seminar series include those on US politics, history and culture; Latin American studies, including cultural studies; Caribbean studies, and Canadian studies, ensuring a full diary of evening activities during term-time.
Focused workshops will continue to explore leading-edge issues with respected researchers in the field, while public conferences and lectures aim to attract significant names for the London audience. Many events aim for a publications outcome to enhance dissemination of recent, high-quality research.
February
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): China's Century
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 23 February
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Nation Building: African American women's experiences and work in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975
Speakers:
Dawn-Marie Gibson (RHUL)
Chair: Emily West
Date:
Thursday 23 February
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
'The Return of the Indian': An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Class and Ethnicity in the Andes
Speakers:
James Dunkerley, QMUL
Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University
Herve do Alto, Sciences Po
Sergio Huarcaya, Royal Holloway
Paulo Drinot, Institute for the Study of the Americas
John Cameron, Dalhousie University
Fabricio Pereira, UNILA Federal University of Latin American
Integration
Andrew Canessa, University of Essex
Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge
Carmen Soliz, NYU
Alice Guimarães, Universitat de Barcelona and
Thomas Grisaffi, LSE
Jose Peres, Universitat de Barcelona
Tristan Platt, University of St Andrews
Date:
Monday 27 February
Time:
10:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
An end to poverty in Brazil? An assessment of poverty reduction and elimination processes
Speakers:
Guy Burton is a research associate at the LSE Ideas Centre, based on
their Latin America programme. He is the current Acting Director of
the Centre for Development Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine,
and a a former MSc student at ISA (2004-05).
Date:
Tuesday 28 February
Time:
12:00 - 14:00
Venue: Room 270 (Stewart House)
Caribbean seminar series: Panel: Small Territories, Global Issues: Governance and Corruption in the Caribbean
Speakers:
Peter Clegg, UWE: The Turks and Caicos Islands: Can the cloud be
banished?
Dr Peter Clegg is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of
the West of England in Bristol, and in 2009/2010 he was a Visiting
Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and
Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies in
Jamaica. He has published widely on the Caribbean, and teaches a range
of courses on Latin American and Caribbean Politics.
Dylan Vernon, ISA: Our Turn to Feed: Big Implications of Rampant
Political Clientelism in Small State Belize
Dylan Vernon is a United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholarship Fellow
currently in his third year of completing a PhD in Caribbean Politics
at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the School of
Advanced Study, University of London. The presentation is based on his
thesis (in progress) on the nature and implications of rampant
political clientelism in Belize. Prior to ISA, his career included
directing the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research in
Belize (1994-1998), chairing the Belize Political Reform Commission
(1999-2000), managing the United Nations Development Programme in
Belize (2000-2005), chairing the Advisory Council on the Guatemalan
Claim (2005-2009), lecturing at the University of Belize, and private
consulting in the development sector.__
Date:
Wednesday 29 February
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
March
Para leer a América Latina: Comics, Graphic Novels and Collective Memory
Speakers:
Cristian Castro García (University of California-Davis): Many a true
word is spoken in jest: Rius, Pinochet and the Chilean coup d' etat
seen through international political cartoons, 1973-1974
Ernesto Priego (University College London): The Silence of Mexican
Comics: Representation, Identity and Collective Memory
Amanda M. Ledwon (The University of Texas at Dallas): In Retrospect
it's not that funny: Solidarity through the Comic Books of the 1985
Mexico City Earthquake.
Christiane Berth (University of St. Gallen): Comics in a
revolutionary context: Educational campaigns and collective memory in
Sandinista Nicaragua
Jorge Catalá-Carrasco (Newcastle University): How to read Cuban
history in the medium of comics
Edoardo Balletta (Università di Bolonia): Como hacer la revolución
con palabras (y dibujos): representación y performatividad de la
historia en la obra de H.G. Oesterheld
Taylor Jardno (Yale University): Drawing, Reading and Rewriting
Argentina's Future: Héctor Germán Oesterheld's El Eternauta and
Militant, Military and Party Politics of Memory, 1952-2010
Paulo Drinot (Institute for the Study of the Americas): Cyber-Cuy:
Remembering and forgetting the Peruvian Left.
Cynthia E. Milton (Université de Montréal): 'Rupay'/ 'Heat': comics
as means to broach stories of political violence in Peru
Edward King (University of Cambridge): Implanted Memories in the
Argentine comic book Cybersix
James Scorer (University of Manchester): Remembering in a Genre You
Never Had: Gonzalo Martínez's Road Story
Date:
Thursday 1 March
Time:
10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 349 (SH)
The U.S. Economy: Can It Regain Its Mojo?
Speakers:
Phil Mullan (Managing Director, Easynet Global Services)
Date:
Thursday 1 March
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Speakers:
Alejandro Cañeque (University of Maryland, USA)
Date:
Tuesday 6 March
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Decolonisation
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 8 March
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
'Strength and Unity' in American Science: Hugo Munsterberg and the St. Louis Congress of 1904
Speakers:
Robin Vandome (Nottingham)
Date:
Thursday 8 March
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Women and Latin American Independence: history, politics and culture.
Date:
Tuesday 13 March
Time:
09:30 - 17:30
Venue: Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Caribbean Seminar Series: The Cuban economy since the Revolution
Speakers:
Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, ISA Honorary Research Fellow
Date:
Wednesday 14 March
Time:
17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Room 349 (SH)
International conference: Textiles, Techne, and Power in the Andes
Date:
Thursday 15 March - Saturday 17 March
Time:
10:00 - 16:00
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Challenges to Human Security and the Santos Administration
Speakers:
Jennifer Schirmer (University of Oslo)
Par Engstrom (Human Rights Consortium, SAS)
Jenny Pearce (Peace Studies, University of Bradford)
Markus Schultze-Kraft (IDS, Sussex)
Others tbc
Date:
Friday 16 March
Time:
13:00 - 19:00
Venue: Macmillan Hall
The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography
Speakers:
James Dunkerley (QMU)
Date:
Tuesday 20 March
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Liberal Constitutionalism in the Americas: Theory and Practice
Speakers:
_Confirmed Participants: _Prof. Kenneth Maxwell (Visiting Professor,
Harvard University), Dr Max Edling (Loughborough University), Dr
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent), Dr Marta Irurozqui
(CSIC, Madrid), Dr Adrian Pearce (KCL).
Date:
Wednesday 21 March
Time:
13:00 - 16:30
Venue: The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Liberties and Empires: Writing Constitutions in the Atlantic World, 1776-1848
Speakers:
Professor Linda Colley (Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History,
Princeton University)
Date:
Wednesday 21 March
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Institute of Education
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Neo-Imperialism
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 22 March
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The Presidential Difference: White House Leadership in the Civil War Era from James Polk to Abraham Lincoln
Speakers:
Fred Greenstein (Princeton University)
Date:
Thursday 22 March
Time:
18:00 - 20:00
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
April
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): The Politics of Race
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 5 April
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Cuba in the 21st Century
Speakers:
Rafael Hernandez and Prof. Carlos Alzugary
Further speakers TBC
Date:
Tuesday 17 April
Time:
10:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Liberalism and Religion: Secularisation and the Public Sphere in the Americas
Speakers:
_Confirmed Participants_: Dr Christopher Abel (UCL), Dr Gregorio
Alonso (University of Leeds), Prof. Guy Thomson (University of
Warwick).
Date:
Wednesday 18 April
Time:
13:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Revolutionary Religion? Liberalism and Catholicism in Post- Revolutionary Mexico
Speakers:
Dr Matthew Butler (University of Texas, Austin)
Date:
Wednesday 18 April
Time:
17:00 - 18:30
Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Postwar Western Europe
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 19 April
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Research Students' Conference
Speakers:
Ben Lafferty
Richard Dotor
Mara Oliva
Stephen Cushion
Dylan Vernon
Shirley Pemberton
William Booth
Geoff Goodwin
Alejandra Serpente
Edward Smith
Nicolas Bouchet
Michael Espinoza
Sarah Fearn
Carmen Sepulveda Zelaya
Juan Venegas
Date:
Thursday 26 April - Friday 27 April
Time:
09:30 - 17:30
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
May
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group)
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 3 May
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
BOOK LAUNCH: The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan
Speakers:
Robert Mason (Edinburgh)
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Cambridge and Chicago Loyola)
Iwan Morgan (ISA).
Date:
Thursday 3 May
Time:
17:30 - 20:30
Venue: Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Harry Allen Memorial lecture: Fifty Years On: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
Speakers:
Professor Mark White (QMUL)
Date:
Thursday 10 May
Time:
17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group)
Speakers:
Chair: William Booth, ISA; Rosy Rickett (University of
Manchester)
Date:
Thursday 17 May
Time:
15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
South American Archaeology Seminar
Date:
Saturday 19 May
Time:
10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Institute of Archaeology
