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Faculty 08: Latin American History

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

Sekretariat

Claudia Haase 
Büro: GW2 B2620
Telefon: 0421–218 67014
E-Mail: sekrglprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de 

News

Immigrants and the Welfare State in Latin America

Lecture as part of the Jour Fixe with Prof. Sara Niedzwiecki on Wednesday, June 19, 2024

As the last event of our CRC 1342 Jour Fixe lecture series in the summer semester, Sara Niedzwiecki from the University of California, Santa Cruz, gave a lecture on "Immigrants and the Welfare State in Latin America. Barriers to access" on June 19, 2024. She presented her current research on the barriers that immigrants face to accessing social policy in middle-income South American countries with high rates of immigration like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. As a result of her research, Prof. Niedzwiecki has proposed an index called IBASP to measure these barriers. Based on various surveys and interviews with policy-makers and administrative employees, Sara Niedzwiecki has been able to draw a nuanced picture of the development of social policy in countries with high levels of immigration and put it up for discussion.The lecture was not only attended by numerous colleagues on site, but could also be followed via video conference format.

Sara Niedzwiecki is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She studies social policy, subnational politics, and immigration in Latin America. Sara is the author of Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America (2018, Cambridge University Press), which was awarded LASA's Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award from The Political Institutions Section and the International Public Policy Association's IPPA Book Award.

Photo of Sara Niedzwiecki
© Maximilian Hohmann

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) 

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