Events

Göttingen Workshop on Ibero-American Development

Location: University of Göttingen
Date: September 24-25, 2025

The Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen looks forward to having you as a guest in our 2025 Workshop. You are invited to join an enriching academic discussion on Latin America and enhance your network with researchers from all over the world.

The Workshop will focus on issues related to development with a focus on Latin America, including macro and microeconomic perspectives. Noteworthy, we are pleased to welcome as Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Ana María Ibáñez Londoño, Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Here you can see the open call for papers for all interested researchers.Applications can be submitted until June 15th, 2025. The Decision notification will be by mid-July. Those interests to participate with or without a presentation please fill this application form.

More information on the program and further details will be presented in this link when closer to the date

We thank the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, the Association of Former Members and Friends of the Ibero-America Institute, and the Georg-August University of Göttingen for their support.

Past Events

Sur Dialogues
Motivated by students’ demands for different perspectives during their studies, we offered a new seminar series, the Sur Dialogues, in October and November 2022. The seminar series gave voice to social scientists from the Global South, particularly from Latin America, to discuss contemporary issues of economic development.

Schedule

October 25, 2022:

Francisco Ferreira (LSE) [in person]: "Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America" (with F. Bourguignon, P. Brunori, G. Neidhöfer)
Dany Jaimovich (U Talca) [online]: "The grievances of a failed reform: Chilean land reform and conflict with indigenous communities" (with F. Toledo-Concha)

November 8, 2022:

Amma Panin (UC Louvain) [in person]: "Using religious participation to insure mental health in Ghana"
Felipe Valencia Caicedo (U British Columbia) [online]: "Tordesillas, slavery and the origins of Brazilian inequality" (with H. Laudares)

November 22, 2022:

Breno Sampaio (UF Pernambuco) [in person]: "The effects of job loss and unemployment insurance: Lessons from Brazil"
Manuel Santos Silva (U Münster) [in person]: "Right-wing populism in the tropics: Economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro" (with L. Barros)

For questions and/or comments, please contact Laura Barros (laura.barros@uni-goettingen.de) or Samuel Siewers (samuel.siewers@uni-goettingen.de).