CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

One Year of Trump 2.0:
Implications for Latin America
27 January 2026

CEDLA ACADEMIC WORKSHOP
13:00–18:00

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PUBLIC EVENING EVENT AT DE BALIE
Trump, an Angry Neighbour: A Tumultuous First Year of US–Latin America Relations
20:00–22:00 
 

Speakers:
Prof. Javier Corrales, Amherst College, USA
Prof. dr. Barbara Hogenboom, CEDLA - UvA 
Dr. Julienne Weegels, CEDLA - UvA

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La Resistencia de Pirañas Crew: Women Street Artists’ Struggle to Obtain Gender Equality, Security, and Inclusion.

DATE: 21 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.​​

Mapping the cattle supply chain in Brazil: Transparency and transformation through  citizen science

SPEAKER: Erasmus zu Ermgassen, UC Lovain
DATE: 20 February 2026
TIME: 15:30-17:00
​ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE
VENUE:  VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, ground floor. 1012 ZA Amsterdam

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The cattle sector in Brazil is dogged by accusations of deforestation, forced labour, and food safety scandals. One reason why these challenges persist is the lack of transparency: the link between beef products and their impacts is hidden from the consumer. This presentation will introduce the do pasto ao prato (in English, from pasture to plate): a citizen science initiative and app launched in 2021 to increase transparency in the cattle supply chain. By verifying the origin of meat products available on the supermarket shelf, the 9k users of the app, to date, have helped crowdsource a map of the suppliers of retailers across the country. The lecture will reflect on the experience with citizen science, advocacy, and the potential for radical transparency to transform the status-quo of slow-to-mobilise industries, like the meat sector.​​

Making the pluriverse: A cross-Atlantic colonial history

SPEAKER: Nino Vallen, Radboud University
DATE: 6 March 2026
TIME: 15:30-17:00
​ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE
VENUE:  VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, ground floor. 1012 ZA Amsterdam

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In the past two decades, Latin American academics and activists have adopted the concept of the pluriverse to challenge colonialism and capitalism, and advocate instead for the recognition of ontologies shaped by relational visions of life. Some of the questions raised by this pluriversal project are not exactly new. Already during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic were grappling with the challenge of having to adapt the models they had traditionally used to think about, represent, and perform their worlds. New contacts between the Americas and the rest of the globe not only led to people rethinking the world order in texts and maps but to them reconsidering traditional meanings ascribed to the notion of “the world” as well. Examining these shifting notions in interactions between friars and Natives in colonial Latin America, this talk explores earlier tensions between the unity and plurality of the world to reflect on more recent notions of the pluriverse..​​

Music and political imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile

SPEAKER: Katia Chornik, UNESCO and University of Cambridge
DATE: 10 April 2026
TIME: 15:30-17:00
​ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE
VENUE:  VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, ground floor. 1012 ZA Amsterdam

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​​​Over 1,000 political imprisonment and torture centres existed across Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990). Music was often present in those centres, both as a response to, and in conjunction with, human rights violations. In her new book Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile (Oxford University Press, 2025), Chornik explores the intersections between music, politics, memory, and human rights, discussing a broad range of music experiences and repertoire, and how these are remembered, preserved, and disseminated decades later. With a prologue by former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, the book blends archival sources with personal interviews with ex-political prisoners, agents of secret services, and visitors to prisons. In this talk, Chornik will present an overview of the book and two interlinked initiatives: the digital platform Cantos Cautivos (Captive Songs, www.cantoscautivos.org) and an ongoing UNESCO educational project. The talk will share breakthroughs and challenges of her journey, and the reasons why this work matters today.

Guns, tech and permaviolence in Latin America

SPEAKER: León Castellanos, Asser Institute for International & European Law
DATE: 5 June 2026
TIME: 15:30-17:00
​ACTIVITY: CEDLA LECTURE
VENUE:  VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, ground floor. 1012 ZA Amsterdam

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​​​This talk introduces “permaviolence” – a concept describing the unprecedented ubiquity of harm in contemporary society mediated by digital technology. Permaviolence operates through dual mechanisms: “onboarding violence,” whereby algorithms and digital media normalise violent content through constant exposure; and “outsourcing violence,” where emerging technologies democratise access to harmful tools. Drawing from recent research on gun control, AI-enabled weapons development, and proliferation of 3D-printed guns, the presentation shows how technological advancement outpaces humanity’s moral capacity to adapt. This analysis extends to Latin America, where U.S.-manufactured firearms fuel regional violence enhanced by digital means, creating grounds for strategic litigation against gun manufacturers and online platforms for transboundary harms. Cases from Mexico and other Latin American countries represent novel approaches to corporate accountability, challenging manufacturers’ liability shields by documenting how negligent distribution practices and willful blindness to trafficking patterns contribute to regional instability. The presentation concludes by advocating for innovative governance frameworks to bridge the gap between our technological capacity for violence and our evolutionary ability to adapt.