Former ERIGAL coordinator, Annabelle Dias Felix successfully defends her doctoral thesis entitled Police work in the streets, from Mexico to Rio de Janeiro
February was a busy month of exciting lectures at ERIGAL, with Kevin Parthenay’s Crises en Amérique latine, les démocraties déracinées and Feminism s Fourth Wave, Feminism, Time and History, with Maxine Molyneux.
The online Workshop on the Politics of Indigenous Participatory Rights in Latin America in Comparative Perspective, a collaboration between ERIGAL, the Chair of Participation and Citizenship, the CPDS and the CRIDAQ was a success!
ERIGAL was pleased to organize its first hybrid seminar at UQAM on social movements in authoritarian enclaves at the sub-national level, presented by Trix Van Mierlo.
Last week took place the annual Congress of LASA, the Latin American Studies Association, online from Vancouver. This year’s theme was the global crisis, inequalities and the centrality of life. Several of ERIGAL’s faculty members participated in this central scientific activity of the Latin American academic world.
In the continuity of the ERIGAL’s last methodological workshop and to reflect on the idea of co-constructing knowledge, we invited Jenny Pearce (LSE, United Kingdom) to feed the group’s thoughts.
The Peruvian Political Crisis: discussion with Alberto Vergara Paniagua (Universidad del Pacifico, Lima), Enrique Pilco (UQAM) and Anna Calderón (Concordia, former ERIGAL member)
Romain Busnel, member of ÉRIGAL, successfully defends his doctoral thesis entitled : The Art of Seizing the State: the defense of coca crops in Peru and Bolivia
As part of the series of ÉRIGAL methodo workshops, we discussed today a very provocative question submitted by Prof. Durazo-Herrmann during the last workshop: why do research interviews?
On Thursday, 28 May, ERIGAL held a virtual methodological workshop entitled Methodological Research and Approaches in the Time of COVID-19: Challenges and Potential Alternatives for its members.
On February 21st, ÉRIGAL organized a double book launch at Bar A in Montreal.
ÉRIGAL was pleased to welcome Olivier Dabène, professor at Sciences Po Paris and director of the OPALC (Observatoire politique de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes), for a few months in the winter. Several events were organized, including some activities in the Ottawa/Gatineau region.
The ÉRIGAL International Conference “Resisting Chronic Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean” was held from October 23rd to 25th at Concordia University. The conference brought together 25 guests, from the United States, Europe and from Latin America and the Caribbean. These academics, politicians and practitioners came together on this occasion to co-produce knowledge on forms of resistance and resilience to chronic violence in Latin America and the Caribbean.