Le recteur de l’Université d’État d’Haïti (), Dr Dieuseul Prédélus, a récemment effectué une série de rencontres au Collège Glendon de l’Université 91��ɫ, ainsi qu’à l’, en vue d’accélérer la mise en œuvre de partenariats universitaires concrets.

«Pour conclure une convention de collaboration ouvrant des passerelles de mobilité étudiante et professorale, et faire progresser des chantiers prioritaires en transformation numérique, littératie en intelligence artificielle (IA) et diplomatie du savoir», a précisé Dr Prédélus à l-express.ca.

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Candidates are evaluated based on three equally weighted selection criteria: academic excellence, research potential and leadership. All four 91��ɫ recipients will be awarded $50,000 annually for up to three years to support their research projects.

Through their research projects, this year’s recipients have proposed innovative solutions to challenging problems, which can lead to positive change locally, globally and beyond.

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(Williamstown, Massachusetts)—The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) announces the appointment of its 2024–2025 class of Fellows for summer 2024 and the upcoming academic year. 

The Clark is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Through RAP, the Clark hosts a residential fellowship program that welcomes top international scholars for periods ranging from two to nine months. To date, the community of Clark Fellows numbers more than 430 individuals hailing from thirty countries, forming a global network of scholars united through the shared experience of academic pursuits undertaken on the Clark’s Williamstown campus.

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Department of Dance students in Professor Bridget Cauthery’s Big Dance Small Space course are now familiar with the cueca, thanks to a  workshop they attended along with students from SUNY Buffalo State in New 91��ɫ this past summer. GNL is an approach to teaching and learning that enables people from different locations worldwide to participate in and collaborate on knowledge-making processes and concrete research projects. It provides cross-cultural opportunities for students who might not have the opportunity to study abroad, a benefit in today’s global economy.

“The GNL exercise grew out of a connection I made with Joy Guarino, a dance professor at SUNY Buffalo State,” said Cauthery. “We both taught similar courses for non-majors that focused on the globalization of dance and the recognition of cultural dance practices within our own diasporic families and communities.”

Guarino was a proponent of GNL, and the pair discussed bringing their students together online. They had a few brainstorming meetings and decided to offer their students a workshop in cueca, since Cauthery had a teaching assistant from Chile, Sebastián Oreamuno, who was versed in in the dance.

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A professor in 91��ɫ’s Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Davis teaches courses in Black Cultures of the Americas and is the founder and program co-ordinator of the University’s Black Canadian Studies Certificate. Introduced in 2018, it was one of only two university programs of its kind in Canada at the time.

“Black students at 91��ɫ in 2016 were asking for programs that reflected their histories and experiences,” said Davis in a recent . “They were not really interested in a program about anti-Black racism per se, because those programs are not for Black students; they’re educating someone else. Black students wanted something that could speak deeply to them, about not just their experiences but their thoughts and their ideas.”

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The book offers country case studies examining autonomy and Indigenous self-government in nine Latin American countries, providing an overview of their achievements, challenges and threats.

Informed by historical understanding and current trends, the book pays particular attention to the role of Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and activism in pursuing sociopolitical transformation, securing rights and, more recently, confronting multiple dynamics of dispossession. It considers, too, how this is – or has – taken place, such as through the mechanisms of broad-based alliances or innovation in governance.

While the chapters included in this book engage with current debates within the literature on Indigenous politics in the region, they also offer updated assessments on a variety of issues, from comparative analysis of land rights implementation and the inauguration of autonomies and self-government deriving from constitutional reforms, innovative practices of governance to processes in which self-government emerges through de facto strategies, like self-proclamation in Peru and Colombia.

Gonzalez’s current research deals with a broader range of development issues related to Indigeneity and Indigenous Peoples in contemporary Latin America, with a particular regional focus in Central America. The book represents Gonzalez’s research focused on themes related to Indigenous governance, and considering to what extent policies of recognition of Indigenous self-governance have strengthened self-determination, or under what conditions Indigenous Peoples have tried to secure the realization of rights to autonomy.

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Gillian McGillivray became fascinated by Latin American culture in high school after reading a novel by Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian writer. After earning her master’s in Latin American studies and PhD in history at Georgetown University, McGillivray, an associate professor of history at Glendon, began delving into Latin America’s past through the lens of sugar.

Her first book, Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 (Duke, 2009), considered the origins of the industry, slavery and colonialism and discussed how and why sugar workers contributed to the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. Now, McGillivray has turned her gaze toward Brazil and the insights to be gleaned about politics and culture through sugar. She hopes to publish Sugar and Power in Brazil in 2023.

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In this first Michael Baptista forum for 2021-22, scholars will place experiences from various cities in conversation as they consider potential policy, community-based and activist responses to violence and social hierarchy, with the goal of re-envisioning human security and spatial justice across the region.

Latin America and the Caribbean are highly urbanized regions, with the Caribbean, in particular, currently experiencing rapid urban growth. While cities in the region provide opportunities to access jobs and services, they are often characterized by racial and socio-spatial inequality, residential segregation, securitization and pervasive violence. Common urban development strategies aimed at attracting investment, tourism and skilled elites further exacerbate urban injustices.

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