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1. Two senior research fellowships
The CALAS Visiting Research Fellowship aims to contribute to the development of new methodological and analytical approaches to understand change and crisis in Latin America. This may include a review of Latin American approaches, theories and methodologies that address crises. The proposed research projects are expected to contribute to reflect, deconstruct and de-center the state of Western-centered knowledge on concepts, dynamics and solutions, and thus adapt them to the context of the region. The call is addressed to outstanding academics with a university background in the Humanities or Social Sciences. Two 3-month fellowships are offered for 2025 (1 based at the CALAS headquarters in Guadalajara, Mexico, another at the Southern Cone & Brazil regional headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina).
The call is open until April 3, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.
2. Funding for the organization of Platforms for Dialogue
To foster international academic exchange and discussion, CALAS calls for proposals to coordinate “Platforms for Dialogue” at its main headquarters in Guadalajara, Mexico and its Southern Cone and Brazil regional headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The “Platform for Dialogue” is a collaborative format to promote interdisciplinary, interregional and intergenerational dialogue on a defined theme. Thematic proposals submitted must address in one way or another the guiding issues of CALAS and its general approaches. For 2025, funding is awarded to two projects, which can receive up to EUR 20,000 to organize their event.
The call is open until April 3, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.
3. CALAS Guest Chair in La Habana 2025
The CALAS Guest Chair at the University of Havana seeks to promote the study of the current economic transformation from the approach of social sciences and humanities. Researchers are invited to present projects that analyze the structural and functional dynamics of the digital economy, considering its impact on the transformation process triggered by the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. Research proposals are invited that link political, economic and environmental issues with this transformation process, and that incorporate structural, relational and representational perspectives. Innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that offer new interpretations and alternatives to the multiple crises facing the region in this field will also be considered.
The call is open until April 6, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.
4. Up to 5 research grants: In horizontality. Knowledge and education to overcome inequalities and polarizations.
In the framework of the Knowledge Laboratory “En horizontalidad. Knowledge and education to overcome inequalities and polarizations” the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) opens the call for up to 5 research grants, of 3 to 5 months duration, to be carried out between September 2025 and March 2026 at its main headquarters, located at the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The Knowledge Laboratory aims to critically reflect on the problems, challenges and needs for transformations in education in the 21st century, focusing on four main axes: 1) Horizontality and educational inclusion, 2) Experiences and knowledge of education, 3) Challenges of society: artificial intelligence and knowledge, 4) Knowledge of the global world in education.
The call is open until April 19, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.
5. CALAS-HIAS 2026 Research Grant: Pathways to socio-ecological transformation in Latin America
CALAS and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS) are offering a research fellowship on the various paths of socio-ecological transformation in Latin America. The fellowship covers a four-month stay in Hamburg and two months in Kassel between February and July 2026. The aim of the fellowship is to analyze the preconditions and the cultural, historical, political, economic and technological consequences of socio-ecological transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The call is open until May 31, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.