One of the goals of the Anillo Disonancias Project -"Dissonances: Community, University and Feminist Irruption"- is to disseminate and share its main findings, as well as to bring closely related knowledge with this research to our public.
In this section you can re-experience the most recent seminars, lectures, and events in which the research team of the Anillo "Dissonances: Community, University and Feminist Irruption" project have participated.
By Panchiba F. Barrientos
Dr. Panchiba F. Barrientos, postdoctoral researcher of the Project Disonancias, participated in the conversation “Uprising feminist memories: archives, massiveness and urgent questions” at the Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas - Cedinci, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The new meanings of the words feminist and feminism and the urgencies that mobilize us in times of feminist massiveness were some of the topics that guided this debate, with Nayla Vacarezza and Eugenia Sik.
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By Tamara Vidaurrázaga
Dr. Tamara Vidaurrázaga Aránguiz participated in the Webinar on the implementation of Law 21.369 in higher education, organized by the Comisión de Equidad de Género of the Red de Instituciones Técnico - Profesionales of the CRUCH. In this instance on progress, lessons and reflections to promote positive change in higher education institutions, the principal researcher of the Disonancias Proyect presented her lecture "Dissonance in the institutionalization of gender in Chilean universities".
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By Lelya Troncoso
In the framework of the First Seminar on University Coexistence organized by the Tecnológica Metropolitana, Alberto Hurtado, Diego Portales and Chile universities, Dr. Lelya Troncoso delivered a keynote address on "Feminist Debates on Punitivism: Yearnings of University Community and Transformation". In her presentation, the researcher discussed feminist perspectives such as anti-carceral feminism and transformative justice to critically analyze the approach to gender violence and “call-out” in the university context. During the event, she also reflected on the concept of "university community", questioning the assumptions and aspirations associated with it.
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By Tamara Vidaurrázaga
As part of the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile, Dr. Tamara Vidaurrázaga participated in the conversation "Political Sexual Violence: A Practice of Power in Dictatorship and Democracy", organized by the Chilean Network Against Violence Towards Women. The discussion addressed issues related to political sexual violence, its historical roots, and its connection with the struggle against political sexual violence during the dictatorship with the current feminist movement in Chile, emphasizing the need to challenge gendered power dynamics and social expectations.
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By Andrea Vera
As a part of the new webinar of the Creative Campus of the Universidad Andrés Bello, Dr. Andrea Vera — director of the Disonancias project — participated in the conversation “Feminisms, Gender and science from and interdisciplinary perspective”, addressing alongside the participants how algorithms can perpetuate the prejudices and exploring the concept of “transdisciplinary” by introducing different perspectives from the academia, popular culture, social and natural sciences, art and crafts.
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By Sandra Vera
In the framework of the "Memory and Contentious Politics: Uses of the past 50 years after the civil-military coup" seminar, Dr. Sandra Vera — researcher of the Disonancias Project— spoke about the transitional scenes and readings on the temporalities of feminism in Chile. The seminar was organized by the Fondecyt Initiation N°11230993 Memories for a new time: Collective memory and social movements in post-transition Chile, the Research Center of Social Sciences and Youth, the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, and the Nucleus of Sociocultural Theory and Political Activisms of the Universidad de Valparaíso.
In this context, she reflected on how the feminist movement experienced a cultural change in 2018 that allowed naming and denouncing grievances and perpetrators, the links between this movement, and the history of dictatorship in Chile. In addition, she also discusses how this has become a way of integrating diverse politic and social organizations, including those related to the memory of the dictatorship and human rights violations.
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By Lelya Troncoso
As part of a series of webinars at the Creative Campus of the Universidad Andrés Bello during the months of May and June, Dr. Lelya Troncoso — researcher of the Disonancias Project — was part of the conversation "Discourses, practices and Contemporary Feminisms in Culture". Both Dr. Troncoso and Dr. Paulina Varas — her interlocutor — address the challenges of incorporating anti-colonial, anti-racist and feminist perspectives in education institutes that have historically been patriarchal, neoliberal, and colonial, discussing deeper questions related to how knowledge is constructed, people that occupy positions of power and the purpose of education itself.
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By Andrea Vera
In the framework of the 10th edition of the Puerto de Ideas Science Festival in Antofagasta, one of the most important scientific dissemination events in Latin America, Dr. Andrea Vera — director of the Disonancias Project— made two presentations on the relation between feminism and science. In one of them, the researcher addressed the impact of gender stereotypes on women's access to education and their recognition in the world of knowledge. In this way, it highlights the need to deconstruct gender biases and recognize women's contributions to science, as well as the importance of educating girls from a young age about their skills and opportunities to fight gender stereotypes that hinder access to different fields of study
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Follow the seminar link hereIn this section, you can access our research team's publications related to the topics of the Anillo Disonancias project.
The students who participated in the 2024 Student Training School, taught by the Dissonances Project and the Diversity and Gender Center at the Universidad de Chile, debated “funas” and punitivism. Learn about the conversation in this illustrated sheet.
By Lelya Troncoso
The article (available in English) analyzes the tensions within Chilean universities following cycles of feminist protests against gender-based violence, identifying four critical points: defining violence; public accusations and punishment; debates around non-sexist education; and the integration of feminist claims within the university community. According to the authors, these dissonances hinder feminism’s transformative potential but also enrich its internal critique.
By Disonancias Project
This text introduces a diagnosis of gender disparities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in Chile. The authors highlight that there are significant differences among the STEM fields and dropout of women happens at later stages undergraduate education. In addition, they propose measures to address and reduce the existing gaps in these areas.
By Andrea Vera
This article explores the construction of gendered subjectivities in the field of mathematics research in Chile and how gender influences this research. It also discusses the challenges faced by women in this field and how they can work to create a more inclusive and diverse field.
By Andrea Vera
This article collects the voices and struggles of women in Chile during the social movement in October 2019. The document addresses issues such as social inequality, public education, water privatization, indebtedness, individualization, and the lack of consideration of human reproduction in the neoliberal system. It also highlights the importance of women's organization and struggle in the search for structural changes in the country.
By Claudia Montero
Considering the discussion in public opinion, this study aims to organize the ideas on non-sexist education for a better understanding of the phenomenon. The argument introduced in the chapter is that sexism in education is a complex problem involving the entire educational level. Therefore, in order to achieve a non-sexist education, not only one measure is required, but multiple measures, which must aim at the development of a flexible institution.
By Claudia Montero
The chapter "Violence Based on Gender Inequality" written by Dr. Tamara Vidaurrázaga address how violence against women — based on the inequality of the gender system — is a global problem of such a magnitude that there are international legislations specifically referring to the urgency of preventing, punishing, and eradicating this violence. It also mentions how this violence affects the LGBTIAQ+ community and how media campaigns, public policies and laws have ignored violence in LGBTI couples in Chile, as a part of a systematic invisibilization of this community.
By Tamara Vidaurrázaga
In this chapter, Dr. Vidaurrázaga allows herself to reflect on the rage after the Chilean revolt of 2019. Considered an unwelcome emotion, in the text it is addressed as a potential trigger of change and as a response to a neoliberal, patriarchal and racist happiness, as well as to the lack of shame of the elites concerning the disregard and lack of recognition of the grievances committed.
By Tamara Vidaurrázaga
The text discusses understanding of the archive as a fragmented and polyphonic production related to feminist activism in the 2000s. It also mentions the importance of reconstructing the trauma memories of women, feminists, and lesbian organizations through an "archive of feelings". In summary, this chapter written by Drs. Tamara Vidaurrázaga and Sandra Vera focuses on the importance of understanding the archive as a tool for reconstructing the history of feminist movements and the importance of the cultural perspective in the study of these movements.
By Tamara Vidaurrázaga & Sandra Vera
In this article, Dr. Sandra Vera studies the public accusations as a form of political action against the accused and/or perpetrators of gender violence. This type of actions — known in Chile as "funa" — calls for a discussion on the meaning of justice associated with it, its collective character, punitivist dispositions, the growing massiveness of feminism and the spaces of disagreement and conflict within it.
By Sandra Vera
In this article, Dr. Sandra Vera focuses on analyzing the feminist mobilizations of 2018 in Chile, where she discusses the framework of interpretating violence and how this is related to the feminist protests. Through the review of media documents to understand how the protests were hidden, the researcher seeks to comprehend the Chilean feminist mobilizations from a cultural and social perspective.
By Sandra Vera
In this article, Dr. Sandra Vera presents a theoretical debate on the ways in which the figure of "the victim" has been exposed in politics in order to situate the discussion in the feminist activism of the last five years from there. Feminist activism has proven to incorporate a performative dimension that integrates more complex representations of the victim, confirming that there is no single semantics of the victim.
By Sandra Vera
This text of Dr. M. Antonieta Vera analyzes the historical construction of the rhetoric of women's moral superiority in Chile and how this is related to debates about gender, race, and nation. She focuses on the relation between the rhetoric of legitimate femininity and the nationalist construction of the family in Chile and examines the different socio-historical configurations in which this discourse emerges.
By Antonieta Vera
This article is about women in Chile during the thousand days of the Unidad Popular (UP) and their fight for equality and rights in a context of social revolution. In it, Dr. Karen Alfaro addresses the importance of feminism in the construction of socialism and highlights the experiences of women in politics, militancy, social leadership, and home care. It is also mentionated the strategies of fight for subsistence and political socialization of women in the construction of a revolutionary awareness and subjectivity.
By Karen Alfaro
This text is a critical reflection on LGBTQ+ tensions in the context of the feminist movement of 2018 in Chile. Drs. Lelya Troncoso and Hillary Hiner analyze feminist student mobilizations in Chile and examine the conflicts and tensions that persist within the movement. They also focus on the experiences and speechs of LGBTQ+ students within the feminist movement and they have an intersectional feminist perspective to analyze the tensions between feminist and LGBTQ+ struggles.
By Lelya Troncoso
This guide — written by many authors, including Dr. Lelya Troncoso — aims to provide tools and strategies to establish a more inclusive and fairer education for everyone. It is divided into several sections, adressing topics such as understanding sexism in education, diversity in the classroom and in society, and pedagogical principles for an inclusive educational model.
By Lelya Troncoso
This article analyzes the tensions regarding LGBT+ inclusion in Chile and discusses practices and discourses on LGBT+ inclusion in secondary education. In it, the authors also propose recommendations to improve LGTB+ inclusion in secondary education in Chile.
By Lelya Troncoso
This text discusses the anti-rights movements in Chile and their impact on society and democracy. The concept of "fundamentalism", its relation with the anti-rights movements and its historical evolution are analyzed. It also reflects on the thread that these movements represent for democracy, analyzing the current situation in Chile.
By Panchiba Barrientos
In this chapter, Dr. Panchiba Barrientos address historical moments of the feminist movement in Chile, focusing on the massive call of March 8, 2020. The author reflects on the importance of understanding who participated and what motivated them, beyond the massiveness of the event, and raises the need to rethink the concept of "feminism" and the associated words, as they are constantly changing.
By Panchiba Barrientos