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aplicación/Application form: CALAS Senior fellowships 2026

 

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250 años de vecindad conflictiva/250 Years of US-Latin American Relations

 

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250 Years of US-Latin American Relations from 1776 to 2026

In his poem Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorated the beginning of the American Revolution, describing the first clashes between Patriot militias and British troops as “the shot heard round the world.” The proclaimed transnational impact of this world-historical event held particularly true for Latin America, where the 1776 Declaration of Independence was perceived as a guiding example by anti-colonial leaders such as Simón Bolívar, who, in his “Letter from Jamaica” (1815), celebrated the successful revolution as a liberation “from the shackles of oppression”, arguing that

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Tathagatan Ravindran

Tathagatan Ravindran holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas and a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Delhi. He has extensive research experience in Bolivia and Colombia, focusing on the fields of political anthropology, ethnic-racial formations, social movements, and anti-racist education. He has been a professor at Icesi University and has served as director of Epistemic Justice and the Data Laboratory at the Baobab Center for Innovation in Ethnic-Racial, Gender, and Environmental Justice.

 

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Macarena Trujillo

Macarena Trujillo Cristoffanini holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona, with a master's degree in sociological research (UB) and gender equality (UCM). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Gender Studies at Rovira i Virgili University (Spain).

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Repensar la educación desde la horizontalidad: el CALAS inaugura un nuevo Laboratorio de Conocimiento

El Laboratorio de Conocimiento «En horizontalidad» reunirá a más de diez especialistas de tres continentes para construir, de forma colectiva, alternativas educativas que enfrenten la polarización y la exclusión. El proyecto se basa en la Producción Horizontal del Conocimiento (PHC), un enfoque teórico-metodológico que integra saberes académicos y experienciales mediante el diálogo colectivo, generando al mismo tiempo nuevo conocimiento y transformando las relaciones sociales.

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