Center for InterAmerican Studies Bielefeld

📢 IAS Colloquium | 23 June 2026

Join us for an evening of interdisciplinary research presentations by MA students of InterAmerican Studies (IAS) at Bielefeld University.

Presentations include:

🔹 Esther Immel
Exploring Possibilities for Decolonial Practice within Existing Development Frameworks: A Qualitative Study in Bolivia

🔹 Francisco Sánchez
Cuerpo y entorno en la travesía al Reyno de Chile: una aproximación microhistórica desde la teoría humoral

🔹 Rafael García Roncalla
Hombres desdibujados: masculinidades subordinadas y criminalidad juvenil en Ciudad de payasos (2011) y Transformar números en barcos piratas (2016)

🔹 Sezer Yasar
Path Dependence in U.S. Military Strategy: Historical Roots of Contemporary Escalation Dynamics in the Middle East

The colloquium brings together perspectives from development studies, history, literary and cultural studies, gender studies, and international politics. We warmly invite students, researchers, and anyone interested in critical and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary global challenges.

📅 23 June 2026, 18-20h,
📍 Bielefeld University in X Building E0-226

We look forward to seeing you there!

🚨 UNDOING MILITARIZED NARCONARRATIVES 🚨
📅 22–24 June 2026 | ZiF, Bielefeld University

How do militarized drug narratives shape our understanding of violence, governance, and popular economies?

Join an international group of scholars and practitioners—including Rita Laura Segato, Seth Harp, Luci Cavallero, and Luca Trenta—for three days of critical discussions on illegalized markets, regulation, and the limits of the "war on drugs."
Conveners: Estefanía Ciro, Alke Jenss, Philipp Wolfesberger, Oswaldo Zavala

🔗 Details: www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZiF

📢 Due to a family emergency, today's presentation has been canceled!!

🎤 Luisa Raquel Ellermeier (Bielefeld University)
📖 Alterity on the Road: Human and Nonhuman Others in Inter-American Road Movies

📅 16 June 2026
🕕 18:00–20:00
📍 Room X-E0-226, Bielefeld University

An exciting discussion on road movies, mobility, and encounters with human and nonhuman others across the Americas.

📧 More information: [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there!

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🔜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 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 2026/2027!

📅 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

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📣 ¡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 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 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

***yHensel ***yMendelssohn

🌎 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 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]