Luciano Guzmán

Following the results of the Dicyt competitive grants program (Directorate of Scientific and Technological Research), the Faculty of Humanities (FAHU) will incorporate new lines of inquiry in areas such as health, theater, and power networks. Among this diverse range of approaches, one linguistic research project to be launched is led by Dr. Patricio Pino Castillo, a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics and Literature.

Dr. Letelier asserts that teaching ethics requires more than a theoretical framework; it must be connected to professional practice and the genuine dilemmas future professionals encounter. He states, “Applied ethics is not merely about memorizing codes of conduct, but about comprehending how ethical principles inform decision-making in complex and evolving situations.”

The secondary school student movement has been a key player in social mobilization processes in Latin America. However, its historical study has been marked by gaps, especially regarding the role of women. To help bridge this gap, the Dicyt 2025 project, led by academic and director of the History Department, Dr. Rolando Álvarez, in collaboration with historian Dr. Yanny Santa Cruz, proposes a comparative and gender-based look at the experiences of secondary school women’s participation in the Southern Cone between 1957 and 1976.

The Faculty of Humanities (FAHU) at the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) secured 13 research projects in the 2026 Dicyt calls. These awards span the Regular, Postdoctoral, Early-Career, and Research Assistant categories. This success reaffirms FAHU’s leadership in interdisciplinary research, social innovation, and critical thinking, bridging the gap between academic knowledge and contemporary global issues.

To address the persistent challenge of equitable access to justice, Dr. Marcela Contreras from the Faculty of Humanities is conducting a research project titled “Translation as a right: Perceptions and proposals on translation and language assistance in the Chilean legal system as a mechanism to facilitate communication and protect rights.” Her study examines how insufficient language resources in courts can impact non-Spanish speakers.

In recognition of her distinguished academic career and global impact, Dr. Mónica Ahumada—professor in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at USACH's Faculty of Humanities—was honored in China for advancing Sinology and Chinese studies and for strengthening China-Latin America cooperation networks.

Hosting the tenth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Time (IAPT) from July 7-9, the University of Santiago, Chile, established itself as a global hub for the subject. The three-day event, which took place at the Center for Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Education (Cepec), gathered leading specialists to explore the nature, perception, and physics of time—an age-old enigma that has captivated human thought for centuries.

Dr. Jorge Castillo-Sepúlveda, academic at the FAHU School of Psychology and Vice Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies, together with Jhonathan Castro Pino, are leading the cutting-edge project entitled "Towards a river biopolitics: a case study of hydroelectricity from Itaipú," funded by the Usach Office for Scientific and Technological Research through its 2025 competition.

In a period marked by the 50th anniversary of the civil-military coup, memory becomes an urgent and active commitment for the feminist writers' collective AUCH+. Through its Reading Promotion Commission, the collective is spearheading "All Alive in Memory," a poetic and audiovisual tribute to women who were detained, disappeared, and executed for political reasons, including those who were pregnant at the time of their abduction.

Food, more than just a daily activity, is a reflection of a country's social, economic, and cultural organization. This is the view of Claudia Deichler, graduated from the Master's in History at FAHU, who has developed pioneering research in the area of food history, combining the rigor of her academic training with dissemination on social media, through spaces such as the Instagram account @historia_dela_alimentacion.