On 17 September, as part of the LAC–EU Summer School in Barcelona, two literary roundtables brought together writers, translators, editors, and festival organisers to discuss LAC–EU literary connections and exchanges.

Join us on September 16 at Casa Amèrica Catalunya or online for a timely roundtable on EU–LAC relations ahead of the 2025 EU–CELAC Summit. Experts will debate key political, social, and economic challenges and opportunities shaping interregional cooperation in today’s shifting global order.

On the morning of March 21, at the York Medical Society, the University of York hosted a panel discussion on the implications and challenges posed by the far right. The panel was chaired by Vicente Ugalde (Colegio de México), who guided the discussion through two insightful presentations. The first lecture was given by Daphne Halikiopoulou from the University of York and was titled “Far Right in Europe and Latin America”. The second lecture, “The International Dimension of Latin American Populism: Global, Regional, and National Impacts,” was presented by Leslie Wehner from the University of Bath.

On Thursday, March 20, at the York Medical Society, the University of York hosted a concert by Ana Luisa Muñoz and Barbara Kempf, from Mestisa. The band Mestisa is based in Leeds, UK, and they play a great variety of instruments from Latin America, such as the cuatro or the charango. In York, they performed a captivating blend of traditional and popular music from Latin America, showcasing the rich tapestry of the region’s diverse musical landscape.

On the morning of March 22, IBEI hosted a policy roundtable on the relations between the European Union and the Latin American and Caribbean states, the birregional agenda and upcoming steps. Anna Ayuso (Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB), Adrián Bonilla (Executive Director at the EU-LAC Foundation) Yanina Welp (Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute), and Manuel Szapiro (Director and representative of the European Commission in Barcelona) participated in the event. Andrea C. Bianculli, Associate Professor at IBEI and Project Coordinator of LAC-EU, chaired the roundtable.

On March 22, Dr Anna Barrera, Director of Programmes at the EU-LAC Foundation (Hamburg, Germany) offered a seminar in the framework of the Practitioner Seminar Series organised by IBEI, an initiative that gives the floor to practitioners in the field of international relations, security and development. Dr Barrera is a political Scientist specialising in the relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean and currently coordinates bi-regional initiatives in the fields of scientific cooperation, gender equality, transitional justice, multilateralism and culture.

On the afternoon of March 21, IBEI hosted a roundtable on the challenges of translation in the 21st century between Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, with the participation of experts and renowned translators Isabelle Gugnon, Susanne Lange, Megan McDowell and Carolina Orloff. Maria Grau-Perejoan, Lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Literary Translation at the University of Barcelona, chaired the discussion.