The Latin American Diaries
Fostering Social Business in Brazil: Interview with Maure Pessanha at Artemisia
by Dr Jessica Sklair (Stipendiary Fellow, ILAS) On 15th May, ILAS and Canning House will jointly host the event Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: what potential for new global trends in the region?, bringing together practitioners from the business,...
The Names of Spain and Peru: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
by Professor Mark Thurner (ILAS) Professor Mark Thurner (ILAS) shares a segment from a forthcoming piece called 'The Names of Spain and Peru.' 23 April was World Book Day. Although it is unlikely that all three died on this date, the bookish celebration ostensibly...
Revolutions in Bolivia
By Into A. Goudsmit (Goldsmiths College / Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London) and Winston Moore (Anglo-Bolivian Society) On 16 March 2018, the Anglo-Bolivian Society and the Institute for Latin American Studies will host a one-day conference...
The Human Rights Champion Who Refused to be Silenced: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
by Martina Rodriguez (Birkbeck student and member of the Argentina Solidarity Campaign) The violence unleashed throughout Latin America and the serious violations of human rights committed by authoritarian regimes in the region during the 1960s and 70s (continuing...
Voices of Latin America
by the Latin America Bureau (LAB) In Latin America, a new generation has come of age over the last twenty years or so. This is a generation which has grown up in a period of relative prosperity in what has historically been one of the world’s poorest regions. It is a...
Readers in a Foreign Land: A Conversation with Ariana Harwicz
by Dr Catriona McAllister (Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Reading) Ariana Harwicz’s novel Matate, amor is rebellious, energetic, and almost impossible to summarise. It inhabits a space between poetry and prose, offering an unpredictable...
Inclusiveness in the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Accord
by Louise Winstanley (ABColombia) Women in general, and women from ethnic minorities particularly, suffered a disproportionate level of violence in the armed conflict.[1] The violence that women experience in Colombia was, and continues to be, driven and exacerbated...
The Woman Determined to Resist: Nora Cortiñas, Co-Founder of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
by Carla Torres and Daniel Ozarow The enforced disappearance of up to 30,000 citizens during Argentina’s last military dictatorship is world renowned. Having ruled the country between 1976 and 1983, the Military Junta was forced to call elections following a...
Daughter of the ‘Pampa Gringa’ and the Andes: an obituary for Ana María Lorandi, 1936-2017
by Mercedes Del Río Ana María Lorandi died in Congreso, a district of Buenos Aires, on January 31st 2017 at the age of 80. First archaeologist, later historian, she pioneered the study of Andean Ethnohistory in the University of Buenos Aires following the radical...
Creating the Atlantic’s Orphan: British Interpretations of Haiti Over Two Hundred Years
by Jack Webb, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow Since defeating the imperial armies of Britain, France, and Spain during the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), Haiti has been struggling to achieve recognition of its right to sovereignty. In Britain, Haiti has been perceived as...
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