This event brings together scholars in the fields of gender and social policy, the #medhumanities, and early modern history to discuss their research concerning body size and embodiment.
In person @ucl.ac.uk, London and possible to attend online
📆28 Apr 2026
🕰️16:30 – 18:30
To register 👇
Cover of Of paradoxes, dilemmas, and comparisons: essays in honor of Kevin Middlebrook
Of paradoxes, dilemmas, and comparisons: essays in honor of Kevin Middlebrook edited by Paulo Drinot and Par Engstrom
Includes the chapter: A brief survey of the past half century of political evolution in Mexico by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Laurence Whitehead
Harvard Business School as a madrassa of capitalism. From Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History.
Cover of the business of racism: labor and environment in Brazil's racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo
The Introduction of my book is currently free to read.
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There we were worrying that AI might take our jobs and then Palantir confirms they want to take our lives.
I'll be delivering the UCL Institute of the Americas Annual Lecture on June 3 (5–7pm), marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence @uclamericas.bsky.social.
Join us for 'The Declaration of Independence and the Politics of Inaction' - tickets here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐
👉In this post, Malu A. C. Gatto reflects on her experience organising the Writing Academy, a training and mentorship programme to support Brazilian doctoral students in political science to publish in international journals.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2p5adnu9
Mass Politics -> Postpolitics -> Antipolitics ->Hyperpolitics. Worth a read - particularly if, like me, you prefer political analysis based on Houellebecq, Annie Ernaux, and Didier Eribon rather than on RCTs.
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Radical Histories is our new series spotlighting the people and movements that challenged power. It centres hidden archives, unheard voices and research that reshapes how we understand resistance.
Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...
Don’t know how Thomas Muller finds the time to play professional football and play bass in Snarky Puppy.
Allelujah!
🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐
How can higher education institutions play a stronger role in supporting their local communities?
By Emily Morris, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of the Americas.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc5hpd2f
Habrán psicoterapeutas que se especializan en países?
Como diría Vargas Llosa todo apunta a que tendremos que escoger entre el cancer y la cirrosis.
Ojalá!
Tendrá que ser el del casco.
Pathetic. Pusillanimous. Arsenal look like they could lose every single match in the run in.
Great first session of Los viernes históricos today with Sven Beckert discussing his mammoth global history of capitalism. Join us for the next meeting with Roy Hora next month! www.vierneshistoricos.org/es/Events/in...
Modern Peru at the SLAS conference in Leeds!
I like Arteta, and I think he’s doing a good job, but I would have loved to see el loco Bielsa at Arsenal.
Como van las encuestas pareciera que el principal clivaje político en el Perú no es ni geográfico ni fujimorista-antifujimorista sino si tienes o no Tik Tok.
We've just set up in the Esther Simpson foyer. Modern Peru is front and centre.
Modern Peru offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day.
Browse more Duke titles in our #SLAS2026 exhibit here ⬇️
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@slaslatam.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
@paulodrinot.bsky.social
Spring
🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐
What Insights Can Latin America Offer on Global Politics in the Trump Era?
By Dr Pablo Uchoa, a former PhD student at the UCL Institute of the Americas.
🔗 tinyurl.com/j4mbvvnr
🗓️Mark your calendars!
🔗Full list of events with registration details available on our website:
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📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)!
As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber.
Application deadline: 24 April 2026.
More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012
@erc.europa.eu