LASI is a Research Summer School directed at graduate students and other highly qualified young researchers who hold at least a master’s degree.
LASI offers graduate students from Latin America and abroad the opportunity to come together for a week to receive specialized instruction and supervision from internationally renowned senior social scientists. LASI focuses on relevant social issues in Latin America, which are analyzed from a global, interdisciplinary, and compared perspective.
LASI has been promoted by the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies together with the School of Anthropology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with different partners. Its three previous versions were supported by the Universidad Católica del Norte.
The fourth version of this school, LASI 2023 addresses the issue of Haunting social issues: Crisis, continuity and demands for change in Latin American is supported by is supported by the Instituto Milenio VioDemos and the Universidad de Tarapacá. LASI is also supported by Wenner Green Foundation.
Helene Risør/ Academic coordinator of LASI. Professor in the School of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Director at Millennium Institute for Violence and Democracy (VioDemos), principal researcher at the Subjectivity and Conflict research line at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) and professor at the UC School of Anthropology.
Marjorie Murray/ Professor in the School of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) and Millennium Institute for Violence and Democracy (VioDemos).
Manuel Prieto/ Professor in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences at the Universidad de Tarapacá. He also serves as the Director of the Millenium Nucleus on Andean Peatlands (AndesPeat) and is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR).
LASI 2020 Haunting Social Issues in Latin America: Theoretical Innovation and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Coquimbo 4th – 9th of January
*This edition was canceled due to strong protests in Chile in October 2019.
LASI 2019 Borders, Frontiers and Circulation
Antofagasta 4th – 9th of January
LASI 2018 Difference: Discrimination, Racism and Social Transformation
Villarrica January 4th – 9th
LASI 2017 Emergent Democracies – New Forms of Coexistence
San Pedro de Atacama January 4th – 9th