CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

Tanja Bastia's lecture brings migration studies and urban informality into dialogue by showing how each has overlooked dimensions central to understanding contemporary urban life. Drawing on recent research on transnational care, the lecture explores how migration reconfigures care for ageing parents across and beyond urban, rural, and peri-urban spaces. KNOW MORE

Friday 6 November 2026 | 17:00–18:15

Voxpop | Binnengasthuisstraat 9, Amsterdam

Through the eyes of 18 migrant photographers, discover everyday life, belonging and the challenges of settling in two self-built neighbourhoods:

Moravia — Medellín, Colombia
La Carpio — San José, Costa Rica

Part of the closing symposium of the NWO-funded project Contesting Urban Borderscapes in Latin America.

Can't make the opening? The exhibition will be on display at CEDLA for several weeks afterwards.

Dana Brablec has received an NWO SSH Open Competition (XS) grant for her research project:

Indigenous Women and Urban Climate

Adaptation in Santiago de Chile KNOW MORE

The intimate, observational documentary captures a young generation's struggle to hold on to their faith in democracy while confronting corruption, sexism, populism, and the ghosts of South America's longest dictatorship. The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with its director Pamela Kalkman, a Dutch-Paraguayan documentary maker, researcher and journalist. KNOW MORE

Since the 1970s, states and corporations have produced satellite images to map, manage, and exploit the environment. Earth observation, as this practice is called, has mostly been deployed in resource extraction, scanning the planet for minerals, petroleum, and natural gas. But in recent decades, this technology has been taken up by new hands for environmental justice and ecological reconstruction. KNOW MORE

shifts its focus from Latin America to broader issues of social inequality and injustice across the World. By broadening its scope, the programme hopes to attract a larger and more diverse group of students. KNOW MORE

CEDLA 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.

These Bachelor courses offer different perspectives on contemporary Latin America, covering themes such as politics, society, culture, inequality, gender and urban change. Taught by CEDLA lecturers and researchers, they combine academic research with case studies from across the region, helping students develop a deeper understanding of Latin America’s diversity and contemporary challenges.

Combining academic research with insights from activism, public policy and civil society initiatives, the programme encourages students to critically engage with the causes and consequences of injustice at local and global levels. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it provides a deeper understanding of the challenges involved in creating more equitable and sustainable societies.

This collection of Master’s courses introduces students to some of the key debates and research themes in contemporary Latin American Studies. Led by CEDLA lecturers and researchers, the courses explore topics ranging from popular culture and sustainable development to broader social, political and cultural processes across the region. Combining academic discussion with current research, they provide students with a solid foundation for understanding Latin America from different disciplinary perspectives.

The CEDLA book collection is now available in the new University Library of the UvA, located on the Binnengasthuisterrein, diagonally opposite CEDLA. CEDLA titles can be requested via the UvA library catalogue and collected or returned at one of the designated pick-up points. Please allow one to two days between reservation and availability. The new Latin American Studies acquisitions of the last three months are listed here