Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM, Director of Financial Markets and Head of the Plastics Programme at Planet Tracker, joined Steven to discuss his work in aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries. They discuss the urgency of tackling climate change, the environmental and health challenges caused by the production and use of Read more…
On November 7, 2021, Daniel Ortega won his fourth consecutive term as president of Nicaragua in an election roundly assailed as both unfree and unfair. Prior to election day, the Nicaraguan state incarcerated presidential candidates from opposition parties and leaders and activists from a variety of social movements and civil Read more…
The deadline to submit your abstract for the 69th annual meeting (9-12 March 2022, Charlotte, NC) has been extended to Friday, 10 December. For further information, click here: https://secolas.org/conferences/charlotte-2022/ To submit your abstract, complete the form below: Loading…
Dr. Irina Popescu joins Steven to discuss her latest article entitled “Memorialization and Escraches: Ni una Menos and the documentation of Feminicidio in Argentina,” published recently in The Latin Americanist. More about Irina – www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/…opescu/index.html Her article – muse.jhu.edu/article/805479
Smith College’s Dr. Javier Puente joined Steven to discuss the Peru’s presidential runoff election between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori this past Sunday. Check out Javier’s article on Pedro Castillo from April – nacla.org/peru-elections-pedro-castillo Intro and Outro – Martina Portocarrero – Flor de la retama – Musica Ayacuchana – youtu.be/9k1QEZm3fw0
Historias Podcast · Historias 136 – State of the Field – Argentina from Dictatorship to Democracy 24 March 2021 marked the 45th anniversary of the coup that launched Argentina’s most violent period of military rule. From 1976-1983, the armed forces and their civilian allies ruled through terror. The dictatorship became Read more…
Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, joined Steven to talk about Operation Condor and the pursuit of justice and accountability for the states and actors responsible for transnational human rights crimes in the 1970s. See Francesca’s recent article in Read more…
Dr. Erin Beck, an associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon and an award-winning author, spoke with Steven about the recent general election in Guatemala. How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs (Duke University Press, 2017)
Drs. Rita Palacios and Paul Worley joined Steven to discuss their new book entitled Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge. This episode is the first in an occasional series on the Maya.
In this state of the field episode, Matt Childs, Elena Schneider, and Alex Wisnoski joined Steven to discuss the history of slavery in Latin American and Caribbean societies.