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CEDLA: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation Interested in doing research on Latin American societies in an affordable way? Come to Amsterdam to develop your own project!

Learn more about the advanced Master's programme in Latin American Studies of the University of Amsterdam. The Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) conducts and coordinates social science and humanities research on Latin America, publishes and distributes the results of such research, and assembles and makes accessible documentary and scholarly materials for the study of the region. The Centre also offers academic teaching programmes on the societies and cultures of Latin America. Come to Amsterdam to develop your own project! The advanced Master's programme in Latin American Studies of the University of Amsterdam will prepare you to become a critical researcher, to elaborate socially and academically relevant research plans, and to conduct field research in this exciting region! Through an interdisciplinary lens, including a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines, you will learn about social transformations in the region, design your own project, and spend 2,5-months doing research in a Latin American country. Live in two exciting places and become a Latin America expert in just one year! Since its creation in 1964, the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), hosted by the University of Amsterdam, has promoted Latin American Studies in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. We do this by conducting and stimulating relevant and original research on developments in Latin America and distributing the results of this research internationally via academic education at BA, MA and PhD levels and via academic publications such as the open access journal ERLACS. Based on a long history of multi-disciplinary research and studies in the fields of both Social Sciences and Humanities (including cultural anthropology, history, political science, human geography, sociology and economics), we increasingly apply interdisciplinary approaches in our projects and education. CEDLA’s library is considered one of Europe’s largest specialized collections of material on Latin America. The CEDLA institute is part of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. We also have close ties with the UvA’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences as well as with Latin American Studies programmes and researchers in the Netherlands and abroad. CEDLA’s research pertains to the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), which stimulates cross-Regional Studies collaboration. For detailed reports of CEDLA’s activities see our website: www.cedla.nl

The Brazilian Elections of October 2026: Interpretations and Consequences for Brazil and the Wider RegionACTIVITY: Round...
12/10/2026

The Brazilian Elections of October 2026: Interpretations and Consequences for Brazil and the Wider Region

ACTIVITY: Roundtable

SPEAKERS: Edmund Amann, Leiden University; Kees Koonings, CEDLA–UvA; Nayara Macedo de Medeiros Albrecht, UvA

CHAIR: Barbara Hogenboom, CEDLA–UvA

DATE: Wednesday, 4 November 2026

TIME: 16:00–17:30

VENUE: Leiden University Faculty Club, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ Leiden

ORGANISATION: Hosted by Leiden University and co-organised by Leiden University and CEDLA (University of Amsterdam)–University of Amsterdam.

Brazil’s October elections will determine the country’s political direction for the coming years, with consequences extending well beyond its borders.
In this roundtable, scholars from Leiden University and CEDLA–UvA will discuss the election results, the economic and social context, and what they mean for Brazil and the wider region.

Programme
Welcome and overview
Barbara Hogenboom (Chair)

The economic and social background
Edmund Amann

The politics behind the election result
Kees Koonings

Longer-term political implications for Brazil and the wider region
Nayara Albrecht

Public discussion

Drinks and snacks will be served after the event.

PhD Vacancy | CEDLA – University of AmsterdamCEDLA's Fabio de Castro is looking for a PhD candidate to join the NWO-fund...
12/10/2026

PhD Vacancy | CEDLA – University of Amsterdam

CEDLA's Fabio de Castro is looking for a PhD candidate to join the NWO-funded CERRADO project, researching how small-scale farmers and traditional communities in Brazil’s Cerrado region contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture and environmental justice.

The position is based at CEDLA–UvA and includes fieldwork in Brazil.

Application deadline: 29 October 2026

Find out more and apply: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/phd-in-nwo-project-cerrado-netherlands-15536

SAVE THE DATEThe Brazilian Elections of October 2026Interpretations and Consequences for Brazil and the Wider RegionROUN...
08/10/2026

SAVE THE DATE
The Brazilian Elections of October 2026
Interpretations and Consequences for Brazil and the Wider Region

ROUNDTABLE
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
16:00–17:30

SPEAKERS
Edmund Amann — Leiden University
Kees Koonings — CEDLA – UvA
Nayara Macedo de Medeiros Albrecht — UvA

CHAIR
Barbara Hogenboom — CEDLA – UvA

ABOUT THE EVENT
Scholars from Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam/CEDLA will discuss the results of Brazil’s October 2026 elections and their political, economic and social implications for Brazil and the wider region.

VENUE
Leiden University Faculty Club
Rapenburg 73, Leiden

Drinks and snacks will follow the discussion.

Hosted by Leiden University
Co-organised by Universiteit Leiden / Leiden University and CEDLA – University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam

+INFO https://www.cedla.nl/events

Last week we said goodbye to the CEDLA Master's Programme after nearly 25 years.It was really lovely to see so many form...
29/09/2026

Last week we said goodbye to the CEDLA Master's Programme after nearly 25 years.

It was really lovely to see so many former students back at CEDLA, some after many years, and to have the chance to catch up, share memories and hear what everyone has been doing since leaving the programme.

Thank you to everyone who came and made it such a nice evening, and to all the students, lecturers and colleagues who have been part of the Master's over the years.

The programme may have come to an end, but we hope to stay in touch with our alumni. There is always plenty happening at CEDLA, and we would love to see you again at one of our lectures, events or other activities.

So, not really a goodbye. We hope to see many of you back at CEDLA soon!

On Friday 25 September, we celebrated the graduation of our last MLAS cohort, the class of 2025-2026. We would like to c...
27/09/2026

On Friday 25 September, we celebrated the graduation of our last MLAS cohort, the class of 2025-2026. We would like to congratulate all our graduates on this achievement and are very proud of their dedication to their research. Their thesis projects covered a diverse range of topics, from security measures in schools in Ecuador and the meaning of democracy for university students in Costa Rica to lithium extraction in Bolivia and Brazilian television culture.

NEW PUBLICATION B.A. Duarte-Abadía & R. Boelens (et al.)Huijbens, E.H., Tubino de Souza, D., Bhagat, S., Forigua Sandova...
23/09/2026

NEW PUBLICATION
B.A. Duarte-Abadía & R. Boelens (et al.)

Huijbens, E.H., Tubino de Souza, D., Bhagat, S., Forigua Sandoval, J., Duarte-Abadia, B.A., Veilleux, J.C., Boelens, R. and Harris, L. (2026) ‘Enlivening riverhood through counter-mapping: Evoking the hydrocommons in India and Colombia’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. doi: 10.1177/25148486261466051.

This paper examines how multi-actor grassroots river communities engaged in counter-mapping exercises along the Mula River in India and the Magdalena River in Colombia. These two cases are analysed through the fourfold onto-epistemological framework associated with the riverhood concept and further mobilized as hydrocommons. Water, embodied but simultaneously extending from the that intimate scale to the planetary through hydrological flows is elucidated through counter-mapping. Grounded in the fourfold framework of riverhood, these maps provide a counterpoint to the structural capitalist forces driving extractive industries, environmental degradation, and climate change. Thus, engaging and deepening the riverhood framework, this paper seeks to understand and promote counter-mapping as a tool to evoke hydrocommons but at the same time shape strategies and practices for generative and equitable future-oriented water governance. Thereby the paper will demonstrate how counter-maps connect river grassroots communities in making for place and offer the potential to bring about transformative shifts through dynamizing and maintaining hydrocommons. Conceptually, the paper shows how the four-fold riverhood framework is useful to empirically detail varied political and ontological dimensions of rivers, while methodologically, counter-mapping is offered as the means to explore possibilities for future-oriented water governance strategies to become more generative and equitable. Overall, the paper draws on the two case studies to address the following research question: How can counter-mapping elicit rivehood in ways that give rise to situated hydrocommons?

NEW PUBLICATIONC. Klaufus, CEDLA - UvAHoondert, M., Ceelen, I., Klaufus, C., Van der Pijl, Y. and Zemering, N. (eds.) (2...
23/09/2026

NEW PUBLICATION
C. Klaufus, CEDLA - UvA

Hoondert, M., Ceelen, I., Klaufus, C., Van der Pijl, Y. and Zemering, N. (eds.) (2026) Mors Neerlandica: Tradities en trends in sterven, afscheid en rouw. Eindhoven: Lecturis.

Bestaat er zoiets als een typisch Nederlandse manier van omgaan met de dood en de doden? In Mors Neerlandica verkennen wetenschappers en professionals uit de praktijk hoe sterven, afscheid nemen en herdenken in Nederland vorm krijgen.

Aan de hand van aansprekende casestudies, korte beschouwingen en beeldende foto’s ontvouwt de dood zich als een veelzijdig en soms grillig proces. Van de laatste levensfase, inclusief vragen rond euthanasie en voltooid leven, tot het afscheid en de uitvaart. De uitvaart kent vele varianten, aan bod komen recente praktijken en ontwikkelingen als natuurbegraven, resomeren, veraarden en alternatieve asbestemmingen. Ook de periode van rouw en herdenken krijgt uitgebreid aandacht, met onder meer rouw bij kinderen, begraafplaatsrituelen, rouwpaden en een groeiend palet aan nieuwe (digitale) rouwpraktijken.

Mors Neerlandica is een actueel, informatief en reflectief boek dat uitnodigt tot gesprek en verdieping, en laat zien hoe we in Nederland, tussen tradities en trends, omgaan met sterven en verlies.

https://lecturis.nl/product/mors-neerlandica/

22/09/2026

ROUNDTABLE
Turning (Far) Right? Populism and Electoral Cycles in Latin America

Latin America's political landscape is shifting fast. With far-right movements and populist forces gaining ground across the region, democracy faces a complex future. Following recent elections in Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, this roundtable brings together regional experts to discuss what these changes actually mean for public policy, institutions and human rights.

SPEAKERS: Nayara Albrecht (Political Science - UvA), Kees Koonings (CEDLA - UvA & UU), Nicolás Rodríguez Idarraga (CEDLA - UvA), Diego Salazar Morales (Leiden University), Soledad Valdivia Rivera (Leiden University), Julienne Weegels (CEDLA - UvA)

MODERATORS:
Gabriela Alberola (Political Science – UvA)
Barbara Hogenboom (CEDLA - UvA)

DATE: 9 October 2026
TIME: 15:00-17:00
ACTIVITY: Roundtable co-organised by CEDLA and Political Science - UvA

VENUE: VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, Amsterdam

REGISTRATION: Registration is encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome. Please register here if you want to receive an invite and a reminder.

+INFO & REGISTRATION link is in our bio and also here https://www.cedla.nl/events

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first CEDLA Lecture of the new season, The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors a...
20/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first CEDLA Lecture of the new season, The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo, with Jacinto Cuvi and Kees Koonings.

We hope to see you again at our next event:

Turning (Far) Right? Populism and Electoral Cycles in Latin America
9 October, 15:00–17:00
VOX-POP, Amsterdam

A roundtable on recent elections, political shifts and the future of democracy in Latin America, co-organised by CEDLA and Political Science – UvA.

Registration is encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome.

+ INFO https://www.cedla.nl/events

SAVE THE DATEOther Possible Futures: Art, Memory, and Care in ExileSPEAKERS: Open call – scholars, artists, community or...
20/09/2026

SAVE THE DATE

Other Possible Futures: Art, Memory, and Care in Exile
SPEAKERS: Open call – scholars, artists, community organisers and people with direct experience are invited to contribute
DATE: Saturday, 17 October 2026
TIME: 16:00–21:00
ACTIVITY: Roundtable – Other Possible Futures: Art, Memory, and Care in Exile
VENUE: Lola Lieven, Amsterdam

ORGANIZATION: This roundtable is organized by Nicaraguan and Colombian communities in exile in the Netherlands, together with dr. Julienne Weegels, Adrián Elías Ortega Lobo and Mick Sarria, with the support of the University of Amsterdam Centre for Migration studies (ARC-M) and the ARTES Violence & Political Justice cluster.

+INFO https://www.cedla.nl/events

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Binnengasthuisstraat 46
Amsterdam
1012ZD

Openingstijden

Maandag 10:00 - 17:00
Dinsdag 10:00 - 17:00
Woensdag 10:00 - 17:00
Donderdag 10:00 - 17:00
Vrijdag 09:00 - 17:00

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