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abril 2019
Grupo de estudio Latinoamérica
Sesión En las sesiones mensuales los participantes podrán presentar sus trabajos, organizar debates y proponer lecturas compartidas sobre textos claves para los estudios latinoamericanistas. Durante la primera reunión se definirá una agenda de lecturas, papers y presentaciones.
Find out more »2. Sesión del Grupo de estudio Latinoamérica
Para romper el hielo, discutiremos en esta sesión dos textos claves del pensamiento latinoamericanista decolonial: Walter D. Mignolo. 2007. La idea de América Latina. La herida colonial y la opción decolonial. Barcelona: Gedisa. Los textos están disponibles también en inglés de ser necesario.
Find out more »mayo 2019
3. Sesión del Grupo de estudio Latinoamérica
El profesor Michael Riekenberg (Vergleichende Geschichtswissenschaft/ Ibero-Amerikanische Geschichte, Leipzig Universität) presenterá su nuevo libro Eine Ontologie der Gewalt, Frankfurt M./New York (Campus Verlag), el cual se publicará a finales del 2019. Generando un dialogo entre la nueva sociología de la violencia y la antropología, Riekenberg propone un nuevo enfoque comparativo para teorizar la violencia en contextos no occidentales. Para ello toma como punto de partida las culturas amazónicas. La presentación será en español y luego se invitará a los presentes…
Find out more »Café Latinoamericano: Prof. Diego Galeano (PUC-Rio)
Transnational crime and policing networks in the South American Atlantic region, 1890-1940. GWZ, 2. Floor, Room: 4.216 Language: English This presentation analyzes the connected history of transnational crime and policing networks in the South American Atlantic region between the 1890’s and 1940’s, with a focus on currency counterfeiting. I follow the trajectories of two cross-border counterfeiters: a French photographer who emigrated to Argentina in the late nineteenth century and a Portuguese photographer who emigrated to Brazil at the beginning of…
Find out more »junio 2019
4. Sesión del Grupo de estudio Latinoamérica
Panel "Latin America and “1989”: Social, political, and economic antecedents and consequences" at the XVII International Summer School of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies of the Research Academy Leipzig.
Find out more »octubre 2019
STUDY GROUP LATIN AMERICA
Wednesday, 5-7 pm Place: Centre for Area Studies – Nikolaistr. 6-10. Strohsackpassage Room 5.27. Start: 16.10.2019 What is Latin America? And what are the social, historical, economic and political contexts that have constructed over time localities, countries, sub-regions and the region itself? What are the historical roots and developmental effects of socio-political processes in the region such as populism? These are some of the questions that the Colloquium for Latin American Studies at Leipzig University, or CEL-LE (its Spanish acronym)…
Find out more »2. Conference “Latin American Transitions. Processes of reconfiguration”
The image of instability and violence commonly associated with Latin America disregards the socio-cultural longevity and geopolitical continuity that has characterized the region over the last two centuries. In this context, crises have alternated with periods of cultural, political and economic reconfiguration. Processes of recomposition have been, however, polyvalent, i.e. they have had different functions, forms, facets, and outcomes. This year’s conference proposes to explore diverse, past and present processes of reconfiguration in Latin America. How have local, regional, national,…
Find out more »Forum: Migration and Transformation in Latin America
In addition to four discussion panels, this year’s conference will feature an open keynote roundtable entitled „Forum: Migration and Transformations in Latin America“, organized in cooperation with the film festival Lateinamerikanische Tage. Since the conquest, migration has been one of the most significant factors for political, social and economic transformations in Latin America. Currently, the Venezuelan migration crisis have presented anew Latin American countries with serious challenges. The Coloquio de Estudios Latinoamericanos en Leipzig (Cel-Le) invites interested participants to address…
Find out more »octubre 2020
Grupo de Estudio Digital América Latina: “Mercados de violencia”
During the Winter Semester, the Colloquium for Latin American Studies at Leipzig University (CeL-Le) will take as a starting point G. Elwert's concept "markets of violence" for exploring the following questions: Under which conditions does the use of force generate profit? How does violence change the benefits and, thus, the behavior of political and economic actors over time? Building on case studies, we will look at the interconnections between diverse actors and how these are articulated through violence, for instance,…
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