Newsletter
1. 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.
2. CALAS-HIAS 2026 Research Grant: Latina/o/x Cultures in the United States – Past, Present and Futures
This call for applications for a Guest-Professorship at the HIAS and Bielefeld University addresses interdisciplinary researchers with projects that shed light on the history, present and/or future of Latinx cultures in the United States. The CALAS/HIAS fellowship offers a competitive stipend for a four-month stay at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) in Hamburg (February to May) and two months at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University (June and July). The call is open to candidates from all (Latin) American countries and covers a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, especially literary and cultural studies, political sociology, history, and gender studies.
The call is open until June 6, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.
3. Platform for Dialogue: Construction and Expansion of the New National and Transnational Far Rights in the Americas and Europe
This Platform for Dialogue, organized by the regional office Andes in Quito, Ecuador, addresses the transnational expansion of the far-right as a phenomenon that reconfigures the political sphere, economic structures and symbolic frameworks that sustain the social order by influencing future horizons. By connecting Latin America with Europe, we seek to identify points of convergence and divergence in the strategies of far-right movements, examining how their financing networks, discourses and mobilization tactics operate beyond national borders and influence the future horizons of the region and the world. The objective is to map the dynamics of the ultra-right and generate a space for the production of critical, empirical and situated knowledge, capable of nurturing broader debates on resistance, memory and social transformation.
The call is open until May 22, 2025. Conditions can be consulted here.
4. Platform for Dialogue: Grassroots, popular, and alternative economies. Horizons and limitations of current labor dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This Platform for Dialogue, to be organized at the CALAS Central American and Caribbean regional office from November 5-7, 2025, will offer a space to discuss about the relationship between crisis, grassroots economies, popular economies, forms of organization/innovation and adaptation of labor to the neoliberal context, from a relational perspective taking into account its structural, institutional, multiscalar, intersectional and subjective dimensions. The different forms of organization of grassroots economies, both historical and current, will be studied in an interdisciplinary way, including anthropological, historical, social science and economic perspectives as well as cultural studies. Their functioning, their structures and membership, their challenges (successes and failures) and their contribution to the resolution of social, economic and ecological crises and to a possible social transformation based on different forms of grassroots and solidarity economies, as well as cooperative organizations, will be analyzed. Special attention will be given to manifestations and practices sensitive to gender, ethnicity, class, generation and diversities, including ecological and social responsibility.
The call (Spanish only) is open until June 15, 2025. The conditions can be consulted here.