1st International Congress of Social History, Memory and Education: Horizons for the 21st Century

📅 28 and 29 October 2026
📍 Santiago, Chile
💻 Hybrid format (in-person and virtual)

The Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE) will hold the 1st International Congress of Social History, Memory and Education: Horizons for the 21st Century , an initiative organized by graduates of the Department of History and Geography, which seeks to strengthen intergenerational dialogue and project Latin American critical thinking in the contemporary scenario.

The Congress aims to be a meeting point for academic production, pedagogical practices, and local experiences, within a regional context marked by political crisis, the rise of denialist discourses, and the challenges facing public education. From this perspective, the event brings together students, researchers, teachers, social organizations, and human rights groups from Chile and Latin America.

Themes

The program is organized around four main axes:

• Social history and collective struggles

• Located memories and resistances

• Popular education and critical pedagogies

• Social sciences, technologies and critical dissemination

Modalities

The Congress will include:

• Master lectures

• Thematic panels of presentations

• Panels of teaching and community experiences

• Research workshops and laboratories

• Preparatory meetings in different territories

• Tributes and commemorative events

• Digital publication of proceedings with ISBN

Among the scheduled tributes are recognitions of key figures in pedagogical thought and social history in Chile, such as Olga Poblete , Hernán Ramírez Necochea , Fernando Ortiz Letelier and Iván Núñez Prieto , as well as a tribute to Humberto Vial, reaffirming the Congress's commitment to historical memory and human rights.

The event is sponsored by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and various academic and memory networks in Chile and Latin America, consolidating its regional and collaborative character.

Several CLACSO Working Groups are participating

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