Networks

The Institute hosts or plays an active role in a number of academic networks:

Associate Fellows

A group of academics working on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada, mainly based in London, who collaborate actively with the Institute. Follow the link for the list of members. Meets five times per year.

JISLAC

A five-year British Academy-funded network which supports seminars around the UK, as well as the development of web resources to promote academic expertise and library resources. The project will end in March 2012. Follow the link for more details.

Standing conference

A network of representatives of university departments of Latin American studies in the UK which plays an advocacy role for the study of the region. Meetings are held twice a year. The link above is to the constitution of the Standing Conference.

Commodities of Empire

The Commodities of Empire Network is an official British Academy Research Project. It is a collaboration between ISA and the Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies.

Crises of Capitalism in the Americas Research Network

Westminster in the Caribbean

Caribbean Postgraduate Network

HOTCUS (Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States)

A network of historians established by Professor Iwan Morgan. Holds an annual conference which is hosted by a different university each year.

Social Policy in Latin America Network

A network of academics from the Institute, the University of Oxford and the University of Costa Rica. The network has hosted conferences and produces publications, including a special issue of the Economy and Society journal on Latin American Capitalism: Economic and Social Policy in Transition, Volume 38, No 1, February 2009.