Martin Leiner pursued his academic career in the fields of Protestant theology and philosophy. He obtained his doctorate researching on the psychological exegesis of the New Testament and then moved on to systematic theology. With a long academic career spanning more than four decades, Professor Leiner has made important contributions in a number of areas, including hermeneutics, Paul Tillich, media ethics and transdisciplinary studies on reconciliation, a field in which he was a pioneer ("father of reconciliation studies").

Adriana Petra holds a PhD in History from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the School of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, is director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the same university and an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet), based at the Laboratory for Research in Human Sciences (LICH/UNSAM). She is a specialist in intellectual, cultural and left-wing history in Argentina and Latin America.

Claudia Hammerschmidt holds a PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Cologne. She was a full professor at the Institute of Romance Philology at the University of Trier (2009-2011) and, since 2011, has been Professor of Spanish, Latin American and French Literature at the Institute of Romance Philology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

Walter Alberto Pengue is an Agricultural Engineer, with a specialization in Plant Breeding (Phytotechnology) from the University of Buenos Aires. He obtained his Master's degree in Environmental and Territorial Policies at the same University. Dr. in Agroecology, Sociology and Sustainable Rural Development from the School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineers at the University of Cordoba (Spain). He did postdoctoral stays at the Universities of Tromso (Norway) and INBI, University of Canterbury (New Zealand).

Rike Bolte holds a PhD in Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin (ADLAF Prize 2012).  Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies and Germanistics from the Humboldt University, and Latin American Studies from the Free University of Berlin.

Lucero de Vivanco holds a PhD in Hispanic American Literature from the University of Chile and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Alberto Hurtado University. His research explores the relationships between literature, history, culture, politics, violence and society in Latin America. He is currently leading a research project on the figure of the victim in cultural productions in Peru, Chile and Haiti.

Eva Youkhana is a training anthropologist who is a researcher and director at the Center for Development Studies where she applies reflective, critical and spatially sensitive perspectives, concepts and methods to urban, migration, conflict and development studies, in addition to teaching feminist theory and postcolonial studies.