Latin American Studies at Leiden University

13/09/2026

Mira la última noticia! Este año la universidad de Leiden tiene el honor de co-organizar la Conferencia Spinoza con El instituto Cervantes y las embajadas de España y de México! Este año es la escritora mexicana Cristina Rivera Garza la que impartirá la conferencia. Qué honor y orgullo! Estamos muy agradecidos con el Instituto Cervantes y las embajadas en cuestión. Es un evento imperdible si te interesa la literatura latinoamericana.
Regístrense a tiempo, que -aunque el Groot Auditorium es grande- se llenará enseguida con una invitada de este calibre. En el link encuentran más información y el enlace al registro
No se lo pierdan!!
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Dit moet je horen!
Dit jaar heeft de Universiteit Leiden de eer om samen met het Instituto Cervantes en de ambassades van Spanje en Mexico de Spinozalezing te organiseren! De Mexicaanse schrijfster Cristina Rivera Garza zal dit jaar de lezing verzorgen. Wat een eer! We zijn het Instituto Cervantes en de betreffende ambassades zeer dankbaar. Dit is een evenement dat je absoluut niet mag missen als je van Latijns-Amerikaanse literatuur houdt.
Schrijf je op tijd in, want -hoewel het Groot Auditorium groot is- zal het waarchijnlijk storm lopen met een gastspreker van dit kaliber. Via de link vind je meer informatie en de link naar de inschrijving.
Mis het niet!!
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Mira la última noticia! Este año la universidad de Leiden tiene el honor de co-organizar la Conferencia Spinoza con El instituto Cervantes y las embajadas de España y de México! Este año es la escritora mexicana Cristina Rivera Garza la que impartirá la conferencia. Qué honor y orgullo! Estam...

18/06/2026

Next week you are welcome at the following activities with Cuban writer/performer Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas, organized by LAS-lecturer Nanne Timmer. For activity nr. 2 and 3, please register beforehand. 1. June 22th 1-3, Lipsius 1.48 Banned Bookclub: conversation with Cuban Writer Martha Luisa...

04/06/2026

LaS-lecturer Soledad Valdivia in NRC:

Don't miss this! LAS-lecturer Soledad Valdivia explains the political situation in Bolivia in the NRC: https://lnkd.in/eGP6GGuW

26/05/2026

From Leiden to Paris 🇫🇷

This week, colleagues, alumni, and researchers connected to the Latin American Studies community at Leiden University will be presenting at Latin American Studies Association International Congress under this year’s theme, “Republic and Revolution”.

Across panels on art, ecology, violence, borders, gender, migration, and decolonial thought, the conversations moving from Universiteit Leiden to Paris reflect the breadth of contemporary Latin American Studies: interdisciplinary, multilingual, historically grounded, and politically engaged.

You can find members of our community in sessions including:

• “Public Safety Under Dispute: Violence, the State, and Social Vulnerability” organised and presented by María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña, with contributions from Timo Peeters and colleagues from Chile. The panel examines violence, organised crime, militarisation, social vulnerability, and state responses across Latin America.

• “The Landscape of Social Policies in Latin America” where María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña will also participate in a workshop on contemporary social policy transformations in the region, presenting the Ecuadorian case in dialogue with broader regional debates on inequality, welfare restructuring, and development.

• “Donde arden los bordes: Revueltas, cuerpos y disidencias de los márgenes en el arte y la literatura contemporáneos de América Latina” where Nanne Timmer participates both as author and discussant across two sessions exploring border aesthetics, q***r and fugitive communities, decolonial dissidence, and literary and artistic revolt from the margins.

• Nanne Timmer also presents “Arte, escritura de los bordes y la revolución de la polilla en Mujeres polilla de Verónica Ge**er”, examining border writing, visuality, irony, and political intervention through the work of the Mexican artist and writer Verónica Ge**er.

• Alan Palacios presents “Tanteando la Frontera: desobediencia sintiente y aesthesis marrón en Abya Yala”, engaging the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, María Lugones, José Muñoz, and La Chola Poblete to think through brown aesthesis, liminality, embodiment, and decolonial sensing.

• “Terra Forms: Earth as Site, Medium, and Critique in Contemporary Caribbean and Latin American Art”
with Stephanie Noach chairing discussions on earth, ecology, embodiment, and artistic resistance and Nanne Timmer participating as moderator.

• “Women, War, and Revolution” with Randal Sheppard presenting and organising conversations on revolutionary histories, gender, and political transformation.

Looking forward to the exchanges, collaborations, and debates that Paris will make possible this week at LASA2026 International Congress.

From Leiden to Paris 🇫🇷 This week, colleagues, alumni, and researchers connected to the Latin American Studies community at Leiden University will be presenting at Latin American Studies Association International Congress under this year’s theme, “Republic and Revolution”. Across panels ...

22/05/2026

Vandaag in het NRC, interview met LAS lecturer Nanne Timmer en LAS alumna Lisa Thunnissen, don't miss it! Universiteit Leiden Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen Interlatina Leiden LeidenGlobal Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Career Services Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

12/05/2026

Don't miss the presentations of the final research projects of our researchmasterstudents tomorrow! Marvellous program!

07/05/2026

¿Cómo pensar la crisis global actual desde América Latina?

La próxima semana participaremos en el seminario internacional híbrido Teoría de la Dependencia: relevancia contemporánea y desafíos en la crisis global actual, un espacio de diálogo transatlántico entre América Latina y Europa sobre el capitalismo global, la geopolítica, el imperialismo, las finanzas, las cadenas globales de valor y el desarrollo desigual.

La teoría de la dependencia fue una de las contribuciones intelectuales más importantes provenientes de América Latina para comprender las relaciones globales de poder. Hoy, frente a nuevas tensiones geopolíticas y económicas, muchas de esas preguntas vuelven a ser centrales.

El seminario reúne voces de economía política, sociología, estudios del desarrollo y pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, con participantes de la UNAM, CLACSO, la UBA, King’s College London, la Universidad de Coimbra, la Universidad de Leiden y otras instituciones.

Desde los Países Bajos estaremos siguiendo el seminario colectivamente desde Wijnhaven Campus, Universiteit Leiden, en La Haya.

La participación es gratuita y en formato híbrido.

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¿Cómo pensar la crisis global actual desde América Latina? La próxima semana participaremos en el seminario internacional híbrido Teoría de la Dependencia: relevancia contemporánea y desafíos en la crisis global actual, un espacio de diálogo transatlántico entre América Latina y Europa so...

15/04/2026

Last Friday was an amazing day for the Latin American Studies programme (Leiden University). In addition to alumni, students, and staff, embassies were also in attendance. We are very grateful for the presence of the ambassadors from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter of the world trade, it is where the youngest populations lives, with an enormous amount of creative energy, something that is often lacking in the northern part of the world,” stated Kathleen Ferrier in her closing lecture last Friday, 10 April, during the 40th anniversary of Latin American Studies.

We are also deeply touched and inspired by the excellent speeches from our keynote speakers, Valika Smeulders and Kathleen Ferrier. It was heartwarming to hear alumni speak about their life journeys and their memories of the programme. More than 270 people attended the festive event in the conference room at Lipsius to listen to talks about the Latin American region, to share memories and stories about their time as students, and to share their passion and interest in the region.

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“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter of the world trade, it is where the youngest populations lives, with an enormous amount of creative energy, something that is often lacking in the...

09/04/2026

Tomorrow!!! yesss! you really don't want to miss this :)

40 years ago, in 1986 Leiden University started with Latin American Studies through inserting Brazil and Portuguese in the curriculum and creating TCLA. Today, 2026, we are celebrating these 40 years. Don´t miss this special event with two very special keynote-speakers Valika Smeulders and Kathleen Ferrier who both studied Spanish and Portuguese in the Latin American Studies programme.

Programme*
13.00-13.30 Walk-in with coffee and tea (central hall Lipsius)

Start of the programme in Lipsius 019
13.30-13.45 Opening words by the dean, Prof.dr. Henk te Velde (English); and welcome by dr. Nanne Timmer (Voorzitter BA en MA Latin American Studies/LAS) (in Spanish and Portuguese)
13.45-14.05 “Café”, keynote lecture by Prof.dr. Valika Smeulders, Hoofd Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksmuseum, Head History Department Rijksmuseum / Professor Museums & Heritage, Universiteit Groningen (and alumna) (English)
14.05-14.20 “40 jaar Latin American Studies/ Talen en Culturen van Latijns-Amerika: viaje en el tiempo: 1986-2026” door Dr. Adriana Churampi. (Spanish)
14.20-14.30 In memoriam Prof. dr. Raymond Buve, by Dr. Marianne Wiesebron (English)
14.30-15.25 Roundtable discussion: Dr. Paz González in (multilingual) conversation with alumni: (English/ Spanish/ Portuguese/ Dutch):
-Hedwig Hupkes, BA, MA LAS, afstudeerjaar 2008. Senior Project Manager Festivals,
-Arthur J. Swarts, BA LAS, afstudeerjaar 2024, Operations Assistant Movements at the United Nations International Organization for Migration,
-Isabelle Best, BA LAS afstudeerjaar 2021, curator Allard Pierson.
Gerjan Ekenhorst. BA LAS afstudeerjaar 2014, Docent Spaans en docent Nederlands, en
-Eva Verschoor. MA LAS, afstudeerjaar 2018, Port of Rotterdam, Program Manager Critical Materials.

15.25-15.35 Piano intermezzo by Mateo Viscarra (courtesy of the Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia)
15.35-16.05 Coffee and tea with piano music by Mateo Viscarra

16.05-17.00 Panelsession “Latin America in a time of global turbulence: cultural, linguistic and political dynamics”. Dr. Soledad Valdivia in (multilingual) conversation with:

-Prof. Dr. Ed Amann (Modern History Brazil) (English)
-Dr. Tatiana Vargas (Cultural Analysis) (Spanish)
-Dr. Eduardo Alves (Linguistics) (Portuguese)

17.00-17.20 “Duende”, keynote lecture by Kathleen Ferrier, Voorzitter Nederlandse UNESCO Commissie (and alumna) ( Spanish/ English and Portuguese)
17.20-17.30 Festive hand-over of first copy of Je zult geen bloemen dromen, nieuwe stemmen uit Latijns-Amerika, Wereldbibliotheek, 2026. Dr. Nanne Timmer in conversation with Dennis Bus, Subjectlibrarian Latin American and Caribbean at the Leiden University Libraries and alumnus, and Lisa Thunnissen, literary translator and alumna. (Spanish/ English/ Dutch)
17.30-17.35 Closure Dr. Nanne Timmer (Spanish)

17.35-17.40 Moving to the Herta Mohr building for reception and walking dinner
17.45– 21.00 Reception, walking dinner in the Herta Mohrbuilding (Honorary w**e courtesy of the Embassies of Chile and Peru), music by alumnus Paul van Nispen, also known as DJ Pablitosss

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Tomorrow!!! yesss! you really don't want to miss this :) Programme* 13.00-13.30 Walk-in with coffee and tea (central hall Lipsius) Start of the programme in Lipsius 019 13.30-13.45 Opening words by the dean, Prof.dr. Henk te Velde (English); and welcome by dr. Nanne Timmer (Voorzitter BA en MA Latin...