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CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN

RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN

RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

Image by Renaldo Matamoro

CALL FOR PAPERS – SYMPOSIUM

Settling in the self-built city:

South-South migration and urban borderscapes

November 5-6, 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The University of Amsterdam invites submissions for a two-day symposium linked to the project Contesting Urban Borderscapes in Latin America. The event will take place at the city-centre campus, with sessions at the Allard Pierson Museum.

The symposium focuses on the social dynamics of self-built neighbourhoods in Latin America receiving migrants from neighbouring countries, with case studies in Medellín and San José. We welcome contributions addressing South–South migration, community governance, social integration and exclusion, memory and narrative, and processes of bordering and symbolic boundaries.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Settling in the self-built city:
South-South migration and urban borderscapes

Deadline for abstract submission extended until 1 May 2026. This two-day symposium, organized at the University of Amsterdam, aims to bring together important scholarly contributions on themes scaffolding our research project Contesting Urban Borderscapes in Latin America. The event will take place in and around our city-center campus and the main venue is the beautiful Allard Pierson Museum. KNOW MORE

Bachelor, Master and PhD

CEDLA has promoted Latin American Studies in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. We do this by conducting and stimulating relevant and original research on developments in Latin America and distributing the results of this research internationally via academic education at BA, MA and PhD levels.

NEW CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Applications for Slicher van Bath Fund

Managed by CEDLA, the scholarships fund activities such as archival work or library study, to be conducted in the year following the award. The recipient will receive 75% of the amount upon acceptance and
the remaining 25% upon submission and approval of a final report. Each year, at least four scholarships are awarded, with a maximum amount of €10,000 each. APPLY

VISIT OUR EXHIBITION

La Resistencia de Pirañas Crew: Women Street Artists’ Struggle to Obtain Gender Equality, Security, and Inclusion

This exhibition is created by photographer Lin Woldendorp and CEDLA PhD candidate Lieke Prins, portrays the feminist street art collective Pirañas Crew from Medellín, Colombia. With her lens, Lin has captured the artists’ resistance, the connections between the women, and their creative expressions in public space. Through intimate portraits of the women in their spaces of resistance, the exposition aims to represent the Pirañas and shed light on their ongoing fight for gender equality and security.

Image by Maria Lysenko

Guns, tech and permaviolence
in Latin America

SPEAKER: León Castellanos, Asser Institute for International & European Law
DATE: 5 June 2026
TIME: 15:30-17:00
VENUE: VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, ground floor. 1012 ZA Amsterdam

CEDLA BOOK COLLECTION

The collection includes books and journals

The CEDLA book collection is now available in the new University Library of the UvA, located on the Binnengasthuisterrein, diagonally opposite CEDLA. CEDLA titles can be requested via the UvA library catalogue and collected or returned at one of the designated pick-up points. Please allow one to two days between reservation and availability. The new Latin American Studies acquisitions of the last three months are listed here

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