Cedla

Algemene informatie

Research
CEDLA research focuses on the processes of change in Latin America. Research is coordinated from within one overall programme, the research programme 2009-2013 is entitled Urbanisation and Natural Resource Use in Contemporary Latin America (pdf available). Please see http://www.cedla.uva.nl/20_research/programme.html for full information on our research programme.

Other Activities
CERES, CNWS, NALACS
There is considerable and continuous contact at the research level with foreign universities and research institutes specializing in Latin America. Within the Netherlands, CEDLA is associated with the national research school CERES (Centro de Estudios de Recursos Ecológicos y Socioculturales, Utrecht University).

It also cooperates with the research school CNWS (Centre for Non-Western Studies, Leiden University). At the national level, CEDLA acts as secretariat for the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Werkgemeenschap Latijns Amerika en het Caraïbisch Gebied - NALACS. It has as its objective the promotion of research on Latin America and the Caribbean in the social sciences and the humanities within an interdisciplinary framework.

At the national level, CEDLA acts as secretariat for the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Werkgemeenschap Latijns Amerika en het Caraïbisch Gebied - NALACS. It has as its objective the promotion of research on Latin America and the Caribbean in the social sciences and the humanities within an interdisciplinary framework.