Monday, January 6 → 5:00 PM, Aula Magna, Universidad Alberto Hurtado → Alameda 1825, Metro Los Héroes. Downtown Santiago. «Activism, Music, and Education. Perspectives from Chilean Reality and Chilean Cumbia. Records and Scores of Los Vikings 5.» An afternoon filled with music and reflection on music education from the perspective…
By Ricardo Amigo Dürre This book is the result of the author's doctoral research at the Center for Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Chile. It presents an analysis of “the reflections and debates that Black/Afro-descendant intellectuals in Spanish-speaking America have developed in their written works concerning...
Tuesday, October 22 → 6:30 PM → PUC Campus Oriente Extension Center. Av. Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz 3300. Providencia. «Juan Eduardo García-Huidobro. Education, politics, and faith for social justice. Editors Cristobal Madero SJ, María Teresa Rojas, and Camila Pérez.» The launch will take place within the framework of the VI Interdisciplinary Congress on Educational Research…
Wednesday, September 25 → 6:30 PM → Il Posto Research Center. José Miguel de la Barra 480, office 201. Downtown Santiago. “Other Writings. Gestures, Movements, and Inscriptions in Contemporary Art and Poetry by Megumi Andrade Kobayashi.» The book proposes a journey through the work of a selected group of artists, poets...
On December 21, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly expressed its concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world. For these reasons and because it is a practice that was bitterly carried out in different parts of the planet during the 20th century, they decided to declare March 30...
Thursday, August 29 → 3:15 PM San Ignacio School → Alonso Ovalle 1452 Moneda Metro. Central Santiago. «Curricular Innovations in Secondary Education: Experiences of Three Chilean Schools Transforming Their Curriculum. Juan Cristóbal García-Huidobro SJ.» This book presents a study of three schools in our country that transformed their curriculum for secondary education. Together,...
Tuesday, August 27 → 7:00 PM Bar Santo Remedio → Román Díaz 152. Providencia. «Poetry in Expansion. Experimental Literary Practices in Chile 2000-2020. Author Fernando Pérez Villalón». The presentation of this book offers an overview of diverse experimental literary practices in Chile in the new millennium and proposes a critical and theoretical model for approaching them...
Thursday, August 22 → 6:00 PM Bellarmino Hall, UAH Library → Alameda 1825, Los Héroes Metro. «Writings of Afro-descendants: Debates and Trajectories of Black/Afro-descendant Intellectuals in 20th Century Latin America. María Elena Oliva Oliva.» The presentation of this book explores the debates and trajectories of thought among Black/Afro-descendant intellectuals from...
Thursday 07/18 → 6:00 PM → Bellarmino Hall. UAH Library. Alameda 1825 Los Héroes Metro. Downtown Santiago. «Hypermodernity and Mental Health. Reflections on the Psychological Consequences of Nihilism. By Felipe Quiroz Carolina Aldunce.» The quest to understand how new ways of life affect human existence today, how to face dilemmas…
Wednesday 07/10 → 6:00 PM → Documentation Center Palacio Pereira (CEDOC) Huérfanos #1515 Santiago Centro. «Hydroelectric Dams and Chilean Society. By Nicolás López Cvitanic.» The presentation of this book analyzes the tension between slogans of development and progress, versus environmentalist movements, thus opening a profound discussion around ecology, climate change, justice...
