LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Social performance indicators for museums of social change: The Environmental Sciences Museum of the University of Guadalajara”

Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Eduardo Santana
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation:  Socially committed museums strive to support community-building processes that contribute to community health and welfare by stimulating civic participation and building social and economic capital. This requires methods that help distinguish what …

LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Migrant Solidarity, Indigenous Language Justice and Defense of Territory: Organizing from Guatemala”

Nave Visiting Scholar, Ana Gomez
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL
@ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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About the presentation: U.S. border security and immigration enforcement policies are increasingly outsourced beyond U.S. territory, forcing Mexican and Central American governments to implement checkpoints, surveillance, detention and other campaigns in exchange for aid and …

LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Traditional knowledge, southern theories and communitarianism in recent educational reforms in Mexico: towards a new wave of global educational policies?”

Presented by Nave Visting Scholar, Dr. Ines Dussel, Department of Educational Research, CINVESTAV, Mexico
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation:  The curriculum for the Nueva Escuela Mexicana, launched by the MORENA government in 2022, has implied a discursive shift from a PISA-oriented curriculum–centered on improving performance in learning tests and competitive performance …

LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Tinker-Nave Summer Field Research Panel”

Tinker-Nave Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Featuring: “The Spectacle of Knowledge: BINAES and the Cultural Politics of Authoritarianism” presented by Alan Andrade Camacho. About the presentation: This presentation examines the new National Library of El Salvador (BINAES) as a cultural infrastructure …