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El Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CALAS, por sus siglas en inglés), la Universidad de La Habana (Cuba) y la Universidad Nacional San Martin (Argentina) convocan una beca para ocupar la Cátedra CALAS Cuba, radicada, en esta ocasión, en la Universidad Nacional San Martin (Argentina). La Cátedra es financiada por CALAS y abarca una estancia de tres meses en Buenos Aires, Argentina. De acuerdo con el programa de investigación del CALAS, se espera que las/los solicitantes contribuyan al desarrollo de nuevos enfoques...
El Laboratorio de Conocimiento “Aceleraciones y transformaciones del mundo laboral en América Latina y el Caribe en perspectiva global”, del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS), invita a investigadoras e investigadores a participar en el Congreso Internacional del 15 al 17 de marzo de 2027 en la Universidad de Costa Rica.
El trabajo aparece como una de las características de la dinámica de aceleración de los procesos sociales modernos. En el contexto contemporáneo, las crisis multidimensionales que atraviesan América Latina y el Caribe sitúan al entorno laboral como el...
El Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS) y la Universidad de Bielefeld están aceptando solicitudes para dos becas –de dos a tres meses de duración–, destinadas a personas investigadoras cualificada para trabajar en residencia en una de las sedes de CALAS en Centroamérica y el Caribe (San José de Costa Rica) o la sede Andes, ubicada en la FLACSO, Ecuador:
De acuerdo con el programa de investigación del CALAS, se espera que las personas candidatas contribuyan al desarrollo de nuevos enfoques metodológicos y analíticos para comprender los cambios, las...
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) is offering up to five research fellowships to be carried out at one of CALAS’s regional offices in Latin America (Guadalajara, Mexico; San José, Costa Rica; Quito, Ecuador; Buenos Aires, Argentina). The fellowships are part of the Knowledge Laboratory “Political Radicalism and Radicalization in Latin America: Democratic Challenges, Differences, and Transformation.” The residencies will last between three and five months, to be carried out between February and June 2027.
Political Radicalism and Global...
The new phase of knowledge production at the CALAS moves from the diagnosis of the polycrisis toward the construction of horizons of meaning with transformative potential in the face of the obstacles confronting emancipatory practices. This process requires a transdisciplinary approach that allows for the analysis of power struggles in their multiple dimensions: the material basis of production, the relationship between the human and the non-human, political power, and the cultural hegemony that defines values, ideas, and ideological or religious orientations regarding gender. It also...
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) appoint outstanding scholars, scientists, and artists from Latin American research institutions to pursue their research projects for four months on-site in Hamburg and two months at Bielefeld University, Germany.
This call for applications for a fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study and Bielefeld University addresses interdisciplinary researchers with projects that shed light on political reactions,...
The Knowledge Laboratory “A Region on the Move: Accelerated Human Mobilities and Multiple Circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean”, of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), invites researchers to participate in the International Conference to be held from September 7 to 9, 2026, at the University of Costa Rica.
Human mobility appears as one of the defining characteristics of the accelerating dynamics of modern social processes. Circulations are multiple and involve the mobility of people as well as the flow of goods, materials, ideas, and knowledge. These...
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) invite outstanding scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean to undertake research projects for a total of six months—four months in Hamburg and two months at the University of Kassel, Germany.
This year’s fellowship focuses on contemporary authoritarian backlashes in Latin America. As in other world regions and against the backdrop of the rise of the far-right, anti-democratic political forces, achievements in the areas...
Programa de Servicio Social CALAS
El Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS) es un instituto de investigación de la Red Universitaria. Tiene como actividades la organización de eventos científicos (presenciales y virtuales) como simposios, coloquios, conferencias, talleres. Además, tiene líneas de publicación y proyectos difusión como el podcast "Acentos Latinoamericanos".
El CALAS promueve investigación de excelencia en las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades bajo un enfoque interdisciplinario, con el fin de hacerla visible internacionalmente y preparar la transferencia de...
Within the framework of the Knowledge Laboratory “Accelerations and transformations in the world of labor in Latin America and the Caribbean in global perspective,” the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) opens a call for up to 5 research grants lasting three to five months, to be carried out between August and December 2026, at the CALAS headquarters in Guadalajara (Mexico). The Knowledge Laboratory is part of the CALAS Program “Creating Horizons: Accelerations, Transformations, Emergences,” particularly the axis “Transformations”, that focuses on analyzing the global...