Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Está aberta a chamada, a ser realizada anualmente, para o Programa de Cátedras CALAS-IEAT, promovido pelo Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudos Latino-americanos Avançados (CALAS) e pelo Instituto de Estudos Avançados Transdisciplinares (IEAT) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). O programa é administrado pelo IEAT e patrocinado pelo CALAS. A Cátedra abarca uma estadia de três meses do pesquisador no IEAT.
Este volumen reúne investigaciones desde las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades que miden los variados impactos de la crisis sanitaria y de las medidas gubernamentales en América Latina y el Caribe durante la fase inicial de propagación del Covid-19 en la región. Se analizan diferentes estrategias de políticas públicas y se mira cómo las desigualdades se enfatizan y afectan grupos específicamente vulnerables.
FIL Pensamiento: Hacia un orden pos-neoliberal
Hans-Jürgen Burchardt (Coord.): (Post)colonialismo a prueba: Cuba, Puerto Rico y las Filipinas en perspectiva comparada, Ciudad de México: Gedisa 2021.
La firma de los acuerdos entre el gobierno columbiano y la guerilla de las FARC-EP era un hito importante para la pazificación de uno de los conflictos más prolongados en América Latina. Sin embargo, la violencia no dejó de ser una constante en el país. Muchas de las victimas son líderes sociales, entre los cuales se encuentran muchos líderes afrocolombianos.
Heidi V. Scott is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and taught at Aberystwyth University (Wales) before joining UMass Amherst in 2011. A historian and historical geographer of the colonial Andes, her work to date has focused on landscape experience and colonialism, cartography, and, most recently, on mining and subterranean imaginaries. She is author of Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Notre Dame U.P., 2009).
Helge Wendt is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests lie mainly in global history. He received his PhD from the University of Mannheim with a transnational, transconfessional, and diachronic study of colonial Christian mission. For the past ten years, he has been researching primarily on the topic of a global history of knowledge of coal from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Here lies his connection to the topic of mining and the Anthropocene.
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