Enviromental and Political Challenges for a Sustainable Future

LEANDRO GOMEZ has a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a degree in Political Science, from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of the Environmental Policy Area of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN), where he is doing a research on lithium mining in Argentina. He has been an external advisor of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (Economics Faculty) of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (University of Buenos Aires), and an international resident of the Charles Kettering Foundation, United States.

Human Rights Activism and Struggles for Memory and Justice in Argentina

SANTIAGO GARAÑO holds a Ph.D in Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) and is a Professor of Human Rights, at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He is a Joint Coordinator of the Network of  Studies on Repression and Political Violence. He also teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Lanus’ Masters’ Program on Human Rights and is an academic advisor at the Group for Memory Studies, at IDES (Institute for Economic and Social Development), Argentina. He published La otra juvenilia. Militancia y represión en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (1971-1986)(with Werner Pertot) Buenos Aires, Editorial Biblos (2002), Detenidos-aparecidos. Presas y presos políticos de Trelew a la dictadura. Buenos Aires, Editorial Biblos (with Werner Pertot) (2007) and Represión estatal y violencia paraestatal en la historia reciente argentina: nuevos abordajes a 40 años del golpe de Estado. La Plata, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (UNLP) (with Pablo Scatizza, (2016).

Gender, Diversity and Social Justice in Latin America

KARINA FELITTI holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. She is an associate researcher for the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina. She is affiliated with Institute of Gender Studies, University of Buenos Aires. She teaches in postgraduate programs at the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of San Martin and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). She is also a specialist in Comprehensive Sexual Education and History, and gives training in public educational institutions about this topic.
She is the author of the book La revolución de la píldora. Sexualidad y política en la Argentina de los sesenta (Edhasa, 2012), as well of numerous articles on reproductive justice, women and religions/spirituality. She is also editor of Madre hay una sola. Experiencias de maternidad en la Argentina (Ciccus, 2012), and co-editor of Enseñar y aprender en contextos interculturales. Saberes, herramientas y experiencias de educación internacional (Miño y Dávila, 2018); Diversidad, sexualidades y creencias. Cuerpo y derechos en el mundo contemporáneo (Prometeo, 2015); Los sesenta de otra manera. Vida cotidiana, género y sexualidades en la Argentina (Prometeo, 2010); Género y sexualidades en las tramas del saber. Revisiones y propuestas (Libros del Zorzal, 2009). She is currently working on a book about Sex and Love in Feminist Times in Argentina.
See her work at https://uba.academia.edu/KarinaFelitti)

Afro-descendant Cultures in the Southern Cone

GISELE KLEIDERMACHER has a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She is an Assistant Researcher for the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), at the Instituto Gino Germani Research Institute of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has published articles in journals of international prestige and presented papers at national and international scientific events. She is a member of integrates research groups based at the UBA and FLACSO.  Her research interests are international migrations, Senegalese migrations to Argentina, the formation of transnational and religious networks and the construction of social representations of various migratory groups.

EVA LAMBORGHINI is a Ph.D in Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a a member of the Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos Afro-Latin American Studies Group (GEALA) based at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani ”(UBA). She was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET).
Her lines of research problematize intersections between Afrodescendance and Afro culture, youth cultures and new social movements in Buenos Aires. She participates in research projects on historical and contemporary Afro-descendants in Argentina as well as on ethnicities and interculturality. She is the author and co-author of articles in Argentine and international journal. She has taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, at FLACSO and she teaches at the Universidad Metropolitana para la Educación y el Trabajo (UMET).

MARIA CECILIA MARTINO has a Ph.D  in Social Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is a member of the Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas (ICA) and of the Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos (GEALA) at  the Instituto Histórico Ravignani, both at the Unviersidad de Buenos Aires. Martino does research on transnational migrations and on political and generational identities She is a member of different research projects that address issues related to Afro-descendants, ethnicities and migrations. She teaches at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.