On September 26, ERIGAL and IREF (Institut de recherches et d’études féministes) organized the conference “Reflections on the sexuality of disabled women. Validism and pleasure”, by Raquel Latorre Martínez, from the University of Almería. The conference took place at UQAM (room R-3540).
On September 6, at the bookshop “La Maison des feuilles”, the collective work “L Amérique latine en transformation : mobilisation et citoyenneté”, edited by Françoise Montambeault, Dan Furukawa Marques & Nora Nagels, was presented.
On September 11 to13, the international symposium “After Latin America s Human Rights Era: Back to Square One, Reconstruction, or Reinvention?” took place at the Université de Montréal.
On October 4, at McGill University, Adriana Pozos (Universidad Veracruzana) gave a lecture entitled “Familias en la búsqueda: gobernanza colaborativa y transformación institucional en la crisis por la desaparición de personas en México”.
ERIGAL is pleased to announce and invite you to the book launch. “Gender equality in conditional cash transfer designs. A disappearing policy recipe in Latin America and the World Bank?” by Nora Nagels. Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, will accompany the event as a commentator.
Many of our ÉRIGAL members were present at the CALACS Congress, from May 29th to 31st, 2024!
Our back-to-school event at Concordia University brought together more than 20 Latin American specialists and over 60 listeners!
The Workshop will take place @UQÀM, on November 9 & 10, 2023!
ERIGAL open seminar on democratic initiatives in the 21st century, in the context of Latin American authoritarianism, at Concordia University, from September 13 to 15, 2023!
In order to analyze the legal framework in which journalistic activity is conducted today in Mexico, the Faculty of Communication (Facico) of the Universidad Veracruzana organizes the workshop
Emmanuelle Roy received the Bombardier SSHRC scholarship for the master’s degree, while Jonas Lefebvre is the recipient of the FRQSC scholarship for the PhD!
On October 26th, several members of ERIGAL participated in a panel organized by Charmain Levy (professor at UQO and member of ERIGAL), during the Symposium of the UNESCO International Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education
On November 3rd and 4th, ÉRIGAL, in collaboration with the Canada Research Chair in Participation and Citizenship-s, co-hosted a celebration of the scholarly contributions of Philip Oxhorn, founding director of ISID, a leading political scientist and Latin Americanist.
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.