South Africa: Impacting politics with the humanities - 10 April, 2008

How can work in the humanities be a concrete political tool? How can the knowledge of the humanities be mobilized in socially revolutionary ways? This presentation will reflect on the state of the humanities in Chile and other countries in the process of democratic consolidation and will analyse two cases. The first is the collective book writing of Hilando en la Memoria the first anthology of Mapuche women poets. And the second is the work on a Chilean national icon, 1945 literature Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, to produce knowledge and dialogue on gender, sexualities, the body, memory, and Human Rights.