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Conversation: Culture, geopolitics and power in Colombia

March 13 8:00 am 5:00 PM +0 UTC

Conversation: Culture, geopolitics, and power in Colombia. Where are we now and where are we headed?

📌 Organized by: CLACSO Colombia Member Centers Network

📆 March 13 🕗 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

📍Marino Troncoso Auditorium, Javeriana University, Bogotá.

Event schedule
8:00-8:30 am (Opening)
Panel 1. Geopolitics, culture and power. The global perspective.
Time: 8:30-10:30 am
Moderator: Wilson Gómez, Member of the CLACSO Steering Committee

  1. How would you characterize the current world scenario, and what do you believe are the key insights that the social sciences and humanities provide to understand a world that is becoming increasingly disordered and exhausted?
  2. What are the main challenges of thinking about a post-globalization era?
  3. If we accept the thesis that we are going through a new form of imperialism, what are its characteristics and the keys to understanding and confronting it?
  4. What are the key elements for understanding the categories of power and culture at this time of global transition?

Panel 2. The Colombian case: current tensions, practices and challenges.
Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Moderator: Bernardo Pinilla

What are the key elements for understanding the categories of power and culture in this moment of transition in Colombia?

How can we understand and value the recent cultural transformations in Colombia?

What are the challenges of a transformative nation-building project in Colombia in the current world (dis)order?

What new political subjectivities are emerging, and what challenges do the social sciences, humanities, and arts face in relation to these new subjectivities?

Organizing and participating institutions:

  • Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge (Colombia)
  • ICANH (Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History)
  • CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences)
  • – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
  • Thinking Institute
  • University of Tolima
  • ACS (Colombian Association of Sociology)
  • Externado University of Colombia (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities)

Live broadcast on the YouTube channel of ICANH

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