UK & EU students accepted on to a PhD course at ILAS commencing October 2018 can apply for funding through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP).  These awards will cover: Tuition fees for a maximum of three years at the Home/EU rate Annual maintenance grant or allowance (stipend) - £16,553 for 2017/18 LAHP has a limited number of full awards (fees and stipend) for EU students designated 'fees-only' by the AHRC.  We regret that applications cannot be accepted from students liable to pay fees at the Overseas rate.

Despite a growing awareness and interest in ‘sports-for-development’ initiatives, and the continuing spread of televised football matches (the English Premier League in particular), amateur football remains under-researched. Dr William Tantam, a postdoctoral fellow in Caribbean Studies, spent more than a year in Jamaica studying how amateur football or ‘pick-up ball’ frames the relationship between younger and older men in one of the country’s rural communities. Read the full blog here

Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, Science and Society Linda A. Newson Based on extensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, this new book by ILAS Director, Prof. Linda Newson, examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products, prepared medicines, and found their place in society.   For further information or to purchase a copy: http://www.brill.com/products/book/making-medicines-early-colonial-lima-peru  

One-day conference at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Senate House, London Friday 17 November 2017, 1000-1900 Keynote participants: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Professor of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Professor Valerie Fraser, Professor Emerita in School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex