Latin American Centre Oxford

22/11/2023

Listen to The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford alumni speak about their experiences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmMgxm90diI

Apply now for the MSc/MPhil Latin American Studies - deadline 19 January for 2024 entry!

Find out more:
MSc https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/mphil-latin-american-studies
MPhil https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/msc-in-latin-american-studies

The programme is intended to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the main developments in Latin America since c1900 to the present. While the programme emphasises the specific features of individual countries, there is also broad comparative coverage of major trends such as authoritarianis...

18/05/2023

🎓 Calling all Oxford alumni! Join us for the Leavers' Fair 2023, 12-14 June at Oxford Town Hall!

This event is the perfect opportunity to learn about alumni benefits and services, and gain valuable insights into career development. Plus, there will be daily workshops, fun activities, and freebies! Make sure to order your My Oxford Card in advance so you can collect it at the fair. Don't miss out on this exciting event!

https://alumni.ox.ac.uk/event/leavers-fair-2023
🎉

24/02/2023

⚠️COME WORK WITH US!🔵

The LAC is hiring a Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies!!

For more info and how to apply, click here:

12/12/2022

✨ Interested in the MPhil Latin American Studies?
Hear alumna Clorrie Yeomans talk about her research and fieldwork in Argentina.

Inspired? Find out more here: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/mphil-latin-american-studies and apply by **20 January 2023**

https://youtu.be/HmweHvoiJcI

08/12/2022

📣Are you thinking about graduate study in Latin American Studies? Apply now for 2023 entry.
⚠️ Deadline **20 January 2023**

Don't forget to check out the scholarships available: https://lac.ox.ac.uk/scholarships-at-the-latin-american-centre
Specific funding for residents and nationals of Argentina and residents of Costa Rica plus 1000+ scholarships through the University of Oxford

06/10/2022

Book launch for The Condor Trials 📚
🗓October 11
⏰ 5 pm
📍Seminar Room 3 ODID - Oxford Department of International Development

For more information 👉🏼 https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/lac-main-seminar-series-launch-of-the-condor-trials-transnational-repression-and-human-rights

20/09/2022

📢 OCT 11, 7PM LAC ALUMNI NETWORKING DRINKS IN LONDON

Venue: The Canning Room at the In and Out Club, London

Book your place:

Please join us for an evening reception on 11 October 2022 for former students of the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford. In conjunction wit

27/07/2022

📣The Condor Trials book by our colleague Fran Uruguay has now been published in 🇪🇺🇬🇧🤩

If you'd like to purchase a copy, you can take advantage of this special online price £38.50, using code Y2250 at checkout
Free P&P on UK orders from Yale University Press, London website, valid until 31/10/2022

https://yalebooks.co.uk/page/detail/the-condor-trials/?k=9780300254099

11/07/2022

🤩HORIZONTES NOW OUT!
Dear friends, Queridos amigos, we are pleased to announce the publication of our 2022 edition of Horizontes, the University of Oxford Latin American Centre newsletter.

https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/lachorizontes2022_single_pages.pdf?time=1657533605231

25/03/2022

⚠️📢 Nuevo Video - La Operación Cóndor al descubierto
Compartimos este nuevo 📽 de difusión realizado por la Universidad de Oxford y Fran Uruguay.
Relata ldelitos cometidos por la coordinación represiva y Plan Cóndor en 🌎 entre 1969 y 1981, como los esfuerzos incasables de familiares, sobrevivientes y activistas de DDHH para sortear los 🚧 hacia la 👩‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️

La Dra. Francesca Lessa investiga cómo las dictaduras sudamericanas coordinaron sus políticas represivas en los años 1970 para secuestrar, torturar y asesina...

07/03/2022

📣BOOK LAUNCH 11/3 @ 5PM
Roundtable and Launch of "The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World" by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Convener: Professor David Doyle
Speaker: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (University of Oxford)
With Comments from Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford) and Francis Darlington-Pollock (The Equality Trust)

👉 Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpdeihqzMsGdyVQRQBcFb1NYlCk36SjXo7

16/02/2022

Dr Francesca Lessa researches how South American dictatorships coordinated in the 1970s to abduct, torture and murder their citizens across borders. Her work...