Keynotes
Letícia Cesarino (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Democracy 'inside out': on far–right refracted publics in Brazil
Moderator: Thaïs Machado-Borges (Stockholm University)
Letícia Cesarino holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil. Since 2023, she has served as a Special Advisor on Human Rights Education and Culture to Brazil's Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Silvio Almeida. Letícia is the author of O Mundo do Avesso: Verdade e Política na Era Digital and affiliate researcher of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). She is currently migrating from X/Twitter to Bluesky at @letcesar.bsky.social.
Karina Batthyány (Universidad de la República, Uruguay, Directora Ejecutiva del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales CLACSO)
Intersecciones y conflictos: nudos críticos en las políticas de género en América latina
Moderadora: Diana González Martín (Universidad de Aarhus)
Doctora en Sociología y Profesora Titular de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Integrante de la Junta de Gobierno del ISC (International Science Council) y del Sistema Nacional de Investigación del Uruguay. Miembro de número de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias del Uruguay (ANCIU). Es autora de numerosas publicaciones en torno a las temáticas de bienestar social, género, políticas públicas, trabajo no remunerado y cuidados. Se destacan los libros Miradas latinoamericanas a los cuidados, Políticas del cuidado y Hablemos de Desigualdad.
Eduardo Gudynas (Latin American Center on Social Ecology CLAES, Montevideo)
Desarrollos, transiciones y alternativas. Una muy crítica evaluación cuando ya no hay mucho tiempo
Moderator: Malayna Raftopoulos (Aalborg University)
Eduardo Gudynas – is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center Social Ecology (CLAES); he was Arne Naess chair in global justice and environment at the University of Oslo; most recent positions include visiting fellow at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, and associate researcher at the Bolivian Information and Documentation Center (CEDIB). His latest books are Desarrollos alternativos / Alternativas al desarrollo (2023), Muy lejos está cerca (2022), Extractivisms: Politics, Economy and Ecology (2021) and Derechos y violencia en los extractivismos (with O. Campanini and M. Gandarillas, 2020).
José Miguel Ahumada (University of Chile)
Development trajectories and mutual learning: the Nordic and Latin American experiences
Moderator: Benedicte Bull (University of Oslo)
Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Chile. He holds a PhD in Development Studies (Cambridge University), MSc in Development Studies (London School of Economics), and MA in International Economics (Complutense University of Madrid). In 2022, he was the Viceminister of International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Chile. He is the author of The Nordic Lesson: development trajectories in Norway, Sweden and Finland (2021) and The political economy of peripheral growth: Chile in the global economy (2019).
Cristina Rivera Garza (El Colegio Nacional, Mexico/University of Houston, USA)
The Cotton Border: Migration, Collective Memory and the Work of the Archive on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Moderator: Jan Gustafsson (University of Copenhagen)
Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is an author, translator and critic. She is M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston, Department of Hispanic Studies. Recent publications include Liliana’s Invincible Summer (Hogarth, 2023), The Taiga Syndrome (Dorothy Project, 2018), and Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (The Feminist Press, 2020). She is currently Artist-In-Residence at DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in Berlin.