Center for InterAmerican Studies Bielefeld

Center for InterAmerican Studies Bielefeld Interdisciplinary research/teaching center of social sciences and humanities at Bielefeld University Think the Americas in a different way! The M.A.

program Inter-American Studies/ Estudios Inter-Americanos delves into the social, cultural, and political developments in the Americas, from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses Literary and Media Studies, Linguistics, Sociology, Political Science and History. The focus lies on exploring the processes of exchange and intertwining that have taken place between the continent’s multiple

regions as well as within its national territories. The courses are taught in English and Spanish. Students also have the opportunity to attend a semester abroad at one of our partner universities in the Americas, as well as a double degree option in cooperation with the Universidad de Guadalajara in Mexico. Due to the strong focus on the development of intercultural and communicative skills, graduates may pursue a career in international organizations, public relations, communications agencies, or academic institutions.

🔜Invitamos a toda la comunidad académica a participar en esta jornada sobre las narrativas del terror en América Latina,...
05/06/2026

🔜Invitamos a toda la comunidad académica a participar en esta jornada sobre las narrativas del terror en América Latina, tanto a nivel literario como cinematográfico y de otros medios.

👉 L-s ponentes discutirán las estrategias narrativas, revisiones del género, concepciones del terror, la (ir)realidad del terror, replanteamientos y críticas de tradiciones coloniales del género.
¡L-s esperamos!

📚 InterAmerican Studies Colloquium 2026The Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University warmly invites you t...
03/06/2026

📚 InterAmerican Studies Colloquium 2026

The Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University warmly invites you to our next colloquium session featuring María Herrera Cardenas (Bielefeld University).

🎤 Talk:
Affective Distress and the Politics of Legibility: Gender, Medicalization, and Care in Europe and Mexico

📅 9 June 2026
🕕 18:00–20:00
📍 Room X-E0-226

María Herrera Cardenas is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University specializing in Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Her research contributes to developing gendered medical violence as an analytical category to examine how institutional medical practices produce harm and how contemporary literature generates epistemic repair and feminist counter-knowledge.

In this talk, she will explore the intersections of gender, medicalization, care, and affective distress across European and Mexican contexts, offering critical perspectives on how experiences of suffering become socially and institutionally legible.

We welcome students, researchers, faculty members, and all interested guests to join us for what promises to be a stimulating discussion.

For further information:
📧 [email protected]

📣 Applications are now open for the MA InterAmerican Studies / Estudios InterAmericanos for the Winter Semester 2026/202...
27/05/2026

📣 Applications are now open for the MA InterAmerican Studies / Estudios InterAmericanos for the Winter Semester 2026/2027!

📅 Application period: June 1 – July 15, 2026

🌎 Join an interdisciplinary and international program exploring the cultures, histories, literatures, and societies of the Americas from an inter-American perspective.

📝 Apply now via the link here: https://campus.uni-bielefeld.de/qisserver/pages/cs/sys/portal/hisinoneStartPage.faces



📣 ¡Ya está abierto el proceso de aplicación para el Máster InterAmerican Studies / Estudios InterAmericanos para el semestre de invierno 2026/2027!

📅 Período de aplicación: del 1 de junio al 15 de julio de 2026

🌎 Forma parte de un programa interdisciplinario e internacional que explora las culturas, historias, literaturas y sociedades de las Américas desde una perspectiva interamericana.

📝 ¡Postulen ahora a través del enlace aquí: https://campus.uni-bielefeld.de/qisserver/pages/cs/sys/portal/hisinoneStartPage.faces

Du überlegst noch, wie es nach dem Bachelor weitergehen soll? 🌎📚Dann komm am 2. Juni zur „Kleinen Mastermesse“ der Unive...
20/05/2026

Du überlegst noch, wie es nach dem Bachelor weitergehen soll? 🌎📚

Dann komm am 2. Juni zur „Kleinen Mastermesse“ der Universität Bielefeld vor dem Audimax! Dort stellt sich der Masterstudiengang InterAmerican Studies / Estudios InterAmericanos vor.

Du interessierst dich für gesellschaftliche, politische und kulturelle Dynamiken in den Amerikas? Für transregionale Perspektiven, soziale Bewegungen, globale Ungleichheiten und interdisziplinäre Forschung? Dann schau vorbei, informiere dich und komm mit uns ins Gespräch!

🗓 02.06.2026
⏰ 9:30–14:30 Uhr
📍 vor dem Audimax, Universität Bielefeld

🎹✨ Musical Exhibition: F***y Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805–1847) ✨🎥Join us for an evening of music, visual art, and historica...
15/05/2026

🎹✨ Musical Exhibition: F***y Hensel-Mendelssohn (1805–1847) ✨🎥

Join us for an evening of music, visual art, and historical rediscovery at a special piano concert with video projection dedicated to the extraordinary composer F***y Hensel-Mendelssohn.

📅 21.05.26
🕖 19:00–21:00
📍 Participation free of charge

Internationally acclaimed Mexican pianist Monique Rasetti will present an informed and expressive interpretation of Hensel-Mendelssohn’s music, drawing from archival research and the study of period instruments. Through music, poetry, and visual arts, this concert seeks to bring renewed attention to the pianistic legacy of a composer whose work was long marginalized due to gender bias.

Speakers / Convenors:
• Monique Rasetti
• Yolanda I Chirino
• Wilfried Raussert

Presented in the context of the UNAM Alemania Cultural and Artistic Project 2026, in collaboration with ZiF, UNAM-Alemania, CIAS, CALAS, and the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

📩 Registration required
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zif/events/ #/event/8911

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🌎 KOLLOQUIUM | Mapuche-Bewegung in KonfliktenWelche Herausforderungen, Konflikte und politischen Perspektiven prägen die...
13/05/2026

🌎 KOLLOQUIUM | Mapuche-Bewegung in Konflikten

Welche Herausforderungen, Konflikte und politischen Perspektiven prägen die Mapuche-Bewegung nach dem chilenischen Verfassungsprozess?

Gemeinsam mit Olaf Kaltmeier und Fernando Pairican diskutieren wir über indigene Rechte, territoriale Forderungen, Autonomie und die aktuellen Entwicklungen in Chile.

📅 19. Mai 2026
🕕 18 Uhr
📍 S1-209, Universität Bielefeld

🎙 Mit:
• Olaf Kaltmeier
• Fernando Pairican

Organisiert in Kooperation mit dem Center for InterAmerican Studies, AStA Uni Bielefeld und CALAS.

🎓 Infoveranstaltung: Master InterAmerican Studies / Estudios InterAmericanos📅 18.05.2026 | 16:00 – 17:00 Uhr💻 Online via...
07/05/2026

🎓 Infoveranstaltung: Master InterAmerican Studies / Estudios InterAmericanos
📅 18.05.2026 | 16:00 – 17:00 Uhr
💻 Online via Zoom mit Dr. Diana Fulger, Studiengangskoordinatorin
Interessierst du dich für interamerikanische Perspektiven, Kultur, Politik und Gesellschaft? Dann sei bei unserer Infoveranstaltung dabei und erfahre alles über den Masterstudiengang!
🔗 Zoom-ID: 654 9147 6338
🔑 Passwort: 740569
📩 Mehr Infos: [email protected]
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🎓 Information Session: Master InterAmerican Studies
📅 May 18, 2026 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
💻 Online via Zoom with Dr. Diana Fulger, Study Program Coordinator
Interested in InterAmerican perspectives, culture, politics, and society? Join our info session to learn more about the Master’s program!
🔗 Zoom ID: 654 9147 6338
🔑 Password: 740569
📩 More info: [email protected]
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🎓 Sesión informativa: Máster en Estudios InterAmericanos
📅 18 de mayo de 2026 | 16:00 – 17:00
💻 En línea vía Zoom con Dr. Diana Fulger, Coordinadora de programa
¿Te interesan las perspectivas interamericanas, la cultura, la política y la sociedad? ¡Únete a nuestra sesión informativa para conocer más sobre el programa de máster!
🔗 ID de Zoom: 654 9147 6338
🔑 Contraseña: 740569
📩 Más información: [email protected]

📢 The InterAmerican Studies Colloquium – As part of the collaboration between UNAM-Alemania, CIAS, HIAS Bielefeld, and t...
30/04/2026

📢 The InterAmerican Studies Colloquium – As part of the collaboration between UNAM-Alemania, CIAS, HIAS Bielefeld, and the Colloquium for Inter-American Studies, selected short films from the ENAC (UNAM) 2025 production will be screened and discussed. Representatives from UNAM and commentators from Bielefeld University will be present at the event.

📍 Tuesday 5 May 2026 | 18:00–20:00 | Room X-E0-226

PANELISTS: Luisa Raquel Ellermeier; Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert; Benjamín Romero
MODERATOR: Dr. Yolanda Irasema Chirino López

🍿A reception with refreshments will follow the event in the BGHS Lounge. Both students and faculty are warmly invited to attend.

📩 More information: [email protected]

📢 The InterAmerican Studies Colloquium – Summer Term 2026 begins!We are excited to announce the start of this semester’s...
25/03/2026

📢 The InterAmerican Studies Colloquium – Summer Term 2026 begins!

We are excited to announce the start of this semester’s CIAS InterAmerican Studies Colloquium at Bielefeld University.

The program brings together international scholars, artists, and researchers to engage with key debates across the Americas—from environmental change and the Anthropocene to indigenous movements, gender and care, cultural production, and democratic futures. The colloquium also includes artistic formats, interdisciplinary exchanges, and a dedicated MA Thesis Lab for students.

📍 Tuesdays | 18:00–20:00 | Room X-E0-226

Throughout the semester, the series fosters critical dialogue on social, political, and cultural transformations in the Americas, combining perspectives from the humanities and social sciences with artistic and practice-oriented approaches.

We warmly invite all students, colleagues, and interested participants to join us for a semester of interdisciplinary discussion and exchange.

📩 More information: [email protected]

📢 Convocatoria | CALAS–HIAS Research Fellowship 2027El Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzado...
20/03/2026

📢 Convocatoria | CALAS–HIAS Research Fellowship 2027

El Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS) y el Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) invitan a investigadores a postular a la beca de investigación CALAS–HIAS 2027.

La convocatoria está dirigida a académicos posdoctorales, así como a artistas y profesionales de la cultura de América Latina y el Caribe, con proyectos que aborden los cambios geopolíticos radicales y las transformaciones regionales en América Latina.

Las personas seleccionadas realizarán una estancia de seis meses en Alemania:
📍 4 meses en HIAS (Hamburgo)
📍 2 meses en la Universidad de Bielefeld (CALAS/CIAS)

La beca promueve investigaciones interdisciplinarias sobre los actuales procesos de transformación en la región, incluyendo dinámicas geopolíticas, migración, populismo, crisis ambientales y nuevas visiones de cooperación y futuro en América Latina.

🗓 Fecha límite de postulación: 17 de mayo de 2026
📅 Inicio de la beca: febrero de 2027
🔗 Más información: http://calas.lat/en/convocatorias/calashias-fellowship-hamburgbielefeld-2027-radical-geopolitical-shifts-and-regional

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