Between August and December 2021, more than ninety students with diverse backgrounds attended the graduate course “Sustainability and Social Justice. Perspectives for Change” which focuses on exploring concepts and methods for addressing climate change and reducing social inequalities in Latin …
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt (CALAS, Kassel University), Prof. Dr. Mariana Heredia (CALAS-Fellow -CONICET/Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) and Prof. Dr. Hugo Cerón Anaya (CALAS-Fellow-Lehigh University, USA) discussing about perspectives and inequalities on wealth power. [Full interview]
Under the title “Natural Resource Extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb”, the network brings together an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers and visiting scholars to explore the development model of resource extractivism. Extractivism is the term used when …
Natural Resources and Extractivism: Latin America in Global Perspective More than 100 countries worldwide are dependent on the extraction and export of natural resources. This resource extractivism has deepened globally over the past two decades – in some cases with …
The second CALAS Laboratory, “Confronting inequalities in Latin America: perspectives on wealth and power,” began in January with the aim of reflecting on one of the most relevant issues in Latin America: the structures of social inequality around the …
Here you will find an overview of our teaching in the current semester. Kristina Dietz Donnerstag 10-14 Hofgeismar: Soziale Ungleichheiten und Krisen in Lateinamerika BA Modul 6 Kristina Dietz Mittwoch 10-12 Einführung in die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen MA …
On Wednesday, June 10, a agreement was signed between CLACSO and the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS). [more in Spanish]