This webinar is part of the series “Committing ourselves to social justice: The role of doctoral education in complex times”
When: Monday 29th of November
Time: 1:00 pm Chile | 5:00 pm Germany | 8:00 am Pacific Time
Social sciences include a variety of disciplines and sub-discipline: Anthropology, communication studies, economics, sociology, psychology, political sciences, psychology, geography, to name a few. Each of them offers epistemologies, methodologies and approaches to raise questions about social economic inequality, distribution of power and rights among different social actors, and the role of social institutions to interrupt or reproduce injustice. Yet, what is less talked about is how social scientists, in their individual spaces, make choices and activities associated with the role of teaching, doing research, mentoring and participating in community projects within the structure of doctoral education.
In the fifth webinar of the series “Committing ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times”, CIRGE has invited two scholars – Carolina Guzman-Valenzuela from Chile and Peter Sachweh from Germany – to share how they theorize and practice social justice in their specific academic spaces within their doctoral education ecosystem.
Speakers
Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela is a professor of Higher Education at the University of Tarapacá (Chile). Her research agenda includes the study of university teaching-learning processes, academic identities and the role of universities in neoliberal contexts. Currently, she is leading a project that analyses the effects of colonial legacies on the knowledge production of social sciences and humanities in Latin America.
Patrick Sachweh is a professor and dean of the Bremen International Graduate School in Social Sciences (BIGSSS) at the University of Bremen (Germany). His most recent research interrogates how social narratives about the causes and consequences of the economic crisis resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic are negotiated in the German and Italian public debates.
Learn more about the series “Committing ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times”.
- 1st webinar: November 18th, 2019: Viewing the landscape of doctoral education against the horizon of policy: Placing ourselves in the academic arboretum, by Dr. Amy Scott Metcalfe, University of British Columbia
- 2nd webinar: April 1st, 2020: Practicing social justice during doctoral education: Insights from physical sciences & engineering, by Colette Patt & Khalid Kadir (UC Berkeley)
- 3rd webinar: July 29th, 2020: Beyond Theory. Practicing social justice in the design & implementation of doctoral programs in education, by Barbara Grant (University of Auckland) & Sioux McKenna (Rhodes University)
- 4th. webinar: January 26th, 2021. The habitable City: Centering Climate Justice in Research-Based Education, by Vivek Shandas & Lorena Nascimento (Portland University)