Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies

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CALAS - Maria Sibylla Merian Center
Category: Center for Advanced Studies
Carrier: BMBF
Consist: since 2017
Facility location: Guadalajara, Mexico
Branch offices: San José de Costa Rica
Quito, Ecuador
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type of research: Latin America research in the humanities and social sciences
Subjects: Interdisciplinary
Areas of expertise: Latin American Studies
Management: Olaf Kaltmeier, Sarah Corona Berkin, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Gerardo Cham
Homepage: https://www.calas.lat/

The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) is a German-Latin American center for advanced studies in Latin America , with its main location in Guadalajara and regional locations in Buenos Aires , Quito and San José de Costa Rica. As an international reference point for social sciences and humanities research from and about Latin America, CALAS promotes interdisciplinary and interregional dialogue.

Participating institutions

Under the leadership of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University and with financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany and the National Council for Science and Technology ( CONACyT ) in Mexico , the University of Guadalajara , the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA) of the University of Kassel , the FLACSO-Ecuador, the Leibniz University of Hanover , the University of Costa Rica, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the UNSAM in Buenos Aires are involved in CALAS. CALAS also cooperates with the University of Havana in Cuba and the Instituto de Estudos Avançados Transdisciplinares (IEAT) of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil through a visiting professorship program .

Britta Pradberg (2020) describes this international network structure in her history of the Institutes for Advanced Studies as a new fourth generation of such research centers in the context of international cooperation, which differs from previously founded IAS in that, although they have always carried out international research, they are more firmly anchored nationally were or are.

research

In terms of content, CALAS focuses on the topic of how social actors perceive multiple crises and react to them - with new approaches, among other things. The CALAS provides an institutional framework within which, in the long term, together with scientists from Latin America - as well as in exchange with the Merian Centers in other regions of the world (ICAS: MP, MeciLA, MIASA, MECAM) - dealing with crises in relation to violence and conflict resolution , social inequality, environmental changes and regional identities on the continent can be researched from a humanities and social science perspective. In addition to the intensive exchange between Germany and the region, the Center for Advanced Studies also strengthens cooperation in Latin American research in German-speaking countries. Since the start of the project on March 1, 2017, an infrastructure has been set up for this purpose and work has been carried out on the research program "Coping with Crises: Transdicipinary Perspectives from Latin America", which allows the center to work on the central issues of CALAS within the various formats with international fellows . To this end, it regularly announces research grants for individual and tandem fellowships as well as research groups, and organizes specialist meetings and conferences at all of its locations.

According to CALAS, it is important to use its research formats to promote scientific dialogue on various levels: interregional (especially between Germany and Latin America, but also within the various countries and regions of Latin America), interdisciplinary , intergenerational and also intercultural with regard to the Dialogue with non-academic forms of knowledge and epistemologies .

Publications

Series afrontar las crisis desde América Latina

The CALAS publishes the long essay series Afrontar las crisis desde América Latina in cooperation with an international network of university publishers in five countries (Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Costa Rica and Ecuador). The series of essays is published in print format and digitally in open access by transcript Verlag / Bielefeld University Press, the University Press in Guadalajara, UNSAM Edita, the publishing house of the UCR and FLACSO-Ecuador.

So far have appeared in Spanish
  1. José Manuel Valenzuela: Trazos de sangre y fuego. Bio-necropolítica y juvenicidio en América Latina . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4551-4 .
  2. Maristella Svampa: Las fronteras del neoextractivismo. Conflictos socioambientales, giro ecoterritorial y nuevas dependencias . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4526-2 .
  3. Olaf Kaltmeier: Refeudalización . Desigualdad social, economía y cultura política en América Latina en el temprano siglo XXI . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4524-8 .
  4. Claudia Zapata Silva: Crisis del multiculturalsimo. Conflictividad social y respuestas críticas desde el pensamiento político indígena . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4525-5 .
  5. Edgardo Lander: Crisis civilizatoria. Experiencias de los gobiernos progresistas y debates en la izquierda latinoamericana . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4889-8 .
  6. Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux: La crisis política en la Argentina. Memoria discursiva y componente emocional en el debate sobre la Reforma Previsional . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4890-4 .
  7. Sarah Corona Berkin: La producción horizontal del conocimiento . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4974-1 .
  8. Claudia Briones: Conflictividades interculturales. Demandas indígenas como crisis fructíferas . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4892-8 .
  9. Néstor García Canclini: Ciudadanos reemplazados por algoritmos . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4891-1 .

Anthologies

  • Gerardo Gutiérrez Cham and Olaf Kaltmeier (eds.): ¡Aquí los jóvenes! Frente a las crisis . Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara / CALAS, Guadalajara, 2019, ISBN 978-607-547-647-6 .
  • Christine Hatzky and David Díaz Arias (eds.): Cuándo pasará el temblor? CIHAC / CALAS, San José de Costa Rica, 2019, ISBN 978-9968-919-48-7 .

Directory Board

  • Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University (since 2017)
  • Sarah Corona Berkin, Universidad de Guadalajara (since 2017)
  • Hans-Jürgen Burchardt , University of Kassel (since 2017)
  • Gerardo Cham, Universidad de Guadalajara (since 2017)

literature

Britta Padberg, "The Global Diversity of Institutes for Advanced Study", in: Sociologica, vol.14, no.1, 2020, pp. 119–161, https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/ 9839 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): CALAS: Alemania impulsa inédito Centro de Estudios Avanzados en América Latina | DW | 04/11/2017. Retrieved March 3, 2020 (European Spanish).
  2. ^ Britta Padberg: The Global Diversity of Institutes for Advanced Study . In: Sociologica . Vol 14, May 20, 2020, p. 119–161 Pages , doi : 10.6092 / ISSN.1971-8853 / 9839 ( unibo.it [accessed July 6, 2020]).
  3. ^ Nueva Sociedad 273 | America Latina: respuestas populares a la crisis. February 16, 2018, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Javier Lafuente: La desigualdad moviliza a América Latina . In: El País . October 27, 2019, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed March 3, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Humanities and social sciences editorial team: CALAS conference “Crisis Climate: Environmental Conflicts from a Latin American Perspective” | Humanities & Social Sciences. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Las ciencias sociales unen a México y Alemania. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Afrontar las crisis desde America Latina , ehaule: Collection of essays des Calas: Latin American crises under the microscope. March 20, 2019, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ transcript: BiUP. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  9. ^ University publishing house in Guadalajara
  10. ↑ CALAS | Categorias de los productos | Unsam Edita. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (European Spanish).
  11. ↑ Página12: Ensayos para pensar la crisis de America Latina | LIBROS. December 5, 2019, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Olaf Kaltmeier
  13. ↑ Sarah Corona Berkin
  14. ↑ Expert Burchardt for reforms: Latin America should move away from oil dependence. In: ZDF news. ZDF, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ South America's Broken Dreams - macro from 02/07/2020. ZDF, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Gerardo Cham