America Latina in motion

Within the framework of the 4th Latin American Congress of Postgraduate Students in Social Sciences (CLEPSO): “Latin America in motion. Debates and reflections from the social sciences at the close of the second decade of the 21st century”, Karina Batthyány, Executive Secretary of CLACSO, offered on Wednesday, July 8, the keynote address: “Challenges of the social sciences in the face of the current Latin American and Caribbean situation”.

To commemorate the 45th anniversary of FLACSO Mexico, its graduate students are organizing a virtual academic congress from July 8-10 to discuss, reflect upon, debate, and exchange ideas based on papers, articles, and research on contemporary issues in the region. They will work on twelve thematic areas covering topics such as: conflicts and social movements; human rights; cultures and identities; gender, feminisms, and sexualities; population and health; and others.

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The Latin American Congress of Postgraduate Students in Social Sciences (CLEPSO) was born as a collective proposal of master's and doctoral students from Flacso Mexico, with the objective of encouraging openness, socialization and high-level academic exchange from the different perspectives, approaches and research problems that are developed in the postgraduate training process in the social sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the current landscape of the social sciences, where academic networks are a recurring and successful strategy for transcending borders, CLEPSO will also be a space dedicated to building bridges that allow for the elucidation and articulation of future agendas in the social sciences. The research processes developed at these levels of specialization reflect the direction the social sciences are taking in the Americas. It is aimed at graduate students (master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral) in the social sciences from Latin America and the Caribbean.