CLACSO in Beirut

Invited by the Arab Council of Social Sciences (ACSS), Karina Batthyány, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, is in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, with a full agenda of activities.

On Saturday, April 13, he participated in the ACSS General Assembly where he gave a presentation on the main tasks and major lines of action of CLACSO.

In her address, she outlined several initiatives summarized in three priority areas for collaboration between the two Councils. The first is related to open access; the second, to research evaluation; and the third, to the possibility of creating working groups to conduct comparative studies on priority topics such as migration, climate change, inequalities, gender, and research evaluation.

At the end of the Assembly, Karina Batthyány held meetings with Jordanian anthropologist Seteney Shami, Director General of ACSS, and with representatives of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), a pioneer in global cultural cooperation programs.

At the end of the day, the Executive Secretary of CLACSO participated in a panel called “The Latin East: New directions in relations between Latin America and the Middle East”.