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The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) aims at putting the research result from its Laboratory of Knowledge “The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis. Perspectives from Latin America” into dialogue with distinguished scholars from other world regions.

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.

With the onset of the pandemic, poverty and inequality have also grown drastically in Latin America. The UN commission CEPAL predicts a social development regression of almost three decades. But not only misery has increased. At the same time, the number of the richest and super-rich has also increased significantly during COVID-19. It becomes clear that Latin America's problem is not scarcity of resources, but the insufficient distribution of these resources.

Latin America is not `underdeveloped', hostage to the world market or victim of bad governance, as many assume and claim. Rather, the subcontinent is one of the richest regions in the world and has enormous amounts of natural goods, raw materials and accumulated money. Latin America's problem is not a scarcity of resources, but the inadequate distribution of these resources. The richest and wealthiest in the region are not held accountable by politics and society to make their contribution to social and economic development: Latin America has the lowest tax rate worldwide.

The dialogical exchange between researchers on an equal footing is a basic normative principle of the academic field. Differentiations within the field result from academic recognition and merits. As democratic as this ideal may sound, the academic landscape is also permeated by multiple, intersectional inequalities, discrimination, and exclusionary mechanisms. There is often still a gulf that is rooted in a historically developed colonial geopolitics of knowledge particularly between the Global North and the Global South.

En el marco del 14° Congreso Alemán de Lusitanistas, a realizarse entre el 16 y el 18 de septiembre de 2021 de manera híbrida, online y presencial en Leipzig, Alemania, el co-coordinador del Laboratorio Visiones de Paz del Calas Center Prof. Dr Joachim Michael (Universidad de Bielefeld) y el investigador Prof. Dr Jaime Ginzburg (Universidade de São Paulo) organizan la conferencia: "Passados e futuros presentes no Brasil: relações entre tempo e violência na literatura e no cinema". El evento será en portugués.

09.11.2021 – Wissenschaftskommunikation (BMBF)

13:00 – 13:10

CET

Begrüßung,

Dr. M. Hack (BMBF)

Zum Kulturwandel in der Wissenschaftskommunikation (geplant)

13:10 – 13:45

CET

Standpunkte (Tandem-Referate),

Korinna Hennig (NDR)

Dr. Tobias Maier (NaWik) 

1: Referat Perspektive Wissenschaftsjournalismus,

The CALAS Laboratory "Visions of Peace" is pleased to invite to the online conference "Peace and Fear: Multidisciplinary Approaches'', organized in cooperation with the Interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG), the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) and Prof. Dr Roberto Briceño-León (Universidad Central de Venezuela). The event will take place via zoom between the 17th to 19th of February 2021. Prior registration is required by sending an e-mail to Marina Hoffmann (marina.hoffmann@uni-bielefeld.de).