In December 2024 R-LAC led an event bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines across the university whose research has had significant impact in Latin America. Colleagues from Law, Sustainable Land…Read More >
Comunidad para el cambio social/Community for Social Change: Peacebuilding and Creative Participatory Research with the Colombian Diaspora in London
Report by Cherilyn Elston Introduction: While there were an estimated 5 million Colombians living abroad at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, they have been a…Read More >
R-LAC Social Event
In Semester 1 of the 2024-25 academic year, we held a social event to give R-LAC members the chance to meet in an informal setting. It was lovely to see…Read More >
Creating a Digital [CCSen365]: a collaboration between CollectiVox and University of Reading to create a universally accessible and low-cost digital experience of architectural and cultural heritage in Caracas, Venezuela.
By Penélope Plaza Introduction: Creating a Digital [CCSen365] is a collaboration between Venezuelan not-for-profit design practice Collectivox and the School of Architecture at University of Reading to explore the appropriate…Read More >
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Henley Business School and Red Puna workshops in May 2024
Members of the Indigenous Cooperative Red Puna and students from the MSc Entrepreneurship course at Henley Business School worked together to develop internationalization strategies for selling llama wool products. The…Read More >
Seminar: The Red Puna project: Sustainability, community and craft
We are delighted to announce that we will soon welcome 2 representatives from Red Puna, a collective of indigenous communities based in northwest Argentina, to campus. On Wednesday 13th March,…Read More >
Critical Energy Studies. A New Book Series with The MIT Press.
The MIT Press is delighted to announce a new monograph series, Critical Energy Studies, co-edited by Dominic Boyer (Rice University), Cara New Daggett (Virginia Tech), Penélope Plaza (University of Reading),…Read More >
Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment The Spanish Bourbon Reforms in the River Plate By Claudia Murray, Anthem Press.
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the…Read More >
IBS lunchtime research seminar by Dr Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo, Henley Business School.
Title: High Profile Crimes and the Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in Mexican Municipalities Date: Wednesday 26 April Time: 1 – 2.15pm Teams: A Teams link to the seminar…Read More >
New book publication with “Edinburgh University Press”
“Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema”, edited by Lúcia Nagib, Luciana Corrêa de Araújo and Tiago de Luca, published by Edinburgh University Press in July 2022, presents a new…Read More >
