August 18, 2021
Online event

¿Cuál es la importancia del diálogo entre conocimiento científico y decisión política? ¿Cómo se diferencian y complementan sus lógicas y abordajes?

Desde el Foro CILAC invitamos a panelistas reconocidos de la región a un encuentro virtual para abordar estas preguntas y ofrecer recomendaciones de acción para fomentar este diálogo en el marco de la Agenda 2030.

Participan Federico Burone (Director Regional del IDRC para América Latina y el Caribe), Guido Girardi (Senador de Chile) y Lidia Brito (Directora Regional de la Oficina de Ciencias de UNESCO para América Latina y el Caribe).

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March 3-5, 2022
Online event

Theme: Between the Universal and the Pluriversal in Times of Globalization 

Type: Online Workshop

Institution: Freie Universität Berlin, Lateinamerika-Institut

Location: Berlin (Germany), digital

Date: March 3-5 , 2022

Deadline: Extended until 1st of September 2021

The terms “global” and “globalization” evoke imaginaries that have exercised tremendous power over the ways in which the world has been thought and organized since the late 1980s. With its apparent universal scope and progressive sequence leading to a more peaceful and democratic world, globalization for some time appeared to be an almost natural force. However, over the past decade, these ideas have lost much of their power. As criticism of globalization increased along with new calls for isolationism, we can observe a growing awareness that the creation of a global world was never a natural or one-way process. On the contrary, more and more studies relate this globalizing story about a singular world to the aims and interests of those who have propagated it (Kennedy 2016; Kamola 2019), showing the role that this particular kind of universalism has played in complex political, social and cultural negotiations.

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August 3, 5 ,10 and 12, 2021
Online event

La Red Latinoamericana para el estudio de los Sistemas de Aprendizaje, Innovación y Construcción de Competencias (LALICS) y el Instituto Interdisciplinario para la Innovación de la Universidad de Talca invitan al ciclo de seminarios: Las Políticas de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (CTI) ante la crisis del COVID-19, a llevarse a cabo en agosto de 2021. El objetivo del ciclo de seminarios es reflexionar sobre el impacto de la actual crisis sanitaria asociada a la pandemia de COVID en las políticas de CTI, particularmente las interacciones de estas políticas con temas de salud, desigualdades, sustentabilidad, rol del Estado y gobernanza, y nuevos objetivos nacionales, así como la emergencia de nuevos actores y la construcción de un nuevo entramado de relaciones con viejos actores.

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October 5, 2021
Online event

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Since its inception, the Social Studies of Science Student Section (6S) has hosted workshops and events during the annual meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) designed to facilitate community among students and junior scholars of science studies, and further opportunities for collaboration.

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