CLACSO at the ALAS Congress
On Sunday, December 1, at the Plaza Fray Tomas de San Martin Auditorium of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, the capital of Peru, the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Association of Social Sciences (ALAS) was launched under the slogan: “Towards a new horizon of historical meaning of a civilization of life”.
The welcoming remarks were given by Jaime Rodolfo Ríos Burga, President of the XXXII ALAS International Congress Peru 2019, and by Ana Rivoir Cabrera (Uruguay), President of ALAS, as well as Sari Hanafi (Lebanon), President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and Orestes Cachay Boza, Rector of UNMSM.
The first activity consisted of the “Interinstitutional Dialogues: ALAS – ISA – LASA – CLACSO – ACAS – CIESAL” with the participation of Ana Rivoir (President of ALAS); Sari Hanafi (President of ISA); Ana Monzón (President of ACAS); María Clara Medina (President of CIESAL); Jaime Ríos (Vice President of ALAS and President of the Congress); and the Executive Secretary of CLACSO Karina Batthyány, with the moderation of Nora Garita (Costa Rica).
Gustavo Lema interviews Ana Rivoir, Jaime Ríos Burga and Karina Batthyány
The first day concluded with a conference by Boaventura de Souza Santos, from Portugal: “The epistemologies of the south and the new disjunctions between political processes and civilizational processes.”
Simultaneously, there is a book presentation and a CLACSO publications stand, a CLACSO-McKnight Seminar, and a general meeting of member centers and CLACSO Working Groups.
On Tuesday the 3rd, the CLACSO Working Group "Studies on the United States" participated by presenting four panels: "Trump and the internal social and political crisis of the United States: Dilemmas and scenarios"; "Crisis of hegemony and global capitalism in the Trump era"; "United States: Old and new forms of intervention in Latin America"; "Trump and Latin America, beyond the current situation".
On the same day, the 3rd, CLACSO co-organized with OXFAM, with the participation of ECLAC and ALAS, the round table “Elites, State Capture, inequalities and democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean” moderated by Pablo Vommaro, Director of Research at CLACSO.
On Wednesday the 4th, the GT “Territorialities, spiritualities and bodies” presents two panels: “Existences, spiritualities and territories of peace” and “Collective action and production of subjectivity”.
Academics César Germaná Cavero and Virginia Vargas spoke to CLACSO TV
On Wednesday the 4th, the meeting of the Working Groups and Member Centers of CLACSO took place, with Karina Batthyány and the directors Pablo Vommaro and Gustavo Lema.
On the same day, Karina Batthyány participates in the Forum “Human rights, gender and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
Conversation with Federico Schuster, Julián Rebón, Santiago Ortiz and Breno Bringer, speakers at the panel “Protest as a political resource in contemporary regimes”.
Program:
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