Latin American History

The working group “Latin American History” is a part of the History Department at the University of Bremen.

The subject of our field, the history of Latin American, can be subdivided into four periods:

  • The period of conquest (“Conquista”) starts with the so-called discovery of America by Columbus in 1492 and ends at around 1570.
  • The colonial period with established Vice-kingdoms and an own administrative apparatus, lasts from the mid 16th century to the mid 18th century.
  • The time of emancipation which in recent research finds its beginnings in the mid 18th century and lasts until the mid 19th century. It is characterized by the fierce battles for Independence whose result are the (national-) states existing today. The final end to this era only comes with the decolonization of Cuba (1898) and the founding of Panama (1903) at the turn to the 20th century however.
  • The period of national states which encompasses the 19th and 20th century, whereby the 20th century is a century of particular extremity – between violence, dictatorship, democratization and coping with the past.

At Bremen University the History of Latin America will be taught from the Conquista until the present. The emphasis in research is currently placed on the 19th and 20th century.

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Universität Bremen, FB 8
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen 

Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
Office: GW2 B2590
E-Mail: dgrprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

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Claudia Haase 
Büro: GW2 B2620
Telefon: 0421–218 67014
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Call for Papers for the 29th International Bremen Film Conference, 7 to 10 May 2025

Network Agnès Varda: Essayisms, Feminisms, Modernisms

Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was not only highly creative but also very productive: her extensive oeuvre
comprises film, photography and installation art, spanning more than six decades during which she
continued to reinvent herself. During her career, she acted as a trailblazer of modern film by adding
her own experimental twist to the creative vocabulary of the language of cinema, situating her work
somewhere between the realism of documentaries and the fictionality of film poems. From about
2000, she discovered her passion for small digital cameras and – already in her 70s – embarked on a
third career as an installation artist.


If you would like to give a paper at the 29th International Bremen Film Conference, please send us
your abstract (2,000 characters) and a short biography, both in either German or English, by
12 October 2024. The conference will feature lectures, discussions, film screenings and roundtables.
It will take place from 7 to 10 May 2025 at CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen, organized by CITY 46 in
collaboration with the University of Bremen and Arsenal Berlin – Instiute for Film and Video Art.

For more information please see the following document

Classes SoSe 2024

  • 08-28-GS-3 Research Seminar (Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels, Colloquium)

  • 08-28-HIS-5.2 The History of Guerrillas in Latin America. From Early Modern Times to the 2000s (Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels, Vorlesung) 

  • 08-28-HIS-5.2a The History of Guerrillas in Latin America. From Early Modern Times to the 2000s -(Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels, Übung 1)

  • 08-28-HIS-5.2b The History of Guerrillas in Latin America. From Early Modern Times to the 2000s - (Mara Josepha Fritzsche, Übung 2)

  • 08-28-HIS-5.2c The History of Guerrillas in Latin America. From Early Modern Times to the 2000s - (Dominik Gall, Übung 3)

  • 08-28-HIS-7.1.1 Los Ochentas. On Colombian History of the 1980s (Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels, Seminar)