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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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Francesca Lessa’s participation in Uni Radio programme of the Universidad de la República, Uruguay
On October 1, 2013, Dr Lessa was a guest on the radio programme “Te Digo la Otra” run by students of political science of the Universidad de la República.
Marie Arana at the Latin American Centre
Students and members of staff listen to the Washington-based writer Marie Arana, who gave a talk on Simon Bolívar and the wars of independence in Spanish America at the LAC on 18 October. The author of various books, including the novel Cellophane, and a memoir about her bicultural chi
The Chilean coup of 1973, forty years on
On 15th October 2013, the LAC held a roundtable discussion on the legacy of the Chilean military coup of 11th September 1973, which deposed the elected Socialist president Dr Salvador Allende and led to 17 years of military dictatorship by General Augusto Pinochet.
Timothy Power Visits Institute of Latin America, Moscow
On 4th October 2013, Dr Timothy Power (Director, Brazilian Studies Programme) visited the Institute of Latin America (ILA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Dr Power gave a lecture on Brazil’s street protests of 2013 to an audience of about 30 ILA faculty and students.
CPP team visit to HSE in Moscow, Russia
On October 4th 2013, the CPP team visited the National University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia, where it debated the early results of the project along with faculty and students of the Department of Comparative Politics.
CPP workshop in Ukraine
On 2nd October, 2013 the CPP held its second regional workshop at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in Ukraine.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Visits the Latin American Centre
On 6th June, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the Latin American Centre, where he gave an informal presentation on the current situation in Colombia to a selected group of students and the staff of the Centre.
CPP present at Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP)
On 23rd September 2013, the Oxford team presented the CPP project to the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP).
New Publications by Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Dr Eduardo Posada-Carbó has just published ‘Colombia: Democratic Governance Amidst and Armed Conflict’, a chapter in Jorge Dominguez and Michael Shifter’s edited volume Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 4th edition).
CPP team visit Feseral University of Parana
On 20th September 2013, the CPP team visited the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil, where a symposium on comparative presidentialism was sponsored jointly by the graduate programs in Law and Political Science.