Por Eveline Dürr y Sophia Siegel (LMU München) Imágenes de la frontera “El drama en la frontera de México con EE.UU.” (Araya, 2025), “Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border” (AP, 2025), “Die Geschichte einer letzten Umarmung” (Schlack und Pasquet, 2017) —son algunos de los ejemplos Read more…
By Sarah Mund & Meret Haack (LMU München) As part of the conference of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) on “Un/Commoning Anthropology“, held at the University of Cologne from 29 September to 2 October 2025, the Planetary Healing Research Group hosted a panel on “Commoning as a Read more…
By Meret Haack (LMU München) Approaching polyphonic[1] transformation(s) My research topic – transformation – seemed foggy even to me until I met Mariana Cruz[2]. We had coffee in a busy mall in Santiago on a Tuesday morning in April 2025. After some casual conversation, I explained the topic of my preliminary doctoral Read more…
By Wolfgang Kapfhammer (LMU München) “Nobody works out of love!” (Ezequiel) „Ninguem trabalha por amor!“ a somewhat frustrated Ezequiel[1] snapped, as we – Ulrike Prinz, an anthropologist and journalist and I – sat amidst the ruins of a place that once has been the flagship of an Indigenous enterprise which commercializes forest products of the Sateré-Mawé, an Indigenous Read more…
By Markos Panayiotou (LMU München) This year’s biennial conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South Americatook place at the University of Helsinki from 4th to 6th of August 2025. The conference was hosted not only by anthropologists of lowland South America but also by local Sámi scholars involved in the Indigenous studies program at Read more…
By Valeska Díaz Soto, Meret Haack & Markos Panayiotou (LMU München) Kick-off Symposium of the Planetary Healing Research Project On June 5th, 2025, the international symposium “Healing in the Damage: New Perspectives on Human-Environment Entanglements“ took place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München. The event, organized by the Planetary Healing Research Group led by Professor Eveline Dürr, launched a debate about potential Read more…
Von Carlos Haas (Historisches Kolleg München) Am Freitag, den 24. Januar 2025 veranstaltete das Lateinamerika-Netzwerk der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in Kooperation mit dem Amerikahaus München eine prominent besetzte Podiumsdiskussion. Expert:innen aus Wirtschaft, Kultur, Politik und Wissenschaft debattierten über die Potentiale der Weltregion Lateinamerika im 21. Jahrhundert. Wilfredo Ticona, Botschafter des plurinationalen Staates Bolivien, Yaatsil Guevara González, Juniorprofessorin für “Migration and the Americas” am Center for Ibero-American Studies der Universität Heidelberg, Jessica Read more…