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CLAS Chronicles
March 9, 2023
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GU students in Grenada for International Women’s Day
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Photo by Daniella Passariello, (SFS ’23 and CLAS/SFS Undergraduate Scholar)
On March 8, 2023, Georgetown students attended a Vocational and Environmental exposition hosted by Grenada’s Ministry of Social and Community Development, Housing and Gender Affairs in observation of International Women’s Day. During the visit GU students met with Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, and the Honorable Philip A. Telesford Minister of Social and Community Development, Housing and Gender Affairs (pictured above).
The trip to Grenada during Spring Break is an integral part of INAF 324: Nobody’s Backyard: Grenada as a Case Study in Small Island Developing States and is being hosted by faculty and staff of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at St. George’s University. The course is taught by retired Ambassador and current President of the Grenada Senate, the Honorable Dessima Williams (center in picture above), who is being hosted by CLAS as the first SFS Visiting Distinguished Professor of Global Perspectives. The course uses the opportunity of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Grenada’s independence, the 45th anniversary of the Grenada Revolution and the 40th anniversary of the U.S. invasion to engage with the roles, impacts and challenges of Grenada as a post-emancipation, post-colonial, small island developing state.
Happy International Women’s Day!
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Dr. Gonzalo Paz was invited to attend the Raisina Dialogue 2023: Provocation, Uncertainty, Turbulence: Lighthouse in the Tempest? held in New Delhi, India over Spring Break. Other distinguished guests included the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi; the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni; former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair; Bill Gates; as well as the foreign affairs ministers of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Spain, among others. Dr. Paz also represented CARI (Consejo Argentinos de Relaciones Internacionales) at the G20 Global Think Tank Town Hall which took place in New Delhi on March 5th. |
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Join CLAS at our top M.A. Program in Latin American Studies. Applications are open! We seek applicants with a proven commitment to Latin American Studies. Housed in the School of Foreign Service, our M.A. Program offers a wide variety of options to our students, including a rich and diverse intellectual environment and a location that allows them to be exposed to and participate in cutting edge research, internships, and policy issues affecting the hemisphere.
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Interesting Reads / Watches
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Mes de las Mujeres
El futuro es nuestro, construyámoslo juntas
En CLACSO venimos trabajando desde hace años de manera transversal la temática de los feminismos y las diversidades. Con ese objetivo, cada marzo, en lugar de poner el foco únicamente sobre el 8M, Día Internacional de las Mujeres, decidimos que todo el mes sirva para poder analizar y debatir acerca de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro, y dar a conocer la gran cantidad de materiales y producciones de nuestro Consejo sobre las mujeres y las disidencias.
Siguiendo la consigna general del Día Internacional de la Mujer 2023 «Por un mundo digital inclusivo: Innovación y tecnología para la igualdad de género», los ejes están puesto en profundizar el debate sobre las luchas de las mujeres y las disidencias en América Latina y el Caribe, a la luz de los logros alcanzados y de los nuevos desafíos que debemos enfrentar en una región muy desigual tanto socialmente como en la respuesta de los estados a nuestras justas reivindicaciones.
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CARICOM News Time
The CARICOM NewsTime is back!
In this episode, Communications Officer at the CARICOM Secretariat, Mrs Tusankine English-Francis, presents a weekly news roundup of the latest from the Caribbean Community.
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Global Outlook: Democracy Index 2022
In EIU’s latest global outlook video, global forecasting director Agathe Demarais and editor of the Democracy Index, Joan Hoey, discuss the results of EIU’s latest Democracy Index report.
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ECLAC Celebrates 75 Years
In the above video message, current ECLAC Executive Secretary, Costa Rican economist José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, noted that “we have reason to celebrate because the Commission’s contribution to the theory and practice of economic and social development in the region over the past seven and a half decades has been widely recognized in the region and throughout the world.”
ECLAC has a variety of commemorative activities planned throughout the year and has launched a website that explains its origins, the evolution of its thinking and its current institutional priorities.
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A Conversation with Dante Mossi, Executive President of CABEI
Thursday, March 16, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
Hybrid Event:
Inter-American Dialogue 1155 15th St NW, Suite 800 / Online
RSVP
Founded in the early 1960s, the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (CABEI) is one of the pioneering international financial institutions created in the post-Second World War period as an effort to foment regional integration in the region. The Bank has been a pivotal companion regarding regional efforts in a variety of lending initiatives in Central America. One of its main borrowers, Nicaragua, has increased its dependence on loans since 2018 in the midst of a political and economic crisis. How has CABEI provided financial support to Nicaragua during this period? Are the lending policies consistent with the Bank’s principles? What explains Nicaragua’s growing dependence on CABEI?
The Inter-American Dialogue is pleased to have a conversation with Dante Mossi, executive director of CABEI in an exchange with Ryan Berg and Manuel Orozco to answer these questions.
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Forum on Cyber-Harassment
Monday, March 20, 2023
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Hybrid Event
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Flom Auditorium / Online
More Information / RSVP
The Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, in partnership with Senator Josefina Vázquez Mota, who presides over the Mexican Senate’s committee on the rights of the child, will host a three-part forum on cyber-harassment and the use of technology in gender violence and gender-related crimes. The purpose of the forum is to understand the root causes of technology-assisted gender-based violence and explore the legislative, civil society, and private sector actions that can help mitigate cyber-harassment. |
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
CLAS Suite (ICC 484)
RSVP
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Convocatoria de ensayos: Agendas emergentes
Deadline: March 13, 2023
La producción de conocimiento académico y pensamiento crítico latinoamericano y caribeño en el campo de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades no solamente depende de la larga historia que sustenta su rica tradición en el tiempo, sino que asimismo requiere como condición ineludible de existencia de la constante reflexión y el desarrollo de nuevos aportes que constituyen su capacidad de diálogo intergeneracional y de actualización crítica. La promoción y el apoyo a las nuevas generaciones de investigadores/as e instituciones de América Latina y el Caribe se encuentra dentro de los objetivos prioritarios de CLACSO.
Con este propósito, la Secretaría Ejecutiva convoca a investigadores/as en formación de su red a presentar ensayos sobre sus principales líneas de trabajo que involucren nuevos abordajes de problemáticas clásicas o estudio de objetos emergentes en la investigación social, con enfoque latinoamericano y perspectiva generacional.
More information here
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Convocatoria de investigación para equipos
Deadline: March 27, 2023
América Latina y el Caribe están viviendo una época de gran inestabilidad y cambios políticos, donde se manifiestan los límites y problemas de las democracias tal como las conocemos en las últimas décadas. A su vez, la región vive una coyuntura de protestas masivas, revueltas populares, así como de protagonismo de diversos tipos de movimientos sociales que –desde su especificidad– se oponen a las diversas violencias del neoliberalismo.
Desde CLACSO promovemos el despliegue de Plataformas para el Diálogo Social, concebidas como espacios de trabajo, intercambio y propuestas multiactorales y multidimensionales, por ello lanzamos la convocatoria “Movimientos sociales y activismos en América Latina y el Caribe. Su lugar en la actual coyuntura: experiencias y proyecciones”. En ella se promueve la postulación de equipos de investigación integrados por investigadoras e investigadores de diversas disciplinas y experiencias, en conjunto con activistas y referentes de movimientos sociales.
El objetivo de esta Convocatoria es comprender las actuales formas de activismo y expresión de los movimientos sociales en América Latina y el Caribe.
More information here
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Feminismo, Trabajo y Acción Sindical: Diálogo entre Europa y América Latina
Deadline: July 17, 2023
El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), junto con el Instituto de Estudios Sociales en Contextos de Desigualdades de la Universidad Nacional de José C. Paz (IESCODE – UNPAZ), el Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres de la Universidad de Valencia y el Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO “¿Qué trabajo para qué futuro?” organizan la Convocatoria de ensayos “Feminismos, trabajo y acción sindical: diálogos entre Europa y América Latina” con el propósito de incentivar la investigación y reflexión crítica en torno a dinámicas, demandas y marcos normativos resultantes de la confluencia de ideas y prácticas feministas en el ámbito laboral y sindical.
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American Literary Translator Association, Call for Fellowship Submissions
Deadline: April 17, 2023
The ALTA Travel Fellowships, which are awarded annually to emerging translators to help them participate in ALTA programming, are open for submissions. Applications this year are open until April 17 at 11:59pm PT via Submittable only. This year, ALTA Travel Fellows will be awarded a monetary prize and will participate in a reading at the ALTA conference in Tucson, AZ in the fall.
For the ALTA Travel Fellowships, an emerging translator is defined as someone who does not yet have a book-length work of translation published or under contract. ALTA considers chapbooks to be book-length publications for the Travel Fellowships. The ALTA Travel Fellowships are open to individual translators (not teams of co-translators).
Among the fellowships is the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship, which is preferentially awarded to an emerging translator of color or a translator working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language. Applicants for the Jansen Fellowship should apply using the ALTA Travel Fellowship application, and check the Jansen Fellowship eligibility box in the application form.
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Oye Como Va: Sound, Voice, and Movement in the Americas, Call for Proposals
Deadline: March 24, 2022
The University of Maryland, College Park’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS) and the LACS Graduate Collective call for proposals to participate in the conference Oye Como Va: Sound, Voice, and Movement in the Americas. The 15th Annual Student Conference will be held on May 4th and 5th, 2023, at the University of Maryland and will include a series of public programs, academic panels, workshops, and art-based presentations, and a keynote panel.
The conference committee invites proposals from graduate and undergraduate students, emerging scholars, established faculty, artists, activists, and every person interested (including those outside of traditional academic spheres) presenting in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and/or French. We encourage contributions that propose solidarities between disciplines and types of knowledge.
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Internship, Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
All who are selected to participate in CFR’s Blavatnik Internship Program and Robina Franklin Williams Internship Program receive training in the field of foreign policy and international affairs as well as skills training in writing, research, program planning and much more.
The Latin America program analyzes the dynamic relationships between the United States and the nations in the Western Hemisphere. Current projects address the causes and effects of widespread phenomena such as democratization, globalization, migration, and economic development on domestic politics, foreign relations, and transnational ties within the Western Hemisphere.
Apply here
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The Pitch 2023: A Competition of New Ideas
Deadline: March 12, 2023
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is hosting The Pitch: A Competition of New Ideas, its annual premier event to elevate emerging and diverse voices in national security. Selected applicants will make their pitch for innovative policy ideas to meet new challenges in U.S. national security policy in front of a distinguished panel of judges.
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Professional Opportunities
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries.
Program Officer, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
The Program Officer will work with the LAC team leadership to manage the Endowment’s LAC Regional program, particularly initiatives focused on democratic cooperation and solidarity building in the region, including monitoring and assessment of regional projects.
Job Posting
Associate Editor, Journal of Democracy
The Associate Editor’s primary role will be to edit Journal of Democracy manuscripts for print and online, proofread Journal issues, and edit and proofread book manuscripts and special projects. Additionally, the Associate Editor will assist the Senior Editor with managing the Journal’s website; and handle various other editorial tasks.
Job Posting
For a complete list of job postings at The National Endowment for Democracy visit their Careers Page
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Program Specialist, Inter-American Foundation
Join the IAF, an independent agency of the U.S. Government which promotes community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean by awarding grants to local, civil society organizations throughout the region. The incumbent will be responsible for providing program and administrative services necessary for the efficient and effective operation of the Office of Programs.
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