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  • AKÐmicas

    The INSTAR pedagogical project has been based on a series of events with various formats that we will bring together here under the title of AKÐmicas.

    Our series are:

    •Revolutions and political transitions

    •Practices to learn and heal

    •Care and art

    •AKÐmics with HKW

    •Cryptocurrencies and NFTs

    •Storytelling black lives

    •LGBTQ+

    •Conflict resolution

    •About political violence
     in Cuba

    •Design between novelty and place
     common

    •From totalitarianism to the beginning of
     an education process

    •Autocratic models in construction
     of the State

    •Introduction to Human Rights












  • 2024

      INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS
    •   • Introduction to Human Rights
    •   • Nature and composition of the
          Human Rights
    •   • Academia, Human Rights and public
          advocacy
    •   • International and regional bodies
          for the protection of Human Rights

    • AUTOCRATIC MODELS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATE
    •   • The process of political autocratization
          in Contemporary Latin America
    •   • Globalization and autocracy
    •   • Competitive authoritarianisms
    •   • Post-communist authoritarianisms
    •   • National Security Regimes
    •   • Classic authoritarianisms
    •   • Totalitarianism with a Stalinist
          matrix
    •   • Totalitarianism during
          World War II
    •   • Monarchical Absolutism
    •   • Theocracy
    •   • Tyranny
    •   • Theoretical Considerations






  • 2023

      CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AUTHORITARY CONTEXTS
    •   • Identification of social actors and     alliances
    •   • Political negotiation
    •   • Art as a mediation resource
    •   • The role of the mediator in restorative     justice
    •   • Social scenarios for mediation
    •   • Citizen support
    •   • International human right
    •   • Political Violence
    •   • Social conflict
    •   • Authoritarian Contexts:
          Theoretical Considerations

    • ART Y POLITICS
    •   • Artistic actions and community
          resilience
    •   • The political role of the artist in
          authoritarian contexts
    •   • The challenges for a committed
          social art
    •   • Art and activism

    • POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS AND TRANSITIONS
    •   • Metodología para la construcción de escenarios
    •   • Autocratization processes
    •   • Democratic stagnation
    •   • Democratizing Revolutions
    •   • Classic revolutions
    •   • Democratization
    •   • Liberalization
    •   • Civil society and citizen articulations     in autocratic contexts
    •   • Theoretical considerations






  • 2022

      PRACTICES TO LEARN AND HEAL
    •   • Ancestral-futuristic and spiritual     aesthetics
    •   • Maps and graphic artifacts for     collaborative research
    •   • Education in network-given worlds
    •   • Political theater

    • CARE AND ART
    •   • Nature and the city: coexistence and non-     hierarchical architecture
    •   • Zones of empathy, the search for an art     without referents
    •   • Stone soup
    •   • Who Takes Care of the Caretakers? Art,     Curation and the Care Crisis

    • Hannah Arendt: Praxis and Freedom
    • Creative Reciprocity: Dialogue in Educational Contexts
    • And if We Let the Pigeons Teach Us?



    • FROM TOTALITARIANISM TO THE BEGINNING OF AN EDUCATION PROCESS
    •   • Totalitarian Theatricality
    •   • Iron Transitions and Velvet Transitions
    •   • The Traps of Past Transitions
    •   • Totalitarian Cuban Elite vs. Living in Truth
    •   • How to communicate that the revolution is     democracy
    •   • The challenges of civil society in a     post-totalitarian regime

    • Ex-ducation, Real Utopias in Quito, Ecuador
    • Akmics with HKW: New Alphabet School,
      10th edition, building community.
      (Part 1)
    • Akmics with HKW: New Alphabet School,
      10th edition, building community.
      (Part 2)






  • 2021

    • Civic Activism at the Juncture of November 15th
    • A Crisis of Care, Aging and Rights in Cuba
    • Cryptocurrency and NFT: NFTs, the New Paradigm in the Art World
    • Cryptocurrency and NFT: Bitcoin Wallets, where to start?
    • Cryptocurrency and NFT: Let´s Talk about Bitcoin
    • Digital Technology and the field of Literature in Contemporary Cuba
    • Classical Myth and Repression in Cuba
    • A conversation between Donovan Hernández Castellanos and Henry Eric Hernández
    • On Political Violence
    • Advice on the situation of the inmates of 11J
    • Design: Between Novelty and Common Sense. Session II
    • Design: Between Novelty and Common Sense.
    • Narrate black lives
    • Essential Notes on the Concept of “Person” in Christian Theology and Philosophy
    • Afrofeminisms
    • Peripheral Chronicles
    • The Symbolic Revolution: from the Destruction of History to the Totalitarian Neologism
    • Racism and LGBTIQ+ Community
    • Approximations to Concepts of Civil Society
    • LGTBIQ+The Civic Route
    • LGBTIQ+ Two years after May 11th, what´s next?
    • LGBTIQ+ Lesbians and bisexuales, the most invisible?
    • Dandelion Session 3: Planning a Campaign
    • Dandelion Session 2: Making a Plan for Public Impact
    • Dandelion Session 1: What is public impact?
    • Sexist Violence in Cuba. the State´s Complicity
    • Trans Identities in Cuba
    • Neoliberalism Today






  • 2020

    • Live with Henry Constantin
    • Live with Boris González Arenas
    • Live with Nelson Julio Álvarez Mairata
    • Live with Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna
    • Live with Miguel Coyula
    • Live with Luz Escobar
    • Live with Yanelys Núñez
    • Live with Maykel González Vivero
    • Live with Iliana Hernández
    • Live with Mónica Baró
    • Live with Yoe Suárez
    • Live with Hamlet Lavastida
    • Workshop: BACKWARDS
    • Workshop: Creating Spaces to Dissent
    • Workshop: Jiu Jitsu against sexual assault, practical guide for women in response to imminent situations.






  • 2019

    • Workshop: Constitutions and Rights in Cuban history
    • Workshop: Abolishing Racial Violence through Performance Art as a Means for Collective Healinga
    • Workshop: Read, Walk, and Dream the Future: Simultaneous Participation and Designte
    • Workshop: Altering Emotion: Fictionalizing the Evidence
    • Workshop: October Sessions in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
    • Workshop: Symbols of Rebellion
    • Workshop: Alternative Practices for Founding Institutions
    • Workshop: Artistic Organizational Practices






  • 2018

    • Workshop: How do we prepare for the unpredictable?
    • Poetry, Art, and Civic Engagement in Cuba






  • 2017

    • Workshop: Questions for Cuba's Future
    • Art on the Edge with Critical art Ensemble (CAE)