Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Every knowledge producer linked to an institution has experienced the imperatives that, through rules and hierarchies, channel the production of knowledge and limit the results generated there.
Historical studies of violent pasts in Latin America are intrinsically connected to memory studies and, more broadly, to memory politics and memorial cultures. Struggles to explain the construction of the present reflect how societies constantly seek to reinterpret their past, leading to strong political debates and conflicts. The question of how to deal with traumatic past experiences, often related to political violence, has become an issue of great social relevance in many Latin American countries.
Vor dem Hintergrund sich zuspitzender Klima-, Umwelt- und sozialer Krisen gewinnen Nachhaltigkeitspolitiken global und lokal an Bedeutung. In der internationalen Entwicklungspolitik soll mit den UN-Nachhaltigkeitszielen (SDGs) die Voraussetzung für einen sozial-ökologischen Umbau von Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik weltweit geschaffen werden.
La región Andina es una de las zonas con mayor diversidad cultural y biológica a nivel global, fuertemente marcada por su estructura vertical y su localización que atraviesa en varias zonas climáticas planetarias, entre los trópicos ecuatoriales y latitudes australes en América del Sur. Desde la conquista española, las poblaciones andinas y sus ambientes naturales iniciaron un acelerado proceso de transformación de orden ecológico, político, sociocultural y socioeconómico, que derivó en nuevas formas de manejo ambiental, de organización social y de interrelaciones con la naturaleza.
La Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena es una universidad con tradición y orientada a la investigación localizada en el centro de Alemania. Coo universidad completa, ofrece una amplia gama de materias. Agrupa su investigación de vanguardia en las líneas de perfil Luz - Vida - Libertad. Está estrechamente conectada con instituciones de investigación no universitarias, empresas de investigación e instituciones culturales de renombre. Con alrededor de 18.000 estudiantes y más de 8.600 empleados, la universidad aporta al carácter de Jena como una ciudad cosmopolita y orientada al futuro.
Proponemos una serie de cuatro talleres para explorar tanto la práctica como la teoría detrás de las estéticas del cuidado, particularmente en el periodo denominado como Antropoceno. El objetivo de la serie de talleres es abrir un espacio lúdico y reflexivo para sentipensar las imágenes, las emociones y las ideas que acompañan nuestras vivencias de las crisis de habitabilidad del planeta.
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Carlos Alberto Haas was born in Guatemala and grew up in Germany. He studied musicology and history in Heidelberg, Rome and Munich. In 2018, he received his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich with the thesis "Privacy in the Ghettos. Jewish Life in Poland under German Occupation 1939-1944." This thesis was awarded the Doctoral Prize of the Leibniz Association. He is currently a lecturer and researcher (Akademischer Rat a. Z.) in the Department of History at LMU Munich.
Carlos Fredy Ochoa studied conflict resolution at Uppsala University. His master's and doctoral studies were in anthropology at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He is a specialist in Mayan societies, their oral tradition, authority systems and customary law and has a particular interest in 15th century Mesoamerica. He is currently a professor of peace and security at the School of Political Science and director of the Institute of Political and Social Research at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.
Bieke Willem is professor of Romance literature at the University of Cologne, Germany, and senior researcher at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Ghent, Belgium (2014). She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and then as a lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden, specializing in contemporary Latin American literature. She has contributed to books and academic journals with articles on memories of the Chilean (post)dictatorship, on the literary representation of space, and on its effect in literature and film.
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