CLACSO at ALAS 2026
Organized by the Conference of the Latin American Association of Social Sciences (ALAS), the XXXV Latin American Congress of Sociology is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 26 to 31, with the participation of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
The overarching theme of the ALAS 2026 Congress, “ Between Polycrisis and Alternatives: Horizons of Latin American Critical Sociology ,” invites reflection on a contemporary climate profoundly transformed by multiple and interdependent crises—political, economic, social, climatic, energy, ecological, and geopolitical—that are rapidly reshaping life in our societies and placing sociological work under strain. Added to this are growing threats to university autonomy, critical research, and the social sciences in general.
Headquarters:
UNIRIO – Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Praia Vermelha campus)
UFRJ – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Vermelha Praia campus and Fórum de Ciência e Cultura)
CLACSO'S PARTICIPATION
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is carrying out several activities within the ALAS 2026 agenda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These include:
-From the 22nd to the 25th, the III Postgraduate School of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Social Studies will take place , an alliance between CLACSO and ALAS; this year it has the support of the Marielle Franco Foundation of Brazil.
PROGRAM
Sunday July 26:
From 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM local time (UTC-3)
ALAS 2026 Opening Ceremony
📍Armazém da Utopia (Armazém 6 – Avenida Rodrigues Alves, s/n, Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro)
CLACSO ALAS Forums
Monday, July 27:
-Special Session 3. Crisis of hegemony, multipolarity and reconfiguration of the world system
📍 UNIRIO CCH – Room 205
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Participants:
Ana Esther Ceceña (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
Wang Wen (Renmin University of China, China)
Gabriel Merino (National University of La Plata, Argentina)
Leandro Morgenfeld (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Monica Bruckmann (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Coordination: Leandro Morgenfeld (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
📍 UFRJ IE/FACC- Room 206
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Participants:
Claudia Pilar Lizarraga Aranibar (CLACSO-JAINA)
Francesco Maria Pierri (UN-FAO)
Sérgio Sauer (Universidade de Brasília – UnB)
Itayosara Rojas (University Rotterdam)
Coordinator: Ramonildes Alves Gomes (PPGCS/UFCG)
Moderator: Deborah Franco Lerrer (CPDA/UFRRJ) GT Agricultural Stories
Tuesday, July 28th:
-Special Session 7. Latin America facing systemic transition: integration, sovereignty and strategic capabilities
📍 UNIRIO CCH – Room 205
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – CLACSO
Participants:
Monica Valente (São Paulo Forum, Brazil)
Joao Pedro Stedile (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurales Sem Terra – MST, Brazil)
Pedro Silva Barros (IPEA, Brazil)
Mariana Aparicio (UNAM, Mexico)
Tamara Lajtman (UBA, Argentina)
Special Session 9. University autonomy, academic freedom and threats to sociology and the social sciences
📍 UNIRIO CCH – Room 308
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – CLACSO – ISA – ISC
Participants:
Karina Batthyány (ISC/UDELAR, Uruguay)
Geoffrey Pleyers (President of ISA and Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Carolina Jimenez (National University of Colombia, Colombia)
Ana Rivoir (ISA and University of the Republic)
Coordination: Ana Rivoir (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
📍 UFRJ/Casa da Ciência – Auditorium
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Participants:
Sergio Carpenter (IADE)
Recaredo Alberto Galvez Carrasco (UFRJ – SOL Foundation)
Rosa Maria Marques (PUC-SP)
Roxana Valdebenito (OPES – Economic Policy Obs.)
Coordinator and moderator: Berenice Patricia Ramirez López (IIEc-UNAM, CLACSO)
📍 UFRJ IE/FACC – Room 223
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Participants:
Debora Assumpcao e Lima (UERJ)
Monica Cox de Britto Pereira (UFPE CLACSO)
Pabel López (CIDES-UMSA)
Claudia Pilar Lizarraga Aranibar (CLACSO-JAINA)
Coordinator and moderator: Juan Wahren (CONICET / IIGG UBA)
📍 UFRJ IE/FACC- Room 227
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Welcome words:
Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO) and Breno Bringel (AT)
Coordinator:
Mariana Aparicio Ramírez (UNAM-GT-USA/CLACSO)
Participants:
Atilio Boron (National University of Avellaneda-REDH)
Darío Salinas Figueredo (Ibero-American University-Human Rights Network)
Mónica Bruckmann Maynetto (UFRJ)
Sonia Winer (IEALC-UBA/CONICET)
Jaime Antonio Preciado Coronado (University of Guadalajara)
Location: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Praia Vermelha Campus and Forum of
Science and Culture)
Meeting of CLACSO Brazil Member Centers and Working Groups – 18:30 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.
📍 UFRJ IE/FACC
Master Dialogue 3: Intersectionalities, inequalities and struggles for justice
📆 Tuesday, July 28, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
📍 Tenda dos Diálogos Magistrais: UFRJ — Campus da Praia Vermelha
Monserrat Sagot: With a solid academic background at the University of Costa Rica and a PhD in sociology from the American University (USA), Sagot articulates political and gender sociology to analyze structural inequalities and violence in our societies. Além disso, her work stands out in Latin American feminism, being co-coordinator of the Working Group of CLACSO “Feminismo, Resistência e Processos Emancipatórios” and co-coordinator of the GT de Feminismos da ALAS.
💬 She will be in conversation with Rachel Barros and Thula Pires
Coordinator: Angelica Cuellar (Mexico)
Wednesday 29 of July
– Special Session 12. The social sciences and scientific associations in the face of the polycrisis
📍 UNIRIO – Paulo Freire Auditorium
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – ACAS – ALASRU – CLACSO – FLACSO – ISA
Participants:
Jesus Diaz (President of ALAS)
Rebeca Yanis Orobio (Vice President of ACAS)
Alberto Riella (Former President of ALASRU)
Pablo Vommaro (Executive Director of CLACSO)
Rebecca Lemos Igreja (General Secretary of FLACSO)
Geoffrey Pleyers (President of ISA)
Coordination: Breno Bringel (AT)
-Special Session 13. Thinking from the South, thinking about the South, thinking about the Global
📍 UNIRIO- Professor Tercio Pacitti CCET Auditorium
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – RISUR – CLACSO South-South Programme
Participants:
Karina Bidaseca (UBA/EIDAES-UNSAM, Argentina)
Eduardo Devés (University of Santiago, Chile)
Aline Andrighetto (UNISINOS, Brazil)
Jaime Preciado Coronado (University of Guadalajara, Mexico)
Beatriz Bissio (UFRJ, Brazil)
Alain Pascal Kaly (UFRRJ, Brazil)
Renata Rosa (Maria Quitéria Institute, Brazil)
Coordination: María del Carmen Villarreal (UFRRJ, Brazil) and Fabricio Pereira da Silva (UNIRIO, Brazil)
-Special Session 14. Contemporary wars, energy crisis and dispute over strategic resources
📍 UNIRIO CCH – Room 205
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – CLACSO
Participants:
Juan Agulló (UNILA, Brazil)
Ana Penido (UFRJ, Brazil)
Breno Altman (Opera Mundi, Brazil)
Marco Fernandes (BRICS Civil-Popular Council, Brazil)
Wagner Iglecias (USP, Brazil)
Coordination: Mariana Aparicio (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
– MR34. Social Reproduction and Public Policies: Forms of Social Organization of Care in Latin America [ACTIVITY CANCELLED]
📍 UFRJ IE/FACC – Room 206
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Participants:
Irma Sandoval Carvajal (UNA-UCR)
Maria Dinalva Leite Damasceno (GPTEC/UFRJ)
Coordinator: Laura Rivera-Alfaro (University of Costa Rica)
Moderator: Marco Álvarez Vergara (University of Chile – CLACSO)
Jueves 30 July
-Special Session 19. Energy transition: for what life, for what modernity?
📍 UNIRIO – Professor Tercio Pacitti CCET Auditorium
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – CLACSO
Participants:
Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO)
Simon Gomez Azza, (Life Thought Center)
Marcio Pochmann (IBGE, Brazil)
Verena Hitner (The Global Fund for a New Economy)
Antonio Malo (BIND)
Ana Esther Ceceña (UNAM, Mexico)
Carolina Jimenez (National University of Colombia, Colombia)
Coordination: René Ramírez Gallegos (CLACSO, Ecuador)
Round Table: Care Policies in Latin America
📍 UFRJ Auditorium/Casa da Ciência
16:30 to 18:30 UTC-3
Organized by: CLACSO's Care and Gender Working Group, within the framework of the commemoration of ALAS' 75th anniversary.
Coordinator: Valentina Perrotta (University of the Republic)
Moderator: Karina Batthyány (UdelaR)
Participants:
Vanessa Montenegro Hidalgo (University of Nariño)
Mashelli Contreras Hernández (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Friday July 31
-Special Session 24. Green industrialism: a new ISI?
📍 UNIRIO – Professor Tercio Pacitti CCET Auditorium
From 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Co-organizing institutions: ALAS – CLACSO
Participants:
Nicholas Malinovsky (Federal University of ABC, Brazil)
Gabriela Wyczykier (UNGS, Argentina)
Leonardo Magalhães (IPSE Global)
Gabriel Merino (UNLP, Argentina)
Coordination: René Ramírez Gallegos (CLACSO, Ecuador)
📍 UFRJ IE/FACC – Room 213
From 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m. local time (UTC-3)
Participants:
Fernando Cardoso Lima Neto (PUC-Rio)
Paul Almeida (University of California, Merc)
Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO / UBA)
Coordinator: Maria da Gloria Gohn (UNICAMP)
Moderator: Claudio Luis de Camargo Penteado (UFABC)
Magistral Dialogue 5 (Enclosure): Horizons of transformation and social change in times of policrise
📆 Friday, July 31st, from 16:30 pm to 18 pm
📍 Tenda dos Diálogos Magistrais: UFRJ — Campus da Praia Vermelha
Mónica Bruckmann: Political scientist Monica Bruckmann is an international reference in studies on geopolitics, strategic natural resources, regional integration and transformations of the world economy and system. Professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), her career brings together academic and international articulation in networks such as CLACSO, UNESCO/REGGEN and ALAI.
💬 He will be in conversation with Massimo Modonesi and Geoffrey Pleyers
Coordinator: Virtudes de la Rosa (Dominican Republic)
-Activities of the CLACSO Working Groups
Monday July 27
session 04 – Agribusiness, Agrárias Elites in rural spaces
From 08:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Coordinator/debater: Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros (UFRRJ/CPDA)
Participants: Soledad Figueredo Rolle (University of the Republic) – Large agricultural businesses in the Uruguayan countryside
GT Agrarian Histories: present and future challenges for land and labor disputes
Session 02 – Dissident sexualities and genders: experiences and social transformation (Sexualities and dissident genders: experiences and social transformations)
From 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Coordinator: Montserrat Sagot (University of Costa Rica)
Participants: Amaral Arévalo (PPGSD/UFF) – Under the sign of proscription: Sexual education and citizenship of LGBTIQA+ people in the face of the advance of the extreme right in El Salvador
Iyamira Hernández Pita (University of Havana) – Gender and Sex Dissidence in Mexican and Cuban Universities: Resistance and Identity in Sociodigital Spaces Authorship
GT Sexual Activisms and Citizenships: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Session 05 – Stigmatization, exclusion and violence (1)
From 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Title of the communication: Sociology of erasure: towards a new terminology of Latin American migration – Javier Romano
GT Migration and South-South Borders
Tuesday July 28
Session 13 – Scenarios of ecosocial collapse
From 08:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Coordinators: Fernanda Wanderley (Institute of Socioeconomic Research, Bolivian Catholic University, Bolivia), Nayar López Castellanos (CELA-UNAM, Mexico), Fabrina Furtado (CPDA-UFRRJ) and Lorena Fleury (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Presentation: Halting socio-ecological collapse: Local diagnoses, global challenges – Gustavo Moura de Oliveira
GT Anticapitalisms and Emerging Sociabilities
Session 09 – The Left and the State
From 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m.
Coordinators: Darío Salinas (Ibero-American University, Mexico), miguel serna (UDELAR, Uruguay), Angela Alonso (USP) and Pedro Borba (UERJ)
Presentation: Specters of 1959: dilemmas of the anarchist movement in the Cuban revolutionary process – Cassio Brancaleone
GT Anticapitalisms and Emerging Sociabilities
MR17. Bodies and emotions from Latin America: itineraries and challenges for sociology
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Coordinator: Pedro Matías Lisdero (CONICET / UNVM)
Moderator: Pedro Matías Lisdero (CONICET / UNVM)
Participants: Javier Romano Silva (Faculty of Psychology, Udelar), Maria Aparecida Chaves Jardim (Unesp), Cristiana Losekann (UFES) and Pedro Pablo Ccopa (UNALM)
GT Migration and South-South Borders
MR21. Rural Social Movements of Latin America: Territories in Dispute and Alternatives Under Construction
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Coordinator: Juan Wahren (CONICET / IIGG UBA)
Moderator: Juan Wahren (CONICET / IIGG UBA)
Participants: Debora Assumpcao e Lima (UERJ), Monica Cox de Britto Pereira (UFPE CLACSO), Pabel López (CIDES-UMSA) and Claudia Pilar Lizarraga Aranibar (CLACSO-JAINA)
GT Critical Studies of Rural Development
MR53. Revisiting Marini. Limits of reformism, imperialist offensive and rise of the far right: challenges for Latin American critical thought
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Coordinator: Juan Cristóbal Cárdenas-Castro (Collective The Wrath)
Moderator: Mónica Iglesias Vázquez (University of Valparaiso)
Participants: Cristobal Reyes Nuñez (UNAM), Georgette Ramírez Kuri (UNAM), Ayelén Eliana Branca (National University of Córdoba)
GT Imperialism, neocolonialism and intervention policies
Wednesday 29 of July
session 18 – Agrarian social structure, land hoarding and financialization
From 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m.
Coordinator: Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros (UFRRJ/CPDA)
Participants: Joaquin Cardeillac (University of the Republic), Julieta Krapovickas (University of the Republic) – Agrarian change in Uruguayan viticulture: decomposition and land grabbing
GT Agrarian Histories: present and future challenges for land and labor disputes
MR35. LGBTIQA+ Power Groups and Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Coordinator: Amaral Arévalo (PPGSD/UFF)
Moderator: Marcos Antonio Ferreira do Nascimento (Fiocruz)
Participants: Esmael Alves de Oliveira (UFGD), Iyamira Hernández Pita (University of Havana), Lázaro Marcos Chávez Aceves (University of Guadalajara), Diego Puntigliano Casulo (University of the Republic) and José Ernesto Ramírez (UPN Bogotá)
GT Sexual Activisms and Citizenships: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Special Session 13 of the ALAS Congress, entitled “Thinking from the South, thinking o Sul, thinking o Global”
UFRJ (Campus da Praia Vermelha) | From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Co-organized by RISUR - CLACSO South-South Programme
Participates: Karina A. Bidaseca (Coordinator of the CLACSO South-South Program / Co-coordinator of the Working Group: Critical Decolonial Thought, Praxis and Aesthetics)
GT Critical Decolonial Thought, Praxis and Aesthetics
Jueves 30 July
Session 01 – Closed Horizons and Disputed Imaginaries: Utopia, Dystopia and the Limits of Social Imagination
From 08:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Coordinators: Francisca Fonseca (University of La Frontera, Chile) and Danghelly Zúñiga (University of Rosario, Colombia)
Presentation: Reopening or future: utopia, prefiguration and sociological imagination – Rodrigo Chaves de Mello
GT Anticapitalisms and Emerging Sociabilities
MR 42 – Between resistance and emancipation. The current state of solidarity economies in Latin America
From 16:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m.
Coordinator and moderator: Gustavo Moura de Oliveira
Presentation: Rethinking “structural heterogeneity” to address solidarity-based economic transitions – Eduardo Enrique Aguilar
Presentation: Community organization and the assertion of socio-environmental rights in the peri-urban area of Morelia. A perspective from the economics for life – Diego Mauricio Montoya
Presentation: Resisting political and institutional attacks against the solidarity economy – Laura Collin
Presentation: Indications for the construction of a post-patriarchal socio-economic agenda in the face of imperial plunder – Natalia Quiroga Díaz
GT Anticapitalisms and Emerging Sociabilities
Friday July 31
Session 07 – New Right-Wing Movements, Militarization and Security in Latin America
From 08:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Coordinator: Flávia Lessa de Barros (University of Brasília)
Presentation: New laws, militarization and geopolitics of war in Latin America – Thays Karolline dos Santos Fidelis (UFAL)Ayelén Eliana Branca (National University of Córdoba)Georgette Ramírez Kuri (UNAM)
Presentation: The repositioning of conservative governments in Latin America within the framework of the Donroe Doctrine and the Trump Corollary: militarization and hemispheric security – Claudia Edith Serrano Solares (FES Aragón, UNAM)
Presentation: Anglo-American doctrines and the securitization of integration in the context of crisis: impacts on human rights institutions in Latin America (2020-2026) – Sonia Winer (IEALC-UBA/CONICET)
Presentation: The rigid limits of late progressivism: Preliminary elements of analysis of the Colombian case – Carolina Jimenez Martin (National University of Colombia)
GT Imperialism, neocolonialism and intervention policies
Session 27 – Social Participation and Public Policies
From 08:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Coordinator: Darío Salinas (Ibero-American University, Mexico), miguel serna (UDELAR, Uruguay), Angela Alonso (USP) and Pedro Borba (UERJ)
Presentation: Tax narratives and social movements: a conceptual-methodological proposal – Monika Dowbor
GT Anticapitalisms and Emerging Sociabilities
Session 32 – Socio-environmental movements and conflicts VI
From 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Participants: Michelly Aragão Guimarães Costa (UFF/UFRPE), Karina Andrea Bidaseca (CONICET UBA and UNSAM), Matías Ignacio Lustman (EIDAES / UNSAM).
Title of presentation: «Plots of re-existences in the face of violence in bodies/territories in indigenous communities Mbya Guaraní, Chorotes in Argentina and quebradeiras de coco babaçu in Maranhão in Brazil.»
GT Critical Decolonial Thought, Praxis and Aesthetics
MR16. Class, race, gender and territory in Latin America: Towards a unitary critical theory
From 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m.
Coordinator: Thays Karolline dos Santos Fidelis (UFAL)
Moderator: Georgette Ramírez Kuri (UNAM)
Participants: Camila Carduz Rocha (UFF – Niterói), Mariangel Sánchez Alvarado (University of Costa Rica), Ayelén Eliana Branca (National University of Córdoba)
GT Imperialism, neocolonialism and intervention policies
MR56. Vigilantism in Latin America. Collective violence and security co-production
From 16:00 p.m. to 18:00 p.m.
Coordinator: Antonio Fuentes Díaz (BUAP) GT Vigilantis
Moderator: Fabio Magalhães Candotti (ILHARGAS / UFAM) GT Vigilantisms
Participants: Maria Trebilcock (ICSo UOh) GT Vigilantisms, Monique Batista Carvalho (UERJ) and César Bazán Seminario (PUCP) GT Vigilantisms
GT Vigilantism, punitive violence and security production
Book fair and exhibitors
From July 27th to 31st, from 8 a.m. to 18 p.m.
📍UFRJ – Campus Praia Vermelha
The XXXV Latin American Congress of Sociology is a crucial meeting for the academic community at a time when Latin America and the Caribbean face urgent challenges to democracy, social justice, regional integration and the public role of the social sciences.
Faced with a conflictive and worrying scenario, ALAS 2026 aspires to be a public refuge for free debate, a platform to make visible the struggles for the public university, a space to defend critical thinking and, above all, a place to rebuild intellectual energies, address controversial issues, share relevant sociological diagnoses and co-construct alternatives in a particularly challenging historical moment.
Its organizers say: “Our time is not made up only of setbacks. Resistance, new political grammars, and horizons of hope are also emerging. The diversity of activism, worldviews, struggles, uprisings, and experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean challenges sociology today to renew its commitment to the social imagination, reclaim its legacy, and project it toward possible futures.”
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