Call for Papers for the International Colloquium Social Sciences and Violence in Central America: Between Sieges and Resistance
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AMERICA: BETWEEN SIEGES AND RESISTANCE
December 4-6 | Guatemala City | María and Antonio Goubaud Carrera Foundation (MAG Foundation)
Platform for Social Dialogue | Democracy, Human Rights and Peace
The CLACSO Working Groups Violence in Central America, Feminisms, resistance and emancipation y Ruralities and political transitions in Central America and Colombia invite you to participate in the International Colloquium Social Sciences and Violence in Central America: Between Sieges and Resistance.
This call is aimed at students, researchers, teachers, members of social movements and actors linked to public policy who are interested and committed to expanding dialogues on violence in Central America and revaluing the decisive role that the Social Sciences have had in the construction of knowledge about social reality and its transformation.
This International Colloquium is part of the Platform for Social Dialogue Democracy, Human Rights and Peace which CLACSO has been promoting since 2022 and marks a line of continuity with other previously held events such as the Colloquium: Central America Under Debate (2020) and II Colloquium Central America in debate: Violence (2023).
Taking as its basis the large and complex processes that shape the violence present in the region and which have a long history in Central America, this International Colloquium invites the presentation of papers on the following topics: five thematic axes, which are crossed by the dynamics of violence and resistance:
- Violence and accumulation processes
- Violence and politics
- Violence, society and culture
- Violence, human rights and justice
- Violence and Social Sciences
The International Colloquium has no registration fee and certificates of participation will be awarded to the speakers.
Speaker registration process
- Those wishing to participate as speakers should send their proposal abstract via the following registration form.
- Abstracts must include the author's full name, title of the work, thematic area, institutional affiliation or membership, and email address.
- In the case of submitting a joint proposal (more than one and up to three authors), only one of the authors needs to be registered. All will receive a certificate of participation.
- Abstracts should be between 200 and 250 words long.
Important dates
| Proposal submission | May 10 to July 15 |
| Communication of approved abstracts and guidelines for submitting papers | 30 June |
| Presentation of full papers | October 20 |
| Publication of final program | November 10th |
| Conducting the Colloquium | 4, and 5 December 6 |
ORGANIZE CLACSO WORKING GROUPS
CLACSO Working Group on Violence in Central America
CLACSO Working Group on Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
CLACSO Working Group on Ruralities and Political Transitions in Central America and Colombia
SUPPORTED AND SPONSORS
Center for Research on Women's Studies CIEM
Research Vice Presidency
Costa Rica university
Costa Rica
Center for Latin American Studies "Justo Arosemena" (CELA)
Panama
Panama university
Panama
Institute of Social Studies in Contexts of Inequalities (IESCODE)
National University of José C. Paz
Argentina
Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Meritorious
Autonomous University of Puebla
Mexico
Group for Studies on Central America (GECA)
Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina
University of the Valley of Puebla
Mexico
Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute
Mexico
