Keynote speakers Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon,General Oscar Naranjo, Justina Demetriades

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos. Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón Invisible Presences and Appreciable Absences: Notes on Some Spectres of American Natural History / Presencias invisibles y apreciables ausencias. Notas sobre algunos fantasmas de la historia natural americana José Ramón Marcaida (University of Cambridge) Juan Pimentel (CSIC) This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos. Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón Invisible Presences and Appreciable Absences: Notes on Some Spectres of American Natural History / Presencias invisibles y apreciables ausencias. Notas sobre algunos fantasmas de la historia natural americana José Ramón Marcaida (University of Cambridge) Juan Pimentel (CSIC) This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos. Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón The ‘Lost’ Cabinet on Exhibit: A Metaphor for LAGLOBAL?/El gabinete ‘perdido’ puesto en escena: ¿una metáfora para LAGLOBAL? Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London) This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

The Secret Lives of Objects / Las vidas secretas de los objetos. Moderator: Leoncio López-Ocón The ‘Lost’ Cabinet on Exhibit: A Metaphor for LAGLOBAL?/El gabinete ‘perdido’ puesto en escena: ¿una metáfora para LAGLOBAL? Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London) This is part of the Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge conference.

Institute of Latin American Studies Homophobias, Human Rights and Social Change in the French and British Caribbean Professor David Murray (York University, Toronto) The Caribbean region is often characterized as uniformly homophobic and LGBT rights are often claimed by governmental and non-governmental organizations as the conduit through which change can be effected. What happens when we question assumptions about the meaning of homophobia and the effects of imposing this term on...

Institute of Latin American Studies Homophobias, Human Rights and Social Change in the French and British Caribbean Professor David Murray (York University, Toronto) The Caribbean region is often characterized as uniformly homophobic and LGBT rights are often claimed by governmental and non-governmental organizations as the conduit through which change can be effected. What happens when we question assumptions about the meaning of homophobia and the effects of imposing this term on...

Institute of Latin American Studies Human Rights in Argentina and Chile, Then and Now To mark Argentina’s annual Memory, Truth and Justice Day (on the 24 March 1976 the military dictatorship began) ILAS, the Argentina Solidarity Campaign and the Argentina Research Network will jointly host a range of speakers reflecting on the human rights abuses, mass torture and Disappearances committed by the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s. The panel will also reflect and comment on more...

Institute of Latin American Studies Human Rights in Argentina and Chile, Then and Now To mark Argentina’s annual Memory, Truth and Justice Day (on the 24 March 1976 the military dictatorship began) ILAS, the Argentina Solidarity Campaign and the Argentina Research Network will jointly host a range of speakers reflecting on the human rights abuses, mass torture and Disappearances committed by the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s. The panel will also reflect and comment on more...

Institute of Latin American Studies Aztec and Conquistadors: Is Everything You Thought You Knew About Them Wrong? Matthew Restall (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology Director of Latin American Studies, Pennsylvania State University) Since 1995 he has published twenty books and over fifty articles and essays, focusing on three areas of research: colonial Mesoamerica, especially the colonial Maya; African in Spanish America; and the Spanish Conquest. Among...

Institute of Latin American Studies Aztec and Conquistadors: Is Everything You Thought You Knew About Them Wrong? Matthew Restall (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology Director of Latin American Studies, Pennsylvania State University) Since 1995 he has published twenty books and over fifty articles and essays, focusing on three areas of research: colonial Mesoamerica, especially the colonial Maya; African in Spanish America; and the Spanish Conquest. Among...

Institute of Latin American Studies Rethinking the History of Science and Knowledge in Latin America Professor Marcos Cueto (FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro) In this masterclass, Professor Cueto will present evidence and arguments for a new vision of the history of science and knowledge in Latin America. Topics to be examined include the histories of medicine, the natural scienes, and museum anthropology. LAGLOBAL/LLACTA Masterclass

Institute of Latin American Studies Rethinking the History of Science and Knowledge in Latin America Professor Marcos Cueto (FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro) In this masterclass, Professor Cueto will present evidence and arguments for a new vision of the history of science and knowledge in Latin America. Topics to be examined include the histories of medicine, the natural scienes, and museum anthropology. LAGLOBAL/LLACTA Masterclass

Institute of Latin American Studies 2016 Thyra Alleyne Memorial Lecture Indigenous Struggles, Legal Pluralities and Fragmented Sovereignties: Reflections on Law, Illegality and the Multicultural State Dr Rachel Sieder (CIESAS, Mexico) In twenty-first century Latin America the law is frequently invoked as means to achieve social order, cohesion and new forms of inclusion. At the same time, dominant groups claim that illegalities of all kinds are gaining ground and require more "law" to...

Institute of Latin American Studies 2016 Thyra Alleyne Memorial Lecture Indigenous Struggles, Legal Pluralities and Fragmented Sovereignties: Reflections on Law, Illegality and the Multicultural State Dr Rachel Sieder (CIESAS, Mexico) In twenty-first century Latin America the law is frequently invoked as means to achieve social order, cohesion and new forms of inclusion. At the same time, dominant groups claim that illegalities of all kinds are gaining ground and require more "law" to...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS Francisco Ortega | National University of Colombia The Conceptual History of the Colonial Question DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a vanguard of global...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS Marcos Queiroz | University of Brasilia Just for English Eyes: Tensions of Portuguese Empire in the Black Atlantic DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS Lina del Castillo | University of Texas The Making and Unmaking of a Colombian Hemisphere DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a vanguard of global...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS James Sanders | Utah State University Decolonising Europe DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a vanguard of global decolonisation in the modern age, this...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS Federica Morelli | University of Turin Denationalizing the End of Empire DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a vanguard of global decolonisation in the...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS Francisco Ortega | National University of Colombia The Conceptual History of the Colonial Question DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a vanguard of global...

Institute of Latin American Studies Deep Decolonisation: Latin America and the Connected Histories of the Post Colonial World Panel 1: Decolonising Luso-Hispanic Empire Chair: Catherine Davies | IMLR-SAS Marcos Queiroz | University of Brasilia Just for English Eyes: Tensions of Portuguese Empire in the Black Atlantic DEEP DECOLONISATION will reconsider the key historical role of Latin America in the connected making of the contemporary postcolonial world. Although Latin America was a...

Institute of Latin American Studies Britain and Brazil II: Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and Intellectual Relations, 1808 to the present Education and Cultural relations Chair: Alan Charlton (ILAS) Diana Gonçalves Vidal (USP) Transnational education: (dis) connexions between British and Brazilian education (1920-1948) In collaboration with Institute of Latin American Studies and King's College London. Sponsored by the Embassy of Brazil in London and the Foreign &...

Institute of Latin American Studies Britain and Brazil II: Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and Intellectual Relations, 1808 to the present Education and Cultural relations Chair: Alan Charlton (ILAS) Pedro Feitoza (Cambridge) British missions and the making of Brazilian Protestantism In collaboration with Institute of Latin American Studies and King's College London. Sponsored by the Embassy of Brazil in London and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.