Apr 28, 2014 | Brazil, Latin America, South America
by Mr Alan Charlton I was struck during my period as British Ambassador to Brazil (2008-2013) by the powerful contribution the UK had made to Brazil’s development. I was also struck by how little was known about this nowadays in both countries. These connections...
Apr 1, 2014 | Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
By Dr. Michela Coletta In the early nineteenth century, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wrote: ‘We do have information concerning America and its culture, especially as it had developed in Mexico and Peru, but only to the effect that it was a...
Mar 31, 2014 | Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean
By Kristine Juncker, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow Recently, the University Press of Florida posted information online about my first book, Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería. I began working on the book more...
Feb 19, 2014 | Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, Peru, South America
by Dr Malayna Raftopoulos, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2013-14 On 1 March 2006 the municipality of Chachapoyas held a press conference to publically announce one the world’s highest waterfalls, Gocta, measured at 771 metres. The ‘discovery’ of the waterfall, by the German...
Jan 31, 2014 | Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, Peru, South America
byMalayna Raftopoulos, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow The foundation of the National University of Toribio Rodriquez de Mendoza in September 2000 and its subsequent opening in July 2001 marked an important stage in the provision of higher education in the department of...
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