What role do social movements play in current struggles?

On Wednesday, October 9, InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

SPECIAL PROGRAM FROM HAVANA, CUBA

Forum “Activism and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean – 65 years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution"- University of Havana – September 30 to October 2

-Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of CLACSO

-Josefina Vidal Ferreiro Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba       

-Abel Prieto Jiménez, writer and essayist, president of Casa de las Américas, former Minister of Culture of Cuba

-Marta Rosa Muñoz CamposDirector of the FLACSO Cuba program

-Georgina Alfonso González, from the Institute of Philosophy, University of Havana

-Ana Niria Albo DíazResearcher on the Program of Studies on Latinos in the United States at Casa de las Américas and member of Cedem

-Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Post-Graduation Program in Sociology, Center of Humanities, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Representative of the CLACSO Steering Committee for Brazil

-Verde Gil JiménezCoordinator of the Trans Male Group of Cuba

-Mayelin Oliva Rodríguez, National President of the Cuban Association of People with Intellectual Disabilities

-Gloria Amezquita, from the Alternative City Research Team, member of the CLACSO Steering Committee for the Dominican Republic and coordinator of the Crisis and Responses in the 21st Century Caribbean Working Group.

-Fernanda Pampín, Director of Publications at CLACSO

-Isabel Piper Shafir, academic of the Psychology department of the University of Chile, co-coordinator of the Working Group “Collective memories and practices of resistance” and former member of the CLACSO Steering Committee.

-Luis Bonilla Molina, member of the CLACSO CD for Venezuela

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The program for Wednesday, October 9th covers two of the main themes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue which CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Social movements and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean” and “Democracy, human rights and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean”

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She drives: Gustavo Lema, Director of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue, Noelia Croci, Agustina Castaños and Ángel Dávila
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Marcelo Giardino, Christian Iturricha, Camila Pastor and Renata Maestrovicente

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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.

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