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1. CALAS-HIAS Research Fellowship Hamburg/Kassel 2027: Feminism, Extractivism, Culture and Art under authoritarian tendencies: Perspectives from Latin America

In collaboration with the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), CALAS invites 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 of democratic pluralism, cultural diversity, aesthetics and arts, gender equality and diversity as well as environmental rights and norms are currently under threat in Latin America. These developments are particularly felt in the areas of gender, the environment culture and arts.

The call is open until May 24, 2026. Conditions can be consulted here.

2. CALAS-HIAS Research Fellowship Hamburg/Bielefeld 2027: Radical Geopolitical Shifts and Regional Transformation in Latin America

In collaboration with the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), CALAS invites 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 addresses interdisciplinary researchers with projects that shed light on political reactions, collaborations, horizons and visions that are currently taking place in Latin America in response to geopolitical change and the conflictive internal fragmentation of the southern hemisphere of the double American continent.

The call is open until May 24, 2026. Conditions can be consulted here.

 

3. Call for up to 5 Research fellowships: Radicalism and Political Radicalization in Latin America: Democratic Challenges, Differences, and Transformation

Inside its Knowledge Laboratory “A Region in Motion: Accelerated Human Mobility and Multiple Circulations in Latin America and the Caribbean,” CALAS invites researchers to participate at an International Congress to be held September 7-9, 2026, at the University of Costa Rica. The Congress proposes to discuss phenomena related to multiple mobilities in present-day Latin America and the Caribbean. It is also interested in mobilities and transformative social and cultural processes in the past.

The call is open until July 5, 2026. Conditions can be consulted here.

 

4. Call for papers: Battles over the Horizon of Meaning: Power and Cultural Hegemony in the Face of Authoritarian Tendencies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Guadaljaara, November 26-28, 2026

In Latin America and the Caribbean, intense disputes are unfolding over emancipatory horizons of meaning that challenge power, against utilitarian frameworks that seek to legitimize it. These confrontations reflect tensions between authoritarian tendencies and struggles to control the meaning of power and its direction. This phenomenon is linked both to the rise of the far right at the national and international levels, as well as to current or potential authoritarian drifts in governments that identify as progressive or left-wing. This Platform for Dialogue invites reflection, both comparative or case studies from transdisciplinary approaches focused on Intellectual discourses and professional practices; The political operation of ideas and Struggles over common sense and beliefs..

The call is open until March 31, 2026. Conditions can be consulted here.