Professor at the School of Literature and Spanish Language of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. His work aims at articulating cultural and literary criticism with the search of responses to extreme violence situations in Central America. His research project in CALAS is entitled “Fractured Voices: Testimonies of Violence in the North Triangle of Central America”.

Jose Vicente Tavares dos Santos is Senior Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Director of the ILEA - Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies (2012-2020) - UFRGS. Doctorat d’Etat from the University of Paris - Nanterre (1987). Researcher at CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development; Former president of ALAS - Latin American Sociological Association (2003-2005) and SBS - Brazilian Society of Sociology (1998-2001).

He holds a five-year university degree in Philosophy awarded by Universidad de Santiago de Chile, and a master's degree in Interamerican Studies awarded by Universität Bielefeld. His research project is entitled “Civilization and Barbarism as Repetition: Reception of Fascism and National Socialism in Argentina and Chile as a Crisis of the Republican Project of the 19th Century and its Intellectual, Political and Aesthetic Drifts during the 30s and 40s”.

Professor Emerita of Italian, French and Spanish Philology at Universität Düsseldorf. She conducts research on biopolitics, life poetics and ecological practices in Latin American cultures and literatures. Her research project in CALAS is entitled “The De/Institution of Peace and the Power of the Living: The Indetermination Zone as Relationality of Peace and Violence”.