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November 2025
Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2025
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C.IAS Newsletter November
- new layout -
Hello,
As you might have noticed (or will in a minute), our C.IAS newsletter has a new layout! We will continue sending out a newsletter each month during the semester to update you on our events and provide infos that might be interesting to you (Call for Papers, Book Club, scholarships, etc.).
Below you will find everything we have planned for November. Hope to see you soon!
Best,
the C.IAS team
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Call for Papers - Camps Conference 2026
Following the conferences from 2022 and 2024, the 3rd Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights is entitled "Camps, Belonging, and Abolition Democracy" and will be held in June 2026 at the University of Graz, organized by the Center of Inter-American Studies (University of Graz, Austria) and the Institute of Caribbean Studies together with the Department of English (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico).
The deadline for the CfP is on November 3, 2025! Please send applications to camps2026(at)uni-graz.at
All infos on the conference and the CfP can be found through the Camps Conference website.
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Wednesday, 05.11.2025
Guest Lecture
Carolyn Defrin
“By sea and by land: mapping European and American borderscapes through art”
This 40 minute presentation will share early research findings from a recent trip along the US/Mexico border visiting museums and community arts initiatives. It will also compare these findings about how art responds to the border with a current project based in Samos, Greece and Tenerife, Spain about how art can shape social-relationships between key border actors.
more info here
5.00-6.30 PM
C.IAS - Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Thursday, 06.11.2025
Book Panel
“Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives”
Our team will present the publication "Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives" at the "Facing Inequalities – Strategies for Change" conference. The full program of the conference is linked here.
3.30-5.00 PM
Leopoldine Schmidt Room, Universitätsstraße 15, Section B, ground floor
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Tuesday, 11.11.2025
Inter.reading Book Club Meeting
We will be discussing Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga.
You can find infos on the book club and how to join on instagram or write an email to centeramericas@uni-graz.at
5.00-6.00 PM
Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Wednesday 12.11.2025
Guest Lecture
Julia Roth
“Becoming Ruthless: Towards a Cultural Reading of Law”
more info here
5.00-6.30 PM
C.IAS - Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Wednesday, 19.11.2025
Guest Lecture
Fabio Santos
“Europe” in “Latin America”: Illegalized Mobilities, Deportable Bodies, and Contested Sovereignties in the French-Brazilian Borderland
This talk examines migrant illegality and inequality at the colonial crossroads of Europe and Latin America, focusing on the borderland between the Brazilian state of Amapá and the French overseas department of Guyane.
more info here
5.00-6.30 PM
C.IAS - Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Tuesday 25.11.2025
Inter.reading Book Club Meeting
We will be discussing Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga.
You can find infos on the book club and how to join on instagram or write an email to centeramericas@uni-graz.at
5.00-6.00 PM
Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Tuesday, 25.11.2025
ÖAG Thanksgiving Dinner at Brandhof
The Austro-American Society for Styria (ÖAG) will host a Thanksgiving dinner again this year.
Their annual Thanksgiving dinner will again take place at Restaurant Brandhof on Tuesday, November 25, and we'll start at 6 p.m.
Please RSVP for the dinner via email at contact@oag-stmk.at by Tuesday, Nov 11, at the very latest.
more info here
6.00 PM
Restaurant Brandhof - Gleisdorfergasse 10, 8010 Graz
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Laura Bassi Scholarship
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August.
more info here
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Contact
Center for Inter-American Studies
Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies
University of Graz, Austria
Schubertstraße 21/ground floor on the right
+43 (0)316 380 8213
centeramericas@uni-graz.at
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Universität Graz
Universitätsplatz 3
8010 Graz
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