• Humour in Latin American Fiction
• Archaeology Seminar
• Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs, Street Children, and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
• Latin American Music Seminar
• Mexico: A Political Transition without Truth or Justice
• Political Ephemera from Latin America and the Commonwealth

Humour in Latin American Fiction
Thursday 12 May, afternoon workshop, room 12, 35 Tavistock Square

Speakers: John Rutherford, Queens College, Oxford University, Dianna Niebylski, University of Kentucky

Convenor: Evelyn Fishburn, University College London and London Metropolitan University

Attendance free
For further information see http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/humour.htm

Archaeology Seminar
Saturday 14 May, all day

Convenors: Bill Sillar, Institute of Archaeology, University College London and Gill Hey, University of Oxford

Attendance free
Programme details available soon at http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events

Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs, Street Children, and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 May, two-day workshop, LSE and Chancellor's Hall, Senate House

As part of this event, Paolo Sérgio Pinheiro (UN independent expert on violence against children) has been invited to give the 2005 Alistair Berkley Memorial Lecture, on the subject of Youth Violence and Social Justice in Latin America. This will take place on the 26th May at 6pm in LSE's Old Theatre.

Speakers include: Dominique Behague, Udi Butler, Donna De Cesare, Luke Dowdney, Mo Hume, Gabriel Kessler, Jueeny Kuper, Cathy McIlwaine, Paula Miraglia, Dwight Ordóñez, Damian Platt, Lainie Reisman, Silvia Reyes, Irene Rizzini, José Luis Rocha, Caitlin Scott, Cordula Strocka, Marie Wernham, Ailsa Winton.

Convenors: Gareth A Jones and Dennis Rodgers, London School of Economics and Political Science

Attendance free
For further information see http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/youthviolence.htm

The workshop has been sponsored by the Alistair Berkley Memorial Fund, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Academy, the Society for Latin American Studies and the Crisis States Research Centre.

Latin American Music Seminar
Saturday 28 May, one-day seminar, room 12, 35 Tavistock Square

Convenor: Henry Stobart, Royal Holloway

Attendance free
Programme details available soon at http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events

Mexico: A Political Transition without Truth or Justice
The John Brooks Memorial Lecture
Friday 10 June , 5.30 pm, lecture, Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House

Sergio Aguayo Quezada, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México

Attendance free

Political ephemera from Latin America and the Commonwealth
Monday 4 July, 1 pm, afternoon workshop, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

The culmination of a two-year project dedicated to the cataloguing and promotion of the collections of political ephemera held in the libraries of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Attendance Free
For further information see http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/polarch.htm

Further details of Institute events are available at the web address provided below. Contact information (telephone number and e-mail address) follows.