CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

Through the lens of MLAS 2023-2024

DATE: September - December 2024

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This exhibition showcases the work of students from the Master’s programme in Latin American Studies (MLAS), capturing the vibrant and complex realities of Latin America through their lenses. These photographs are the result of intensive fieldwork, where students immersed themselves in diverse communities across the region from February to April 2024. The exhibition will be on display from early September in the hallways of our beautiful new location at Binnengasthuisstraat 46.

Carceral Worlds Book Launch (online)

SPEAKER: various contributors

DISCUSSANTS: Andrew Jefferson (DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture) and Dominique Moran (Birmingham University)

DATE: 22 November 2024

TIME: 12.00-14.00 CET

ACTIVITY: BOOK PRESENTATION

VENUE: Online

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On Friday 22 November from 12.00-14.00 CET we are celebrating the launch of Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures, Futures (2024, Bloomsbury Academic). The volume is co-edited by CEDLA colleague Julienne Weegels and includes chapters on Brazil, Guyana, Chile and Nicaragua.

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Please complete your registration for the event here, to receive the Zoom link ahead of the event. We will be sending you this link a few days before the event, as well as on the day of the event itself.

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Networking event for researchers organized by CEDLA-UvA. Understanding Latin America: New Challenges and Opportunities

DATA: Friday 17 January 2025, 13:30-17:00
VENUE: Vox-Pop, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, Amsterdam

What are pressing developments in Latin America today? And what are the challenges you encounter when doing research in and on the region? How might these be addressed? And what is important to prioritize on the academic, political and societal agenda in the coming years, also in view of the budget cuts?

We invite you to join us for an engaging, interactive afternoon with fellow people doing research in/on LA at Dutch universities as well as the media, NGO’s and the public sector. At this event, organized in celebration of the 60 th anniversary of the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation of the University of Amsterdam (CEDLA-UvA), we aim to exchange experiences, ideas and concerns about the region, to explore new possibilities for collaboration and research, and
to strengthen the network of Latin Americanists based in the Netherlands. Please register here.

Programme
13:30 Arrival and coffee
14:00 Roundtable “The Challenges of Doing Research in/on Latin America Today”
with Carlos Dada (journalist El Faro), Nanneke Winters (ISS-EUR), Soledad Valdivia (Leiden
University), Fabio de Castro (CEDLA-UvA); moderator: Edwin Koopman (VPRO, Trouw)
14:45 World Café, 1 st round
15:30 Break
16:00 World Café, 2 nd round
16:45 Round up: Challenges and new directions
17:00 Drinks and bites

World Café on major themes in LA
A world café is a question-based brainstorm and exchange. We will host two World Café rounds with interdisciplinary, thematic groups, in which we can all exchange the new topics you are working on and the challenges we encounter. Also we will discuss what is important to put on the (research, political and social) agenda in the coming years. People are encouraged to switch groups during the break. We have identified five key themes:
- Politics, polarization and authoritarian (re)turns
- Crime, narcotráfico and other illicit endeavours
- Extractivism and environmental justice
- Migration, refuge and exile
- Gender, race and anti/decolonial struggles
Of course, these themes partly overlap, and historical, economic and social justice struggles underpin them all. When you register, please select the two themes that speak to you most, or add an alternative theme. We will allow space for the creation of two or three more groups. Please register here.

Organizing committee: Kees Biekart (ISS-EUR), Edwin Koopman, and at CEDLA: Barbara Hogenboom,
Dana Brablec, Nicolás Rodríguez Idarraga and Julienne Weegels.