ELAUD Meeting: Emancipation and future(s): Utopia, the task of academia?
The Postgraduate Program in Social Policy and Human Rights at the Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil (PPG-PSDH/UCPel), in partnership with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS) and the Central Americanist Articulation The Isthmus, and with the support of the Postgraduate Program in Law of the Federal University of Pelotas (PPGD/UFPel) and the Postgraduate Program in Law and Social Justice of the Federal University of Rio Grande Foundation (PPGDJS/FURG); they are pleased to promote:
ELAUD Meeting: Emancipation and future(s): Is utopia the task of academia?
1 and 2 of June of 2023
Catholic University of Pelotas, Campus I (UCPel/Pelotas-RS-Brazil)
Bilingual event in Portuguese and Spanish, in-person and virtual, open and free, no prior registration required.
It will be broadcast live via the PPGPSDH/UCPel Facebook page
This activity is part of the Platform for Social Dialogue on Social movements and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It will feature the participation of:
- Dr. Lia Pinheiro Barbosa
State University of Ceará and CLACSO Steering Committee of the Bolivia, Brazil and Peru region - Dr. Milson Betancourt Santiago
Externado University of Colombia and member of CLACSO Working Groups - Dr. Pablo Vommaro
Director of Research at CLACSO
PROGRAM
- 18.00 hours | Dom Antônio Zattera Auditorium | UCPel-Campus I
Reception and registration - 19.00h | Dom Antônio Zattera Auditorium | UCPel-Campus I
Opening keynote address: Of utopias and topoi: transcending the horizons of meaning of theory and praxis on emancipations and transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dr. Milson Betancourt Santiago
Externado University and member of CLACSO Working Groups (Colombia)
- 09.00h | Room 406-C | UCPel-Campus I
CLACSO Training Workshop: Opportunities and possibilities for participation in the CLACSO network from Brazil
Dr. Pablo VommaroDirector of Research at CLACSO
Break - 14.00h | Room 406-C | UCPel-Campus I
Panel: Academic Extractivism: What is it? (And how can we avoid it?)
Participate
Dr. Ana Clara Henning (PPGD/UFPel)
Dr. Lia Pinheiro Barbosa (UECE/CLACSO)
Dr. Sheila Stölz (PPGDJS/FURG)
Dr. Ana Silvia Monzón (AT)
Moderator: Dr. Cesar Augusto Costa (PPGPSDH/UCPel)
Break - 16.00 hiras | Classroom 406-C | UCPel-Campus I
Table setting for the book series ISTHMIAN PERSPECTIVE
Volume I: History, current situation and questions about the Central American region in its bicentennial (Edições EACH, 2022. O ISTMO/CLACSO/USP/)
Participate
Dr. Aleksander Aguilar-Antunes. The Isthmus/UCEPel (Brazil/El Salvador)
Dr. Pablo VommaroCLACSO (Argentina)
Dr. Amaral ArévaloThe Isthmus (El Salvador/Brazil)
Dr. Carmen Elena VillacortaNational University of Jujuy / O Istmo (El Salvador/Argentina)
Dr. Denia Roman SolanoUniversity of Costa Rica / O Ismo (Costa Rica)
Dr. Wagner IgleciasUSP (Brazil)
Break - 19.00h | UFPel Law School Auditorium, Rua Félix Xavier da Cunha, 371
Closing keynote lecture: Emancipation as legacy, praxis and service of the popular field in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dr. Lia Pinheiro Barbosa
State University of Ceará and CLACSO Steering Committee (Brazil)
ELAUD Permanent International Seminar
OBJECTIVE
Following up on the ELAUD virtual events, Meeting “Emancipation and future(s): utopia, a task for academia?” It seeks to consolidate the space for dialogue and debate on emancipations and freedoms in Latin America, established by the project in its previous activities, and to promote a network of articulation and training with the CLACSO Member Centers in the Southern Cone, based in the city of Pelotas, in the far south of Brazil.
This ELAUD Meeting brings together and mobilizes representatives of postgraduate programs and other networks and institutions linked to CLACSO in the southern region of Brazil (States of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to countries of the Southern Cone), and the local academic community in general, to discuss the theme of the event and deepen understanding of the cooperation, exchange and intellectual production developed by CLACSO, keeping in mind its axes and objectives.
WHY “Emancipation”?
The notion and conceptual disputes surrounding the term have been part of our political imagination for centuries. In a certain sense, it has been a cherished historical dream of humankind, a permanent political task for a variety of social groups who almost always attribute different meanings to it. Through the presentation and discussion of specific and pressing social and political issues in particular Latin American countries, the ELAUD SEMINAR proposes a process of ongoing sociopolitical education on the present and future of Latin America by exploring the concepts, practices, and possibilities/impossibilities of “emancipations” on the continent.
