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Information about several papers discussed at a symposium held October 10-11, 2018 sponsored by the Department of History of University of Castila-La Mancha on hispanic monarchy and minorities is presented. Topics include different social groups considered as existing minorities, upper classes and municipal government.

The article presents a conference paper about the criminalization of the assisted reproduction through the surrogacy method. Particular focus is given to the regulations on this issue in Puerto Rico's legal system. The author proposes an alternative to solve the disputes on this matter through civil claims instead of criminal pleas.

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Information about several papers discussed at a symposium held April 14-15, 2017 sponsored by the Harvard University on the evolution of the Cuban antiracist movement is presented. Topics include impact on the struggles for racial equality and justice, racially egalitarianism and growing social movements.

This article discusses a paper presented at a conference organized by the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala (Academy of Geography and History of Guatemala), on July 9, 2014, on the history of the French School of Geography. The influence of Élisée Reclus and Paul Vidal de La Blache, 19th century French geographers, is also explored.

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Copyright of Socialismo y Participación is the property of Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Participacion/Peru and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article presents a conference paper presented by the author at the I Congreso Latinoamericano de Formación Academica en Música Popular (Latin American Congress on the Academic Teaching of Popular Music), held in May 2007, in Córdoba, Argentina. The author discusses the post high-school teaching of popular forms of music, including its objectives, methodology and its cultural scope.

The article presents a series of four analysis papers from a meeting of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLASCO), discussing the transition to democracy in Paraguay after the overthrow of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner in 1989. The political, cultural, social, and economic dimensions of the transition from authoritarianism to democracy are explored in Paraguay and compared to similar processes in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile.

The article presents a summary of the workshop on the history of cancer, celebrated in Ste. Gemme de Moronval (Eure-et-Loir), France, in October 2006. Several topics were discussed during the workshop including statistical data, comparative studies, and the evolution of treatments along time. Various personalities from the field presented their researches and papers during the two-days event.

The article presents an overview of papers related to Paraguay that appear in the January 2002 issue of the "Revista Paraguaya de Socioiogía."A brief section on Paraguay's historiography offers papers on economic and political history, from the 1811 pre-independence to the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870). Author Mario Pastore analyzes the economic causes of the mentioned war. Author Marcos Robles, with information on the surveys of homes during 1983-2001, samples that the macroeconomic results of last years has had significant effects on poverty because the familiar income depends in an important way on the labor market. On the other hand, author Leticia Carosini analyzes the policy of minimum wages within the Paraguayan labor market. It presents some proposals of reform of the policy of minimum salary while analyzing the effective economic policy. It also suggests additional measures that could be implemented in a short and medium term. The paper of author Robert L. Céspedes R. focuses on child labor in Paraguay during 1997-2001.

Information is provided about several papers presented at the New Research Lines in Informetrics workshop. The conference was organized by director of El Laboratorio de Cibermetría, or Cybermetrics Lab, Isidro Aguillo. University professor Paul Wouters presented on "New Trends in Metrics Research for Evaluation" and Aguillo presented his project, "Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe."

Information about the 14th Annual Labor Relations in Latin America Conference held in Lima, Peru is presented. The current state of labor relations is Latin America is presented along with questions and answers from conference attendees such as Carlos Toselli from Argentina and Emilio Morgado of Chile. The questions focused on distinct labor relations of each speaker's respective country.

The article presents information on the inter-congress meeting of the International Sociological Association titled "From the Emigration to the Immigration in Europe," which was held in Normandy, France from June 2-6, 2005. Firstly, Stephen Castles, the director of the Centre of Refugee Studies, Oxford University, Great Britain, realized an intervention indicating the shortcomings of the investigators present there. Then, Robin Cohen, professor of Sociology and investigator of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, Warwickshire, England, insisted on the dimensions of the law and on an opening very far from what politically mark as line the countries that now receive contingent migratory and are in the center.

The article offers information on the 9th Annual Spanish Conference of Sociology (IX Congreso Español de Sociología) to be held in Barcelona, Spain on September 13-15th of 2007.