XVIII Congreso Internacional de Humanidades:

Abstract

The eighteenth version of the International Congress on Humanities focused its reflection on the main challenges that Latin America and the Caribbean face at a time in history characterized by complexity. This circumstance is expressed in phenomena and dynamics such as: the expansion of a pandemic; the tension between global and glocal dynamics; the search for a peaceful solution to armed conflicts that demands clarification of the truth, respect for human rights and reparation for the victims; the implementation of alternative development proposals that confront the hegemonic model; the gradual environmental crisis on the verge of a point of no return; the importance of combining youth dynamics with social movements; the need to resignify educational practices around emerging pedagogies; and the urgency of demonstrating an ethical and moral action that confronts the practices of corruption and the crisis of values ​​that bleeds the collective life of Latin Americans and the Caribbean. In this context, the XVIII International Congress of Humanities: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020: Challenges of humanist knowledge in complex times became a privileged virtual space to debate and publicize the progress and results of various research works , which from the human and social sciences seek to provide approaches to the needs of our Latin American context. Today more than ever, these "complex times" demand from the humanities a critical reading of reality that addresses, with a clear and truthful intention, the importance of building a fraternal society that has been characterized by the decrease in practices. humanists in the daily individual and social work. For this reason, the International Congress of Humanities of the Santo Tomás University is conceived as an encounter with our academic and investigative identity, whose starting point is the concrete reality that permeates the life of each individual. The so-called social and human sciences focus their reason for being on the fact of having as object and subject of study the human being as such, that is, the thousands of faces that play their existence in these complex times, and that demand from the academy the approach of ethical references, the construction of humanizing scenarios and the realization of collective alternatives for development and peace.