La Universidad en los contextos de encierro: Universities in contexts of confinement

Location: Auditorio Paulo Freire, National Pedagogical University, Bogotá, Colombia
Language: Spanish/English
La Universidad en los contextos de encierro: Universities in Contexts of Confinement

The event tackles the space of the university as a space of confinement across Latin America and Palestine, with particular attention to the ways in which these spaces mirror the violence occurring in urban settings, in addition to discussing the ways in which activists, students and academics attempt to transform these space of confinement and navigate them.

📅 16 September 2026 | 13:00–15:00 (GMT-5)
📍 Auditorio Paulo Freire, National Pedagogical University, Bogotá, Colombia
🗣️ Spanish & English

The seminar is part of the USF-funded Seminar Series Urban geographies of carcerality: from Latin America to the Middle East, which addresses the connections between geographies of carcerality in Latin America and the Middle East, two regions witnessing ever-increasing levels of urban violence, surveillance, and incarceration.

"I can’t emphasise enough how supportive the USF Fellowship has been. It has empowered me to engage with a diverse range of partners, collaborators and agencies in a fast-moving field of practice and policy-making. It has allowed me to extend beyond known geographic and disciplinary borders to explore and connect disparate fields and practices, across policy and academia."

Dr Sarah Barns, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

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