Carlos Alba-Vega is Professor and Researcher from El Colegio de México (COLMEX) and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS). He has been a Member of the Board of COLMEX and has taught and been a Visiting Fellow in universities in Mexico, France, Germany, and the United States. In his research, he has addressed informal economies, processes of globalization and a broad range of political and economic development issues in different regions of Mexico. Carlos Alba has been a council member of (a number of journals, including) the Revista Mexicana de Sociología (Mexico), Tempo de Ciência (Brazil), Perfiles Latinoamericanos (Flacso-Mexico), Espiral (Mexico), Argumentos (Mexico), Sociétés Contemporaines (France), and Frontera Norte (Mexico). He was also responsible for the Mexican branch of the project ‘Between Spaces’, which created an interdisciplinary group of doctoral investigators in collaboration with Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin).

Main Discipline: Sociology

Research Interests:
Globalization from below
Informal economy and politics
Industrial and economic development in Mexican history
Poverty and public policies

Recent publications:
. Monographs .
Alba, Carlos; Marianne Braig (2019): Las voces del Centro Histórico: la lucha por el espacio en la Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México/Berlin: El Colegio de México / Freie Universität Berlin.

. Edited books .
Alba Vega, Carlos; Bensuasán, Graciela; Vega Cánovas, Gustavo (Hg.) 2024: El trabajo del futuro con derechos laborales. Diagnóstico y estrategia de política pública para el reconocimiento de derechos laborales de personas trabajadoras por plataformas digitales. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México.

. Book chapters .
Alba, Carlos; Freire, Carlos (2015): “Los vendedores ambulantes en México y en São Paulo frente a la rehabilitación de los centros históricos”, in: Bizberg, Ilán (ed.), Variedades del capitalismo en América Latina: los casos de México, Brasil Argentina y Chile, Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México, 621-693.

. Journal articles .
Alba Vega, Carlos und Aparicio López, Rosario 2024: „Trabajo remunerado y no remunerado de las mujeres en plataformas digitales en la Ciudad de México“. In: Rev. Bras. Soc. 11 (29), S. 93–123. DOI: 10.20336/rbs.963.
Alba Vega, Carlos,Flamand, Laura,Aparicio, Rosario und Serna, Erick 2024: „Paid Work and Care Work in Mexico City: The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Social Inequalities and Conviviality“. In: Novos Estudos Cebrap 43 (3), S. 1–20.

Guilherme Bianchi is a lecturer in Indigenous History in the Department of History at the University of São Paulo and coordinator of the Centre for Mesoamerican, Andean and Amazonian Studies (Cemaa-USP). His research brings together indigenous history and the theory of history, investigating temporalities, forms of coexistence and political practices amongst indigenous peoples of South America, with a particular focus on the Amazon and the Peruvian Andes. His recent work focuses more on the relationships between Indigenous peoples, historical memory and the climate crisis, examining how Amazonian and Andean communities articulate forms of long-term historical consciousness in the face of environmental dispossession and extractivist pressures. In 2023, he published *Historicities in Displacement: Temporality and Politics in Amerindian Worlds* (Autografia), a book based on his doctoral thesis, which he defended at the Federal University of Ouro Preto in 2020, having undertaken research periods at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He was a Junior Fellow in 2023 and is currently a Principal Researcher at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for Conviviality and Inequality in Latin America (Mecila).

Peter Birle is a researcher and Director of the Research and Publications Department of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin (IAI) and an Associate Professor at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin), working mainly with the subject of political systems in Latin America. He holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU). Prof. Birle is a member of the Executive Board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (DGfP). He was an Assistant Professor at the Universität Rostock and also at JGU. Prof. Birle was also Visiting Professor and Researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) several times.

Main discipline: Political Science

Research Interests:
Latin American foreign policies in comparative perspective
Regional cooperation and integration in Latin America
Comparative analysis of Latin American political systems
Knowledge production in and about Latin America

Selected publications:

. Monographs .
Birle, Peter; Werz, Nikolaus 2024: Lateinamerika: Eine politische Landeskunde (Studienkurs Politikwissenschaft). Baden Baden: Nomos.

. Books .
Birle, Peter; Göbel, Barbara (2012): Investigación sobre América Latina en Alemania en el ámbito de las Ciencias Económicas, las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades. Situación y perspectivas, Berlin: IAI.
Birle, Peter (1997): Los empresarios y la democracia en la Argentina: conflictos y coincidencias, Buenos Aires: Fundación Ed. de Belgrano.

. Edited books .
Birle, Peter (ed.) (2013): Brasilien. Eine Einführung, Madrid/ Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana / Vervuert.
Birle, Peter; Hofmeister, Wilhelm; Maihold, Günther; Potthast, Barbara (eds.) (2007): Elites en América Latina, Madrid: Iberoamericana.

. Book chapters .
Birle, Peter 2024: „La contribución del concepto de convivialidad al análisis del regionalismo latinoamericano“. In: Juan Ignacio Piovani und Gloria Chicote (Hg.): Convivialidades políticas y sociales en la pospandemia. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, S. 77–97.
Birle, Peter 2023: „Las actividades de las fundaciones políticas alemanas en América Latina. Posibilidades y límites de la promoción de la democracia por parte de actores externos“. In: Peter Birle, Sandra Carreras, Iken Paap und Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle (Hg.): Producción de conocimientos y transferencias culturales en perspectiva interdisziplinaria. Una introducción. Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, S. 377–404.

Eugenia Brage holds a degree and PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires (ICA, CONICET). She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Gino Germani Research Institute (IIGG, UBA, CONICET), the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), University of São Paulo, with a Fapesp scholarship, at MECILA (Junior Fellow) and is currently at the Gender Studies Centre, PAGU, State University of Campinas. She has conducted research stays at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), the Institute of Gender Studies (UBA) and El Colegio de México, with funding from FAPESP and CNPq. She is a lecturer in the Social Work programme (TIF, LUXARDO) at the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA) and a temporary lecturer in the postgraduate programmes in Anthropology and Social Sciences at UNICAMP. She is an assistant researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in the Health and Population Area of the Gino Germani Research Institute (UBA). She is a member of the Intersectional Health Inequalities Group (DIES) – IN SITU (IIGG, UBA) and the Citizenship, Health and Development Group at the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). She is a member of the CLACSO Working Group on South-South Migration and Borders. Her research agenda combines the anthropology of health and collective health with processes of south-south mobility, care, and gender and sexuality studies, from feminist perspectives, and uses comparative ethnography in large urban centres (Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Mexico City).

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_waT0P4AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0297-105X

Main Discipline: Anthropology

Research Interests:
Health
Care
South-south mobility
Gender and sexuality

Publications (selection):
. Article .
Brage, E, Delmonte Alasia A [en prensa] “Sostener y ganarse la vida: reflexiones antropológicas a partir del trabajo textil y las prácticas de cuidado entre migrantes andinas originarias de Bolivia en São Paulo, Brasil”, No 21, Revista Latinoamericana de Antropología del Trabajo, CEIL-CONICET- CIESAS-CONACYT.

Eguiluz I, Sy A, Brage E and González-Agüero M (2022) Rapid qualitative health research from the Global South: Reflections and learnings from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic. Front. Sociol.7:983303. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.983303

Brage, E. (2022) El trabajo “duro” de sostener la vida: Reflexiones a partir de una etnografía con mujeres (cis) bolivianas que viven en São Paulo, Brasil en el contexto de la pandemia de covid-19. REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum., Brasília, v. 30, n. 65, ago. 2022, p. 33-56. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006504

Vindrola Padros, C, Brage, E, Johnson, G. (2021) «Rapid, responsive and relevant? A systematic review of rapid evaluations in healthcare», American Journal of Evaluation (AJE), ISSN: 1098-2140, SAGE Journals

. Book chapter .

Brage, E, Remorini, C, Sy, A, Montenegro, C, González Agüero, M, Schattan Coelho, V, Lotta, G, Pasarin, L, Moglia, B, Teves, L, Kingston, L. “Thrown into the unknown”: Uncertainty and the experiences of Health Care Workers during the pandemic in Chile, Brazil and Argentina. In: Healthcare workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A global picture. Ed: Vindrola Padros, C and Jhonson Ginger. Palgrave Macmillan. Springer Nature Singapore Ltd. 2021

Professor Gloria Chicote, based in Argentina, is a literary scholar and member of the Consejo Directivo of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (IdIHCS), a joint research institution of the Argentinian Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), where she worked also as Director. She is also a member of the scientific committee Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria of the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación of UNLP. Professor Chicote holds a PhD from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her recent work focuses on popular Hispanic literature from Spain to Latin America and takes a comprehensive perspective of literary parameters for the understanding of cultural processes.

Main Discipline: Literary Studies

Research Interests:
Popular literature
Mass culture
Printing

Recent publications:
. Edited books .
Piovani, Juan Ignacio; Chicote, Gloria (Hg.) 2024: Convivialidades políticas y sociales en la pospandemia. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

. Book chapters . 
Chicote, Gloria 2024: „Latin American Popular Print Literature: Contacts across the Atlantic“. In: Alison SanClair (Hg.): Spanish Popular Art and Culture 1750-1900. London: Tamesis.

. Journal articles .
Chicote, Gloria (2018): “Algunas notas sobre la situación actual de la evaluación en las humanidades”, in: exlibris, 7, 121-127.
Chicote, Gloria (2016): “La edición de romances desde la crítica filológica a las humanidades digitales”, in: Abenámar, I, 107-115.
Chicote, Gloria (2014): “Ediciones selectas de América: Samuel Glusberg antes de Babel”, in: Filología, XLVI, 57-69.

. Other Publications .
Susanne Klengel und Gloria Chicote (Hg.) 2024: Entre observación, descripción y creación. Convivialidades literarias. São Paulo, Buenos Aires: Mecila; CLACSO (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, 4).

Trained in economics and sociology in Brazil and Germany, Sérgio Costa is Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and Mecila’s Project Leader. He holds a PhD in Sociology from FU Berlin (1996), where he also completed his “Habilitation” (2005). His areas of interest are social theory, postcolonial sociologies, inequality research, conviviality and difference. His publications comprise seven monographs, more than 130 articles and book chapters as well as 13 edited volumes. For further details, please see:
https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/en/homepages/costa/index.html

Main Discipline: Sociology

Research Interests:
Social inequalities
Cultural differences and democracy
Racism and anti-racism
Postcolonial theories

Recent publications:
. Monographs .
Costa, Sérgio (2025): Desiguais e divididos: Uma interpretação do Brasil polarizado. São Paulo: Todavia.

. Book chapter .
Costa, Sérgio 2024: „Weder Ökonomisierung noch Kulturalisierung: für eine konviviale Soziologie“. In: Clara Ruvituso und Fabio Santos (Hg.): Globale Soziologie. Neue Soziologische Theorie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 10.1007/978-3-658-44022-0_6.

. Journal articles .
Costa, Sérgio,Rios, Flávia und Baldraia, Fernando 2023: „Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectional Politics: The Black Coalition for Rights in Brazil“. In: Social Sciences 12 (12), S. 684.

José Luis de Diego holds a PhD in Literature and is Professor Emeritus at the National University of La Plata. He has previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UNLP and Director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UNLP-Conicet)

His most recent books are: The Other Face of Janus. A Critical Look at Books and Publishing (Ampersand, 2015); Authors Do Not Write Books. New Contributions to the History of Publishing (Ampersand, 2019), Publishing Projects and Intellectual Networks in Latin America (Moinhos/Contafios, 2020), Writers and their Representations (Eudeba, 2021), What Do We Call Literature? All the Questions and Some Answers (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2024), The Sacred Commodity. Studies on Literature and Publishing (Ampersand, 2024) and Book Publishing and the Role of the State in Hispano-America (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2025). Since 2011, he has co-edited the ‘Two Centuries Series’ with Sylvia Saítta for the University Press of Buenos Aires (Eudeba). Since 2015, he has served as coordinator of the Argentina section and as a member of the Advisory Committee for the portal ‘Ibero-American Publishers and Publishing Houses (19th–21st Centuries)’ / EDI-RED (Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library – CSIC).

Main Discipline: Literary studies

Research topics:
History and politics of books and publishing
Literary theory
Intellectual history

Laura Flamand currently works at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales of El Colegio de México (COLMEX). She earned her PhD in Political Science at the University of Rochester, New York (2004), after undertaking a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Oxford. She became Research Professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico) in 2004, and has been a member of the Mexican National System of Scholars since 2006. Her research focuses on a comparative analysis of political institutions, intergovernmental public policy, social inequalities and applied statistics. Laura Flamand has ample experience in academic leadership as she has coordinated more than fourteen research projects with external funding from the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and several government agencies in Mexico.

Main Discipline: Political Science

Research Interests:
Comparative politics from Latin America
Public policy analysis and evaluation
Federalism and intergovernmental relations
Social inequalities
Statistical methods

Selected Publications:
. Monographs .
Flamand, Laura; Rodall, Claudia Santizo (2019): Education policies outside the center. Policy evaluation as a tool to foster articulation and equality in multilevel countries, Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México.
Flamand, Laura; Altamirano, Melina (2018): Desigualdades em México 2018. White book, Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México. (ISBN 978-607-628-282-3)
Flamand, Laura; Moreno-Jaimes, Carlos (2014): Seguro Popular and federalism in Mexico. A public policy analysis, Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México.

. Book chapters .
Flamand, Laura (2010): “Federal system and state governments’ autonomy. Progress and setbacks in the Mexican case”, in: Méndez, Jose Luis (ed.), State, government and public policy in Mexico in the 21st century, Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México. (ISBN 978607 462 118 1)

. Edited books .
Flamand, Laura; Somuano, María Fernanda (Hg.) 2023: Democratización y cambio político en México: procesos y actores (1988-2000). Ciudad de México: Centro de Estudios Internacionales de El Colegio de México.

. Journal articles .
Flamand, Laura,Serván-Mori, Edson,Heredia-Pi, Ileana,Guerrero-López, Carlos M.,Jan, Stephen,Downey, Laura et al. 2024: „The Gender Gap in Outpatient Care for Non-Communicable Diseases in Mexico between 2006 and 2022“. In: Global Health Research and Policy 9 (1), S. 40. DOI: 10.1186/s41256-024-00377-8.
Alba Vega, Carlos, Flamand, Laura,Aparicio, Rosario und Serna, Erick 2024: „Paid Work and Care Work in Mexico City: The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Social Inequalities and Conviviality“. In: Novos Estudos Cebrap 43 (3), S. 1–20.

Professor of Political Science with a focus on Latin America at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Founding Director of IDRC Chair on Forced Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru). Her research focuses on migration and refugee policies and laws in Latin America, south-south migration and the Venezuelan displacement crisis. Prof. Freier has published widely in both academic and media outlets, and has been interviewed on the Venezuelan displacement crisis in international media, including BBC, El País, La Presse, and The Economist. Prof. Freier has provided advice to various international institutions and organizations such as Amnesty International, ICRC, IDB, IOM, UNHCR, the World Bank and the EU. She is Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Adviser of the IOM.

Main discipline: Political Science

Research Interests:
Politics of (Forced) Migration; South-South Migration; Socio-racial Hierarchies & Xenophobia; Diasporas & Democratization

Selected (recent) publications:

. Edited books .
Freier, L. F., & Pérez, L. (2023). En el Umbral: Desafíos de la integración venezolana en el Perú. Universidad del Pacífico; Caicedo Camacho, N., & Freier, L. F. (Eds.). (2022). Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America: Law and Policy Reforms. McGill–Queen’s University Press; Cantor, D. J., Freier, L. F., & Gauci, J. P. (Eds.). (2015). A Liberal Tide?: Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Latin America. University of London.

. Book chapters .

Freier, L. F., & Aron Said, V. (2026). Migración y justicia social en América Latina. In Reflexiones sobre la justicia social y el trabajo en América Latina y el Caribe (pp. 223–242). International Labour Organization. https://doi.org/10.54394/HBZU7070

Freier, L. F., Fedderson, M. & Brumat, L. (2026). La Conferencia Sudamericana sobre Migración (CSM): ¿Bastión de la ideología liberal en la gobernanza migratoria sudamericana o un castillo en el aire regional? In D. Acosta, J. Ramírez, & A. P. Penchaszadeh (Eds.), Descentrando los estudios migratorios desde Latinoamérica (pp. 71-99). Aranzadi.

Freier, L. F., Lucar Oba, L., & Fernández Bautista, M. A. (2023). Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: African Migration to Latin America. In H. Crawley & J. K. Teye (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality (pp. 343-368). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39814-

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Freier, L. F. (2022). The power of categorization: Reflections on UNHCR’s category of ‘Venezuelans displaced

abroad’. In Measuring migration conference 2022 proceedings (pp. 51-54). Transnational Press London.

. Journal articles .

Bird, M. D., Freier, L. F., & Piérola, D. (2025). Double Jeopardy: Adaptive Social Protection for Venezuelans in Peru during the Pandemic. International Migration Review, 59(4), 2225-2257. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251370713

Fernández-Rodríguez, N., & Freier, L. F. (2024). Latin American immigration and refugee policies: a critical literature review. Comparative Migration Studies, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00377-0

Rayas, A. B., Finn, V., & Freier, L. F. (2024). Building paper bridges: adapting citizenship and immigration regimes to international displacement. Comparative Migration Studies, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00408-w

Acosta, D., & Freier, L. F. (2023). Expanding the Reflexive Turn in Migration Studies: Refugee Protection, Regularization, and Naturalization in Latin America. Journal Of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 21(4), 597-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2022.2146246

Feddersen, M., & Freier, L. F. (2023). Unpacking the ideational foundations of South American migration governance: a systematic analysis of the South American conference on migration (SACM). Globalizations, 21(4), 590-611. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2236886

Barbara Göbel has been the Director of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin (IAI) since 2005. In 2017 she was nominated Honorary Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). In addition to her role in Mecila, she is Principal Investigator of the EU Project (Horizon 2020) funded project (2016-2019): ‘Giving focus to the cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU-CELAC relations – EULAC Focus’ and Co-Chair of the DFG funded project ‘The commodity boom in Peru (1993-2014: old and new inequalities)’ (2018-2019). Barbara Göbel has been involved in several international, interdisciplinary projects and she is a member of multiple boards and review panels of national and international organizations and funding agencies. Professor Göbel studied social anthropology, prehistory, and economic and social history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and holds a PhD from the Universität Göttingen. She worked at the Universities of Göttingen, Tübingen, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Köln and Bonn (Germany) and at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France and has served as Visiting Professor at several universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Main Discipline: Anthropology

Research Interests:
Socio-environmental relations
Extractivism
Geopolitics of knowledge
Knowledge circulation
Archives and digital transformation

Selected publications:
. Edited books .
Göbel, Barbara; Dilger, Hans-Jörg; Koch, Lars-Christian; Schütze, Stephanie (Hg.) 2024: Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural, Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures. London: Routledge.
Göbel, Barbara; Ette, Ottmar; Kraft, Tobias (Hg.) 2024: Alexander von Humboldt. Die ganze Welt, der ganze Mensch. Berlin: Georg Olms Verlag.

. Book chapters .
Göbel, Barbara 2023: „Archivos, objetos y circulación de conocimientos“. In: Lena Dávila und Patricia Arenas (Hg.): El americanismo germano en la antropología argentina de fines del siglo XIX al siglo XX. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ciccus; CLACSO, S. 269–281.

. Journal articles .
Göbel, Barbara; Marianne Braig (2013): “Dossier: Globalización de la naturaleza y ciudadanía: resistencias, conflictos, negociaciones”, in: Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. XIII, 49, 87-162.

Professor Susanne Klengel has taught Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) of Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) since 2009 and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on Latin American literatures and cultures in a transnational context and on cultural relations between Europe and Latin America as well as between Latin America and India. Currently, she is a member of the Review Board for Literary Studies of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), member of the Research Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective’ at FU Berlin and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin (IAI).

Main Discipline: Literary Studies

Research Interests:
Holocaust memory in contemporary Latin American literature
Theories of literary-cultural South-South relations
Contemporary Colombian literature and the question of memory
Entangled Ibero-American Avantgarde movements

Selected publications:
. Monographs .
Klengel, Susanne (2018): Jünger Bolaño. Die erschreckende Schönheit des Ornaments. Würzburg: Köngishausen & Neumann.

. Edited books . 
Klengel, Susanne; Müller-Tamm, Jutta; Regeler, Lukas; Schneider, Ulrike (Hg.) 2023: Berlin international. Literaturszenen in der geteilten Stadt (1970-1989). Berlin: De Gruyter.

. Book chapters .
Klengel, Susanne 2024: „Vanguardia pandémica. Convivialidad urbana tras la gripe española en Pauliceia desvairada (1922) de Mário de Andrade“. In: Susanne Klengel und Gloria Chicote (Hg.): Entre observación, descripción y creación. Convivialidades literarias. São Paulo, Buenos Aires: Mecila; CLACSO (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, 4), S. 137–163.
Klengel, Susanne 2023: „Black Surrealism in Ted Joans’ Zeitschrift Dies und Das (Berlin 1984)“. In: Susanne Klengel, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Lukas Regeler und Ulrike Schneider (Hg.): Berlin international. Literaturszenen in der geteilten Stadt (1970-1989). Berlin: De Gruyter, S. 291–315.

Manuel Santos Silva is Assistant Professor (Junior Professor) of Latin American Economics at the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Department of Economics at the FU Berlin. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster and the University of Göttingen. He holds a PhD in Economics (in the Research Training Group ‘Globalisation and Development’ (GlaD)) from the University of Göttingen, where he also completed a master’s degree in Development Economics. As his main research focus, he studies from an empirical perspective how gender inequalities shape and interact with labour markets, public policies and political processes.

Main Discipline: Economy

Research Interests:
Latin American Economy
Gender Inequalities
Labour markets
Political economy

Selected publications:
. Articles .
Santos Silva, Manuel,Preusse, Verena,Steinhübel, Linda und Wollni, Meike 2024: „Covid‐19 and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from the Rural-Urban Interface of an Indian Mega‐City“. In: Agribusiness 40 (2), S. 391–415.

. Other publications . 
Santos Silva, Manuel,Frohnweiler, Sarah,Heesemann, Esther,Perez-Alvarez, Marcello und Vollmer, Sebastian 2024: „Hospital Construction and Emergency Waiting Time: Evidence from Nicaragua“, CRC-PEG Discussion Paper 294, Göttingen.

Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva is a professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). With extensive experience in the field, his research focuses on themes such as Brazilian Social Thought, Literature and Society, Intellectuals and Society, Social Memory and Black Modernity. He was awarded the Prize for Young Social Scientists in the Portuguese Language by the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in 2013. He was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in 2014 and 2020 and during 2023 he was a Senior Fellow at Mecila. In addition to his academic activities, Mário Medeiros da Silva was also Deputy Director of the Edgar Leuenroth Archive (2020-2022) and since 2023 has been the Director of the same archive.

Main Discipline: Sociology

Research areas:
Brazilian Social Thought
Literature and Society
Black Intellectuals

Selected publications:
. Monographs .
Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros da 2023: A descoberta do insólito: literatura negra e literatura periférica no Brasil (1960-2020). São Paulo: Edições SESC.

. Books .
Medeiros, Mário (2023): A descoberta do insólito: literatura negra e literatura periférica no Brasil (1960-2020). São Paulo: Edições Sesc.

Chaguri, Mariana; Medeiros, Mário (Org.) (2018): Southern directions: periphery and social thought. São Paulo: Alameda.

Hapke, Ingrid; Medeiros, Mário; Peçanha, Érica; Tennina, Lucía (Org.) (2015): Marginal polyphonies. Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano.

Medeiros, Mário (2013): A descoberta do insólito: literatura negra e literatura marginal no Brasil (1960-2000). Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano.

Medeiros, Mário (2008): The writers of the urban guerrilla: literature of testimony, ambivalence and political transition (1977-1984). Santos: AnnaBlume Editora.

. Articles .
Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros da 2023: „Livrarias negras no sudeste brasileiro (1972-2018)“. In: Dados 67 (2), e20210264.
Silva, Mário Augusto Medeiros da 2023: „Testemunhos da luta antirracista brasileira no tempo presente“. In: Afro-Ásia 67, S. 753–757.

Marta Machado is Full Professor of Law at the Escola de Direito de São Paulo of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) where she coordinates the Centre of Studies on Crime and Punishment. Furthermore, she is a permanent researcher of the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) and a Global Fellow at the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (CMI/ Univ. of Bergen). Currently, she works at the National Secretary for Drug Policy and Asset Management at the Ministry of Justice in Lula’s government (2023–present). She earned her Master’s degree and PhD at the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Recently, she has been Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and Columbia Law School. Her research areas include criminal law, general theory of law and sociology of law. Her most recent research is located in the interdisciplinary field of law, political science and sociology of law and focuses on the relations between social movements and law. She has developed studies applied to the fields of racism, gender, human rights and the right to protest.

Main Discipline: Law

Research Interests:
Criminal law
General theory of law
Sociology of law

Selected publications:
. Edited books . 
Machado, Marta; Puschel, Flávia (eds.) (2015): Accountability and penalty in constitutional states: theoretical challenges, public policies and the development of democracy [Responsabilidade e Pena no Estado Democrático de Direito: desafios teóricos, políticas públicas e o desenvolvimento da democracia], São Paulo: Academica Livre. v. 1.
Machado, Marta; Matsuda, F. E. ; Giannattasio, A. R. C. ; Couto, M. C. G. ; Tozi, T. S.; SILVA, M. L. C. E.; Chryssafidis, L. C.; Pryzbylski, L. C. (2015) Fatal domestic violence: the problem of intimate femicide in Brazil [A violência doméstica fatal: o problema do feminicidio íntimo no Brasil], Brasília: Ministério da Justiça.
Machado, Maira; Machado, Marta. (eds.) (2015): Carandiru does not remain in the past: an analysis of court lawsuits, institutions performances and narratives 23 after the massacre, São Paulo: Ed. Academica Livre.

. Chapter books . 
Machado, Marta Rodriguez de Assis 2023: „Discriminação Racial“. In: Flávia Rios und Márcio André dos Santos (Hg.): Dicionário das Relações Étnico-Raciais Contemporâneas. São Paulo: Perspectiva, S. 123–129.
Machado, Marta Rodriguez de Assis; Albertyn, Cathi; Campbell, Meghan; Alviar, Helena; Fredman, Sandra (Hg.) 2023: Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Gender Equality, Climate Change and Rights. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

. Journal articles .
Machado, Marta Rodriguez de Assis 2023: „Antiabortion Legal Mobilization in Brazil: Human Rights as a Field of Contention“. In: International Journal of Constitutional Law 21 (1), S. 308–338. DOI: 10.1093/icon/moad030.

Alejandra Mailhe: PhD in Letters from UNLP; Principal Researcher at CONICET, and full professor of “History of Social Ideas in Argentina and Latin America” ​​(FaHCE, UNLP). She has published articles in specialized journals in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Canada. Among other works, she is the sole author of the books En busca de la alteridad perdida (Bernal, UNQ, 2023), Archivos de psiquiatría y criminología (Biblioteca Orbis Tertius, La Plata, UNLP, 2016), and Brasil: Márgenes imaginarios (Buenos Aires, Lumière, 2011), and the compilations La selva, la pampa, el ande (Buenos Aires, Teseo, 2024, with Irene López y Soledad Martínez Zuccardi), Pensar al otro / pensar la nación (La Plata, Al Margen, 2011) and Pensar Portugal (La Plata, UNLP, 2008, with Emir Reitano).

Rúrion Melo holds a PhD in philosophy from USP and is a professor of political theory at the department of political science at USP and a researcher at CEBRAP. He coordinates the Group for the Study of Politics and Critical Theory at USP. His research focuses on political theory and social theory. He is one of the coordinators and translators of the UNESP Press Habermas Collection. His writings have addressed critical theory, theories of democracy, the public sphere, struggles for recognition, feminism, racism, and anti-racism.

Main Discipline: Political Science

Research Interests:
Critical theory
Political and democratic theory
Public sphere
Struggles for recognition
Racism and anti-racism

Selected publications:
. Books .
Melo, Rúrion (2013): Marx e Habermas: Teoria crítica e os sentidos da emancipação, São Paulo: Saraiva.
Melo, Rúrion (2011): O uso público da razão: Pluralismo e democracia em Jürgen Habermas, São Paulo: Loyola.

. Edited books .
Medeiros, Jonas; Januário, Adriano; Melo, Rúrion (org.) (2019): Ocupar e resistir: Movimentos de ocupação de escolas pelo Brasil (2015-2016), São Paulo: Editora 34.
Melo, Rúrion (org.) (2013): A teoria crítica de Axel Honneth: Reconhecimento, liberdade e justiça, São Paulo: Saraiva.

. Book Chapters .
Melo, Rúrion (2021): “Contrapúblicos e os novos conflitos na esfera pública”, in: Silva, Mariana Ribeiro, Ednaldo; Arantes , Rogério (org.): As teorias e o caso, Santo André:  UFABC, 269-296.
Medeiros, Jonas; Januário, Adriano; Melo, Rúrion (2019): “Sociedade civil, esferas públicas e desobediência civil: Uma comparação entre dois movimentos de ocupação de escolas”, in: Medeiros, Jonas; Januário, Adriano; Melo, Rúrion (org.), Ocupar e resistir: Movimentos de ocupação de escolas pelo Brasil (2015-2016), São Paulo: Editora 34.
Melo, Rúrion; Repa, Luis ; Silva, Felipe ; Machado, Marta ; Werle, Denílson Luis ; Lusci, Evorah ; Costa, Sérgio (2012): “Para além da inefetividade da lei? Estado de direito, esfera pública e antirracismo”, in: Lavalle, Adrián (org.), O horizonte da política: Questões emergentes e agendas de pesquisa, São Paulo: UNESP, 261-306.

. Journal articles .

Melo, Rúrion und Bressiani, Nathalie 2024: „Opressão e resistência no pensamento feminista negro: a teoria social crítica de Patricia Hill Collins“. In: Ciências Sociais em Revista 60 (1), S. 23–41.
Melo, Rúrion 2023: „Nancy Fraser e os dilemas do pós-socialismo: feminismo, democracia e esfera pública“ 28 (1), S. 105–117.

Christoph Müller is the Director of the Digital Library Department and specialist for Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin (IAI), where he is also the Deputy Director of the Library. His Research areas include the digital transformation in libraries and the literary studies and art history, focusing on Latin America. He is also a member of the Board of REDIAL (European Network of Information and Documentation on Latin America).

Main Discipline: Literary Studies and Information Sciences

Research Interests:
Digital transformation in libraries
20th century literature of Lusophone and Francophone Africa
20th century conceptions of theatre in the Río de la Plata region
Central American and Brazilian literature

Selected publications:
. Edited books .
Müller, Christoph; Musser, Ricarda (eds.) (2018): De la pluma al internet. Literaturas populares latinoamericanas en movimiento (siglos XIX-XXI), Medellin: Editorial EAFIT / Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut.
Müller, Christoph; Zeiter, Katja (eds.) (2018): Historias e historietas: representaciones de la historia en el cómic latinoamericano actual, Madrid: Iberoamaricana / Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert/ Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana 171.
Müller, Christoph; Neumann, Martin (eds.) (2015): O teatro em Portugal nos séculos XVIII e XIX, Lisboa: Colibri.​

. Book chapters .
Müller, Christoph; Göbel, Barbara (2018): “Transformação digital, arquivos e assimetrias do conhecimento”, in: Martín, Eloisa; Göbel, Barbara (eds.), Desigualdades interdependentes e geopolítica do conhecimento. Negociações, fluxos, assimetrias, Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 132-147.
Müller, Christoph; Göbel, Barbara (2017): “Archivos en movimiento: ¿Qué significa la transformación digital para la internacionalización de los archivos?”, in: Göbel, Barbara; Chicote, Gloria (eds.), Transiciones inciertas. Archivos, conocimientos y transformación digital en América Latina (Colección Variaciones, 1), La Plata: FAHCE,  Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 21-40.
Müller, Christoph (2017): “Realität und Drama: Das Theater von Dionisio Neto”, in: Pinheiro, Teresa; Sartingen, Kathrin (eds.), Alles andere als unsichtbar / Tudo menos invisivel. Theater, Literatur und Film der Iberoromania zwischen Kunst und Leben / Teatro, literatura e cinema no Mundo ibero-românico entre vida e arte, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 59-71.

. Articles . 
Contar, comentar, confrontar. El rap como medio de expresión y comunicación desde los márgenes, Em: S. Klengel / G. Chicote (org.): Entre observación, descripción y creación Convivialidades literarias, Buenos Aires: CLACSO; São Paulo: Mecila, 2024, 317-340
(Fan)zines colombianos actuales entre constelaciones y contextos de convivialidad, Em: Orbis Tertius, 2024 29(39)
Las bibliotecas como actores en la ciencia digital. Los efectos de la transformación digital en la tecnología, la gestión y los servicios de bibliotecas, Em: T. Kraft / A. Rojas Castro / G. Terrón Quintero (org.): Archivos abiertos. El patrimonio documental cubano y la transformación digital, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2024, 145-158

Professor Gesine Müller teaches Romance Studies at Universität zu Köln (UzK) and is the head of the ERC research group ‘Reading Global: Constructions of World Literature and Latin America’. From 2008 to 2015 she was also the head of the DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Transcolonial Caribbean’. She holds a PhD from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, as well as a postdoctoral degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris. Her numerous publications cover various aspects of French and Spanish-language literature in Europe and overseas.

Main Discipline: Literary Studies

Research Interests:
Literatures of French and Spanish Romanticism
Contemporary Latin American literature and cultural theory
Caribbean literatures
Literary transfer processes
Transculturality

Selected publications:
. Monographs .
Müller, Gesine (2018): Crossroads of Colonial Cultures. Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.

. Edited books . 
Müller, Gesine; Loy, Benjamin (Hg.) 2023: Post-Global Aesthetics: 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures. Berlin: De Gruyter.

. Book chapters .
Müller, Gesine 2024: „Convivialidades literarias en mundos agotados. Fernanda Trías, Samanta Schweblin y Benjamín Labatut“. In: Susanne Klengel und Gloria Chicote (Hg.): Entre observación, descripción y creación. Convivialidades literarias. São Paulo, Buenos Aires: Mecila; CLACSO (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, 4), S. 25–48.
Müller, Gesine 2024: „Erich Auerbach und die Debatte um Weltliteratur in Zeiten der Post-Globalisierung. Lateinamerikanistische Perspektiven“. In: Anja Lemke (Hg.): Ansätze und Fortschreibungen Erich Auerbachs. Göttingen: Wallstein, S. 135–153.

. Journal articles .
Müller, Gesine (2017): “El debate sobre literatura mundial y la cuestión editorial: el caso de América Latina“, in: INTI. Revista de Literatura Hispánica, 85-86, 72-129.

Professor Moacyr Novaes is a Full Professor at USP’s Philosophy Department. He holds a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in philosophy from USP. During his graduate studies, he made research visits to the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Internationales Projekt Augustinus-Lexikon, Würzburg. He has been a member of the Center for the Study of Patristic and Medieval Philosophy of São Paulo since 1992. He has worked on projects with French universities (USP/COFECUB agreements) at the École Normale Supérieure-Ulm, the Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille, and the Université de Bordeaux. At USP, he was president of the Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences’ Research Commission, director of the Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, director of the Agency for National and International Academic Cooperation, and assistant pro-rector for university outreach.

Main Discipline: Philosophy

Research Interests
Philosophy, history of philosophy, and inequality
Rationality and inequality: grammar and philosophy of language

Selected Publications
. Journal articles .
(2019): “Confissões como elogio do diálogo”, Discurso 49, 7-29, 2019.
(2020): “O herói e o forasteiro: narração e metafísica nas Confissões”, Dissertatio 10, 207-228.

. Book chapters.
(2022): “Exercício sobre linguagem e crise”, in Eucanaã Ferraz e Martha Alkimin (eds.) Ruína: literatura e pensamento, Rio: Papéis selvagens.

Dr Luicy Pedroza is a lecturer and researcher at the International Centres of El Colegio de México and a research associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Luicy Pedroza holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Bremen – summa cum laude. Her research lies at the intersection of comparative migration policy studies and studies of citizenship and/or nationality. Since 2010, she has studied the dilemmas faced by liberal democracies in integrating migrant populations into political life. Her doctoral research on this topic was recognised by the German Political Science Association (DVPW) and the American Political Science Association (APSA) and resulted in two books, one in English and the other in German, published by renowned academic presses (Citizenship Beyond Nationality: The Right of Immigrants to Vote Around the World, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; Staatsbürgerschaft neu definiert. Wie die Ausweitung des Wahlrechts auf Einwanderer weltweit debattiert wird, Springer VS, 2022).

In 2017, Luicy Pedroza embarked on a new line of research: comparative migration policies – their characteristics in different countries and regions, and how they are formulated, for both immigrant and emigrant populations. She led the research project “IMISEM: Every Immigrant is an Emigrant”, which compared hundreds of migration policies across a sample of 32 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aim of understanding different groups of migrants’ access to rights relating to mobility, residence and citizenship/nationality. In December 2024, several of the original indicators created by this project to monitor and compare migration policies were adopted by the United Nations Migration Network (UN-DESA, IOM and 16 regional migration organisations) as part of the list of indicators to be used to monitor progress in the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration in each country.

Juan Piovani is Professor at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FaHCE), Universidad de La Plata (UNLP) and Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). He holds a PhD from Sapienza – Università di Roma and received the Houssay Award (2014) for his theoretical and empirical proposals in the field of research methodology in social sciences and the empirical analysis of employment and gender. His research focuses on Social Sciences in contemporary Argentina and the theory of sociological research methods and techniques.

Main Discipline: Sociology

Research Interests:
Social sciences in Argentina
Sociological research methods

Selected publications:
. Monographs .
Piovani, Juan; Salvia, Agustín (2018): La Argentina en el siglo XXI. Cómo somos, vivimos y convivimos en una sociedad desigual, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.

. Edited books . 
Piovani, Juan Ignacio; Baranger, Denis; Beigel, Fernanda (Hg.) 2023: Las ciencias sociales en la Argentina contemporánea. Santa Fe: Ediciones UNL.

. Journal articles .
Abarzúa Cutroni, Anabella und Piovani, Juan Ignacio 2024: „La oferta de carreras de posgrado en ciencias sociales en Argentina y sus orientaciones formativas“. In: Revista de Investigación en Educación 22 (224-239).
Piovani, Juan Ignacio und Baranger, Denis 2023: „Comparability and Equivalence in Social Research“. In: Sociologia & Antropologia 13 (2), e220021.

Barbara Potthast is Professor at Universität zu Köln (UzK). She was Member of the Board of Directors for the Global South Study Center Cologne (2021-2023), where she is currently Associated Member. She worked as Director of the Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History (2000-2021), as well as President of the Centro Latinoamericano de Colonia (CLAC). Between 1996 and 2016 she was a member of the Directorate (and President 2004 – 2006) of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF). She earned her PhD at the Institute for Iberian and Latin-American History at UzK, and her research interests include the family and gender history, ethnic relations and, generally, the social history of Latin America, especially Paraguay and Argentina.

Main Discipline: History

Research Interests:
Family and gender history
History of ethnicity in Latin America
History of photography
History of Paraguay and Argentina

Selected publications:
. Monographs .
Potthast, Barbara (2011): “Paraíso de Mahoma” o “País de las Mujeres”? El rol de la mujer y la familia en la sociedad paraguaya durante el siglo XIX, Asunción: Fausto Ediciones.
Potthast, Barbara (2010): Madres, obreras, amantes. Protagonismo femenino en la historia de América Latina, Madrid/Frankfurt: Vervuert/Iberoamericana.

. Edited books .
Potthast, Barbara; Büschges, Christian; Gabbert, Wolfgang (eds.) (2015): Dinámicas de inclusión y exclusión en América Latina. Conceptos y prácticas de etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia, Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana.
Hensel, Silke; Potthast, Barbara (eds.) (2013): Das Lateinamerika Lexikon, Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag.

. Book chapters .

. Articles . 
Potthast, Barbara 2024: „“El país de las mujeres” – Génesis de un estereotipo nacional paraguayo de extranjeros“. In: Revista Historia Autónoma (25), S. 223–245.

Clara Ruviruso is a researcher of the Research and Publications Department of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin (IAI) and a Project Leader of “TRANSUR: Transformed by the South. The Circulation of Latin American Social Sciences in France and Germany” funded by the DFG (Germany) and ANR (France). She holds a Sociology Degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and a PhD in Political Sciences from Universität Rostock. She was an Assistant Professor at Universität Rostock and FU Berlin and Mecila Postdoctoral Investigator (2020-2025). Ruvituso was also Visiting Professor and Researcher at UNLP (Argentina) and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris several times.The main focus of her research is on analysing inequalities, interconnections and transformations in the transregional production and circulation of knowledge.

Main discipline: Sociology and Cultural Studies

Research Interests:

• Circulation of Knowledge and Inequalities
• Latin American Social Theory
• Latin American Philosophy and the History of Ideas
• European Area Studies, Latin American Studie

Selected publications:

Edited books and Special Issues

Interpretações Críticas das Novas Formas da Política de Direita. Dossier: Revista Brasileira de Sociologia 14 2026 (coord. with Wiebke Keim and Stefan Fornos) Revista Brasileira de Sociologia – RBS

Políticas, representaciones y memorias entre Argentina y Alemania. Miradas entrelazadas y agendas emergentes. Frankfurt am Main/Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana 2024 (ed. with Nicolás Welschlinger an Christian Pfeiffer)

Globale Soziologie. Vergessene Theorien, verflochtene Geschichten. Wiesbaden: VS Springer 2024 (ed. with Fabio Santos).

Conocimientos en lo márgenes. Estrategias de producción y nuevas medialidades en América Latina desde la perspectiva convivialidad-desigualdad, Dossier: Iberoamericana 23 (84) 2023 (coord. with Astrid Ulloa)

Landy Sánchez Peña is affiliated with the Population, Urban and Environmental Studies Unit at CEDUA. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a sub-specialisation in Geography. She works on issues relating to population, the environment and social inequality, with a particular focus on territorial and gender dimensions. Her research focuses, on the one hand, on understanding the impacts of climate change on households and how demographic dynamics contribute to increasing the risks associated with it. On the other hand, her work also seeks to understand the reproduction of inequalities between the sexes and across generations. She is currently conducting research on ageing and heatwaves in Mexico, as well as on care services and care times during extreme weather events.

Ramiro Segura is anthropologists and holds a PhD in Social Sciences. He is Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and Researcher at National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina. He developed his postdoctoral studies at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin (2012/2013) and served as a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University (2017) and at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne (2022/2023). He has conducted research on cultural heritage, urban insecurity, socio-spatial segregation, daily mobility, and social inequalities in the urban space. He has published the books Vivir afuera. Antropología de la experiencia urbana (2015) and Las ciudades y las teorías (2021).

As Investigator of MECILA he is interested in analyzed configurations of conviviality in Latin American cities.

Peter W. Schulze is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Director of the Portuguese-Brazilian Institute and of the Lusophone World Centre at the Universität zu Köln (UzK). In 2022, he was the co-director of Mecila in São Paulo. He received his PhD from the international doctoral programme ‘Performance and Media Studies’ at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz; his doctoral dissertation Strategies of Cultural Cannibalization: Postcolonial Representations from Brazilian Modernismo to Cinema Novo received the Georg-Rudolf-Lind Award (2015) from the German Association of Lusitanists. He has been a visiting professor at various universities, including the Universidade Federal da Bahia, the Universidade Federal do Ceará, the Universidade Federal Fluminense, the University of Reading, and the Yaşar Üniversitesi in Izmir. His main research interests are decolonial theories and cultural practices. Peter W. Schulze is the editor of the book series Estudos Luso-Brasileiros (Peter Lang Press) and Cadernos do Instituto Luso-Brasileiro (PBI/University of Cologne). Currently, he directs the research projects Thinking at the Margins: Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian Arts, funded by the Thyssen Foundation, and Lusophone Cultural Contacts: Negotiating Conviviality, in cooperation with the University of Coimbra and funded by the DAAD.

Main Discipline: Literary, media and cultural studies

Research areas:
Decolonial theories and cultural practices
Transregional entanglements between Brazil, Hispanic America, and the USA
Genre theory with special consideration of cross-media and intercultural dimensions
Gender orders in Latin America (as manifest in literature and the arts)
History and aesthetics of photography and film in Latin America
Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries
Popular Latin American music in the context of media history (particularly tango, samba and música ranchera)

Main publications:
. Monographs .
Schulze, Peter W. (2022): Der argentinische Film, München: edition text + kritik [in print].
Schulze, Peter W. (2015): Strategien ‘kultureller Kannibalisierung’. Postkoloniale Repräsentationen vom brasilianischen Modernismo zum Cinema Novo, Bielefeld: transcript.
Schulze, Peter W. (2005): Die Filme des Glauber Rocha als Arbeit am postkolonialen Gedächtnis, Remscheid: Gardez.

. Book chapters .
Schulze, Peter W. 2024: „Songs Beyond ‘el Rancho Grande’: Trans/national and Cross-media Dimensions in the Comedia Ranchera“. In: Jeremy Barham (Hg.): Routledge Companion to Early Global Film Music. London: Routledge, S. 623–633.
Schulze, Peter W. 2024: „The Cinematic Zarzuela: Cross-media Connections between Theatre and Film in Spain (1900-1963)“. In: Laura Miranda (Hg.): Routledge Companion to Spanish Film Music. London: Routledge, S. 35–44.

. Edited books.
Schulze, Peter W.; Saavedra, Carola (eds.) (2022): Literatura e arte indígena no Brasil / Indigene Literatur und Kunst in Brasilien [= Cadernos do Instituto Luso-Brasileiro] Köln: Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut [in print].
Schulze, Peter W.; Carvalho, Vinicius de (eds.) (2022): Culturas sonoras lusófonas, Berlin: Peter Lang [= Estudos Luso-Brasileiros] [in print].
Schulze, Peter W.; Cuadra, Claudia (eds.) (2019): Marina Camargo: O lugar depois / Der Ort danach [= Cadernos do Instituto Luso-Brasileiro], Köln: Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut.
Ritzer, Ivo; Schulze, Peter W. (2018): Mediale Dispositive, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Ritzer, Ivo; Schulze, Peter W. (2013): Genre Hybridisation. Global Cinematic Flows, Marburg: Schüren.

. Journal articles .
Schulze, Peter W. 2023: „Das avós: o arquivo fotográfico oitocentista na prática imagética de Rosana Paulino“. In: Iberoamericana: América Latina – España – Portugal 23 (81), S. 57–84.

Stephanie Schütze is Associate Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) of the FU Berlin, where she worked also as Deputy Director. Since 2022, she has been a Professor of Ancient American Studies/Cultural and Social Anthropology. She has also been a Visiting Professor of Gender Politics at Universität Kassel, and for Gender Studies at the Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu (Pagu Gender Studies Nucleus) of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. At FU Berlin, she was also the Vice-Chair of the Commission for the Promotion of Young Female Scholars. Prof. Schütze obtained her habilitation at FU Berlin, having published in the area of ethnology. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the same institution.

Main discipline: Anthropology

Research Interests:
Cultural anthropology of Latin America
Gender relations and transcultural constructions in the longue durée
Migration research
Anthropology of sports
Political anthropology

Selected publications:
. Monographs .
Schütze, Stephanie (2018): Transnationale politische Räume. Arenen des politischen Engagements mexikanischer Migrant/innen zwischen Mexiko und den USA Edition, Berlin: Tranvía.

Schütze, Stephanie (2016): Constructing Transnational Political Spaces: The Multifaceted Political Activism of Mexican Migrants, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

. Edited books .
Alba Villalever, Ximena; Schütze, Stephanie; Pries, Ludger; Calderón Morillón, Oscar (Hg.) 2024: Forced Migration across Mexico. Organized Violence, Migrant Struggles, and Life Trajectories. London: Routledge.
Göbel, Barbara; Dilger, Hans-Jörg; Koch, Lars-Christian; Schütze, Stephanie (Hg.) 2024: Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural, Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures. London: Routledge.

. Book chapters .
Schütze, Stephanie; Haß, Julia (2018): New spaces of belonging: Soccer teams of Bolivian migrants in São Paulo, Brazil, in: Bada, Xochitl, Andreas E. Feldmann; Stephanie Schütze, New Migration Patterns in the Americas: Challenges for the 21st Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Schütze, Stephanie (2016): “Bienvenidos paisanos”: reconocimiento y participación política de migrantes mexicanos en sus comunidades de origen, in: Kummels, Ingrid (eds.), La producción afectiva de comunidad: Los medios audiovisuales en el contexto transnacional México-EE.UU., Berlin: Tranvía.

. Articles .
Canté Canul, Marcos A.,Gunsenheimer, Antje und Schütze, Stephanie 2024: „Representación y negociación del patrimonio cultural en el proyecto de ecoturismo comunitario maya XYAAT“. In: Indiana 41 (1), S. 45–62.

Victoria Scotto, PhD. by National University of La Plata (UNLP), has held doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina and received grants to teach and conduct research at the University of Wuppertal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) in Germany; she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de México. She has taught at secondary schools in La Plata (2016–2025) and, since 2017, teaches preparatory, summer, and regular courses in Linguistics at Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences (UNLP). Her doctoral thesis focused on the historiography of philology, while her initial postdoctoral work centered on the history of its institutionalization in Argentina during the 20th century. Following the public launch of ChatGPT-3 in December 2022, she became interested in the technical text-generation strategies of language models and their impact on teaching and learning processes in higher education. She is part of the Commitee of Artificial Intelligence that advises the design of El Colegio de México’s institutional policy regarding generative artificial intelligence.

Bianca Tavolari is a professor of law at Insper and, since 2024, also at FGV Law School São Paulo. She is a researcher at CEBRAP, and a visiting professor at the University of St.Gallen. She holds a doctoral and a master’s degree from the USP Faculty of Law, specialising in critical legal theory and democracy in the Weimar Republic, as well as the theoretical intersections between law and urban studies. She obtained her bachelor’s degrees in law and philosophy, both from the USP.

She is the coordinator of the project cluster on urban issues Núcleo de Questões Urbanas and co-coordinator of the São Paulo Master Plan Review Observatory at Insper, as well as a former researcher of the project laboratory LabCidade of the FAUUSP.

Her academic publications and public interventions reflect her interest in urban conflicts and the intersections between law, democracy, and critical theory. As a collaborating editor at Quatro Cinco Um, she reviews books on cities from a multidisciplinary perspective. She has translated several books and articles, including The Divided West (O ocidente dividido) by Jürgen Habermas (Editora Unesp, 2019).

Main Discipline: Direito

Research Interests:

Law and cities

Critical Theory

Urban studies

Selected Publications:

• Book chapters •
Tavolari, Bianca, Barreto, Marina Slhessarenko Fraife und Brito, Gabriel 2024: „Teoria Crítica do Direito“. In: Daniel Peixoto Murata und Gilberto Morbach (Hg.): Curso de Filosofia do Direito Contemporânea. São Paulo: Dialética.
Tavolari, Bianca Margarita Damin und Nisida, Vitor 2023: „Entre el hotel y el alquiler: análisis jurídico y territorial de las decisiones del Tribunal de Justicia de São Paulo sobre Airbnb“. In: Felipe Link und Adriana Marín-Toro (Hg.): Vivienda en arriendo en América Latina: Desafíos al ethos de la propiedad. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores; Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales UC, S. 285–314.

•  Journal articles •
Tavolari, Bianca 2023: „Segregação urbana em São Paulo: 25 anos depois de ‘Enclaves Fortificados’, de Teresa Caldeira“. In: Novos Estudos Cebrap 42 (3), S. 407–423.

Felipe Tarábola is a lecturer in Sociology of Education in the Department of Philosophy of Education and Educational Sciences (EDF) at the Faculty of Education, University of São Paulo (FEUSP). He is also a lecturer on the Postgraduate Programme in Education, specialising in ‘Education and Social Sciences: inequalities and differences’. He heads CONTENSÃO – the Study and Research Group on Contemporaneity, subjects and action: social ties, educational processes, life trajectories and participation. He is a member of national and international research networks, notably the Research Network on Youth in Brazil (REDEJUVE), as well as research projects on affirmative action policies and students’ life trajectories (CNPq). He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a teaching qualification in Social Sciences and Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH-USP), and a degree in Journalism from the Alcântara Machado Integrated Faculties. He obtained his Master’s and Doctorate in Sociology of Education from FEUSP. At USP, he served as Special Adviser to the Rector’s Office, attached to the Pro-Rectorate for Inclusion and Belonging. Since 2026, he has been a Principal Researcher at Mecila.

Angela Alonso holds a PhD in Sociology from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and a postdoctoral degree from Yale University. She is Professor of the Sociology Department of the USP and was President of the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) from 2015 to 2018. She was a Principal Investigator at Mecila from 2017 to March 2019.
Prof. Alonso’s research comprises social and intellectual movements and conflicts, both in Brazilian history and the present. She is the author of ‘Ideas in Movement: The 1870s generation in the Brazilian Empire crisis’ (best doctoral thesis. Prize CNPq/Anpocs, 2001), “Joaquim Nabuco: os salões e as ruas” (2007), both also published in France, and, “Flowers, Ballots and Bullets: The abolitionist movement in Brazil (1868-1888)”, which was awarded the Jabuti Prize for best book in human sciences and best book of the year by the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 2015; it is forthcoming in English and will be published by Cambridge University Press. In 2009, she was honoured with the John S. Guggenheim Foundation Award.

Samuel Barbosa is Professor at the Law School of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), a permanent researcher of the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), and former President of the Brazilian Institute of History of Law (2016-2019). He is one of the coordinators of the Legal History Network, based at the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiro (IEB-USP). He holds a PhD in Theory of Law from USP and a Master’s degree in Studies in Religion and the Old Testament from the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History) in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was a visiting researcher on several occasions. His research focuses on the multi-sited formation of normative orders and their conflicts.

Marcos Nobre obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). He is the general director of CCI/Cebrap and one of its Principal Investigators. He is also Professor of Philosophy at the University of Campinas, Senior Researcher and was President of the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) between 2019-2023. Together with Sérgio Costa he is also the current Director of Mecila. His numerous academic publications and interventions in the public political debates show the importance he places on renewing the intellectual trend of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.

Marianne Braig holds a PhD in Sociology from Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and a degree (double major) in Economics and Sociology from the same institution. She is currently retired from the Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) at FU Berlin and serves as Academic Director of ‘trAndeS – Postgraduate Program on Sustainable Development and Social Inequalities in the Andean Region’. She works on intertwined and interdependent inequalities and transnational violence in the global context, transformation and development in Latin America, as well as the political culture of the state and governance.

Stefanie Gänger was a Junior Professor of Latin American History at the Universität zu Köln (UzK). She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She has held short-term fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at the University of Pennsylvania. Stefanie’s work considers the histories of science and medicine in late-colonial and early Republican Spanish America, especially the history of antiquarianism and collecting, and more recently, vernacular medicine, epistemic brokerage, and plant trade.

Debora Gerstenberger holds a PhD in Global Studies from Universität Leipzig and is currently Junior Professor (Juniorprofessorin) of Latin American History with special consideration of globalization processes and gender at the Lateinamerika-Institut of Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). In 2012, she received the award for the best PhD dissertation in the field of Latin American Studies from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF). In her research, she focuses on the Portuguese Empire (Early Modern History), Brazil and the Southern Cone. Currently, she is working on a project about the computerization of state security systems (armed forces, police, intelligence) in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Fernando Rugitsky is Professor of the Economy Department at the Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Atuária of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and an associate researcher of the Democracy & Law Nucleus at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). Prof. Rugitsky holds a postdoctoral degree from USP as well as a PhD in Economy from The New School for Social Research (New York, USA). He earned his Master’s degree in Economic Law from USP and a Bachelor’s degree of Economics and Law from the same institution. Fernando Rugitsky was a Teaching Assistant at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and the New School for Social Research, where he was also a Teaching Fellow.