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Pershing Square Foundation Expands Scholarship Program
Pershing Square Foundation Expands Scholarship Program to Support Students Seeking 1+1 MBA at Oxford
£3.7 Million Endowment will Fully Fund Two-Year Program at Saïd Business School
The LAC at the 25th anniversary of the Colombian Constitution in the Javeriana University
Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó gave the inaugural speech at the international Conference to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Colombian 1991 Constitution, organized by the Law Faculty at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá on 2-5 February. Following the opening remarks by the Rector of the Uni
Research Project Awards
The School is pleased to announce the following Research Projects.
Dr Miles Larmer from African Studies and History has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the ERC - Comparing the Copperbelt: Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa
Timothy Power named Distinguished Researcher at the University of Salamanca
Timothy J. Power has been named Investigador Distinguido (Distinguished Researcher) by the Department of Political Science, University of Salamanca, for the years 2016 and 2017.
Publication of journal article entitled “The PT at 35: Revisiting Scholarly Interpretations of Brazil’s Workers’ Party” by Oswaldo Amaral and Timothy J. Power
Oswaldo Amaral (BSP Visiting Research Associate, 2012) and Timothy J.
Leonel Fernández visits St Antony´s College and the LAC
Former President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, visited St Antony´s and had a private dinner with some members of the Latin American Centre on Thursday 14 January. We discussed future collaboration and hope he can give a lecture at the college at some future date.
40 Years since Operation Condor: "Justice without Borders" Conference in Santiago de Chile, December 17-18, 2015
The Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford and the Ministry of Justice of Chile, together with the Senate (Centro de Extension) and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, held a two-day event in Santiago (Chile) on December 17-18, 2015 within the framework of the project “Justice w
New report on social policy in Central America for ECLAC
Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez Ancochea and Salvador Martí have just concluded a report on universalism and social policy in Latin America that can be found on the CEPAL webpage. Here is the abstract:
Mauricio Macri: from Boca Juniors to the presidency of Argentina via the Latin American Centre at St Antony’s, Oxford
Fourteen years ago almost to the day, Maurcio Macri, then President of Boca Juniors Football Club spent three days in Oxford. His talk on Football and Politics was the last event organised by the Argentine Studies Programme before lack of funding forced its closure.
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Spanish legal journal Eunomía publishes a book forum on Dr Lessa’s latest book
The Spanish legal journal Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad dedicated in its latest number (March-August 2014) a book forum section to discussing Dr Lessa’s book Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity.
LAC Alumna, Alice L. Baumgartner, receives 2014 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for best essay in American History
At the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting, OAH President Alan M. Kraut and OAH President-Elect Patricia Limerick presented Alice L.
LAC MPhil student Julia Zulver discusses her research in El Salvador in Al Jazeera
Julia Zulver, one of our current MPhil students, published an article in Al Jazeera discussing her research on women’s mobilization in El Salvador.
II Graduate Conference on Latin American Law and Policy
The II Graduate Conference on Latin American Law and Policy took place on 7th March 2014 and brought to Oxford dozens of faculty members, doctoral candidates, and general public to discuss various contempor
LAC Alumnus Appointed to Assistant Professorship in Brazilian Studies at University of Illinois
Glen Goodman (MSc 2005-2006) has recently been appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Brazilian Studies in the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on German immigration to Brazil.
Dr Par Engstrom discusses Brazilian Post-Transitional Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights System
On Friday, 14 February, Dr Par Engstrom gave a talk on “Brazilian Post-Transitional Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights System”. His remarks focused on the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System and discussed the types of transitional justice policies that may be required from Bra
BSP and Rio Branco Roundtable: Brazil and Africa: Historical Legacies, Contemporary Engagement
On 18th February 2014, the Brazilian Studies Programme in conjunction with the Rio Branco Visiting Professorship
Juan Luis Passarelli and Mathew Charles preview at the LAC their new acclaimed documentary, The Engineer
On Thursday evening, the LAC welcomed Juan Luis Passarelli and Mathew Charles to preview their new documentary, The Engineer. The film follows the daily routine of Israel Ticas, the only forensic criminologist in El Salvador.
Dilma moves to the right
Chris Arnold, David Doyle and Nina Wiesehomeier analyse Dilma’s Mensagem ao Congresso from last monday. As they report on their blog, the incumbant Brazilian president started out with a position close to Lula, her predecessor.
Prof Scott Mainwaring presented his new book co-authored with Dr Aníbal Pérez-Liñán on Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
On 31st January 2014, Prof Scott Mainwaring (University of Notre Dame) visited the LAC and presented his new book in co-authorship with Dr Aníbal Pérez-Liñán of the University of Pittsburgh.