INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 25 YEARS AFTER DURBAN
August 31 - 8:00 am - September 5 - 5:00 PM +0 UTC
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), through its Working Group “Afro-descendants and Counter-hegemonic Proposals”, the University Program of Studies of Cultural Diversity and Interculturality (PUIC) of the UNAM and University of the African Diaspora (UDA) They summon the International Convention: “25 Years After Durban”.
The Convention pays tribute to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance, held in Durban (South Africa) in 2001. That conference constituted one of the strongest frameworks for the fight against racism at a global level.
This meeting follows up on the First Colloquium organized on the 25th anniversary of the Durban Conference and, at the same time, celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Working Group “Afro-descendants and Counter-hegemonic Proposals”.
In a context of global polycrisisMarked by the reconfiguration of racism and the worsening of its structural manifestations, the Convention assumes the paradigm of historical reparation for Afro-descendant peoples as a central focus of reflection and action, in dialogue with the challenges of Second International Decade for People of African Descent.
- Location: CDMX
- Date: From 31 from August to 5 from September from 2026
- Modality: Hybrid (in-person and virtual)
Themes - Art, culture and contemporary maroonage
- Afroepistemologies and counter-hegemonic knowledge production
- The challenges of the Second International Decade for People of African Descent and historical reparations
- Black decolonial feminisms: bodies, territories and struggles
- Ethnoeducation, anti-racist education and curricular justice
- Racialization and human mobility: tensions and alternatives
- Africa and the Afro-descendant diaspora: memories and perspectives
- Haiti and historical reparations
- Racial justice and digital technologies: challenges of Artificial Intelligence
- Racism, health and structural inequalities
- Afro-descendant youth: participation, resistance and futures
Main Activities
- Meeting of Afro-centric Dialogues
“Multi-sited Hands and Voices of African and Afro-descendant Academics and Leaders” - Thematic workshops
- International Colloquium
- Call for papers
- Boards
- Systematization of experiences
- Artistic performances
- VI CLACSO International Postgraduate School
“Beyond the International Decade for People of African Descent” - International Fair of Entrepreneurship, Arts and Books
Registration form:
- Send of summaries (100 to 200 words) for presentations or proposals for the Fair
- Deadline: May 30th 2026
- The works will be evaluated by committees according to thematic axis
Contact
[email protected]
Organized by
- Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
- Through its Working Group “Afro-descendants and Counter-hegemonic Proposals”
- University Program of Studies on Cultural Diversity and Interculturality (PUIC)
- National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
- University of the African Diaspora (UDA)
Academic Committee
- Dr. Rosa Campoalegre Septien – CLACSO / PUIC-UNAM (Mexico)
- Dr. Pablo Vommaro – CLACSO (Argentina)
- Dr. Carolina Sánchez García – PUIC-UNAM (Mexico)
- Dr. Anny Ocoró – FLACSO / AINALC (Argentina)
- Dr. Karina Bidaseca – CLACSO (Argentina)
- Dr. Santiago Arboleda Quiñones – UASB / AINALC (Ecuador)
- Dr. Odeth Santos Madrigal – CLACSO (International Health and Food Sovereignty / Afro-descendants)
- Dr. Geydis Fundora Nevot – FLACSO / CLACSO (Cuba)
- Dr. Jesus M. Serna – Afro-Indo-American Network, UNAM (Mexico)
- Dr. María del Carmen Zabala – FLACSO / CLACSO (Cuba)
- Dr. Felicitas Regla López Sotolongo – CLACSO / CIPS (Cuba)
- Dr. Jorge García Rincón – CLACSO / AINALC (Colombia)
- Dr. Silvana Martinez – UNMdP / CLACSO (Argentina)
- Dr. María Elba Torres Muñoz – University of Puerto Rico
Organizing Committee
- Dr. Rosa Campoalegre Septien – PUIC-UNAM (Mexico)
- Dr. Carolina Sánchez García – PUIC-UNAM (Mexico)
- Mr. Carlos Álvarez Nazareno – CLACSO / Regional Articulation for the Decades of Afro-descendants (Argentina)
- Mr. Juan Mario Pérez Martínez – PUIC-UNAM (Mexico)
- Mr. Mijane Salinas – Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Mexico)
- Mtra. Tobyanne Ledesma Rivera – Ministry of the Interior (Mexico)
- Mtra. Marcia Santacruz – Friends of UNESCO Foundation (Colombia)
- Esp. Nathalie Cook – AfroLaders Research Institute in Technology (Costa Rica)
- Dr. claudia alvarez – University of Good Living (Argentina)
- Dr. Lina Rosa Berrios – CLACSO (Colombia)
- Dr. Elia Avendaño Villafuerte – PUIC-UNAM (Mexico)
- Esp. Vicenta Caruso Pinto – Afro-descendant Institute (Uruguay) / IA and Racial Equity (Costa Rica)
- Mr. David Gómez – Tembembe Afro-Mexican Studies Center (Mexico)
- Mr. María Elena Mora Valiño – “Timbalaye” Cultural Project (Cuba–Mexico)
- Mr. Jesús Francisco Ruiz Salgado – Helping Hands of the Costa Chica (Mexico)
