BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Mass Protests and Constitutional Contestation in Latin America\ , March 24\n\nOver the past year\, mass protests have swept across Latin Am erica. From Chile's El Estadillo Social (the Social Outbreak) to Argentina' s Ni Una Menos (No One [Woman] Less)\, these massive social movements have challenged the political and legal establishment\, leading to deep politica l and legal reforms.\n\nThe Center for Law\, Justice & Culture and the Cent er for International Studies are hosting three Latin American political sci ence scholars discussing these developments on March 24 from 5 to 7 p.m.\n\ nThe panel discussion will be followed by an open dialogue.\n\nPanelists in clude Dr. Claudia Heiss (Universidad de Chile’s Institute of Public Affairs )\, one of the 14 drafters of the constitutional reform that is being imple mented in Chile\; Dr. Maria Victoria Crespo (Centro de Investigación en Cie ncias Sociales y Estudios Regionales\, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de M orelos\, and Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología\, C ONACYT\, in México)\; and Dr. Carmen Ilizarbe (Department of Political Scie nce and Government at the Pontificia Universitat Catolica in Peru). Dr. Hil la Dayan (Amsterdam University College) will moderate the discussion.\n\nDr . Claudia Heiss is a professor of political science at Universidad de Chile ’s Institute of Public Affairs\, where she teaches undergraduate and gradua te courses on democratic theory\, political theory and political science. S he is also the head of its political science undergraduate program\, as wel l as an adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion S tudies\, COES. Heiss earned a Ph.D. in politics from the New School for Soc ial Research\, a Master of Arts from Columbia University and a degree in jo urnalism from Universidad de Chile. She was the president of the Chilean Po litical Science Association between 2012 and 2014. At the end of 2019\, she was one of 14 members of a technical commission that drafted the constitut ional reform for the current constitution-making process. She has published the book "Why do we need a new constitution? (Aguilar 2020) as well as boo k chapters and articles on democracy\, constitutional reform and Chilean po litics.\n\nDr. Victoria Crespo is Professor at the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Estudios Regionales\, Universidad Autónoma del Estad o de Morelos\, and Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog ía\, CONACYT\, in México. She has published Del rey al presidente. Poder ej ecutivo\, formación del Estado y soberanía en la Hispanoamérica revoluci onaria 1810-1826 (El Colegio de México\, 2013\, 2015) and Dictadura en Amér ica Latina. Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas y conceptuales (Universidad Autó noma del Estado de Morelos\, 2017). She is editor and co-author of several books\, book chapters and articles on Latin American politics and history\, social theory and regional studies published in the United States\, United Kingdom\, Mexico\, Argentina\, Chile\, Colombia\, Russia and Finland.\n\nD r. Carmen Ilizarbe is a professor of Political Science at the Pontificia Un iversidad Católica del Perú. Her current research interests and publication s include the following: rationalities of agreement and disagreement in sta te-society conflicts\; street protests and the rise of a counter-hegemonic public sphere\; and de-democratization and counter-democracy in Latin Ameri ca.\n\nDr. Hilla Dayan is a political sociologist and lecturer at Amsterdam University College\, teaching Global Politics\, The Middle East Today\, Co mparative Democracy and Sociology of the Other. Her research is in the fiel ds of political sociology\, political theory and theory of democracy. Her c urrent research includes the transformation of Zionism into Neozionism\, th e discourse on Antisemitism in Europe and Europe-Israel relations\, Mizrahi heritage and memory politics as well as surveillance and the global author itarian turn\, diversity work and the study of first-generations in academi a. Ilizarbe is a regular contributor and commentator on Israel-Palestine an d the Mizrahi struggle\, and is co-founder of gate48\, platform for critica l Israelis in the Netherlands\, and Academia for Equality\, a membership or ganization for the democratization of Israeli academia and society. DTEND:20210324T230000Z DTSTAMP:20240921T123121Z DTSTART:20210324T210000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mass Protests and Constitutional Contestation in Latin America\, Ma rch 24 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_36113389237774 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/mass_protests_and_constitutional_contes tation_in_latin_america_march_24 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR