Forthcoming Events
February 2010
Research Student Seminars
Shirley Pemberton, ISA PhD Student
Assessing the quality of Democracy: The case of Chile
Juan Venegas, IS PhD Student
Friday 12 February, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room G16 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Nations unbound: the "uncomfortable" tobacco history of Puerto Rico, Connecticut and Cuba, 1898-2008
Jean Stubbs, Associate Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 17 February, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G27 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
This paper is part of a wider research project linking migration and commodity production centred around ‘El Habano’, or premium Havana cigar - the luxury tobacco product for which Cuba is famous the world over, and which has also been much imitated, as the seed, agricultural and industrial know-how, and human capital were all transplanted to replicate the quality product.
Youthquake: The Politics of Youth in the Post-War United States
Ross Nicolson, Oxford
Thursday 18 February, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Pollard Room (IHR)
Latin American Bicentennials: Gender, Ethnic Communities and the Nation
Further information
Friday 19 February, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Other
A JISLAC event at the University of Swansea
Research Student Seminars
Richard Dotor and Edward Smith
Friday 19 February, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Thinking Travel Narratives: Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Picturesque Imaginary in the Aesthetic of Augustus Earle
Ricardo Cicerchia, Instituto Ravignani, University of Buenos Aires
Abstract and Bio
Monday 22 February, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Explores the narratives of nineteenth-century travel in Portuguese Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama
Speakers: Iwan Morgan (Professor of US Studies, ISA), Nigel Bowles (Director of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University) and Larry Elliott (Economics editor of The Guardian)
Thursday 25 February, 17:30 - 20:00
Venue: IALS
Symposium and book launch of Iwan Morgan, The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush (University Press of Kansas, 2009)
Research Student Seminars
Ben Lafferty
Friday 26 February, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room G21a (Senate House, Ground Floor)
March 2010
Harry Allen Memorial Lecture: The Long Origins of the Short Civil Rights Movement
Steven Lawson, Rutgers and Senior Mellon Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge
Monday 1 March, 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Further details
The Launch of 1960s Civil Rights Protest: The 50th Anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-In and the Formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Speakers include: Simon Hall (Leeds); John Kirk (Royal Holloway); George Lewis (Leicester); Peter Ling (Nottingham); Sharon Monteith (Nottingham); Joe Street (Northumberland); Stephen Tuck (Oxford); Clive Webb (Sussex)
Tuesday 2 March, 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: British Library
Eccles Centre – ISA Symposium
Further details
Registration form
Research Student Seminars
Olivia Saunders and Steven Cushion
Wednesday 3 March, 14:30 - 16:30
Venue: Room 274 (Stewart House)
Technologies of the word: towards a Caribbean literary orality
Hyacinth Simpson, Ryerson University, Canada
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 3 March, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The focus of the presentation is on current developments, as revealed in recent fiction and criticism, in the debate about the relationship between oral and print cultures, the spoken and the written word, and voice and text in Caribbean political and literary history.
We the people, the consumers: Cultures of consumption and the politics of free trade, 1832-1860
Jo Cohen, Pennsylvania
Thursday 4 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Pollard Room (IHR)
The Politics of Violence in El Salvador
Mo Hume, Dept. of Politics, University of Glasgow
Wednesday 10 March, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
War, Revolution and Society in the Rio de la Plata, 1808-1810: Seminar and Book Launch
Malyn Newitt, Emeritus Professor of History, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King’s College
Abstract and Bio
Thursday 11 March, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: The Jessell Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Local Communities and Biodiversity Conservation in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
Roberto Pedraza of the 'Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda', Mexico. http://www.sierragorda.net/
Friday 12 March, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
In association with the 'World Land Trust' www.worldlandtrust.org
Research Student Seminars
America's distorted image of China, 1780-1953
Mara Oliva, ISA PhD Student
Democratic Enlargement Revisited: A Strategic Evaluation of American Democracy Promotion under Bill Clinton
Nick Bouchet, ISA PhD Student
Friday 12 March, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
European and Caribbean? The European Union's Policy to the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories
Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan University/Caribbean Chamber of Commerce
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 17 March, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The presentation will explore European policy towards the Caribbean, whether British and Dutch Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) or independent Caribbean territories.
"The Poor and Loafering Class of Whites are about on a Par with the Slaves": Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old South
David Brown, Manchester
Thursday 18 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Pollard Room (IHR)
Research Student Seminars
Caterina Perrone, Dylan Vernon and Sarah Fearn
Friday 19 March, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room G21a (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Climate Change and Development in Latin America
"Climate Change and Latin America: an overview"
Graham Woodgate, ISA
"Climate Change and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: paying for ecosystem services"
Anthony Hall, LSE
"Human Security and Local Governance: negotiating environmental risk management under rapid urbanisation in the Yucatan"
Michael Redclift, KCL
Friday 19 March, 14:00 - 18:00
Venue: Room G27 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
In association with King's College, London
CANCELLED
Globalisaton and Latin American Development
Lynn Stephen, Director, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
Monday 22 March, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
US, Venezuela, Argentina: A Triangular Relationship?
John Hughes, ISA Robin Humphreys Fellow
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 24 March, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room G16 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Explores the policy relationships among the US, Venezuela and Argentina during the George W Bush administration.
Contemporary Argentina - Reading of the last decade
Further details
Friday 26 March, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Other
A JISLAC event at the University of Edinburgh
Research Student Seminar
Adolfo Suarez
Friday 26 March, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
April 2010
Old rebellions to serve the present : Construction of collective memories on slave rebellions in the Caribbean
Further details
Thursday 8 April, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Other
A JISLAC event at the University of Bordeaux
Kinship and Abandonment in the Andes
Jessaca Leinaweaver, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Brown University
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 14 April, 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
This presentation focuses on the unmaking of kinship, the sloughing off of relations, and the social process of abandonment in the Andes using case studies from research in Ayacucho, Peru.
Our national character, our national purpose: American presidents, democracy promotion and global order
Call for Papers
Wednesday 28 April, 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
May 2010
How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
Professor Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University
Abstract and Bio
Wednesday 5 May, 17:00
Venue: Other
Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Through compelling analysis and rich historical examples that span the globe and range from the thirteenth century through the present, foreign policy expert Charles Kupchan explores how adversaries can transform enmity into amity—and he exposes prevalent myths about the causes of peace.
Co-sponsored by SOAS
Latin American Liberalism
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, Ground Floor)
The Problem of Emancipation: Ideology and the Fate of Land Redistribution during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Nichola Clayton, Sheffield
Thursday 6 May, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Pollard Room (IHR)
South American Archaeology Seminar
Saturday 8 May, 10:30 - 18:00
Venue: Institute of Archaeology
Latin American Music Seminar
Saturday 15 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Other
Venue: The Macmillan hall, ground floor, Senate House.
Jointly organised with the Institute of Musical Research.
For further information please contact Henry Stobart (h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk)
Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Roundtable discussion
Thursday 20 May, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: The Pollard Room (IHR)
Please contact Adam Smith for further information: a.i.p.smith@ucl.ac.uk
Women and US Foreign Policy
Keynote speaker: Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President Clinton’s NSC Staff Director (1993-97), US Ambassador to the United Nations (1995-2001), and author of 'The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might' (2005)
Call for Papers
Friday 21 May, 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: to be confirmed
June 2010
Revolutions! U.S. and Spanish-American Independence Compared
Sir John Elliott (Oxford), James Dunkerley (Queen Mary University), Simon Newman (Glasgow University), Anthony McFarlane (University of Warwick).
Wednesday 2 June, 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: British Library
This event is sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, and will be followed by a wine reception.
£6 (£4 student / unwaged)
Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic Journal
Colin and Gillian Clarke
Wednesday 16 June, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Seminar and book launch of 'Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic Journal', Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
From Duvalier to Preval: Haiti Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Keynote speakers:
Professor Anthony Maingot, Emeritus Professor, Florida International University
Professor Michael Dash, New York University
Professor Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University, Mass
Further details
Monday 21 - Tuesday 22 June, 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: IALS
Convenors: Paul Sutton, London Metropolitan and Kate Quinn, ISA
Supported by the David Nicholls Memorial Trust
The Historical Roots of Social Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Call for papers
More details (PDF)
Thursday 24 - Friday 25 June
Venue: IALS
Beyond the Fur Trade: The French in Michigan before 1837
Guillaume Teasdale, York University, Toronto
Thursday 24 June, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue: STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
This paper explores the French roots of the city of Detroit, founded by France in 1701 and taken over by Britain and the United States respectively in 1760 and 1796.
Abstract and Bio
July 2010
To Make Democracy Safe for the World: The Southern U.S. Sources of the Global Push for Privatisation
Nancy MacLean, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of History and African American Studies and Interim Director of Latina and Latino Studies, Northwestern University
Bio
Thursday 1 July, 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: to be confirmed
The James Bryce Commonwealth Fund Lecture
Plenary address for the 2010 Historians of the Twentieth Century United States conference hosted by Sussex University