Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Lucrecia Saltzmann Gagneten holds a PhD in Anthropology from the National University of Rosario (Argentina) and a Master's degree in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Ecuador). For a decade, she worked as a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), where she developed her doctoral thesis, which focused on analyzing the capital-labor relationship from a gender perspective.
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.
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Throughout the history of the Americas, sentiments toward the environment have been problematized and aestheticized through visual representations in various formats. In this volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis«, sixty entries examine the crises of mining, energy, land use, biodiversity, water, and climate change in the major macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial period to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene, featuring iconic images from this context.
Beatriz Véliz Argueta is a historian and storyteller whose work explores how landscapes, mobility, and cross-cultural encounters shape systems of knowledge and belonging. She holds a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and an MA from the Global Studies Programme (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Jawaharlal Nehru University).
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), headquarters Guadalajara and CALAS/CIAS Bielefeld University are accepting applications for up to four short-term fellowships for qualified researchers in the following program areas:
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