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Curricular Innovations in Secondary Education

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The book presents a study of three Chilean schools that transformed their high school curriculum. The first is an elite school that developed a high school education that was “more scientific, collaborative, and constructivist than traditional HC high school education.” The second is a public comprehensive high school in a semi-rural setting that developed a “quasi-university” curriculum where students study a common core with four broad areas of electives. The third is a technical-vocational high school for Mapuche students whose curricular model is “doubly countercultural” for introducing cosmovision into the curriculum. Together, the three cases show that it is possible to transform the curriculum within the framework of existing regulations, even though it is complex and requires a culture of curriculum development.

Launch | Hypermodernity and mental health.

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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…

Launch | Hydroelectric power and Chilean society.

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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...

Expanding Poetry

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This book offers an overview of diverse experimental literary practices in Chile in the new millennium, but above all, it proposes a critical and theoretical model for approaching them. “Expanded poetry” encompasses works that transcend traditional literary formats and genres to explore other possibilities of language as an artistic medium. It addresses the exploration of the graphic dimensions of writing and its dialogues with various types of images in so-called “visual poetry,” the use of sound and music in conjunction with words in the performative staging of literary texts, resistance to meaning in works of a non-semantic nature, the utilization of appropriation and montage strategies of texts as a literary composition procedure, and, finally, the material dimensions of editorial practices that question the possibilities of the book as an artistic object.

Hypermodernity and Mental Health

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Attempting an exploration today is an essential task for any intellectual transitioning toward an understanding of what it means to be a subject nowadays. This collaborative work contributes to that search by showing us the interstices at the crossroads of hypermodernity, neoliberalism, and mental health. It is not so much a matter of how one affects the other, but rather of how the way of life that produces and generates distress is also imbricated in the conditions of current existence. We find a dialogue among Philosophy, History, and the Social Sciences as analytical tools that allow us to unravel how late capitalism makes its way into our Latin American societies and how it becomes a fundamental realm of the population's mental health. But above all, the contribution of this writing lies in how it stimulates us to think about an alternative historical subjectivity, so that where there seems to be determination, the power to imagine other possible worlds may finally emerge.

Launch | Catholic Clergy: Abuse of Power and Sexual Abuse.

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Tuesday 06/25 → 6:00 PM → Auditorium E11. Erasmo Escala 1825, Los Héroes metro station. Downtown Santiago. «Catholic Clergy: Abuse of Power and Sexual Abuse. Case studies and historical research tools (16th century to the early 20th century). Silvia Mostaccio, editor.» The presentation of this book brings together prominent male and female authors who historically analyze the dysfunctions…

Writings of the African Diaspora

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This book analyzes the reflections and debates that Black/Afro-descendant intellectuals in Spanish-speaking America have developed in their written productions throughout the 20th century. These are women and men who identify as Black and/or Afro-descendant, an enunciative position from which they have problematized their place in Latin American societies. The experience of racial discrimination, belonging to the nation, African origins, revolution, identity claims, social organization, among others, are some of the topics they have explored in their publications, which allow us to account for a current of thought with its own specificities.

Catholic Clergy: Abuse of Power and Sexual Abuse

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In Sol Serrano's words, this book is a historiographical piece on sexual and consciousness abuse by members of the Catholic clergy. Far from blunt and easy denunciation, the text delves into the complex relationship between priestly ordination, sacramental power, obedience of the faithful, ecclesiastical institutionalization, and hierarchical social relations in the modern and contemporary periods. Its itinerary seeks, by reading between the lines, to reach those who, being abused, appear as witnesses to the abuse and hardly as victims. We face a theoretical and methodological challenge to comprehend ecclesiastical abuses within the broader context of the relationship between power, violence, and vulnerability. A painful subject in which recent time requires long time.

Release | Crazy Exceptions. The Chilean Path to Sexual Dissent.

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Wednesday 06/19 → 6:00 PM → Room A1 CampusB, Av. Los Leones 1,200, Providencia. «Mad Exceptions: The Chilean Path to Sexual Dissidence,» by Carl Fischer. The presentation of this extensive and scholarly text, which highlights the cultural production of sex-diverse individuals and their challenges to heteronormativity, will be the topic that guides the…

Crazy exceptions

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In the words of Diamela Eltit: “Carl Fischer traces an impactful cultural journey that allows for the deconstruction of local mythography founded on heteronormativity as a condition that defines Chile as ‘exceptional.’ From the slip or slips, he constructs a space for thought that is crucial for disseminating the density of meanings that bodies carry and thus pluralizing, from the cuir perspective, the transitions, desires, lacks, and especially highlighting the most precise and resilient audacity.”.