Advanced Diploma and Continuing Education Program in Image Policies: History and Visual Culture

1. Conceptual and methodological presentation regarding political e image in Latin America. Revolution and (counter) Modernity: Latin America as a historical and philosophical problem. The Haitian Revolution as the origin , as a eventPolitical and social tensions surrounding the black in the metropolises and the colonies.

2. Conversation with Ticio Escobar about Latent auraArt, criticism, and politics in the contemporary scene. Counter-hegemonic productions in times of global and neocolonial capitalism. Dissident art: between micropolitical insurrections and macropolitical struggles.

3. History and time in images. “Stubborn” memory, between anachronisms and survivals. Presentation and representation: does the unrepresentable exist in Latin America? The image as testimony, as document, and as a montage of absence.

1. The historical dimension of visual experience through the intervention of technology. From Cartesian perspectivism to the production, projection, and fixation of the mechanical image. Portraits with daguerreotypes in nineteenth-century modes of cultural and political representation.

2. The role of photography in the expansion and consolidation of nation-states at the turn of the century. Wet collodion and vistas for visual narratives of territorial occupation.

3. Mass circulation of photographs due to their technical reproducibility. The conquest of ubiquity, avant-garde movements, and aesthetic discussions surrounding photography. Disputes over collective imaginaries.

Problems, scenes, and visual narratives of South American political history: a journey through essays, documents, photographic records, and audiovisual materials. Democracy as a form of government and the people as the political subject of democracy: ruptures and continuities in three sections.

1. Debates and figures surrounding the subject of popular sovereignty in 19th century Argentina.

2. State and masses in the Chilean political experience between 1970 and 1973.

3. The political subject of democracy in the Southern Cone after state terrorism: memories, imaginaries and promises from the transition up to the present time.

1. Commemorative sculpture in Latin America since the 19th century. The monumental logic in modern cities, the symbolic weight of materials, the uses of the past in the construction of nationalist discourse. "Statue mania" and the enduring legacy of the commemorative model in the 21st century.

2. Anti-monuments: the breakdown of the triumphalist logic of the monument. Museums and anti-monuments, the need for new narratives of conflictive pasts and symbolic reparations.

3. Synchronies and asynchronies of iconoclastic phenomena. The political power of destruction and the struggles for the resignification of the past in the public sphere. Media frameworks in the dynamics of cultural memory.

1. Problematizing the question of representation, between the poetic and the aesthetic. Diverse approaches to the question of peoples through images in film. To expose peoples or to expose oneself with them? Perspectives on films by Glauber Rocha and Fernando Solanas

2. From the Deleuzian hypothesis on the missing town To Agamben's idea of ​​the community to come. How to think of the People after the dictatorships in Latin America? How to confront the horrors? Perspectives on films by Paz Encina and Sara Gómez

3. The national-popular myth, the enduring presence of the working class, and new social movements: archives, memories, and images of popular life in Argentina and Latin America. Perspectives on films by Petra Costa and Albertina Carri.

To participate, you must register using the online form by clicking here. Registration will be open from May 8 to August 20, 2023.

Upon completion of the registration process, you will receive a confirmation in your email.

Classes will begin in August and will conclude in December 2023.

All registered participants will receive the necessary instructions to access the classes, bibliography and discussion forums through the CLACSO Virtual Training Space.

Accessing and navigating the Virtual Learning Environment is very simple and user-friendly. In any case, a technical and academic support team will always be available to you.

Exceptional criteria: In exceptional cases, and within the first month of the start of the Advanced Diploma program, students may request to withdraw from the cohort and rejoin the following year. In all cases, the reasons for the request must be submitted in writing. After that period of time has elapsed since the start of the course, no requests will be accepted.

Money paid will only be refunded in cases where the organizing institutions decide to cancel the activity. 

Payment can be made in one installment by credit card, bank deposit, or bank transfer. We also offer the option of paying in 3 installments.

Yes. There will be discounts for students belonging to CLACSO Member Centers and CLACSO Associated Centers, for CLACSO Associate Researchers, and for all those who pay within the discount period.