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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, together with Gustavo Lema , Director of Communication and Information, reviews the importance of communication for the social sciences and humanities and the value of 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 Chávez , Cultural Coordinator of Espacio Migrante in Tijuana and Amarela Varela Huerta , Professor-researcher at the Autonomous University of Mexico City, specialist in migrations, 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 , PhD in Anthropology, economist from the National University of Colombia, talks 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,” says Louis Ilionor , a sociologist and member of the Research Group on Popular Housing and Social Inclusion at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador.
-Elena Lorac is the founder and co-coordinator of the Organized Common Network of Dominican Citizens (Reconoci.do) movement, which has been defending the rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic since 2011.
-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.
– Former Bolivian President Álvaro García Lineras 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 Enrique Dussel , recognized for his work in the field of Ethics, Political Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy.
-#CLACSO2022: Some of the great moments 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 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 , a Spanish sociologist and researcher, stated that "it was sociological reflection, especially theoretical reflection, that made me a feminist."
-Eleonor Faur , PhD 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 journey through feminist struggles in recent years in Latin America and the Caribbean, with great achievements, some setbacks, new rights to conquer in pursuit of gender equality, a topic definitively 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 Semán , Argentine 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 CONICET in Argentina. Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group “Childhoods and Youth”.
– Daniela Carabalí Ararat and Ylcel Carabalí Rentería are activists of the Process of Black Communities in Colombia and of the Association of Community Councils of northern Cauca.
– Federico Pita , a political scientist from the University of Buenos Aires and an 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: Carlos Aguilar , head of Oxfam Climate Justice in Latin America; Valeria Cotaimich from the Institute of Studies on State and Participation; and Karla Maass Wolfenson , Communications and Campaigns Officer for Latin America at Climate Action Network-CAN.
– Pablo Vommaro , Academic Secretary of CLACSO, and Fernanda Pampín , Director of Publications of CLACSO, were regular columnists for InfoCLACSO.
The program for Wednesday, August 21, covers the themes of the 8 Platforms for Social Dialogue that 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
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