The Center for Latin American Political Studies (CLAPS) is an institution member of GIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship.
The main goal of CLAPS is to promote research and education about modern and contemporary Latin America’s most pressing political-issues from a multi-interdisciplinary and global perspective.
By focusing on crucial topics such as Democracy, Citizenship, Equality-Inequality, Political Violence, Conflict and Post-conflict, Arts & Literature, and International Affairs the center aims to stimulate a global understanding of Latin America, past and present. In the pursuit of this aims, the center supports scholarly work that privileges the dialogue between the local and the global from humanistic and social science’s approaches in the field of political studies.
Welcome to the Center for Latin American Political Studies (CLAPS) member of GIRES.
ACTIVITIES
CONFERENCES
International conferences focusing on different aspects of Latin American Political Studies
(Democracy, Citizenship, Equality-Inequality, Political Violence, Conflict and Post-conflict, Arts & Literature, and International Affairs)
PODCASTS and LIVE CONVERSATIONS
Generating dialogue through multiple channels and media on subjects related to the main topics of the center
MEETINGS
Creating clusters of scholars working on the specific field
(In)formal Meetings with scholars from all over the world interested in Latin American Political Studies and its interconnected disciplines
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Open-Access activities for organizations, foundations, communities, societies and educational institutes of all level of education in order to share knowledge about Latin American Political Studies
TEACHING
COURSES-WORKSHOPS-SEMINARS
(on topics relevant to CLAPS’ interests)
Democracy
Citizenship
Equality-Inequality
Political Violence
Conflict and Post-conflict
Arts & Literature
International Affairs
MASTERCLASS FOR ACADEMICS & EDUCATORS
-Creating Teaching Portfolio-
-Teaching Material and Sources-
-Teaching Techniques-
-Exploring (Virtual) Sources-
PUBLISHING
PUBLISHING
Publications dedicated to relevant topics, aiming at the support of scholarship on Latin American Political Studies,
promoting both the values of multi-interdisciplinarity & the collaboration between the various fields interconnected to the discipline through GIRES PRESS
READING SESSIONS & AUTHORS
Learn about the new publications on the discipline
Meet with authors
Read and analyze publications
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
-Engage in Research projects-
-Grant Writing for external research proposals through GIRES Biro
-Collaboration with other organizations-
-Prepare and support young researchers-
-Search external funding for research projects (EU, US)-
-Fund and co-fund research projects-
GIRES LIBRARY (ARCHIVES & PRIMARY SOURCES)
LIBRARY
-Virtual, accessible Archives of Primary & Secondary Sources-
-Oral history archives-
-Book collection-
-Teaching material-
-Photographic and video archives-
FACULTY
Research Associate
Francisco Javier Morales Aguilera, PhD
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