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Day of Critical and Transformative Thinking
Territories, knowledge and networks in the social sciences and humanities
September 9 – 1:00 pm – 8:30 pm CMT
📅 Wednesday 9 September 2026
🕐 Of 13: 00 20 to: 30 h (Argentina Time | UTC-3)
📍 Location: Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. University of Buenos Aires.
Bonifacio Annex (Bonifacio 1337, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Room 102.
Day of Critical and Transformative Thinking: Territories, Knowledge and Networks in the Social Sciences and Humanities
This conference, jointly organized by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), aims to be a space for encounter and reflection on the relationship between the social and contemporary cultural configurations. Through dialogue among researchers affiliated with various CLACSO Working Groups, the program invites a critical examination of how knowledge is produced, circulated, and transformed in our societies.
Within this framework, special emphasis will be placed on exploring definitions of what a CLACSO Working Group is and what role it can play not only as an academic subnetwork but also as a collective space for producing thought for transformation. In addition to exchanging experiences and ways of connecting regional networks, the aim will be to highlight the importance of territorial impact, commitment to social issues, and the role of research in the social sciences, humanities, and arts in building more just, democratic, and inclusive futures. In particular, the current challenges of open science, digital technologies, and higher education in contexts of increasing internationalization will be addressed, while also analyzing regressive policies that undermine public education and science.
In short, this event offers an opportunity to strengthen institutional ties and continue envisioning situated, collaborative knowledge practices committed to social change. Active participation is expected from students, faculty, and both established and emerging researchers, with the aim of fostering a broad space for exchange, debate, and academic reflection. The invitation is extended to the entire community of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires.
13.00 p.m. to 13.30 p.m. |
Opening table
Pablo Vommaro – Executive Director of CLACSO
Ricardo Manetti – Dean of Philosophy-UBA
Presented by: Jerónimo Ledesma – Secretary of Research, Philosophy Department, University of Buenos Aires
13:30 hs to 15:00 hs |
Panel Thinking in networks: the role of CLACSO Working Groups in the face of the challenges of our time
Ana Carolina Hecht Coordination and Mariana García Palacios – GT Education and interculturality
Pablo Volkind – Coord. GT Agrarian Histories: Present and Future Challenges for Land and Labor Disputes
Julian Kan – Coordinator of the Working Group on Regionalism, Integration and Autonomy in the Face of the Global Hegemonic Dispute
Myriam Feldfeber – Working Group on Educational Policies and the Right to Education
Pablo Cosentino – Coordinator of the Working Group on Political Ecologies from the South/Abya Yala
Moderated by: Magdalena Rauch – Coordination of Research and Working Groups CLACSO
9:00 to 10:00 am |
Panel: Higher Education in a Global Context: Policies, Networks, and Academic Cooperation
Laura Rovelli – Open Science as a common good
María Inés Maañón – GT Popular education and critical pedagogies
Lucía Caride – Working Group on Educational Policies and the Right to Education
Gabriela Novaro – GT Education and interculturality
Moderator: Alejandro Gambina – Director of Training and Postgraduate Studies CLACSO
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM |
Panel: Between Territories and Knowledge. Strategies for Influence in Social Sciences and Humanities
Cecilia Incarnato GT Mobile and Politicized Social Science
Antonella Delmonte Alasia – GT Migration and South-South Borders
Joaquina de Donato – GT Lefts and Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical realities
Marcela Beatriz Cabrera – GT Violence in Central America
Moderator: Pamela Brownell Research Secretariat FILO-UBA
18:45 PM to 20:15 PM |
Panel Open Science and Information Technologies: Challenges for the Social Production of Knowledge
Judith Naidorf – GT Mobile and Politicized Social Science
Mercedes Palumbo – GT Popular education and critical pedagogies
Axel Kesler – Working Group on Educational Policies and the Right to Education
Victoria Orce – GT Arts Education and decoloniality
Moderator: Fernanda Pampín – Director of Publications, CLACSO
FILO-UBA / CLACSO certificates will be issued.
Organized by
Latin American Council of Social Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires
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