CLACSO Dialogues – Brazil 2026: Democracy, Justice and the Future
27 al 30 April | Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP)
Free activities – Limited spaces – In-person format
Cebrap Seminar: From Science to Impact: Innovations and Challenges in Linking Research and Action Agendas on Climate Change, Gender and Care
CLACSO Dialogues | Brazil 2026: Democracy, Justice and the Future | (Opening – 28-4)
CLACSO Dialogues | Brazil 2026: Democracy, Justice and the Future | Dialogue 01 and 02 (29-4)
CLACSO Dialogues | Brazil 2026: Democracy, Justice and the Future | Dialogues 03 and 04 (29-4)
Meeting of the research team on the Climate Justice and Care Nexus
Training Workshops
on April 28, 2026
Pontifical Catholic University of Are Paulo
They coordinate: Nora Goren (Argentina) and Joana Das Flores Duarte (Brazil)
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Objective: To collectively reflect on the contemporary challenges of democracy in the region and to develop advocacy proposals from feminist, territorial and social diversity perspectives.
Initial presentation: Nadya Guimarães (USP and CEBRAP, Brazil)
Brazil case: Ariane Favareto (CEBRAP, Brazil) and Lina Penati Ferreira (UEL and CEBRAP, Brazil)
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo Building, Rua Ministerio Godoy, 969, Auditorium 117A
Objective: To collectively reflect on the articulation between climate justice and the care economy, and to build proposals to influence public policies and regional agendas.
The workshops are aimed at a broad audience, including students, academics, members of social movements, and policymakers. They are open learning spaces with no maximum number of participants.
Each in-person workshop will last two hours. A digital certificate of participation will be awarded, providing credit equivalent to the hours of in-person training.
Office: Climate Justice and Care
Office: Democratic crisis, feminisms and challenges of participation
Democracy, sovereignty and participation forum: perspectives from social diversities
April 28 and 29, 2026
Pontifical Catholic University of Are Paulo
This Forum, promoted by CLACSO, is conceived as a public regional space, open to member centers, Working Groups, academic networks, social movements, civil society organizations and public and institutional actors from Latin America and the Caribbean, with special emphasis on those located in Brazilian territory.
The Forum is part of CLACSO's 2025-2028 strategic agenda, aimed at strengthening democracy from Latin American and Caribbean critical and transformative thinking, promoting multi-actor articulations that incorporate and recognize diverse perspectives from the Global South.
In the current regional context, democracies are experiencing tensions associated with crises of representation, persistent inequalities, and disputes over recognition and rights. At the same time, participatory movements are emerging, driven by women, youth, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, migrants, and gender and sexual minorities. This forum seeks to connect academic production, collective action, and public advocacy from a critical perspective of the Global South, promoting knowledge production for social transformation.
Based on this, the aim is to create a public regional space for dialogue, exchange and collaboration to analyze the contemporary challenges of democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of expanded participation and the recognition of diversity.
Specifically:
- Analyze recent transformations of democracy in the region to influence innovative strategies for strengthening and revitalization.
- To make visible the experiences of political participation of historically marginalized sectors.
- Debating conceptual frameworks from critical and transformative perspectives of the Global South.
- Strengthening networks between academic spaces, social movements and public policies, with an emphasis on Brazil.
PROGRAM – FORUM ON DEMOCRACY, SOVEREIGNTY AND PARTICIPATION
Participants: Pablo Vommaro (Executive Director of CLACSO) and Francisco CP da Fonseca (Coordinator of the Social Sciences Postgraduate Program))
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Participants: Gissela Dávila (Ecuador) and Ladisalu Dowbor (Brazil)
Moderated by: Silvia Borelli (Brazil)
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th at 6pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Participants:
Jorge Leal (Uruguay)
Rosa María Marques (Brazil)
Wagner Iglecias (Brazil)
Ximena González (Venezuela)
Nicholas Lynch (Peru)
Moderator: Marco Álvarez (Chile)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:9.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This panel seeks to analyze recent transformations of democracy in the region, paying attention to the tensions between institutions, political representation, social participation, and disputes over rights. It aims to open a critical dialogue on the processes of democratic weakening, the advance of authoritarian projects, the reconfiguration of the left, and the emergence of new forms of political action from local communities. The forum seeks to develop strategies for strengthening democracy from critical and transformative perspectives.
The panel will address both structural dimensions and concrete experiences, combining academic, social, and political perspectives. It seeks to identify the main challenges facing Latin American and Caribbean democracies in the current global context, as well as the horizons of democratic renewal driven by social actors, movements, and regional networks.
Book Release
Violence and care. Approaches to an ambivalent relationship
Rachel Rojas. Marcial A. Garcia Suarez. Izadora Xavier do Monte. [Editors]
Co-published by MECILA-CLACSO.
Participants: Gloria Amézquita (Academic Director of CLACSO) and Marcial Suárez (co-editor of the volume / Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Participants:
Tania Pierre-Charles (Haiti)
Bernardo Manzano (Brazil)
Roberto Lopez (The Savior)
Maura Vera (Brazil)
Rose de Melo Rocha (Brazil)
Moderated by: Wilson Gomez (Colombia)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:11.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This panel aims to highlight and analyze experiences of political participation driven by actors historically excluded from spaces of power and representation. From an intersectional perspective, it seeks to reflect on the role of women, youth, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, migrants, marginalized communities, and gender and sexual minorities in expanding democracy.
The panel will bring together research, organizational experiences, and public policies that demonstrate how diverse groups have challenged the boundaries of liberal democracy, proposing expanded forms of citizenship, participation, and the recognition of rights. It also seeks to identify the structural obstacles these actors face and the strategies they have developed to influence the public sphere.
Participants:
Pilar Lizárraga (Bolivian)
Txai Surui (Brazil)
Representative of the Lauro Campos and Marielle Franco Institute (Brazil)
Vivian Urquidi (Brazil/Bolivia)
Moderated by: Graciela Castro (Argentina)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:14 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This panel aims to highlight the role of women's organizations, feminist movements, and community networks in expanding democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. It proposes to analyze how women have driven participatory processes from within their communities, popular economies, struggles for rights, and experiences of collective organizing.
Emphasis will be placed on non-institutionalized forms of participation that have contributed to transforming public agendas, challenging understandings of democracy, and generating new political practices. Likewise, the aim is to reflect on the tensions faced by women's organizations in contexts of inequality, political violence, and precariousness.
Participants:
Nayeli Quevedo (Mexico)
Rosangela Santos (Brazil)
Ada Vera (Paraguayan)
Mazé (Maria José) Morais (Brazil)
Moderated by: Nora Goren (Argentina)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:15.45 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This dialogue aims to discuss women's participation in institutional political spaces: political parties, parliaments, local governments, regional bodies, and public agencies. It seeks to analyze progress, limitations, and challenges related to political representation, access to power, and the exercise of leadership.
The aim is to bring into dialogue the experiences of women in public office, party activism, electoral processes and institutional reforms, with research that allows us to understand the structural conditions that influence their political participation.
Likewise, the aim is to reflect on the links between institutional participation and social organization, identifying strategies that strengthen the presence of women in decision-making and in the construction of more inclusive democratic agendas.
Participants: William Habermann y Gloria Amézquita
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:17.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Climate Justice and Care Forum | CLACSO-IDRC
From science to impact: innovations and challenges in linking research and action agendas on climate change, gender and care
on April 30, 2026
Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP)
This Forum aims to establish itself as a space for exchange and reflection with the objective of understanding the terms in which the scientific agenda has been addressing the links between climate, gender and care, as well as analyzing how the State (executive and legislative) and social organizations are acting on this same agenda.
It also seeks to identify challenges, themes and issues to improve the quality of knowledge available to decision-makers regarding these topics and their interrelationships.
PROGRAM – FORUM CLIMATE JUSTICE AND CARE
Participants:
Karina Batthyány (UDELAR/Uruguay, CLACSO and project coordinator)
Arilson Favareto (Cebrap, UFABC and Brazil team)
Ada Vera Rojas (FACSO-UNA, CLACSO)
Mayra Jurua G. Oliveria (ECLAC)
Natalia Lobo (Sempreviva Organização Feminista – SOF/ Brazil)
Moderated by: Zarelly Sibaja Trejo (UNED, CLACSO)
Date and time: Thursday, April 30th, from 2 pm to 5 pm
Location: Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planejamento (CEBRAP, Brazil)
Participants:
Sarah Moreira (ANA – National Agroecology Network)
Rivane Fabiana de Melo Arantes (SOS Corpo)
Nina Madsen (National Secretariat for Care and Family Policy)
Elisa Maria Aníbal Silva (Advisor to Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá)
Moderated by: Tania Pierre Charles (UQAM, CLACSO)
Date and time: Thursday, April 30th, from 2 pm to 5 pm
Location: Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planejamento (CEBRAP, Brazil)
Participants: Karina Batthyány y Gloria Amézquita
Summary of the activities of the 1st Forum and next steps
Date and time: Thursday, April 30th at 04:16.30 pm
Location: Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planejamento (CEBRAP, Brazil)
FULL AGENDA OF ACTIVITIES | CLACSO FORUMS
CLACSO Steering Committee Meeting
Meeting of Member Centers of Brazil
Date and time: Monday, April 27th at 04:17.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo Building4th and, corridor B - Talent Room
They coordinate: Nora Goren (Argentina) and Joana Das Flores Duarte (Brazil)
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Objective: To collectively reflect on the contemporary challenges of democracy in the region and to develop advocacy proposals from feminist, territorial and social diversity perspectives.
Initial presentation: Nadya Guimarães (USP and CEBRAP, Brazil)
Brazil case: Ariane Favareto (CEBRAP, Brazil) and Lina Penati Ferreira (UEL and CEBRAP, Brazil)
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo Building, Rua Ministerio Godoy, 969, Auditorium 117A
Objective: To collectively reflect on the articulation between climate justice and the care economy, and to build proposals to influence public policies and regional agendas.
Participants: Pablo Vommaro (Executive Director of CLACSO) and Francisco CP da Fonseca (Coordinator of the Social Sciences Postgraduate Program))
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Participants: Gissela Dávila (Ecuador) and Ladisalu Dowbor (Brazil)
Moderated by: Silvia Borelli (Brazil)
Date and time: Tuesday, April 28th at 6pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Date and time: Wednesday, April 30th, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Democracy, Sovereignty and Participation Forum
Participants:
Jorge Leal (Uruguay)
Rosa María Marques (Brazil)
Wagner Iglecias (Brazil)
Ximena González (Venezuela)
Nicholas Lynch (Peru)
Moderator: Marco Álvarez (Chile)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:9.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This panel seeks to analyze recent transformations of democracy in the region, paying attention to the tensions between institutions, political representation, social participation, and disputes over rights. It aims to open a critical dialogue on the processes of democratic weakening, the advance of authoritarian projects, the reconfiguration of the left, and the emergence of new forms of political action from local communities. The forum seeks to develop strategies for strengthening democracy from critical and transformative perspectives.
The panel will address both structural dimensions and concrete experiences, combining academic, social, and political perspectives. It seeks to identify the main challenges facing Latin American and Caribbean democracies in the current global context, as well as the horizons of democratic renewal driven by social actors, movements, and regional networks.
Democracy, Sovereignty and Participation Forum
Book Release
Violence and care. Approaches to an ambivalent relationship
Rachel Rojas. Marcial A. Garcia Suarez. Izadora Xavier do Monte. [Editors]
Co-published by MECILA-CLACSO.
Participants: Gloria Amézquita (Academic Director of CLACSO) and Marcial Suárez (co-editor of the volume / Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Democracy, Sovereignty and Participation Forum
Participants:
Tania Pierre-Charles (Haiti)
Bernardo Manzano (Brazil)
Roberto Lopez (The Savior)
Maura Vera (Brazil)
Rose de Melo Rocha (Brazil)
Moderated by: Wilson Gomez (Colombia)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:11.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This panel aims to highlight and analyze experiences of political participation driven by actors historically excluded from spaces of power and representation. From an intersectional perspective, it seeks to reflect on the role of women, youth, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, migrants, marginalized communities, and gender and sexual minorities in expanding democracy.
The panel will bring together research, organizational experiences, and public policies that demonstrate how diverse groups have challenged the boundaries of liberal democracy, proposing expanded forms of citizenship, participation, and the recognition of rights. It also seeks to identify the structural obstacles these actors face and the strategies they have developed to influence the public sphere.
Democracy, Sovereignty and Participation Forum
Participants:
Pilar Lizárraga (Bolivian)
Txai Surui (Brazil)
Representative of the Lauro Campos and Marielle Franco Institute (Brazil)
Vivian Urquidi (Brazil/Bolivia)
Moderated by: Graciela Castro (Argentina)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:14 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This panel aims to highlight the role of women's organizations, feminist movements, and community networks in expanding democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. It proposes to analyze how women have driven participatory processes from within their communities, popular economies, struggles for rights, and experiences of collective organizing.
Emphasis will be placed on non-institutionalized forms of participation that have contributed to transforming public agendas, challenging understandings of democracy, and generating new political practices. Likewise, the aim is to reflect on the tensions faced by women's organizations in contexts of inequality, political violence, and precariousness.
Democracy, Sovereignty and Participation Forum
Participants:
Nayeli Quevedo (Mexico)
Rosangela Santos (Brazil)
Ada Vera (Paraguayan)
Mazé (Maria José) Morais (Brazil)
Moderated by: Nora Goren (Argentina)
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:15.45 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Description: This dialogue aims to discuss women's participation in institutional political spaces: political parties, parliaments, local governments, regional bodies, and public agencies. It seeks to analyze progress, limitations, and challenges related to political representation, access to power, and the exercise of leadership.
The aim is to bring into dialogue the experiences of women in public office, party activism, electoral processes and institutional reforms, with research that allows us to understand the structural conditions that influence their political participation.
Likewise, the aim is to reflect on the links between institutional participation and social organization, identifying strategies that strengthen the presence of women in decision-making and in the construction of more inclusive democratic agendas.
Democracy, Sovereignty and Participation Forum
Participants: William Habermann y Gloria Amézquita
Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th at 04:17.30 pm
Location: Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), Bandeira de Melo BuildingRua Ministro Godoy, 969, Auditorium 100 A
Participants:
Karina Batthyány (UDELAR/Uruguay, CLACSO and project coordinator)
Arilson Favareto (Cebrap, UFABC and Brazil team)
Ada Vera Rojas (FACSO-UNA, CLACSO)
Mayra Jurua G. Oliveria (ECLAC)
Natalia Lobo (Sempreviva Organização Feminista – SOF/ Brazil)
Moderated by: Zarelly Sibaja Trejo (UNED, CLACSO)
Date and time: Thursday, April 30th, from 2 pm to 5 pm
Location: Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planejamento (CEBRAP, Brazil)
Participants:
Sarah Moreira (ANA – National Agroecology Network)
Rivane Fabiana de Melo Arantes (SOS Corpo)
Nina Madsen (National Secretariat for Care and Family Policy)
Elisa Maria Aníbal Silva (Advisor to Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá)
Moderated by: Tania Pierre Charles (UQAM, CLACSO)
Date and time: Thursday, April 30th, from 2 pm to 5 pm
Location: Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planejamento (CEBRAP, Brazil)
Participants: Karina Batthyány y Gloria Amézquita
Summary of the activities of the 1st Forum and next steps
Date and time: Thursday, April 30th at 04:16.30 pm
Location: Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planejamento (CEBRAP, Brazil)
