Tándem Transatlántico | Page 3 | CALAS

Tándem Transatlántico

Anne Huffschmid

Anne Huffschmid is a doctor of cultural sciences, author, and visual creator. As a researcher associated with the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin, she has specialized in topics such as urban studies, violence and social memory, discourse analysis, and visual cultures, with a particular focus on Latin America, especially Mexico.

English

Alfonso Díaz Tovar

Alfonso Díaz Tovar is a social psychologist and visual anthropologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, currently a doctoral student in Anthropology from the Institute of Anthropological Research of this same institution. His work focuses on the social practices of commemoration and places of remembrance, specifically on the subject of forced disappearance in Mexico. He has directed different short documentaries, as well as television series on memory practices and cultural heritage.

English

Mariana Eva Pérez

Mariana Eva Pérez has a bachelor degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires and a doctorate in Romance Literature from the University of Konstanz (Germany) with an investigation on the representations of disappearance in Argentine dramaturgy from 2001-2015.

English

Jan Ickler

Jan Ickler is researcher and PhD-Candidate at the University of Kassel and is coordinator at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). He is focussing his doctoral research on the role of economic elites in the political economy of Latin America. He has travelled Latin America during his studies and – after he finished his master-degree in Global Political Economy – he undertook a research project in Ecuador. Jan is also interested in social inequalities, resource policy and development theory. 

Research Interests

English