LACCS-UK | London | UK | Juan Monroy.

LACCS-UK IS AN INDEPENDENT AND NON-PROFITABLE ORGANISATION FOUNDED IN LONDON (1983), WITH THE AIM TO CONTRIBUTE AND PROMOTE CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AMONGST NATIONS ACCREDITED TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

The year 2026 marks the 43rd Anniversary of LACCS-UK working in the field of Social and Cultural Diplomacy, promoting understanding of the cultural phenomenon in the 21st century, including its challenges and interdependencies of global changes.

PROFESSOR JR MONROY
FOUNDER AND HON CHAIR LACCS-UK and SUBSIDIARY - LACCS-WORLDWIDE.
SOCIAL SCIENTIST, ANALYTICAL HISTORIAN, GLOBAL CULTURAL RESEARCHER.

Founder and Hon. Chair LACCS-UK

LACCS-UK 43rd ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMME 2026

LACCS-UK is continuing celebrating its 43 Years Working in the field of Culture, Music, Art and Society and a pioneering independent and non-profitable organisation in the field of Cultural and Public Diplomacy.

LACCS-WORLDWIDE FORUM SERIES 2026: GLOBAL CULTURE, SOCIETY AND DIALOGUE with its Socio-Cultural Interpretations and Challenges

THURSDAY 30 JUNE 2026
TIME: 6:00 PM UK - LONDON TIME

Guest Speakers from : THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THEMATIC FRAME

The Republic of Turkey and International Security. Turkey relations with the Near East, South Asia. China and Turkey: Economic present and future relations. Turkey's strategy for its membership to the EU and its evaluation of BRICS new multinational entity. Music and Spanish national identity. Latin America and the United States are building their classical music identities. Spanish Classical Music during Franco's years. Nationalism and classicism in Spain and Europe. Music and Culture in the Great East, Middle East, India, Japan, Indonesia, etc.

Professor Selçuk Colakoglu is founder and Director of the Turkish Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies in Ankara, Turkey. Faculty Member and Programme Convener, Globalization and Development Programme at Beijing Normal University, Hong Kong Baptist University United International College in Zhuhai, China.

Distinguished Professor of Music History, Director Centre for Iberian and Latin American Music, University of California, Collaborating Professor on Doctoral Faculties in Musicology at the University of Valladolid, Complutense de Madrid, and La Rioja (Logrono), Knight Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.

LACCS-WORLDWIDE continues inviting colleagues from the Americas, Europe, Middle and Far East, South East and South Asia and Africa to participate in a multinational and multicultural dialogue for searching ways of cooperation and understanding.

LATIN AMERICA: THE LONG ROAD TO DEMOCRACY - SELECTED ESSAYS.

Is a master and timely collection that captures both the persistence fragility of democratic governance across the region. The contributor is a leading scholar and practitioner of Latin American politics - engage with the enduring questions at the heart of the region's political evolution: How far has Latin America come since the end of authoritarian rule and What forces continue to threaten or sustain democratic life today?

What makes this volumen stand out is its balance of historical depth and analytical clarity. Ultimately, The Long Road to Democracy reminds us that democratization in Latin America is not a completed journey but an ongoing struggle - one that demands both vigilance and imagination. It's a deeply reflective and well-curated volume that belongs in the library of anyone serious about understanding comparative democracy in the 21st century.

LACCS-WORLDWIDE A SUBSIDIARY OF LACCS-UK proudy introduced in it international forum: GLOBAL CULTURE, SOCIETY AND DIALOGUE, two distinguish professionals, American Historian Benjamin J. Swenson and Lawyer Alexandr Chernykh.

The dialogue was most impressive and a contribution to LACCS-WORLDWIDE international series to listen to multicultural and multinational professional experiences. The synthesis of the dialogue will be published at the end of the series 2025-26.

LACCS-UK continuing exploring the artistic creation with its intrinsics aesthetic similarities and differences, accordingly to the individual experiences and ethic to formulate a particular idea concerning art with particular reference to music and historical-culture.

Exist prejudices concerning women's artists and female professionals Working in Culture, Art, Music and Society?

Our society is predominant male orientation, even in industrial societies women social and economic roles are not completed recognised, i.e low salaries, not enough health-care or working protection against accidents, and employee abuses.

LACCS-UK Women Series attempts to contribute to enhancing the role of women in a modern society, focussing our attention on studies in any field of Culture, including Music and Arts. Why do we select Culture as the central topics in our forum?

Listening and comparing experiences of successful professional women in Music, Art and Society we will be able to create a continuum of cases which will be our proposition to analyse each case as part of their own historical and cultural background and explore how each of them sort themselves out of the prejudiced social environment.

Our women sample, was selected at random, considering only their successful profile as winners in a diary challenge to survive and to contribute with their intellect and talent to their national and international culture in their respective areas of knowledge and skills.

LACCS-UK project attempt to create a platform which will exhibit a series of women's successes cases, with its challenges and limitations caused by endogenous social factors, i.e. countries social legislations, non-existence of a democratic education system, pertinence to a specific social class. i.e. middle and elites, in disadvantage to the lower social status, etc. Finally, we will discover the real truth about how today in a modern and industrial society, women starting to build their own cultural profile as a social phenomenon as a winner of social status and prestige even better than men in the humble beginning of the capitalist society.

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PROFESSOR JR MONROY FOUNDER AND HON CHAIR LACCS-UK and SUBSIDIARY - LACCS-WORLDWIDE. SOCIAL SCIENTIST, ANALYTICAL HISTORIAN, GLOBAL CULTURAL RESEARCHER.