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GROUP EVENTS Institute for the Study of the Americas June 2008 Events The ISA invites you to its seminars and conferences in June. All the events are open to the public. For the full programme, please visit www.americas.sas.ac.uk/events.htm Should you have any questions about these events, please contact Olga Jimenez at olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk or 020 7862 8871. Thursday 05 June, 17:00 – 19:30 Chávez or Lula – which way for Latin America? Richard Bourne, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Richard Gott, writer and historian Seminar Venue: ISA, 35 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HA Thursday 12 June, 09:30 – 17:00 Socialism Reborn: Ethnographic Comparisons across Latin America Workshop Places will be offered on a first come, first served basis. RSVP: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Venue: ISA, 35 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HA For the programme please visit, http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=4324 Thursday 19 – Friday 20 June, 09:30 The Americas Plural: Regional and Comparative Perspectives Conference Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lecture Theatre, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR For the programme and registration form please visit http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=3615 Wednesday 25 June, 14:15 – 19:30 Researching Contemporary History as it happens: the case of Hugo Chávez Julia Buxton, University of Bradford; Hazel Marsh, University of East Anglia and Richard Gott, writer and historian Workshop Preceded by the AGM of ACLAIIR (the Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources) Followed by a showing of Chris Moore’s film ¿Puedo Hablar? and a Q & A session Venue: ISA, 35 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HA For the programme and registration form please visit http://www.americas.sas.ac.uk/events.php Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 June, 17:00 – 14:00 HOTCUS Annual Conference The First Annual Conference of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Thursday 26 June Albert Gore Sr. and the Transformation of the Modern South Anthony Badger, Clare College, Cambridge University James Bryce Lecture on the American Commonwealth and Plenary Address of the conference Stewart House, 32 Russell Square Reception: STB 8 17:00–18:00 Lecture STB 3/6 18:00–19:30 Friday 27 – Saturday 28 June HOTCUS Conference 30 speakers from the UK and US in 10 panels on: early twentieth century politics; the politics of the Reagan era; the early Cold War; the Vietnam war era; race, gender and identity; cultural representations of American life; labour issues in the 1940s; blacks and civil rights; white resistance to civil rights; religion in American society Venue: ISA, 35 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HA For the programme and registration form please visit http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/events.php?id=3660 Institute for the Study of the Americas 31–35 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9HA www.americas.sas.ac.uk americas@sas.ac.uk |
