Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
September 4, 2020, marked 50 years of the electoral triumph of the Popular Unity (UP) in Chile. It was a fact of extraordinary impact in Latin America and globally. With the inauguration of Salvador Allende, an ambitious and original political reform process began in Chile within the framework of other projects that had objectives similar to those of the UP.
Ann-Kathrin Volmer holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography from Muenster University. Her research project analyzes socio-ecological conflicts about water and gold in the Colombian Massive in South-Western Colombia. She earned a Master of Sciences in Environmental studies from both, the Technical University of Cologne, Germany and the Autonomous University of San Luís Potosí, Mexico, respectively.
Social inequality is rather complex, multi-dimensional and inter-sectional. It is increasingly necessary to look at transversal axes such as gender, ethnicity or opportunities for political participation. Lastly, social inequalities regularly create conflicts that often lead to deep political, social and ecological crises.
The Laboratory aims at understanding the violence crisis currently blighting Latin American societies from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective.
Stefan Rinke is Dr. phil. and Dr. phil. habil by the Catholic University of Eichstätt. He is Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was president of AHILA from 2014 to 2017. In 2017 he was awarded the José Antonio Alzate Prize from the Academica Mexicana de Ciencias and CONACYT and received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín.
Werner Mackenbach tiene un Doctorado en Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales de la Freie Universität Berlin y una “Habilitation” (postdoctorado) en Literatura Hispanoamericana de la Universität Potsdam. Es profesor de la Escuela de Historia, del Programa de Posgrado en Historia e investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC) de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Ha publicado numerosos trabajos sobre literatura, cultura e historia centroamericana y caribeña.
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