Every April 23rd, we celebrate Book and Reading Day, a worldwide tribute to the promotion of reading and love for books, those beautiful objects that flood us with wisdom, knowledge, and imagination. This year, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Literature that Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral received in 1945...
This year, in commemoration of Book Day, which will be celebrated on April 23rd, we want to invite the entire community to participate in the Micro-story Contest «A Story I Want to Forget.» In collaboration with the UAH Library, DAE – Sport and Healthy Living, and UAH Editions, we are organizing this contest for you to give...
The cult image and all the ritual practices that unfold around it will mark the life of the Latin American Church. This reality was quickly assumed by the colonial Church, which from the second half of the 17th century onwards would actively promote the cult of images that miraculously appeared to the indigenous and mestizo population. For its part, Latin American theology of culture will highlight these indigenous roots and the iconic and festive character of local Catholicism. Pope Francis himself will insistently highlight the theological value of this faith that flourishes on American territory.
This volume joins three that preceded it. One of them, which selects texts from the bulletin We cannot remain silent (1975-1981), and two that correspond to Policarpo for the periods 1981–1983 and 1983–1985. On this occasion, the publication's reflections and chronicles primarily take place in the final years of the military dictatorship. This period spans from the failure of efforts to shorten its duration, carried out through various strategies deployed by different opposition groups (social mobilization for some, mass popular rebellion for others), to the plebiscite where the citizenry rejected General Pinochet remaining president for an additional eight-year term. It also covers the first presidential and parliamentary elections after the 1973 coup d'état. In the ecclesiastical sphere, the period is marked by Pope John Paul II's visit to Chile in 1987 and the policy of reconciliation encouraged by the Vatican and the Archbishop of Santiago, Juan Francisco Fresno.
Thursday, March 13 → 4 PM → Roberto Bellarmino Room. UAH Library → Alameda 1825. Downtown Santiago. «Critical Theory of Law and Social Justice in the Americas.» Edited by Hugo Rojas Corral and Sheila Rojas Martínez. Through a unique combination of theories and perspectives from law, sociology, philosophy, science...
Through a unique combination of theories and perspectives from law, sociology, philosophy, political science, and history, this text offers essential reflections on the contemporary challenges facing Latin American societies in their pursuit of greater social justice. It is a deep, multidisciplinary analysis of the role of legal-political systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, which also intertwines the Latin American critical tradition with the movement Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory LatCrit.
Tuesday, January 07 → 6:30 PM → La Moneda Cultural Center. Reading Space – Level 3 → Plaza de la Ciudadanía 26. Santiago Centro. «Decentered Culture. Studies on Cultural Democracy in Chile and Latin America. Carla Pinochet.» This book develops the notion of democracy and analyzes the tensions involved in its penetration as...
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…
The Sleeping World of Yenia It is an exhaustive narration of what happens before love. It is the movement and nuance of romantic attraction, visited and revisited to the point of delirium. The rounding out of desire expressed in infinite ways, obsessively verbalized. The sensual pleasure of not yet knowing love extends to unknown limits. A country where everything invented by the skin of my desire is possible. This is a novel about perpetual, unfulfilled attraction. It is the eros of the infinite landscape of what “is about to happen and doesn't happen” and which extends, obsessively, to every moment of the narration.
Welfare state, provider state, state of compromise, and social rights are frequent concepts in studies produced by the humanities and social sciences in recent Chile, which differ in their origins and historical meanings. In her exhaustive research, the author examines crucial issues for the history of twentieth-century Chile, such as the transition of healthcare provision from charity to the state, the claim of universal assistance confronted with limited resources, the organization of a monumental healthcare institutionality, and the relationship of healthcare professionals with it.
