Social Transformation: Agendas and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean
El Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of the University of the North (DHCS / UNINORTE) of Colombia co-organize from July 14 to 16 the UNINORTE-CLACSO Summer School “Social Transformation: Agendas and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean”, in Barranquilla, focused on social transformation agendas, territories and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
On Tuesday, July 14, Pablo Vommaro, Executive Director of CLACSO, participated in the inaugural Conference: “The challenges of the social sciences, humanities and arts in times of transitions and polycrisis: knowledge, democracy and horizons of transformation".
In turn, on Wednesday the 15th at 8:00, Denise Zenklusen from CONICET of Argentina and the CLACSO Working Group “Migrations and South-South Borders” is part of the Seminar-Workshop “Migrations: Processes of social and spatial integration”, while on the same day, at 14:00 p.m., will Andrea Forero Hurtado from the CLACSO Working Group “Art and Politics” in the Seminar-Workshop “Research-creation for social change”.
First day of the Summer School
Aimed at researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, activists and professionals with links to social or public policy organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Summer School received 271 applications which were evaluated by members of the academic committee and the organizing committee who selected a total of 35 participants from different countries of Our America.
Academic Committee: -Nancy Gómez Arrieta (Dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the North, Colombia) –Pablo Vommaro (Executive Director of CLACSO) –Gloria Amézquita (Academic Director of CLACSO) –Alejandro Gambina (Director of Training and Postgraduate Network of CLACSO) –Eliana Sanandres Campis (Director of the Department of History and Social Sciences at the University of the North, Colombia) –Alejandro Camargo Alvarado (Director of the Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of the North, Colombia) –Roberto González Arana (Professor in the Department of History and Social Sciences at the University of the North, Colombia) -Maria Cecilia Reyes (Professor in the Department of Social Communication at the University of the North, Colombia) –Pedro Pablo Serna (Professor in the Department of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of the North, Colombia) –Jorge Palacio (Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the North, Colombia) –Javier Suarez (Director of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of the North, Colombia) –José Mola (Coordinator of the Master's Program in Economics attached to the Department of Economics of the University of the North) –Jose Luis Ramos (Coordinator of Research and Postgraduate Studies of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of the University of the North) –Camilo Puche (Director of the Music Department at the University of the North, Colombia).
