Working Group on German Latin American Studies

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The  German Latin American Research Working Group (ADLAF) is an association of research institutes and individual scientists from all disciplines who focus on   Latin America .

history

The working group was founded in 1965. Since 2007 it is a registered association (ADLAF eV). ADLAF currently has 28 institutional members, including the Institute for Latin American Studies of the  GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , the  Ibero-American Institute , the  Latin American Institute  (LAI) of the  Free University of Berlin , the Central Institute for Latin American Studies (ZILAS) of the Catholics University of Eichstätt-IngolstadtGIZ , the German Hispanic Association, the  German Institute for Development Policy , the  Friedrich Ebert Foundation  and the  Konrad Adenauer Foundation . There are also around 200 individual members.

ADLAF organizes a conference every two years and publishes a monthly newsletter.

Thomas Fischer from ZILAS in Eichstätt has been the chairman of ADLAF since mid-2016. ADLAF is also a member of the Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina (CEISAL, in German: European Council for Social Studies in Latin America).

Conferences (from 1999)

  • 1999: Violence and conflict regulation in Latin America , Hamburg
  • 2000: El Triángulo Atlántico: America Latina, Europa y Estados Unidos en el sistema global cambiante , Berlin
  • 2001: Sustainable Development in Latin America , Eschborn
  • 2002: Mexico's path (s) into modernity , Berlin
  • 2003: Migration , Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 2004: Elites in Latin America , Berlin
  • 2005: Brazil in Latin America: interactions, perceptions, perspectives , vineyards
  • 2006: Ciudadanía vivida, (in) seguridades e interculturalidad / Lived ciudadanía, (In) certainties and interculturality , Bonn
  • 2008: Culturas Políticas en la región andina , Bielefeld
  • 2010: How (in) dependent is Latin America? The region in a global context, 1810-2010 , Eschborn
  • 2012: Espacios de género , Berlin
  • 2014: Globalized Natures - Latin American Perspectives , Berlin
  • 2016: Violencia y Desigualdad | Violence and Inequality , Berlin   

literature

  • Peter Birle, Detlef Nolte (eds.): 50 years of the German Latin American Research Working Group, ADLAF . Vervuert Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-96456-872-4 .

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