Meet-up and drinks
Latin America Community Meet-up and Christmas Borrel
- Date
- Tuesday 16 December 2025
- Time
- Address
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Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden - Room
- 16.00-17.30: BW 0.40 and BW 0.32. 17.30-19.00: Brasserie
Interested in collaboration with Latin America or just curious about Leiden University's projects in the region? If so, join us on December 16th for a community meet up.
Leiden University has a long-standing relation with Latin America, translated into joint research projects, education programs and community engagement projects with more than 20 Latin American universities. This community meeting is your chance to discover the ongoing projects and connect with colleagues in establishing new initiatives.
Programme
16.00 - Arrival and introduction.
16.15 - Short presentations.
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Thanja Lamberts: Imagining Interstellar Ice: Across Art and Science.
Interstellar ice, as a phenomenon, forms hundreds of light years away from Earth. To observe it, we rely not only on modern telescopes, but also on experimental work along with computational calculations and astrochemical modeling — practices that inherently intersect with the act of imagination. At what point do measuring and imagining interstellar ice intersect? Can artistic practices and scientific methodologies influence and contribute to one another?
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Nanne Timmer: The Cultural Translational Lab
A joint project between Leiden University and Universidad Diego Portales, proposes a space of experimentation between literature, creation, and critical thought. The workshop—led by Nanne Timmer and Rodrigo Rojas, academics and writers from both universities—conceives translation not merely as a linguistic practice, but as a way of relating to the world. To translate is to expose oneself to foreignness, to comprehend the complexity of the other, and to recognize in untranslatability a space for creation. We work with texts and materials that move across languages, disciplines, and mediums. Reflection on self-translation, the multicultural subject, and the tension between fidelity and difference will serve as a starting point for a series of exercises in interlingual, intralingual, and inter-semiotic translation.
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Paco Barona: Knowledges in Terra - a tailored KIT to imagine and achieve positive futures
Faced with the increasingly rapid loss of biodiversity, KIT emerges as an innovative methodology for the co-creation of situated concrete solutions. Bridging the gap between local communities, academic disciplines, AI, the public and private sectors, non-governmental organizations, and finance, KIT provides a space to come together and collaborate in designing realistic answers to grounded problems that involve individual and collective actions. These efforts are effective because they are not created in a vacuum; instead, they are based on daily practices and on the previous work done by the different actors involved in the KIT.
17:15 - Notable funding opportunities & closing remarks.
17:30 - Networking borrel. Drinks and snacks.