History of Latin America and the Caribbean

The subject area History of Latin America and the Caribbean is part of the Atlantic focus of the History Department and therefore works closely with African History, the history of the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period and European Modern and Contemporary History. Methodologically, the range extends from cultural-historical transformation and transculturation models, oral history, gender and biography research, discourse analysis as well as micro- and macro-historical and social-historical approaches. The emergence of historical awareness as well as the questions about places of remembrance and symbols establish the relation to the present.

Research on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean also takes place within the Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies (CEAGS), an interdisciplinary research and study centre of the Philosophical Faculty of the Leibniz Universität Hannover. The regional focus of the CAGS is the Atlantic area, i.e. Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and North America. At the CAGS, scientists from the subjects of History, Sociology/ Cultural Anthropology, English/ American Studies, Hispanic/ Romance Studies and Religious Studies jointly conduct research as well as they together operate the interdisciplinary and research-oriented master degree programme "Atlantic Studies". The research focuses on the history of the relationship between North and South, the interdependencies within the global South and the Atlantic as the intersection and contact zone between Africa, Europe and the Americas. The CAGS understands the Atlantic as an 'open' space, a sociotope and regional starting point with manifold connections to other regions of the world. Since the 15th century, this space has been shaped by the exchange of and between people, goods, cultural practices, knowledge and ideas and is therefore part of those global processes of conflict and change that are today referred to as globalisation.