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On Wednesday, August 21, InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
200 InfoCLACSO programs
-Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of CLACSO, reviews together with Gustavo Lema, Director of Communication and Information, the importance of communication for the social sciences and humanities and of valuing InfoCLACSO as a tool for exchange and dissemination for the entire CLACSO network.
Featured segments of InfoCLACSO
-Luis Fondebrider, founding member and at that time President of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) in the first InfoCLACSO program during the pandemic, on Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
-The northern border of Mexico: Alberto Chavez, Cultural Coordinator of Espacio Migrante in Tijuana and Amarela Varela HuertaProfessor-researcher at the Autonomous University of Mexico City, specialist in migration, member of the CLACSO Working Group “Migrations and South-South Borders”.
-Interviews conducted at the Forum “Social Movements and Territories for Life”, in Fortaleza, Brazil, on June 29 and 30 of this year, which promoted dialogue between members of the Latin American and Caribbean academy, social movements and public policy decision-makers regarding activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
-Francia Márquez Mina. The current Vice President of Colombia, an Afro-Colombian social leader and feminist, visited CLACSO in November 2021.
-Mara Viveros, a doctor in Anthropology and economist from the National University of Colombia, speaks about racism and the possibilities for Afro-descendants that are opening up with the government of Gustavo Petro in Colombia.
-Haiti: “In Haiti, gang members want to live like people in the United States,” he argues. Louis Ilionor, sociologist, member of the Research Group on Popular Housing and Social Inclusion of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador.
-Elena Lorac She is the founder and co-coordinator of the Organized Common Network of Dominican Citizens (Reconoci.do) movement, which since 2011 has defended the rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic.
-Hernando Uribe Castro, sociologist and professor at the Institute of Studies for Sustainability in Cali, Colombia, was a correspondent for InfoCLACSO from the streets of his city where the Colombian people were demonstrating against the conservative government of Iván Duque.
The former president of Bolivia Álvaro García Lineras He participated in the keynote dialogue “Economic Crisis and Development Dilemmas in Latin America and the Caribbean” at the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences, on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at UNAM in Mexico.
Interview with CLACSO.tv of the academic, philosopher, historian and theologian Henry Dussel, recognized for his work in the field of Ethics, Political Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy.
-#CLACSO2022: Some of the highlights of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, from June 7 to 10.
-Dora Barrancos, an Argentine researcher, sociologist, teacher and feminist, participated in the InfoCLACSO after the second round of elections in Argentina in November 2023, and reflects her “astonishment” at the result that gave Javier Milei the victory.
According to the Argentine academic Elizabeth Jelin“The current global context is one of regressive and right-wing positions.” Interview in front of the La Moneda Palace, 50 years after the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile.
María Ángeles Durán, Spanish sociologist and researcher, said that "it was sociological reflection, especially theoretical, that made me a feminist."
-Eleonor FaurShe holds a doctorate in Social Sciences from the National University of San Martín in Argentina and FLACSO. She speaks about care, the role of states, and public policies.
A tour of the feminist struggles In recent years in Latin America and the Caribbean, with great achievements, some setbacks, and new rights to conquer in pursuit of gender equality, a topic that is definitely established in our societies.
Gerardo Caetano, historian, Full Professor of the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic, President of the National Academy of Uruguay, at the Forum: The New Dynamics of South-South Relations and the Challenges of Latin American Integration, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Pablo SemánArgentine sociologist, member of the Interdisciplinary School of Advanced Social Studies at the National University of San Martín and of CONICET. At the CLACSO Forum: “How to defend democracies against the right wing?”
Melina Vázquez, researcher and professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina. Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group “Childhoods and Youth”.
Daniela Carabalí Ararat e Ylcel Carabalí Rentería They are activists from the Process of Black Communities in Colombia and from the Association of Community Councils of northern Cauca.
Federico Pita, a political scientist from the University of Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine activist, founder of the African Diaspora of Argentina (DIAFAR), analyzed that “in Latin America, the racial issue must be at the center.”
Julieta Osorio from the Trans Collective Delindas Hous, from Colombia, at the Forum “Social Dialogue for Equality and Human Rights” organized from May 17 to 19, 2023 in Bogotá.
-Climate Justice in Latin America – Interview at #clacso2022: C, responsible for Oxfam Climate Justice in Latin America; Valeria Cotaimich from the Institute for Studies on the State and Participation; and Karla Maass Wolfenson, Communications and Campaigns Officer for Latin America at Climate Action Network-CAN.
Pablo VommaroAcademic Secretary of CLACSO, and Fernanda Pampín, Director of Publications at CLACSO, were regular columnists for InfoCLACSO.
The program for Wednesday, August 21st covers the following topics: Platforms for Social Dialogue which CLACSO is promoting for the coming years.
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
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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