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Results from research on poverty in Latin America
An open seminar at the University of Tromsø.
The joint program of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) will share selected conclusions of the research based material on poverty and poverty related issues. Read more here
Place: Breivika, House 1, room 1.1333, University of Tromsø
Brazil: cultural preparedness, corruption and financial crisis
A breakfast seminar seminar arranged by Innovation Norway and Vipe. Read more here . Registrate for the seminar here.
Language: Norwegian.
Date: Friday 29th May; 08:30 – 10:30
Place: Innovation Norway Head Office, Akersgt. 13, Oslo
The living history of indigenous people in America
The exhibition Amerika: Samtid, fortid, identitet was launched last November at the Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo. It focuses on the living history of indigenous people and minorities in the American continent featuring objects from different groups highlighting living traditions and identity construction. Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil are some of the Latin-American countries represented in the display. Here you find the link to the exhibition's webpage.
Program from the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Stockholm:
The Institute of Latin American Studies of University of Stocholm has developed program for open lectures during the first semester of 2009.
Download the course program here
Annual meeting of REPLA- European Network on Latin American Politics - For PhD students in Latin America studies
Topic: An intedisciplinary approach to the democratization of Latin America
Date: 7 and 8 May 2009
Place: Instituto de Iberoamérica, Universidad de Salamanca, España
Invitation and call for papers
International conference: Living between Fear and Expectation
An International Conference on the production of insecurity and inequality in Latin America organized by the Latin American Futures Project, Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University. To receive the Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts submission 1st March) contact
machado_t@lai.su.se writting 'conference Stockholm' as the subject of the e-mail .
Date: May 12-14, 2009
Place: Stockholm, Sweden
For more information, see the webpage of the Institute of Latin American Studies here .
LA*Net Conference: New Thinking on Citizenship, Power, and Public Space in
Latin America - Reinforcing Danish Latin America Research
LA*Net was initiated in 2007 by a group of Danish researchers from different academic institutions to consolidate the Danish LA research environment. It is now time to broaden the network. To facilitate and inspire this process LA*Net calls for both national and international participation in this conference.
Date: June 3-4, 2009
Place: Roskilde University, Denmark
You can keep updated on LA*Net's homepage: here.
Latin America Today: International Symposium on Inequality and Identity
Date:16 June 2009
Place: University of São Paulo, Brazil
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Studies of religion from Latin America: contributions, boundaries, challenges: Call for papers
Topic: The International Society for Science and Religion invites researchers to submit papers to the 30th ISSR Conference, held in July 2009
Programa de estudios abiertos, Instituto Interuniversitario de Iberoamérica:
Instituto Intrauniversitario de Iberoamérica offers, in the academic year of 2008/2009, a range of short term courses with focus on Latin America, held by visiting professors to the university.
Download the course program here.
Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science: "Liberation and Participation: Theory and Method for a Social and Political Community Psychology
Topic: The course discusses critical community social psychology (CP) as developed in Latin America since the mid-seventies and presents comparisons with CP in other parts of the world.
Lecturer: Professor Maritza Montero,Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas,Venezuela
Date: 27 - 31 July 2009
Place: UiO, Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies
Course information
Zalaquett: "Human rights, Governance and Security in Latin America"
In the lecture held on December 4th, José Zalaquett gave a panorama of the human rights situation in Latin America, discussed the ethics and the politics of the reconstructions following the dictatorships in the region, and discussed the work of the Truth Commissions in the various Latin American countries. He also analyzed the functioning of democratic institutions in the region today and the de-facto exclusion of important layers of the population from political participation.
Zalaquett is co-director of the Human Rights Centre (CDH) at the University of Chile.
Several publications on human rights may be accessed from the CDH website.
Successful Norlarnet and CMI seminar in Bergen October 20, 2008:
The first Norlarnet seminar took place in Bergen on the 20th of October, on the topic of Illicit Trafficking, Violence and the State in Latin America.
A publication will be produced from the seminar, and published shortly.
In the meantime, a short summary and a few presentations are available here
RELAJU 2008: Congresses of juridical anthropology, September 3rd to 5th, 2008
Congreso de Antropología Jurídica RELAJU 2008: Academics, represententatives from indigenous group and NGO workers attended the conferense of juridical anthropology and indigenous rights.
Papers and conclusions are available here