UCL Americas

@UCLAmericas

UCL Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and teaching on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.

51 Gd Square, London ucl.ac.uk/americas/ Joined January 2013

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UCL Americas @UCLAmericas May 12, 2022

UCL Institute of the Americas ranked 1st in the UK in Area Studies and Impact in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF). Read more about our results 🔗 ucl.ac.uk/americas/resea…
#UCLResearch #REFresults

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Dr Andrew Proctor, Lecturer in US Politics at the Institute of the Americas, discusses the results of the US midterms, why the night unfolded as it did, and what this might mean for Democrats and Republicans in the years ahead.

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UCL Americas @UCLAmericas Oct 28

🌐NEW BLOG
🔗tinyurl.com/mwfvfsvu

'Enforced Disappearance of Children and Reproduction (In)Justice in Peru,' By Phoebe Martin

📌What does it mean when a child disappears during armed conflict? What makes some children more ‘disappearable’ than others?

UCL Americas @UCLAmericas Oct 22

Screening: Runan Caycu (1973) by Nora de Izcue, Peru’s first female filmmaker. Florencia Portocarrero (PUCP) discusses it with Chilean screenwriter Gonzalo Maza, who wrote Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman 🏆

📅 Wed 28 Oct, 5.30 pm
📍 Room 103, UCL Institute of the Americas

Poster for a film screening event. The event features "RUNAN CAYCU (1973)," directed by Nora de Izcue. It will take place on 28 October at 5:30 pm in Room 103, Institute of Americas, UCL, London. Commentators include Florencia Portocarrero and Gonzalo Maza. Hosted by LARC, Latin American Research Community of PhDs.

UCL Americas @UCLAmericas Oct 12

🌐NEW BLOG
tinyurl.com/nhdv9ujb

👉The fifth post in the LACIR Series discusses why redistributive policies remain relatively ineffective in Latin America and the Caribbean.