LZZ Grants
Please note that the New Research Formats Grant will be offered one final time in Autumn 2025. Due to upcoming budgetary constraints, this grant will be discontinued starting in 2026.
Funded Projects 2021
Seed Money Grant
1. Ana Balcarcel, Msc., PhD candidate, Paleontology Institute (PIMUZ). Evolutionary Biology program of Life Sciences, UZH.
Project title: Testing the influence of behavioral selection on brain form in the domestic dog model
2. Roberto Carlos Mejías Méndez, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.
Project title: Narrativas latinoamericanas de la basurización y el despilfarro / Latin American Narratives of Wasting.
New Research Formats
1. Pauline Bachmann (UPF-SNF Mobility, postdoc researcher), Dayron Carrillo-Morell (UZH, PhD candidate), and André Masseno (UZH, postdoc researcher).
Project title: Materialismos en América Latina: arte, activismo y cultura crítica.
2. María Ordóñez, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar & Cultural Analysis, UZH.
Project title: Imaginando el río. Des-aparición, prácticas locales y ecologías de la recomposición en Colombia.
Mobility
1. Bárbara Garrido, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.
Project title: El contacto lingüístico entre el español y el portugués en
la frontera uruguaya con Brasil.
2. Mónica Rojas, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.
Project title: Poder y crimen: Mujeres transgresoras de la novela negra mexicana.
Funded Projects 2022
Seed Money Grant
Virginia Kargachin, PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.
Project title: Narrativas de materialidades migrantes: liminalidad y materialidades actantes en producciones literarias y artísticas de migración en el Caribe contemporáneo
New Research Formats
Dr. Monika Streule, postdoctoral researcher, ETH / London School of Economics Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC)
Project title: alterritorios. Encuentros contra Extractivismos y Megaproyectos
Mobility
Dr. Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, UZH.
Project title: Dating Late Pleistocene human-megafauna interactions in Tropical South America
Funded Projects 2023
New Research Formats
1. Dr. Gizéh Rangel-de Lázaro, postdoctoral researcher, Paleontology Institute (PIMUZ), UZH.
Project title: Intentional Cranial Modification among Pre-Columbian population in Venezuela: A Digital Exploration into the Caribbean presence of this biocultural practice
2. Bárbara Garrido Sánchez-Andrade, PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.
Project title: Artigas (Uruguay): una mirada rurubana desde el exterior
Mobility
1. Gabriel Jorgewich Cohen, Paleontology Institute (PIMUZ), UZH.
Project title: On the evolution of vocal flexibility: What can neotropical reptiles say about the origins of language?
2. Lukas Becker, PhD candidate, University of Geneva.
Project title: The Legacy of Oil – Petrocapitalism, Labor Resistance, and the Social Struggle for Energy Justice in the Oil Town
3. Marianna Fernandes, PhD candidate, Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID).
Project title: Minería 4.0: mining, data-driven technologies, and climate change in Chile
4. Dr. Siomara Elizabeth Ruckstuhl, ETH / Universidad de Granada.
Project title: Presentación de resultados de la tesis doctoral “Colisión Ideológica en el Muro: Una propuesta de restauración Urbano-Arquitectónica del Centro Cívico de Guatemala”.