Knowledge production in the social sciences facing new civilisational challenges
Workshop

# A workshop and meeting of researchers from Latin America and Germany

The workshop by Pablo de Marinis is conceived as a space for encounter and intensive debate between social science researchers from different backgrounds.

All participating researchers are somehow linked to Latin America, because they live and work there, and/or they make that region a privileged area in their respective research projects. In addition, they share research interests about the diverse processes through which social and sociological knowledge is produced, circulated, appropriated and re-signified. Based on some issues that each invited researcher is working on, different topics will be addressed throughout individual presentations:

  • Changes in the anatomy of capitalism, from the “old” to the “new” neoliberalism.
  • Current challenges facing liberal democracy, and reflections on whether it can (and should) fully cover our emancipatory horizon.
  • Production and circulation of knowledge (social and sociological); dependencies, visibilizations/ invisibilizations of certain types of knowledge in relation to others, etc.
  • Alternative views to Eurocentrism or to the unilateralism of North Atlantic perspectives; towards a decentering of the social sciences.
  • Tasks, challenges and reformulations of a critical theory of society.
  • Questioning and challenging the limitations of the very institutions in which we work (universities, research centers, academic networks, national, regional or international professional organizations). 

The workshop takes places on 9 May at HIAS (Mittelweg 161), from 11-13:30 and 14:30-18h. It will be held in Spanish.

Participants:

Fernanda Beigel, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, University of Kassel, Germany

Fabio Erreguerena, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

Martina Lassalle, HIAS/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariana Llanos, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Germany

Pablo de Marinis, HIAS/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alvaro Morcillo, Democracy Institute, Central European University Vienna, Austria

Christof Parnreiter, University of Hamburg, Germany

Rebeca Ramos Padrón, University of Kassel, Germany

Clara Ruvituso, Ibero-American Institute, Germany

Esteban Torres, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

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If you wish to participate, please send an e-mail to event@hias-hamburg.de (inscription possible until 30 April).