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 is pleased to invite you to the 2025 Göttingen Workshop on Ibero-American Development. Join us for a stimulating academic exchange on key development issues in Latin America and connect with researchers from around the world.

The workshop focuses on development issues related to Latin America, considering both macro- and microeconomic perspectives. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Ana María Ibáñez Londoño, Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank, as our keynote speaker.

We invite submissions for paper presentations from researchers interested in these themes. The call for papers is now open, and applications may be submitted until June 15, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by mid-July.

Whether you wish to present a paper or simply attend the event, we kindly ask you to complete the application form available.

Further details regarding the program and logistics will be available on this website as the event approaches.

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

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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).