"Representaciones de la víctima en narrativas de México y Perú".

Lucero de Vivanco (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile).

Martes, 31 de enero; 18:15-19:45 Aula: C01-249.

Organiza: Prof. Dr. Joachim Michael

"The Third Conquest? Considerations on the History of State-Led Agricultural Colonization in South America, ca. 1950-1980."

Georg Fischer (Aarhus University)

Dr. Georg Fischer is Associate Professor for Brazilian Studies at the Department of Global Studies at Aarhus University. His research interests include nature-society relations, science and knowledge, and North-South inequalities. His regional focus is Latin America and its connections to the wider world with a particular emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazil. Georg Fischer’s ongoing research deals with agriculture, migration and environmental change in South American savanna landscapes. Using comparative, transnational and global history approaches he studies agricultural colonization and modernization projects in Brazil and Bolivia since the Second World War. Before coming to Aarhus, he worked as a teaching and research assistant for Latin American history at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (2007-2014). He was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University (2010-11) and a senior fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America — Mecila (2021-22). He has been a member of AU's Centre for Environmental Humanities since 2017 and served as its co-director from 2019 to 2021.

We are cordially inviting you to participate in our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, January 24th, from 18 to 20hrs (CET). Room: X-E0-236

¡Lxs invitamos cordialmente a participar en nuestro próximo coloquio, el martes 24 de enero de 18 a 20hrs (CET)! Salón: X-E0-236.

See full program here.

"'Porque queremos que siga vivo'. Violencia, paz y convivencia en las narrativas centroamericanas contemporáneas"

Tiene un doctorado en Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales de la Freie Universität Berlin y un postdoctorado (“Habilitation”) en Literatura Hispanoamericana de la Universität Potsdam. Es catedrático 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. Coordina la sede regional Centroamérica y el Caribe del Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) y es miembro de varias asociaciones de investigación, así como de consejos editoriales de revistas académicas. Ha publicado numerosos trabajos sobre literatura, cultura e historia centroamericana y caribeña. Recibió la Cruz Federal del Mérito de la República Federal de Alemania en 2010 por sus méritos en la cooperación académica entre Alemania y Centroamérica.

Organiza: Prof. Dr. Joachim Michael

Martes, 17 de enero. 18:00 - 20:00. Aula: C01-249

COLLOQUIUM INFORMATION for Tuesday, January 10th 2023:

"Ideas and Methods in the Research of German Geographers on the Agrarian Colonization in the Rainforests of Latin America between 1950 and 1970."

Ingrid Carolina Hormaza Jiménez (Universität Bielefeld).

Between 1950 and 1970, two generations of German geographers studied peasant settlements in the rainforests of Latin America. Their aim was to complement the research on tropical landscapes carried out by their mentors at the chair of colonial studies since the 1930s. However, within twenty years, their findings revealed the ecological consequences of the precipitous colonization. At that time, local governments were promoting the opening up of available land for agriculture. German geographers pointed out the critical points of state-driven or state-assisted agrarian colonization, such as the conditions of the settlers and the limit of profitability. In some cases, these findings were discussed with local officials and contributed to regional planning. Thus, German geography studies on agrarian colonization show different perspectives from the Global North on modernization in Latin America.

We are cordially inviting you to participate in our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, January 10th, from 18 to 20hrs (CET).

Room: X-E0-236

¡Lxs invitamos cordialmente a participar en nuestro próximo coloquio, el martes 10 de enero de 18 a 20hrs (CET)!

Salón: X-E0-236

Full program here