Iberian and Latin American Studies Forum (ILAS Forum) 

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Politics and media consulting

The Iberian and Latin American Studies Forum includes specialists, who conduct in-depth research on a variety of regions and topics. They are entirely available to share knowledge with the broader public, especially professionals working in politics, media and business. Furthermore, ILAS Forum is in close contact through professional networks with other research institutions worldwide which allows to find a competent contact person even for special requests. For more information, please contact the coordinator.

Community outreach

The forum maintains a close dialogue with civil society, especially through joint activities with the association Netværk for Latinamerikastudier (NETLA) and with AIIA Academia Intercultural - Det Interkulturelle Akademi.

ILAS Forum offers an open environment for critical thinking and academic debate, and welcomes researchers, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students from all fields of interests. For more information, please contact the coordinator.

Lucas Amaral de Oliveira

Federal University of Bahia (research period: December 2023 to April 2024)

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil, and Leader of PERIFÉRICAS - Centre for Studies in Social Theories, Modernities, and Colonialities. His current research, supported by the CAPES Foundation Fellowship Programme (CAPES-PRINT: 88887.835431/2023-00), explores how contemporary Black-authored literature critically challenges unresolved colonial legacies in present-day Brazil. The study scrutinizes established discourses of nation-building, including the 'ideology of mestiçagem', the 'myth of racial democracy', and the belief in a 'cordial Brazilian-ness'. The findings from his period as a Guest Researcher at ILAS at the University of Copenhagen will contribute to a forthcoming monograph, provisionally titled "Contested Histories of Nation-Building: Counternarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature", to be published in Portuguese by the Federal University of Bahia Press (Edufba).

Angelica Serna Jeri

University of New Mexico (research period: August 2023 to July 2024)

Angelica is a scholar of indigenous languages and cultures in Latin America at the University of New Mexico with a focus on the Andean region and the Quechua language family. Her scholarship and teaching meet at the intersection of indigenous studies, subaltern studies, digital humanities and environmental history in the Americas. In her research on the material aspects of writing she uses transhistorical and ethnographic approaches, reaching from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Her current project examines the role of Quechua speakers in the production of manuscripts and books in the Andes, such as the Huarochiri Manuscript and the Nueva Corónica de Buen Gobierno. It also elaborates on issues of indigenous agency, material culture, patrimony, and Latin American literary traditions.