May 11, 2018 | Brazil, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
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...
Apr 30, 2018 | Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
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...
Mar 9, 2018 | Bolivia, Latin America
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...
Feb 1, 2018 | Argentina, Latin America
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...
Dec 5, 2017 | LAC and the World, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
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...
Nov 13, 2017 | Argentina, LAC and the World, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America
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...
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