Highlights from the third season of InfoCLACSO

 Highlights from the third season of InfoCLACSO

On Wednesday, December 28, at 16 p.m. in Argentina, Uruguay and western Brazil (UTC-3), we presented InfoCLACSO live on the YouTube channel and Facebook profile.


Year-end message from Karina Batthyány , Executive Director of CLACSO: “For a 2023 of new collective achievements towards more democracy, equality and justice.”


In the year of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference at UNAM in Mexico, the great event of the social sciences in 2022, we review some of the great moments of the third season of InfoCLACSO.


On March 8th , as part of the activities promoted by CLACSO for “March, Women’s Month,” Karina Batthyány held a dialogue with Working Group coordinators about the “Challenges of Feminisms Leading Up to the 9th #CLACSO2022 Conference.” A summary of the presentation by Alba Carosio , Researcher in Feminist and Gender Studies and co-coordinator of the Working Group “Feminisms, Resistance, and Emancipation.”


Exclusive interview with Jeannette Jara Román , Chilean Minister of Labor and Social Security since March 11th in the government of Gabriel Boric, with definitions on the main challenges of the new administration and the key points of the pension reform, among other topics.


Interview with the academic, philosopher, historian and theologian Enrique Dussel from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, recognized for his work in the field of Ethics, Political Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy.


On October 30, Lula da Silva's return to the presidency of Brazil was decided; he defeated Jair Bolsonaro and will assume office on January 1, 2023. Days before the second round, we spoke with Professor and PhD in Political Science Alexander Maximilian Hilsenbeck Filho.


Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Award winner at the 9th #CLACSO2022 Conference, Ailton Krenak , philosopher, writer, ecologist and member of the Brazilian indigenous movement, visited the headquarters of the CLACSO Executive Secretariat in Buenos Aires.


During his visit to Argentina and Uruguay in November, the renowned Portuguese academic Boaventura de Sousa Santos analyzed for CLACSO.tv the major current issues: the return of Lula da Silva in Brazil, Gabriel Boric in Chile and Gustavo Petro in Colombia as recent expressions of the new progressive wave in the region, the Russia-Ukraine War with China in the sights of NATO expansionism, and Europe surrendering to the hegemony of the United States.


Hosted by: Gustavo Lema , Director of Communication and Information at CLACSO

Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán

Production: Eric Domergue, Noelia Croci and Ángel Dávila


Open to the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to review discussions, interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.


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