The notion of “intellectual networks” has acquired significant importance among those who study ideas and intellectual life, as well as the conditions that enable and project this work.
This symposium proposes to work on publications, institutionality, journals, intellectual agendas, university coordination, consortia, academic autonomy, intellective ecosystems, research promotion, intellectual integration, among others.
Understanding how these research agendas and consortia cluster together is vital for projecting the region’s intellectual autonomy.
The objectives of the symposium are:
– To generate a space for exchange on ongoing research regarding the formation and consolidation of intellectual networks.
– To present new theoretical approaches, analytical tools and innovative case studies in the field.
– To connect those who research intellectual networks with those who manage and coordinate research|action projects and who operate these networks in global academic practice.
– To make visible the role of networks in the circulation of paradigms, the emergence of disciplinary orientations, and their links with various social sectors.
Suggested topics:
History of intellectual networks in the Americas and between the Americas and the world in earlier centuries.
Intellectual networks and contacts between LAC and other peripheralized regions of the world.
Intellectual networks and the circulation of ideas.
Intellectual networks and periodical publications, whether academic or not, collections, and editorial and cultural projects.
Intellectual networks as both foundations for and outcomes of Latin American thought.
Intellectual networks and their significance for intellectual integration in LAC.
Intellectual networks and the conditions for asserting LAC’s intellectual autonomy.
Intellectual networks and their contributions to Latin American-Caribbean fellowship and to relations with other regions of the world.
Networks among the world’s Afro-descendant intellectualities.
Intellectual networks and gender: The historically invisibilized role of women in cultural mediation and the construction of transnational networks.
Digital Humanities and network analysis: The use of technological tools and Big Data for mapping and visualizing the circulation of ideas in the 21st century.
Networks in exile and diaspora: How political and forced displacements have generated networks of resistance and intellectual production beyond national borders.
Academic networks with multiple disciplinary origins, including people working in the hard sciences, life sciences, environmental studies and beyond.
Intellectual networks within global Latin Americanism.
Networks and emerging intellectualities in the 21st century.
Intellectual networks and their projections beyond academia: public opinion, education, social movements, politics and more.
Networks between Latin American intellectuals and those of Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
The scope and limitations of the notion of “intellectual networks” and its conversations or misunderstandings with other related concepts: circles, epistemic communities, generations and more.
