Upcoming GLARN events

Panel discussion: Nine Years of the Colombian Peace Process: Reflections on Conflict and Peacebuilding with Andrei Gomez-Suarez - 25 Nov 2025

Tuesday, 25 November 2025 – 5:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by a drinks reception

Room 916, 42 Bute Garden, Glasgow, G12 8RT – University of Glasgow

Event hosted by the Glasgow Latin American Research Network (GLARN) and the Scottish Peace Platform (SPP)

On 24 November, it will be nine years since the signing of the peace accords between the Colombian government and the leftist guerrillas of the FARC. To mark this anniversary, Andrei Gomez-Suarez will share reflections on conflict and peacebuilding from his new memoir, We Are Not Made of Sugar. Andrei played an important role in the peace negotiations with the FARC and continues to be involved in work around the implementation of the agreement. The book tells the story of how Andrei’s childhood shaped his later involvement in peacebuilding. The event will centre around a conversation between Andrei and Juliana Ramírez Muñoz from the University of Edinburgh. Through the interweaving of family history and the trajectory of the conflict, the conversation will explore the opportunities and challenges for peace in Colombia.

The event will be chaired by SPP manager Noor al-Naser. It will also include a performance by academic and musician Magda Angélica García von Hoegen of Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala, currently a visiting scholar at the School of Education, University of Glasgow.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

Lecture: Decolonial Approaches to Research - 26 Nov 2025

26 November 2025, 3.00 pm to 4:30 pm
The ARC - Studio 2 
 
This event will feature a joint lecture by visiting scholar Magda Angélica García von Hoegen and Hyab Yohannes, exploring decolonial theoretical and methodological approaches with a particular focus on rethinking dominant frameworks of knowledge production. The lecture will provide insights into how decolonial perspectives challenge established academic paradigms and foster space for contextually grounded methodologies and theoretical orientations. It is open to staff, postgraduate researchers (PGRs), and the wider public.
 
Dr Hyab Yohannes is a Lecturer in Forced Migration and Decolonial Education with the UNESCO Chair RIELA at the University of Glasgow. He conducts research and synthesises findings to address theoretical, methodological, and policy-related questions. Recently, Hyab co-edited a Special Issue on Intercultural Knowledge Production for the Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication and a book titled Cultures of Sustainable Peace for Multilingual Matters. His forthcoming book, The Refugee Abyss, will be published by Routledge. Hyab’s research interests include poetics, decoloniality, and political theories across physical, onto-epistemic, spatio-temporal, and juridico-political dimensions.
 
Dr Magda Angélica García von Hoegen is a lecturer at the Rafael Landivar University, Guatemala. Her research focusses on cultural, identity and human rights, using poetry, dance, music and theatre with young people from Indigenous communities in Guatemala and Costa Rica. She has worked on cultural policy, legislation and decolonisation related to the art collectives that left a significant legacy on the appropriation of public space and society after the signing of the Peace Agreements in Guatemala. Currently, she's working on poetic creation and soundscape and does community and education workshops involving the human voice, melodic and percussion instruments.

Book Launch: Narco-Democratization: Organized Crime and Political Transition in Bolivia by Allan Gillies - April 2026 (TBC)

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Book Talk with Javier Auyero: Squatter Life: Persistence at the Urban Margins of Buenos Aires - May 2026 (TBC)

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