Memory and solidarity in CLACSO
On Wednesday, April 1, InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
-Forum: 50 years after the coup in Argentina
An event dedicated to memory, recognition, and the defense of democracy and human rights was held at the CLACSO headquarters, which on Tuesday, March 31, recognized countries or peoples that received exiles during the Argentine dictatorship, such as the ambassadors of France. Romain Nadal and from Germany Dieter Lamlé, to the First Secretary of the Embassy of Brazil Paula Alexim and to the Cultural Attaché of Mexico Emilio Payán Stupignan.
Historical figures in the struggle for human rights, memory and justice were honored, including the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Adolfo PÃ © rez Esquivel and Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) represented by Mariana Segura, Mariella Fumagalli y Lucas Guagnini.
It premiered on theBerta Cáceres Award, Marielle Franco – Women Fighters of Our America"with recognition to Estela Barnes de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
The workshop “Images in Dispute: Photography, Memory and Power 50 Years After the Coup in Argentina” was held, led by Cora Gamarnik and the traveling photographic exhibition “Images of Memory” entitled “50 Years After the Coup in Argentina – From the Assault on Power to Democratic Recovery” was inaugurated, dedicated to the processes of memory, resistance and democratic reconstruction.
Interviews with Pablo Vommaro, Executive Director of CLACSO; Adolfo PÃ © rez Esquivel of the Peace and Justice Service (SERPAJ) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Mariana Segura, director for South America of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF).
-Furthermore: What does it mean to fight for land, life, and society in Our America today?
Second shipment from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, with interviews at the Academic Meeting “For the land, life and society” and at the II International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20) held at the end of last February with the participation of CLACSO.
-Darío Alcides Fajardo Montaña, anthropologist, National University of Colombia
-Esteban DazaInstitute of Ecuadorian Studies
-Liza María ZuluagaUniversity of Cartagena
-Sergio Monroy IsazaNational Youth Network of the Colombian Agroecological Movement
-Álvaro AcevedoCLACSO Working Group “Political Agroecology”
-Boaventura MonjaneMozambican journalist
-Alan Quiroz, researcher
-Francesco Maria PieriUN Food and Agriculture
-Heraldo Da Silvia Ramos Filo, CEGIPE and GT “Critical Studies of Rural Development”
Land for life and a habitable future for all
The program for Wednesday, April 1st, covers two of the main themes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue which CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Democracies in dispute: horizons, resistances and the construction of alternatives from the public and the common” and “Just transitions and sovereignties in dispute: towards sustainable and inclusive futures from the Global South”.
Hosted by: Gustavo Lema, Director of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue and Noelia Croci
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Christian Iturricha and Renata Maestrovicente
Open to the addresses of the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee of CLACSO to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to analyze and deepen the Platforms for Social Dialogue (PDS) that CLACSO promotes for the coming years, to interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
