King's Brazil Institute

🎬 FREE FILM SCREENING King's Brazil Institute presents a free film screening of the award winning documentary Paid in Blood (Pau d’Arco). 📅 1 April 2026 ⏰ 16:00 – 18:00 📍 Bush House, Strand Campus, King’s College London 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/film-ex…

How do colonial trade routes continue to shape modern epidemics, and what can this tell us about arbovirus vulnerability in Brazil today? 📅 1 April 2026 ⏰ 14:00 – 15:30 📍 Bush House South East Wing, Strand Campus, King’s College London 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/colonia…

FREE EVENT 🇧🇷 What can Brazil’s unique approach to water and sanitation teach us about building fairer, more sustainable systems? 📅 31 March ⏰ 18:00 – 19:30 📍 Bush House, Strand Campus 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/water-a…

Brazil week 2026 is fast approaching. Join us and register to our events, open to all! kcl.ac.uk/brazil-week-se… @Kings_SGA @kclgeography @Kingspol_econ @Andreza_Aruska

Your COP30 questions, answered. 🌍 What makes this climate summit in Belém, Brazil so important for the Brazil and global action? 🎥 Dr. Andreza de Souza Santos, Director of King's Brazil Institute (@KingsBrazil) shares her perspective. Full Video 🔗 youtu.be/XaIsIP3En6w

🚨 Just another day of terror in Rio? David Kenyon unpacks the politics, violence & broken security logic behind Operation Containment kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/another-day-… #Brazil #RioDeJaneiro #PublicSecurity #Politics #KingsGlobalAffairs

New paper by @Andreza_Aruska Dalson Figueiredo, Valéria Cristina, Gabriel Feltran, Adson Amorim and Antonio Pires em open access

Please register here, all welcome! kcl.ac.uk/events/kings-b…

📢King's Brazil Institute Opening lecture by Professor Matias Spektor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo. "How is Brazil coping: Sovereignty on Trial in the Age of Electoral Interference." 🗓️10 Oct 18:30 📍Bush House, Strand Campus, London kcl.ac.uk/events/kings-b…

Rio de Janeiro is a unique and fascinating city that has been continually remade by newcomers, strivers, and tricksters. Join @KingsBrazil and Professor Bryan McCann in exploring Rio's past as part of his new book and Brazil Week 2025! Find out more⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/events/newcome…

Join @KingsBrazil for a writing retreat featuring presentations by academics on their work as part of Brazil Week 2025. Students are invited to join for a full day of activities and talks to support academic writing! Find out more⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/events/brazil-…

How can we explore Brazil’s manifold and recurring expressions of authoritarianism? Join @KingsBrazil, Dr @Andreza_Aruska and Dr Katerina Hatzikidi, on their new book "The Faces of Authoritarianism" as part of Brazil Week 2025. Find out more⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/events/book-la…

All welcome! Registration needed.

Congratulations to @andreza_aruska, Andreza de Souza Santos and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/43Q4CjY #Brazil #Populism

Join us for the Transitions Project Launch - 25 June | 16:30 | Stand Campus, @KingsCollegeLon Researchers, policy experts & advocates will discuss the historical development and contemporary debates about psych deinstitutionalisation in Latin America. kcl.ac.uk/events/project…

Save the date! Our Brazil Week will take place in June 2025 @Kings_SGA @Andreza_Aruska

Another excellent presentation yesterday at our monthly KBI PhD Seminar! @tyhelou presented a case study about countervailing institution-building across the BRICS countries. Thanks also to Yuyun Li for her comments as a discussant. @Andreza_Aruska @Kings_SGA

📣 CLAS OPEN SEMINARS: "El Salvador and the Bitcoin Experiment: Navigating Remittances, Dollarisation, and Global Monetary Change" Juan Grigera (@KingsIntDev) Chair: Pedro Mendes Loureiro (@Cambridge_Uni) 📆 Monday 03 March | 5:15pm 📍 Room SG1 Ground Floor, ARB Come join us!

“Im Still here” film available in cinemas throughout the UK from tomorrow 📽️🎞️ For those in London, BFI Southbank does offer generous student prices (£3-5).   Alternatively, you can find local cinemas at altitude.film