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12/23/2025 | Internationale Beziehungen mit Schwerpunkt Lateinamerika

Kristina Dietz is researching in and leading the joint project "CALAS" 2025-2029

@International Relations with a focus on Latin America

Further information on Kristina Dietz's research at the Faculty of Social Sciences - Department of International Relations at the University of Kassel: https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen-und-institute/fachgruppen-und-institute/politikwissenschaft/fachgebiete/internationale-beziehungen-mit-schwerpunkt-lateinamerika/forschung.html

 

Joint project CALAS

In the current phase: ''Creating Horizons: Accelerations, Transformations, and Emergencies"

The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) is an inter- and transdisciplinary research network on social transformation processes in Latin America funded by the BMFTR. The University of Kassel is part of the network via the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA). The project pursues the following goals

  1. promote regionally anchored research in international research groups
  2. Transfer knowledge to society and politics
  3. Promote dialog and exchange with internationally renowned researchers
  4. Strengthen cooperation between science, civil society and politics - including "other forms of knowledge"
  5. Promote research-oriented and international networking in teaching and research

The spokespersons at the University of Kassel are CALAS Director Prof. Dr. Kristina Dietz, represented by CELA Director Prof. Dr. Liliana Gómez.