Marieke Riethof - mariekeriethof bsky

My latest article just out in the International History Review and it's free to download! Between Modernization and Human Rights: The Ford Foundation’s Response to the 1973 Coup in Chile. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I’m on holiday in Rome but I can’t help popping into an archive I’m planning to visit in the future! Solidarity with Brazilian women and activism against torture in Brazil.

⭐️1 more week to book⭐️ 🔶How do Latin American Studies fit within broader Area Studies frameworks? 🔶Is Latin America still a coherent and relevant category of analysis? 🔶What role should European institutions and journals like JLAS play in shaping the future of the field?

You can read a summary of what was discussed regarding non-human beings, Buenos Aires floods and transnational history at the @UklahNetwork Panel on 'New Trends in Latin American History' - held at @SLASLatAm conference earlier this year 🍏🏔️👇 uklah.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/ukl…

conference in South Africa in October 🇿🇦 👇 Engaging Stuart Hall in and from the Global South (CASA Annual Symposium) up.ac.za/sociology/cale…

Memorial for Chile Democrático - one of the international networks for Chilean exiles - in Rome. I had seen the address on many documents and it was great to see the plaque in person.

Piketty has just discovered dependency theory ;)

Very sad to hear that Colin Henfrey has died, an iconic figure in Chile solidarity activism and Brazilian sociology. He gets an honourable mention in an article and a chapter I've written on Chile solidarity in Liverpool. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Esta es tu oportunidad 👍

My latest blog post - "Before Chile: Vietnam War Protests and Solidarity in Liverpool" - in which I investigate the roots of local solidarity Plot reveal: the rivalry with Manchester also matters in international solidarity! open.substack.com/pub/mariekerie…

🚨BLAR's NEW ARTICLE🚨 "Kamau Brathwaite: Poetry, Materialities and Climate History" by Benjamín Alías (@CONICETDialoga). READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bl…

We’re very excited to welcome the Latin American History community in Liverpool on Friday. Many thanks to @SLASLatAm and @UklahNetwork for their support.

Join @DanMcDonaldDM Joanna Davis @NiallGeraghty6 and me next week for the launch of Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America: As it Was in the Beginning? ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

In this thread, you will find BLAR's (44:2) 📚BOOK REVIEWS📚. An indispensable and critical review of the most recent and exciting publications about Latin America. x.com/SLASLatAm/stat…

Learn more about our project Memories of Resistance, an online archive of dictatorship-era posters from Chile, and Tallersol, the graphic arts collective that created them (open house in Santiago on Saturday 31 May!). meap.library.ucla.edu/projects/memor…

An advance copy of the PATRIA paperback has landed in Paraguay! Available for pre-order now:

Visit Tallersol in person in Plaza Brasil, Stgo. or Browse their archive online at: meap.library.ucla.edu/projects/memor… @SLASLatAm @mariekeriethof @LivUniHistory @livuniHSS @UklahNetwork

Last month, we celebrated the #SLAS2025 conference, organised by the @BristolUni. We have created a repository of those amazing days of intellectual exchange and encounters with colleagues and friends. You can find the following content, which we invite you to check out: ⬇️

We are elated to share the keynote lecture from #SLAS2025 Conference, by Edmundo Paz Soldán, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Latin American Literature at Cornell University. Check it out following the link below: youtube.com/watch?v=DYCDwG…