by Talking Humanities | May 9, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Fellowships & Networks, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Image: bus burned by gang members in El Salvador. ES James/Shutterstock.com The level of violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in recent years has been second only to Syria – but unlike Syria, they are not countries at war. Criminal violence in the ‘northern...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 17, 2016 | Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Image: Tati Nova/Shutterstock The 3 G Network conference, ‘Imagining the Guyanas: ecologies of memory and movement’, is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the history, culture and peoples of the three Guyanas – Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana. Sonya...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 9, 2016 | Director Series, History & Classics, Interviews
We talk to the director of the Institute of Latin American Studies about the institute’s Caribbean and Latin American research initiatives. Professor Linda Newson, who received an OBE in 2015 for services to Latin American Studies, became director of ILAS in 2012. She...