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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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III CAF-Oxford Conference: Understanding the Challenges of Informality: Political, Economic and Social Dimensions
The Conference will launch a third joint programme between CAF and the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford.
Third CAF-Oxford Conference "Understanding the Challenges of Informality: Political, Economic and Social Dimensions"
The Conference will launch a third joint programme between CAF and the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford.
ESRC GCRF Post-doctoral Fellowships
SIAS can only submit a maximum of three applications to this call so we are introducing an SIAS internal selection process, any interested candidates need to meet the deadlines below:
SIAS intention to apply by: Monday 1st August at the very latest
CAF Fellowship 2016: Apply now
The Latin American Centre is now seeking applications for the CAF Visiting Fellowship in Latin American Economics for 2016.
CAF Scholarships 2016-17: Apply now
The Latin American Centre is now seeking applications for the two CAF Scholarships for 2016-17. These scholarships are awarded to students from one of the CAF shareholder countries who take up a place to study on the MSc in Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford.
Assistant Professor Position in the Department of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The Department of Anthropology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the ICIIS Center invites applications for an appointment as Assistant Professor (junior lecturer) level in Socio-cultural anthropology to begin August 2016 at most.
Faculty Positions in the newly created School of Government at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The School of Government at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (to be launched in 2016) invites applications to five tenure track full-time faculty positions in the area of public policy.
50th Anniversary Alumni Weekend Latin American Centre
Registration and bookings are now closed.
For further information about the events held 18-20 September please click here.
NEW BOOK BY MIGUEL CARTER ON BRAZIL’S MST
Miguel Carter, a former Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies and St Antony’s alum, has recently published Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil with Duke University Press.
Inequality and Development in Latin America Conference
On 4 and 5 June, the Latin American Centre celebrated the conference "Inequality and Development in Latin America: Celebrating Rosemary Thorp's Contribution to Historical Political Economy". The conference brought together researchers from Europe, Latin America and the United States who work on