Welcome to the Latin American Centre
The LAC was founded in 1964 by St. Antony’s College and maintains its close links with St. Antony's today. It became a University centre in 1965 on the recommendations of a government review of Latin American studies in the United Kingdom. The main aims of the Centre are to educate graduate students in a range of disciplines applied to Latin America; to promote research on Latin America; to support a research library; to bring students and academics from Latin America to the University; and to organize seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences on Latin America.
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The research and teaching interests of the LAC are concentrated in the modern history, economics, politics and sociology of Latin America. There are five permanent academic staff in the Centre, as well as research associates and visiting researchers. There are many more Latin American specialists across the University working in anthropology, political economy, environmental sciences and international relations, not to mention Latin American languages and literature. The Centre aspires to act as a meeting point for all staff and students with an interest in the area.
The Centre’s teaching and academic programmes embrace all of Latin America, and encourage students of all the countries of Latin America equally. Yet recent years have seen the establishment of a Brazilian Studies Programme and a Mexican Studes Programme within the Centre, funded by generous donations from these two countries. These programmes are fully integrated into the work of the Centre, and extend the scope of the Centre’s activities through workshops, conferences and visiting researchers. The Centre is part of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and seeks to foster both disciplinary and interdisciplinary work on Latin America.