About Us

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Founded in the summer of 2017, CELA is a center for research with and on Latin America in Kassel. The research center brings together Latin American studies at the University of Kassel and represents this research as an institution at the regional, national, and international levels. CELA sees itself as an interdisciplinary research center open to various forms of collaboration. For international partners and Latin American colleagues interested in collaborating with Kassel, CELA serves as a point of contact and supports the initiation of projects through its network.

CALAS Research Consortium

The center serves as an umbrella organization for several sub-programs. One of these sub-programs is the CALAS (Maria Sibylla Merian International Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences) research consortium, which is funded by the BMFTR and in which the University of Kassel plays a leading role. The project’s institutional focus is on Latin America, with its headquarters in Guadalajara, Mexico. CALAS examines crises and responses to crises from a transdisciplinary perspective and posits that Latin America is characterized by a particularly creative search for cultural and political strategies to overcome crises (CALAS).

CALAS Research Consortium: CALAS Website