The UM Global Department offered a workshop on tango as a cultural identity against today's world's historical and social challenges. Professor Elbio López Raffo oversaw the class, and it revolved around this popular cultural manifestation in Latin America and its transcendent and contextualized dimension in the backdrop of Río de la Plata. The theoretical and practical classes combined presentations, lyrics analysis, and the live performance of specific works. Featuring invited singer-songwriters.

The workshop went from April to June on Wednesday afternoons. UM students could sign up in their Schools to obtain academic credits. The requirements to pass the seminar were participation and completing a final project agreed upon with the professor (video, written assignment, publication, involvement in a radio program, etc.

The contents included Río de la Plata's coffees and chats, the scene where tango, milonga, and other popular musical expressions were born, tango's music and lyrics, and the transcendence and validity of popular music in Río de la Plata.