The researchers and professors Camila Fernandes and Laura Lowenkron, from CLAM/IMS/UERJ and REMA, are participating this November in academic events at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile). The program was organized by Professor Marjorie Murray (UC Chile), through the Fondecyt project “Subjetividades em Transformação, Intimidades em Tensão” and is supported by the Millennium Institute VioDemos and the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies (CIIR), in addition to CLACSO’s Critical Studies Group on Motherhood and Fatherhood.
On November 10th, at 2:00 PM, the “Colóquio: O Futuro do Cuidado: Redesenhando a Proteção Social em um Horizonte Neoliberal/ O Caso do Brasil” will take place. The event will feature a lecture by Professor Camila Fernandes (CLAM/IMS/UERJ), who will analyze the process of institutionalizing care as a political agenda in Brazil, in dialogue with international debates and recent legislative disputes.
Fernandes participated in the process of systematizing the National Care Plan, where she was part of the Inter-Ministerial Working Group. In this context, she identified key themes for debate and conducted analyses on the construction of a public care policy in Brazil. Thus, in this colloquium, she will examine how care has been repositioned as a collective right and responsibility. The challenges of implementation, financing, and governance will be discussed, positioning care as a pillar of social protection in the neoliberal context.
Camila Fernandes’ presentation will be discussed by María Beatriz Fernández, professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at the MICARE Millennium Institute, and Rosario Fernández, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Chile.
On November 11th, at 12:15 PM, the “Oficina de Etnografia de Documentos” will be led by Professor Laura Lowenkron (CLAM/IMS/UERJ). The activity is aimed at students and researchers and seeks to provide a space for interdisciplinary reflection to deepen work with archives and documents in disciplines like Anthropology and Sociology, which are not necessarily linked to this type of research. Laura is the co-author, along with Letícia Ferreira, of the article “Anthropological perspectives on documents. Ethnographic dialogues on the trail of police papers,” and of the collection “Antropologia de documentos: entre papéis, carimbos e burocracias” (E-papers, 2020) (Anthropology of Documents: Between Papers, Stamps, and Bureaucracies).
On November 13th, the researchers will participate in the Workshop “Entre a intimidade e a cidadania: chaves críticas do feminino na América Latina.”
This workshop is designed to prepare presentations for a panel at the Latin America Studies Association (LASA) congress, which will take place in Paris in 2026. The central idea is to reflect on how intimate experiences and feminine subjectivities in Latin America interact with and create tension within forms of citizenship.
The workshop thus brings together researchers who explore how daily practices, care and affection networks, bodies, and life trajectories—primarily, though not exclusively, of women—intervene in the configuration of subjectivities in different urban contexts in Chile and Brazil.
Drawing on various ethnographic investigations, the papers will reflect on the interstices between intimacies and citizenships, considering the micropolitics of daily life, resistance to structural inequalities, the links between biographies and collective projects, and the transformations in citizenship imaginaries from feminist, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives. The session will include the presentation of proposals that participants wish to submit to the LASA panel, coordinated by Marjorie Murray and Pablo Seward Delaport (Saint Louis University).
On November 14th, from 9 AM to 1 PM, the “Seminário Vidas que Sustentam: Cuidado, Desigualdade e Crise no Chile, Argentina e Brasil” will take place. The seminar will bring together academics from the Southern Cone specializing in care issues.
In the last decade, the role of care work in society has become more visible, and several Latin American countries have implemented public policies to recognize and support caregivers, the majority of whom are women.
Marjorie Murray, professor at the UC School of Anthropology and researcher at CIIR and VioDemos, who organized the activity, comments that comparative and regional reflection on care research in contexts of crisis and inequality is important, as is fostering dialogue among researchers in South America. The seminar aims to be a space for reflection to deepen the meaning and place of care in our societies and what this work implies for those who perform it.
The event will be transmitted online via the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/y0FvgHYF-5Y
