CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

Researching displacement together: co-producing knowledge with displaced women in Colombia    

SPEAKERS: Sonja Marzi, Radboud University and The London School of Economics and Political Science
DISCUSSANT: Conny Roggeband, University of Amsterdam

DATE: 12 December
TIME: 15:30

ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE
VENUE: Vox-Pop, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, Amsterdam
 

This lecture examines the experiences of 24 displaced women in Colombia and the challenges they face while rebuilding their lives in Bogotá and Medellín. Based on co-produced knowledge, it centres the women’s own understandings and descriptions of displacement, rather than treating it as an abstract idea. The lecture explores the economic, social, and political forms of violence that drive displacement and continue to shape urban life long after resettlement. These forms of violence are closely interconnected, producing lasting insecurity. The women’s accounts blur conventional boundaries between scales and types of violence—whether political violence at national, regional, or neighbourhood levels; state violence through action or neglect; or interpersonal harm. Their experiences show how these forces intersect and reinforce one another, making displacement a complex, ongoing condition rather than a single event.

Conversations on Ocean Justice

​ACTIVITY: CEDLA EXHIBITION 
VENUE: CEDLA, Binnengasthuisstraat 46, 1012 ZD Amsterdam
 

CEDLA is currently hosting the exhibition Resisting the Tide: Blue Justice and Collective Actions in Fishing Communities of Latin America and the Caribbean in the hallway, upstairs in Gasthuiskerk. This photographic-artistic poster series, created by a transdisciplinary team of scholars and fishing communities in Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, amplifies the voices of coastal peoples as they defend their livelihoods, knowledge systems, and spiritual ties to the maritory. It highlights strategies of resistance to industrial fishing, privatization, pollution, overexploitation, and the growing militarization and criminalization of oceanic communities.

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For more information, please contact: Catalina García

One Year of Trump 2.0: Implications for Latin America

DATE: 27 January 2026

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AFTERNOON – CEDLA ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
TIME: 13:00–18:00
VENUE: To be confirmed

LAC AND THE US UNDER TRUMP 2.0: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE AMERICAS AND HOW WE STUDY THE REGION
 

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Researchers are invited to submit a title and a 150-word abstract
for a 7-minute roundtable contribution for the CEDLA Academic Workshop

Deadline: 19 December 2025​ REGISTRATION & SUBMISSIONS

EVENING – PUBLIC EVENT AT DE BALIE
TIME: 20:00–22:00
VENUE: De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10. 1017 RR Amsterdam

TRUMP, AN ANGRY NEIGHBOUR: A TUMULTUOUS FIRST YEAR OF US–LATIN AMERICA RELATIONS

Speakers: Prof. Javier Corrales (Amherst College, USA), Prof. dr. Barbara Hogenboom (CEDLA, University of Amsterdam) & Dr. Julienne Weegels (CEDLA, University of Amsterdam)
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La Resistencia de Pirañas Crew: Women Street Artists’ Struggle to Obtain Gender Equality, Security, and Inclusion.

DATE: 27 January 2026
TIME: 16:30
​ACTIVITY: CEDLA EXHIBITION 
VENUE: CEDLA, Binnengasthuisstraat 46, 1012 ZD Amsterdam

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Created by photographer Lin Woldendorp and CEDLA PhD candidate Lieke Prins, this exhibition portrays the feminist street art collective Pirañas Crew from Medellín, Colombia. With her lens, Lin has captured the artists’ resistance, the connections between the women, and their creative expressions in public space. Through intimate portraits of the women in their spaces of resistance, the exposition aims to represent the Pirañas and shed light on their ongoing fight for gender equality and security.​​