Tuesday, August 26 → 6 PM → Aula Magna UAH → Av. Bernardo O’Higgins 1825. Los Héroes Metro Station. Downtown Santiago. «Social Cartography of Chile, 2024. Habitability and Territory Today. Nicolás Pedemonte and Jorge Castillo, editors». The social works of the Society of Jesus, as a whole, invite you to the book launch «Social Cartography of Chile,...
Reflecting Chilean social reality is not just describing it: it is also intervening in it from the collective responsibility of building a more livable and equitable country. Based on the analysis of data, policies, and social indicators, this work seeks to contribute to the critical diagnosis of structural challenges and institutional responses aimed at guaranteeing the right to a dignified life, in a context marked by the urgency of moving towards more inclusive, equitable, and territorially relevant social protection. The housing deficit, the migrant population, living conditions in Mapuche territories and cities, poverty and its complexities, access to education, work, and labor market integration, social mobility to overcome poverty, interruptions in the school trajectories of girls, boys, and adolescents, women's participation in the world of work, and the devaluation of unpaid care are some of the diverse topics addressed in this book from the perspectives of different social organizations.
Monday, August 25 → 6:00 PM → Roberto Bellarmino Hall → Alberto Hurtado University. Alameda 1825. Downtown Santiago. «Work, Social Bonds, and Subject Construction / Work and Post-Pandemic: Turns, Undermining, and Learning.» This launch brings together the two latest publications from the Psychology Collection that investigate how work plays a central role in...
In the words of Diamela Eltit, this book is “a concise autobiographical journey that recounts a reading passion that manifested itself since childhood. A passion that managed to shape a horizon of meaning when he began his work as a literary critic in the newspaper The Epoch in 1986. In this way, at the beginning of the return to democracy, it generated a recognizable and highly acclaimed critical role that allowed for the reading of a vast collection of Chilean novels and short stories. Exercising systematic literary criticism in media requires having a solid writing apparatus, not only to present a work, but primarily to enter into its conceptual structures, because the critical exercise consists of the paradox of maintaining both a closeness to and a distance from the texts.
Wednesday, August 20 → 12:30 PM → Roberto Bellarmino Hall → Alameda 1825. Downtown Santiago. «The National Health Service. Chile, 1952-1973. Doctrine, achievements, practices. Maricela González». The author, through exhaustive research, addresses key topics for 20th-century Chilean history, such as the transition of healthcare...
Wednesday, August 13 → 6 PM → Roberto Bellarmino Hall → Alameda 1825. Downtown Santiago. «After Thirty Years: Experiences and Accounts on Democracy and Social Rights in Chile. Helene Risør – Marjorie Murray – Piergiorgio Di Giminiani (editors)». The presentation of this book will analyze the causes and consequences of the outbreak...
What is mental health today? Can we say that it is an area in the process of being resolved? Has a greater number of professionals and a larger budget been enough? Are we conceptualizing the key aspects of mental health? Are medications the true solution for patients? How can we avoid reducing mental health—a contested field—to the psychiatrization and psychologization of life? These and many other questions are addressed in this book, where specialists from various fields propose a critical analysis of mental health in these times.
Book Rain 2025 → Saturday, July 5 and Sunday, July 6 → GAM Center → Alameda 227 – Santiago Centro. The «Book Rain» fair had its first edition in 2019 and this year returns with a proposal designed for all types of audiences, especially families and children, in a welcoming atmosphere...
“It's not thirty pesos, it's thirty years,” was one of the most repeated phrases during the weeks of the social outbreak. A thirty-peso increase in public transportation fares was the pretext for the largest cycle of protests since the return to democracy in 1990. For many protest participants, the thirty years correspond to a period of unfulfilled promises, where the expectations evoked by democracy in terms of equality and social mobility were not met. Distrust in politics, particularly in the role of parties and economic and socio-cultural elites, who are perceived as distant from the daily reality of the vast majority, appears as a fundamental motivation of the social outbreak.
Following the COVID-19 crisis, which extended between 2020 and 2021, it is proposed to establish a critical space to reflect on the shifts, undermines, and lessons learned that have become visible in the post-pandemic context, particularly concerning three main aspects: the employment and work strategies people employ, the digitalization processes of work, and finally, the inseparable link between productive work and care work. Strategies that individuals have developed to meet their daily needs and achieve greater stability are revealed, as well as how family life was faced together during the crisis that confinement represented.
