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This paper will explore how James turned from an identification with ''imperial Britishness'' to a more radical transnational identification with black people internationally – militant Pan-Africanism – after arriving in depression-hit Britain in 1932. More here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/clrjames_conquest

This is the 2015 Annual Globalisation and Latin American Development lecture, delivered by Prof Juan Carlos Moreno Brid, Professor of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which took place on May 21, 2015.

UCL Americas seminar: Commonwealth States and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Martyn Rady (UCL SSEES) Full title: Misleading Cases in the Customary Law: The Pertinacious Litigant and Central Europe Historians have tended to regard customary law as either an unwritten text communicating fixed principles or else as a less sophisticated variety of the Common Law. A number of its principles were inadvertently satirized by A. P. Herbert through the...

UCL Americas seminar: Leadership in the Cuban Revolution - The Unseen Story by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

This is the closing lecture to the First UCL Americas International Post-graduate Conference, April 30 - May 1, 2015, organized by UCL Americas Research Network. The title of the lecture is: 'Latin America 2005-2015: A Decade Won or a Decade Lost?'

Podcast of the introductory lecture to the conference: 'Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era' organized by UCL Institute of the Americas Post-graduate Research Network, April 30-May 1, 2015. Speaker: Dr Peter Wade (Manchester)

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Michael Stewart (UCL Anthropology) Full title: The Porous University: Creating Partnerships in a Global City UCL was founded to open the world of learning to the excluded for the betterment of all. Like many institutions, over time and under many pressures, UCL has become encased in a self-protective shell. The founding principle that knowledge would be taken out and...

Translation In History Lecture Series: 27 March 2014 The Translation of a Saint: Santa Rosa de Lima Professor Stephen M. Hart (UCL Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies) Santa Rosa de Lima, patron saint of Peru and the Philippines, inaugural saint of the Americas, was born in the City of Kings (as Lima was then known) on 20 April 1586. Strikingly beautiful with blond hair, her mother, Maria...

Translation in History Lecture Series: 23 October 2014 Translating the poem: Henri Meschonnic’s poetics of translating Dr Marko Pajević (Royal Holloway, University of London) Translating poetry is a notoriously difficult task, to the point that it is often considered impossible. But what exactly does that mean? Which role does this give to translation? What conception of language is such an assert...

Translation in History Lecture Series: 12 March 2015 The Politics of Rewriting: the Case of Gary Victor’s A l’angle des rues parallèles Professor Andrew Leak (UCL French) The work of André Lefevere, amongst others, has sensitized us to the politics of colonial translation/rewriting, but what of authors from the ‘cultural periphery’ who rewrite their own works for reception in the metropolis? In th...

Timothy Mathews talks with Agnès Thurnauer in her studio in Paris about the relation between word and image in her paintings. About art as translation, witness and transformation of the past, and as a confident engagement with the present. Word and image disrupt each other in Agnès Thurnauer’s paintings, but also work together to invite viewers to imagine generous relations between women and men.

One of the most influential journalists of Mexico, Carmen Aristegui, was sacked last month under allegations of "loss of trust" from the Media company she worked for (MVS Noticias) towards two members of her team. Four months earlier, Aristegui's team had published a report on what would become a massive scandal for the Administration of President Peña Nieto: the acquisition of a £4 million mansio...

UCL Americas - Book launch: Politics Of Autonomy In Latin America: the Art of Organising Hope by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

Inaugural Lecture - Professor José Zalabardo (UCL Philosophy) The representation of the world provided by the natural sciences leaves mental phenomena out of the picture. A comprehensive representation of the world would have to overcome this limitation. This requires, among other things, explaining mental representation — our ability to represent things in consciousness as being a certain way. Wh...

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Jason Peacey (UCL History) Full title: Plucked Hens and Principals: Tackling Dutch Politics in Seventeenth Century England Despite growing awareness about the cultural, economic and social interactions between different parts of Europe in the early modern era, political historians of the period generally remain wedded to a picture of separate and more or less competit...

With author and publisher Polly Patullo; chaired by Prof Gad Heuman - Little is known about the Maroons of Dominica, who challenged the British Empire 200 years ago, were captured and subjected to arbitrary justice. Your Time Is Done Now tells their story for the first time through the evidence of the courts and, unusually, hears their voices. The evidence reveals little-known information about ho...

UCL Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) hosts and co-organizes with Radical Americas Network this panel discussion, featuring distinguished speakers Laura Carlsen (Center for International Policy - CIP), Marilyn Thomson (Central America Women's Network - CAWN) and Lorena Fuentes (Birkbeck). Chaired by Prof Kevin Middlebrook (UCL-IA).

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Meg Russell This lecture reflects on politics from the 'inside' and from the 'outside', and the relationships between the two. In contemporary academia 'impact' has become a buzzword, with academics increasingly encouraged to engage with the real world. But if political scientists do so, will anybody listen? Drawing on her own research journey in British and comparati...

Professor Philip Cowley (University of Nottingham) provides a response to Professor Meg Russell's inaugural lecture entitled 'Politics, Academia and the Real World', which took place Tuesday 3 March 2015 in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL.

Professor Mary Fulbrook & Professor Robert Hazell introduce Professor Meg Russell's inaugural lecture entitled 'Politics, Academia and the Real World', which took place Tuesday 3 March 2015 in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL.

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Eleanor Robson Full title: In Nisaba’s House of Wisdom and Nabu’s True House: Social Geographies of Cuneiform Scholarship in Ancient Iraq Writing is not only the stuff of which history is made. It is also a valuable subject of historical enquiry in its own right. By considering the uses, values and meanings of writing in past societies we can make better sense of why...

Join UCL academics Dr Erin Goeres (Department of Scandinavian Studies) and Dr Elizabeth Dearnley (Department of French), and harpist Tamsin Dearnley, as they introduce the Breton lai, one of the most popular genres of medieval literature.

This paper, originally given as the Luis González lecture at the Colegio de México in early 2014, compares the (neglected) military dimension of the Mexican Revolution to the First World War in Europe, using the concept of 'total war' as the bridge; it defines 'total war' (in two distinct senses) and argues that, notwithstanding the dismissive comments of some historians of Mexico - for whom the a...

Speakers: Adrian Hearn (Melbourne), Ariel C. Armony (Pittsburgh); Chair: Paulo Drinot (UCL-IA) - This presentation examines Latin American perceptions of deepening Chinese trade and investment. China’s growing influence in Latin America is evident in the growth of bilateral trade to $240 (£143) billion in 2013, and a new wave of investment announced during Xi Jinping’s July 2014 regional tour. Alo...