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Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice - new book coming out in January

Edited by Leigh A. Payne, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, and Gabriel Pereira

Democracy in Spanish America

Article on the early adoption of Universal Male Suffrage by José Antonio Aguilar, Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Eduardo Zimmermann, published in Past & Present

LAC alumnus, Samuel León Sáez (MPhil 2017–2019), has published his research “Mexico's Fuel Trafficking Phenomenon: Analysing an Emerging Black Market”

Open Letter in Support of CIDE

New Publication about grassroots politics in Brazil

In her chapter “From Participation to Silence: grassroots politics in contemporary Brazil” Dr Andreza A de Souza Santos discusses how economic loss can decrease political exposure.

Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries: Call open for 2022-23

Deadline: 30 November 2021

Laurence Whitehead has papers published in Latin American Policy

Inside Rome’s Operation Condor Trial: An Interview by MPhil student Clorrie Yeomans with Dr Francesca Lessa

Francesca Lessa is one of Highly Commended awardees of the O²RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021

Social and racial inequalities as contributing factors to COVID-19 in Brazil

New study by Brazil–UK CADDE Group, including Dr Andreza de Souza Santos

Article by Professor Leigh Payne in El Espectador

New publication on women’s Suffrage in Paraguay

Article by Jazmin Duarte, former LAC MSc Student

New scholarship for Dominican Republic students to study at Oxford

A new institutional cooperation between the University of Oxford and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division

Maryhen Jiménez Morales wins the Lord Bryce Award for best dissertation in comparative politics

New book out, co-edited by Dr Andreza A de Souza Santos

Special issue in Democratization edited by Timothy Power and Jamie Loxton

New article by Dr Lessa published in LARR

Transition in Venezuela? Challenges for the Rule of Law and Human Rights in 2021

Watch the video of the LAC seminar with Maryhen Jiménez and José Miguel Vivanco

The matters with Evangelical Lives in Brazil. Watch the video of the LAC seminar with Juliano Spyer

New book on inequality by Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

New paper published in Nature Scientific Data by Dr Andreza A. de Souza Santos et al., bringing data on local policies in Brazil to contain the spread of #COVID19

What explains resurgence of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil, despite high seroprevalence?

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos joins the CADDE group in research published by The Lancet

Article by MSc student, Jan Minke Contreras, published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research

Brazilian Studies Programme signs cooperation agreement for academic research with Brazil Supreme Court

John Fell Grant awarded to Andreza de Souza Santos

Brazilians at Oxford work on COVID-19 research

Brazilians working in Brazil and abroad are racing against time to find ways to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Andreza (LAC), Darlan Candido (Zoology) and Pedro Folegatti (Clinical Research Fellow) in Oxford show a little of their work routine

Article by former Academic Visitor, Leandro Raizer, published by Sociologies in Dialogue

New study in Science on the pandemic in Brazil

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, lecturer at the Latin American Centre and Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme, is part of the research team whose new study on the SARS-Co V-2 pandemic in Brazil has just been published in Science.

The Caribbean Cold War New book by former LAC student Nicolás Prados published by Palgrave Macmillan

Alan Angell’s Memories of Pinochet’s Chile

Alan Angell, Emeritus Fellow at the LAC, talked to Tanya Harmer about her biography of Beatriz Allende in our recent ‘Tertulia at the Latin American History Seminar’. Following the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, he visited Chile in 1981 – he offers here some memories of his visit

Canadian prize to Oxford DPhil Student working on Indigenous human rights in Latin America

The Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) awarded the 2020 CALACS Graduate Essay Prize to Nancy R. Tapias Torrado

US Hegemony and the Americas

Arturo Santa-Cruz, Professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, offers a summary of his recent book on US hegemony in Latin America, the subject of his talk at the LAC

The politics of Memory: Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil

Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos offers a review of the launch of her book at the Latin American Centre

The Latin American Boom Phenomenon in the Publishing World

Consuelo Sáizar, former CEO at the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico, outlines some of the main landmarks in the publishing history of the Latin American Boom

Maestras de Escuela en Argentina, 1880-1920

Flavia Fiorucci, investigadora de Conicet y de la Universidad de Quilmes en Argentina, ofrece un resumen de su charla en nuestro seminario de historia

VIRGILIO BARCO

Malcolm Deas, LAC’s Emeritus Fellow, offers a brief portrait of former Colombian President Virgilio Barco, the subject of his latest book