Canning House will be hosting the annual Latin American Academic Forum, bringing together figures from across UK universities.
Seminar
Latin American Academic Forum 2026
- Canning House, 50 Broadway, SW1H 0BL, London
- 13:00 - 18:00
ACADEMIC FORUM
Canning House will convene the annual Latin American Academic Forum in London. The Forum will bring together academics from across the UK whose work focuses on Latin America.
The Academic Forum will be open to contributions from political science, anthropology, environmentalism, economics, history, international relations, and sociology. Through short presentations, the forum will provide a space for discussion of recent and ongoing academic work which investigates Latin American issues.
The goal of the forum is to bring scholars interested in the region closer together to foster knowledge exchange and academic collaboration.
Attendance by invitation only. Register your attendance using the form on this page.
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Latin American Academic Forum
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Registration
12:45 - 13:00
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Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
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Welcome
Jeremy Browne
CEO Canning House
13:30 – 13:35
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Opening Remarks
Laurence Whitehead
Senior Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
13:35 – 13:43
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SPECIAL GUESTS
13:43 - 14:25
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Susannah Goshko CMG
British Ambassador to Mexico
13:43 – 13:50
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Valentina Patrini
Social Policy Analyst, OECD
Gender Equality in Latin America
13:50 – 14:05
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Discussion
14:05 – 14:25
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EDITORS
14:25 – 15:10
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Maxine Molyneaux
Professor Emeritus, UCL, Institute of the Americas
UCL Press, Palgrave Series Editors
14:25 – 14:38
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Juan Ferrero
Bulletin of Latin America Research (BLAR)
University of Bath
14:38 – 14:50
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Discussion
14:50 – 15:10
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Coffee Break
15:10 – 15:30
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Book Presentation
Gregory Thaler
University of Oxford, OSGA
Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics
15:30 – 15:45
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Discussion
15:45 – 16:00
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Book Presentation
Tom Long
University of Warwick, International Relations
Book project with Carsten-Andreas Schulz.
Republican Internationalism: Latin America and the Making of the Modern International Order, 1861-1919.
16:00 – 16:15
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Discussion
16:15 – 16:30
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
16:30 – 16:53
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Christine Mathias
King’s College London, Modern Latin American History
Envisioning the Future: Samuel Colt and the US-Mexico borderlands
16:30 – 16:38
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Pedro Mendes
University of Cambridge, Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies
Prisons/violence/democracy in Brazil
16:38 – 16:45
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Daniel Alves
King’s College London, Department of Political Economy
“What explains Equity-Enhancing Reforms Under Centre-Right Governments? Evidence from Brazil”
16:45 – 16:53
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Open discussion
Opinions / feedback / future presentations
16:53 – 17:25
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Concluding Remarks
17:25 – 17:30
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Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:15