A student is smiling, holding a book with a view of London buildings behind them. Text overlayed reads: Host a student intern from a world top-ten university. In the bottom right-hand corner, there's a UCL 200 logo.

For a decade, our Internship Programme has partnered with organisations across sectors to deliver real-world impact.

Join us to celebrate this milestone and discover how you can collaborate with top-tier talent from one of the world’s leading universities.

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🌐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.

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The Declaration of Independence and the Politics of Inaction Dr Ursula Hackett delivers the UCL Institute of the Americas Annual Lecture

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🌐

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.

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🌐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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My review of Carlos Aguirre’s and William Fisher’s terrific book on the Lima prison printworks.

One week left!

🥳UCL Americas staff nominated for 2026 Student Choice Awards🥳

We are delighted to announce that several of our colleagues have been nominated for Student Choice Awards at the UCL Student Union!

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🌐NEW BLOG POST🌐

Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared?

By Prof Francesca Lessa and Prof Lorena Balardini.

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A Review of Modern Peru: A New History Modern Peru: A New History is a welcome addition to the literature on the history of this country, especially given how relatively little has been written about it. It offers a more current, updated t...

A review of Modern Peru: A New History revista.drclas.harvard.edu/a-review-of-...

Emma Day at @uclamericas.bsky.social looks at how, in the late 20th c., the American prison system expanded in ways that denied women—esp. working-class & women of color—adequate medical care for HIV-AIDS and reproductive, chronic, and other illnesses.

Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢Are you a doctoral student in/around London looking for teaching experience?

We are looking to hire postgraduate teaching assistants (PGTAs) for our BA History and Politics of the Americas programme, starting Sept 2026.

Apply: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Deadline: 8 April 2026

Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared? Javier Milei has taken steps to dismantle Argentina’s human rights policy since entering office in 2023.

Argentina 50 years on from start of dictatorship – is it forgetting the disappeared?

Prof Francesca Lessa and Prof Lorena Balardini discuss the future of memory, truth and justice in Argentina.

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Join us tomorrow!

NEW BLOG POST

How does the Chilean state justify lithium extraction as ‘green’ while Indigenous communities document water depletion, ecosystem damage, and the erosion of their territorial rights?

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UPCOMING EVENT: U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis

Prof Gareth Davies
📅 25 March | 14:30 - 16.00 | Room 103
🎟️ Free tickets → tinyurl.com/msc847sd

Why do efforts to protect Americans from disaster often leave them more vulnerable to catastrophic loss?

Event tomorrow!

Take-up, Resistance & Transformation of Corporate Governance Codes in Peru

Speaker: John Lawrence

⏲️ 13.00 - 14.30
📍 Room 103, 51 Gordon Sq
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@gracemc971.bsky.social

BLOG POST: Caribbean Politics and the British Monarchy: Decolonisation, Republics and Reparations

In this post, Grace Carrington, Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of the Americas, discusses the research she conducted as part of the Visible Crown project.

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New blog post: "The Anti-Monumentas and the Politics of Public Space in Mexico City" by Fernando Gutierrez, written on a pale sage background with a photo of Hemiciclo a Benito Juárez.

BLOG POST: The Anti-Monumentas and the Politics of Public Space in Mexico City

Fernando Gutiérrez discusses findings from his PhD thesis, part of which was published in the research article ‘Feminists versus monuments? From protests to anti-monuments in Mexico City’

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

🔎What is the state of Argentina’s democracy today? Amid political tension, economic volatility, and social pressures, our panel will unpack what this anniversary means.
Speakers:
✨ Claudia Bacci (University of Buenos Aires)
✨ Jordana Blejmar (University of Liverpool)
✨ Francesca Lessa (UCL)

New blog post: "Explaining Human Rights Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Exercise in Thoughtful Wishing – Part II" by Par Engstrom, written on a pale sage background with a photo of Par.

BLOG POST:

In this post, the second of two, Par Engstrom, Associate Professor of Human Rights, continues his reflection on human rights trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of his work advising the European Parliament.

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We were excited to sign this Memorandum of Understanding with Universidad Católica de Santa María (UCSM) earlier this week.

Many thanks to all those involved in putting this together and looking forward to the resulting collaborations.

✨Join us for a talk that explores how a Caribbean insurgency not only revealed the vulnerability of Britain’s imperial system when confronted by revolutionary ideology but also comprised an unprecedented and disorientating situation for those sent to repress it.

🚨 Only a few tickets left! Book now before they’re gone! 🎟️

New blog post: "Explaining Human Rights Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Exercise in Thoughtful Wishing – Part I" by Par Engstrom, written on a pale sage background with a photo of Par.

BLOG POST

In this post, the first of two, Par Engstrom, Associate Professor of Human Rights, reflects on human rights trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of his work advising the European Parliament.

Read the post: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo...

Less than 1 week left to apply!

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Discover how two major events reshaped corporate life in Peru in completely different ways:

🔍 The Lava Jato (“Car Wash”) scandal, and
📘 The launch of voluntary governance codes.
What happens when crisis meets reform?

🗓️18 Mar 2026 13.00

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