Guest Lecturers InterAmerican Studies

Ana Cecilia Valencia Aguirre

Seminar: "Los límites y alcances de las narrativas en torno al mal"

16.06.25

She holds a doctorate in educational sciences from the University of Guadalajara and specialized in educational management at the National Pedagogical University. She belongs to the National System of Researchers (level 2). Her research focuses on topics such as philosophy of education, narratives and subjectivity, and subject formation in socio-educational contexts. From 2016 to 2022 she was Academic Delegate of the Department of History and Human Studies and from 2023 to 2025 she coordinated the Master's Program in Philosophical Studies at the University of Guadalajara. She is currently a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Guadalajara and head of the Department of Philosophy. She is a member of the academic and scientific committees of five international journals in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Elisa Botella

Workshop: Comparative Case Study Analysis

01.-02.07.25

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Colloquium: "Land to the tiller: agrarian reforms in Latin America in the Cold War"

01.07.25

Elisa Botella-Rodriguez, is Associate Professor in Economic History and Institutions at the Department of Economics and Economic History and member of the Institute of Ibero-America , University of Salamanca, Spain. She  holds a PhD in Economics of Latin America (2012–13) and a MSc. in Globalisation and Latin American Development (2005-2006) from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. She has undertaken predoctoral and postdoctoral research and teaching stays at the University of Coimbra, Oxford, Edinburgh, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of London, the University of Havana, and the National University of Costa Rica. Her research focuses on the agrarian history of Latin America and the region’s contemporary rural development after World War II up to the Second Globalisation, with particular attention to the cases of Cuba, Costa Rica and Brazil. Her research findings have been published in different books and JCR-indexed journals. She is also Associate Editor of the Journal Agrarian History, Journal of Agriculture and Rural History.

Gerardo Cham

Block Seminar: Análisis del discurso. Pragmática del poder en América Latina

04., 05., 07., 08.07

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Gerardo Gutiérrez Cham holds a doctorate in philosophy and art from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has published books and articles on discourse analysis. His research focuses on literature and popular culture as discursive practices. His most recent publications include: Discurso mítico en El reino de este Mundo (2014), Discursos paralelos en retablos populares (2018), Narrativas de Exesclavizados Afroamericanos (2023) and Pragmática de lo secreto (2025). As a narrator, he has published the following novels: Journey to the Olives (1998), Under the Parisian Fog (2005), Snapshot (2012), The Hygienic Man (2013), Bastards (2021) and Tichý in Bielefeld (2022). He was co-director of the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados CALAS (Guadalajara branch) and is currently a full-time professor and researcher at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Guadalajara and Director of the Department of Cultural Studies at CUCSH.

José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez

Seminar: Rethinking the Popular: Theories on Cultural Politics and Populism in the America

27.06. - 07.07.25

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Colloquium: "Mapping up the plebeian experience: leadership, political agency, and statecraft process in Guayaquil-Ecuador from 1960 to present days"

08.07.25

José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez, will be at CIAS from mid-June to mid-July at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier. He is PhD in History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Sociologist and Master in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO, Ecuador. He is an Associate Professor at FLACSO, Ecuador in the Departments of Sociology and Gender Studies. Former director of the Institute of Democracy (IDD-Ecuador). Former academic co-manager of the Maria Sybilla Merian Advanced Center for Latin American Studies (CALAS). He has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Ecuador, and the University of Guadalajara-Mexico, taught post graduated seminars at the University of Chile and the Universities of Leipzig and Bielefeld and participated as a researcher in various interdisciplinary projects related to urban transformations, the configuration of socio-political processes and practices of the inhabitants of the popular sectors in Latin America and Ecuador. His publications and research interests are related to the fields of urban and political history, political ethnography, collective action and statecraft processes, among others.

Dra. Margarita Ramos Godínez

Block seminar: Chicanx literature: a rebel without a cause

13., 14., 20., 21.06

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She holds a PhD in Literature and Linguistics from the University of Guadalajara. She collaborates with the Department of Modern Languages and teaches in the undergraduate program “English as a Foreign Language” and other graduate programs. She has been the coordinator of the Master's Program in English Teaching (MADI) and the Master's Program in English Language and Cultural Studies (MELCI), as well as the Bachelor's Program in English Teaching as a Foreign Language. Her research interests include Chicano literature, critical discourse analysis, and phonetics and phonology. She is a member of the International Association for Inter-American Studies, the National Research System, Level I, and a member of the Program for Professional Development in Teachers (PRODEP).

 

 

Martina Lasalle

Block seminar: "Drug-trafficking and criminalization: rethinking the drug-problem in Latin America"

21., 22., 24.07.25

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Martina’s research has focused on developing theoretical and empirical analyses of the selective functioning of criminal courts and their role in (re)producing hegemonic values and social meanings.Currently, she is conducting sociological research on judicial responses to drug-related offenses in Argentina, focusing on criminalization processes affecting women. Her project aims to understand how the criminal justice system contributes to framing the drug problem as a penal issue, while examining the effects of the prohibitionist paradigm on exacerbating gender and class inequalities, increasing territorial violence and promoting social exclusion. Additionally, her research will explore and discuss alternative approaches to this problem.