For the first time, Europe will host the LASA main event, considered the largest network of professionals in the world dedicated to the study of this region. There, our researchers will present the results of important studies conducted in the CIUP, including the winning projects of the annual contest of Universidad del Pacífico Vice Presidency for Research.
Universidad del Pacífico will participate with seventeen researchers in the XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association–LASA 2018. It is the largest multidisciplinary group -including researchers on Political Science, Economics, Law, Mathematics, and Sociology- with which our university takes part in the main event of LASA, considered the world's largest network of professionals dedicated to studying this region.
"Latin American Studies in a Globalized World" is the main theme of the congress, which will be held for the first time in Europe, from May 23 to 26 in Barcelona, Spain. It is estimated that approximately 7,000 researchers, professors, graduate students, and representatives of NGOs and international cooperation organizations will attend. LASA estimates that this will be the largest congress in its history. In this framework, our researchers will present the results of important studies conducted in the Research Center-CIUP.
UP research
During the first two days of the congress, results of winning projects of the annual contest of Universidad del Pacífico Vice Presidency for Research, related to corruption, prior consultation, poverty, and happiness will be presented. Thus, on Wednesday, May 23, Paula Muñoz and César Guadalupe will present their research "Unraveling Corrupt Practices in Peruvian Culture: An Exploratory Study Using Mixed Methods".
The next day, on Thursday, May 24, Javier Zuñiga will reveal the contributions of his work "Does human values affect the impact of education on happiness?" and Pedro Mateu will take over with "Happiness and poverty among the very poor: Unveiling the true relationship between both constructs". As closing of that day, Roger Merino will present his study "At the edge of legality Construction and dissolution of indigeneity in the making of prior consultation in Peru".
In parallel, Juan Francisco Castro will speak about his work "Revisiting Dynamic Complementarity in the Production of Cognitive Skill and its Implications for a Cognitive Gap Decomposition". Feline Freier will do the same with "Migration Management in the Andean Region: Balancing the Promotion of Migrant's Rights and their simultaneous Securitization?", followed by Carlos J. Zelada and Diego Quesada with "Lxs otrxs invisibles: Narrativas jurídicas de la intersexualidad" ("Lxs otrxs invisibles: Juridical narratives of intersexuality").
On Friday, May 25, Alberto Vergara will share the findings of his study "El fujimorismo más allá de las elecciones: representación, ideas y organización en el Perú contemporáneo" ("Fujimorism beyond elections: representation, ideas and organization in contemporary Peru.") In another panel, Bruno Seminario will provide the results of his research "Perú: Evolución de la desigualdad regional desde fines de la era colonial" ("Peru: Evolution of regional inequality since the end of the colonial era"). And, in the same vein, María Amparo Cruz-Saco will present "Peru: Inequality reconsidered and the development pattern in 1961-2015".
On the last day of the congress, Saturday, May 26, Francisco Galarza will share the contributions of his research "Trust and trustworthiness among college students: Examining the role of gender and ethnicity in Peru". Julio Aguirre will present "Concession of Regional Airports and Local Development in Peru". And finally, Leda M. Perez will talk about the evidence of her work "Peruvian adolescent domestic workers at the service of capitalist accumulation?".
Additionally, our researchers will participate in book presentations, workshops and debates during the three days of the congress. On Wednesday, May 23, for example, Cynthia Sanborn will be a commentator on a multinational panel on the different dimensions of the Chinese presence in Latin America, and on Thursday, May 24 she will be part of a workshop on the progress and problems of democracy in Peru.
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