Open activities
La School of Latin American and Global Studies - ELAG is a platform for debate, training, analysis and research on the major issues on the public agenda in Latin America and the world.
This section includes open classes from our courses and forums. You can access the complete activities by joining ELAG
Course: Politics: territories of struggles and resistance
Speaker: Temístocles Villanueva (Mexico) – Deputy of the Congress of Mexico City
Class 4 of 4
Course: Ecofeminism and politics of the common
Speaker: Maria Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Spain) – Maria Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Spain) – MEP and professor at Carlos III University
Class 1 of 4
Course: Human rights and memory policies
Speaker: Horacio Pietragalla (Argentina) – Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina
Class 1 of 4
Course: Reinvent the public, build the common
Speaker: Gerardo Pisarello (Spain) – Jurist, deputy and former vice mayor of Barcelona
Class 1 of 4
Course: Defending Truth and Democracy on the Digital Battlefield
Exhibits: Julián Macías (Spain) - Activist against digital disinformation and specialist in social networks.
Class 1 of 6
Course: UNASUR: history, apogee and perspectives -
Exposes. Ernesto Samper (Colombia), former president of Colombia and former secretary general of UNASUR
Class 1 of 4
Course: Media Capitalism
Exhibits: Ignacio Ramonet (Spain / France) Former director of Le Monde
Class 1 of 4
Teaching team: Ignacio Ramonet (Spain / France) | Patricia Villegas (Colombia / Venezuela)
Course: Policies of Care
Exhibits: Irene Montero, Psychologist. Minister of Equality of the Government of Spain.
Class 2 of 6
Teaching team: Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta (Argentina) | Irene Montero (Spain) | Anahí Durand (Peru) | Carmen Beramendi (Uruguay) | Eleonora Menicucci (Brazil) | Nadine Gasman (Mexico)
Course: Lawfare as a geopolitical strategy in Latin America
Exposes: Baltasar Garzón, former judge of the National Court of Spain
Class 4 of 8
Teaching team: Carol Proner (Brazil) | Gisele Ricobom (Brazil) | Silvina Romano (Argentina) | Larissa Ramina (Brazil) | Adoration Guamán (Ecuador) | Pedro Serrano (Brazil) | Baltasar Garzón (Spain) | Eugenio Zaffaroni (Argentina) | Juarez Tavares (Brazil)
Seminar "Methodologies and practices of critical social research".
Exhibits: Carlos Figari
Class 1 of 12: An Introduction to Critical Epistemologies-Methodologies.
Teaching team: Carlos Figari | Moira Pérez | Joice Barbosa Becerra | Paula Viturro | Osmundo Pinho | Siobhan Guerrero | Blas Radi | Angela Figueiredo | Rocío Medina
Course: Racism and anti-racism. Policies, struggles and territories
Exhibits: Mara Viveros Vigoya, National University of Colombia
Class 1 of 4
Teaching team: Rita Bosaho (Spain) | Nilma Lino Gomes (Brazil) | Mara Viveros Vigoya (Colombia) | Carlos Álvarez Nazareno (Argentina)
Course: All Science is Politics
Coordinator: Diego Golombek
Guest: Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
Class 1 of 4
Teaching team: Diego Golombek (Argentina) | Diego Hurtado | Fernanda Beigel | Marcelino Cereijido | Erica Hynes | Vanina Martinez
Course: Misogyny as a Weapon of Political Discipline
Exhibits: Dora Barrancos
Class 2 of 4
Teaching team: Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) | Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta (Argentina) | Joana Mortagua (Portugal) | Dora Barrancos (Argentina) | Beatriz Gimeno (Spain)
Course: Educational Policies in the Post-pandemic
Exhibits: David Edwards
Class 4 of 4: "Global teacher struggles in the post-pandemic"
Teaching team: David Edwards (United States) | Camilla Croso (Brazil) | Vernor Muñoz (Costa Rica) | Pablo Gentili (Argentina)
Course: Images of Politics: Photography in the Construction of Emancipatory Narratives
Exhibits: Ricardo Stuckert, prominent Brazilian photographer. He has won numerous international awards. For more than 15 years he has been the official photographer of Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil.
Class 1 of 5
Course: Challenges of Latin American and Caribbean integration
Presents: Celso Amorim, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
Class 1 of 4 - "The origins of Mercosur as a commercial and economic integration program until its consolidation as a regional integration process"
Course: Sexuality Education and Emancipation in the Cuban Revolution
Exhibits: Mariela Castro (Cuba), feminist sexologist.
Class 1 of 4
International course on State, Politics and Democracy in Latin America
Alberto Fernández, José Pepe Mujica, Dilma Rousseff, Álvaro García Linera, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Alicia Bárcena, E. Raúl Zafaroni, Manuela D´Ávila, Ernesto Samper and Esperanza Martínez.