Newsletter
1. Fellowships: Strategic identities and crisis in Latin America. Processes and tensions
CALAS has opened a call for up to four research grants of 3 to 6 months duration within the framework of the Knowledge Laboratory "Strategic identities and crisis in Latin America. Processes and tensions". The fellowships are specifically related to the research axis "Disputes over identity and meanings of the future in and from Latin America. Knowledge, ideas and languages of the crisis". Projects are expected to address from a transdisciplinary perspective plural, decentered, critical, territorial and intertwined identities. In this way, the research axis intends to focus on conceptualizing crisis as a notion that collaborates in the enunciation of the problems of our time while conveying the vulnerability of both institutions and subjects.
The Call is open untill Agosto 31, 2023. Conditions can be consulted here.
2. CALAS/HIAS fellowship in Germany: Energetic transition
In cooperation with the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS), CALAS invites leading scholars, scientists and artists from Latin American research institutions to carry out research projects related to studying and reflecting on the emerging global climate crisis. They are invited to study how the immanent energy transition impacts on culture, society, economy and its expression in the arts. The fellowship comprises a four-months stay in Hamburg and two months in Kassel between February and July 2024.
The Call is open untill August 12, 2023. Conditions can be consulted here.
3. CALAS/HIAS fellowship in Germany: Land
With "Land”, HIAS and CALAS are focusing their call for proposals on a topic that has shaped Latin American societies in many ways from the Conquest to the present day. Globally, the region is characterized by the most unequal distribution of access to and ownership of land. From the plantation system, to latifundism, to agro-industry and agro-extractivism, high concentration of land is a constant in political, cultural, economic, environmental, and social configurations. Yet land concentration has always been contested through land struggles, agrarian reforms, or agro-ecological alternatives. We are particularly interested in exploring the symbolic, transversal, historical meaning of (unequal) land ownership, which can be explored in sociologically-social anthropologically, politico-economically, spatially-ecologically, or culturally-artistically. The fellowship comprises a four-month stay in Hamburg and two months in Bielefeld between February and July 2024
The Call is open untill August 12, 2023. Conditions can be consulted here.
4. International Summerschool: Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons
CALAS, the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) at UC Berkeley, and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1288 “Practices of Comparing” at Bielefeld University invite doctoral students with an interest in history, literary studies, geographies, environmental humanities, sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, economics, or legal studies, to apply to attend an international summer school that will be convened from July 14–18, 2024, at the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington (Berkeley, United States) on the theme of “Making a World of Many Worlds: Identities, Activisms, and Comparisons.” The summer school will examine processes of world-making all over the world from the early modern, colonial period to our present age, comparing not only between different world regions but examining the exchanges between them as well. We intend to explore the political, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of these processes through three thematic lenses: identities, activisms, and comparisons.
The Call is open until October 1, 2023. Conditions can be consulted here.
5. Documentary filmmaking Contest: Strategic identities and crisis in Latin America. Processes and tensions
CALAS invites filmmakers and audiovisual producers to apply for funding for the production of a documentary thematically focused on "Strategic identities and crisis in Latin America. Processes and tensions". It is expected to present an audiovisual narrative that provides - in the context of aesthetic representations - space for a dialogue on equal terms between the diverse knowledge, epistemes and practices in Latin America. The argument of the documentary should depict the fundamental themes of the laboratory, which focuses on identities in plural, territorial, intertwined, decentered. The focus of the documentary will be on subalternized identities, with special interest in indigenous, Afro, peasant, gender, etc. identities from all over Latin America. We welcome a project that is not only critical, but also aesthetic, that condenses the theme from an artistic approach.
The call (Spanish only) is open until September 24, 2023. Conditions can be consulted here.