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International Research Training Group ›Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation‹
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table of contents
01 Research Programme ………………………………………………………………………… 04
02 Study Programme …………………………………………………………………………..…… 10
03 Participating Institutions …………………………………………………………………… 14
04 Participating Scholars…………………………………………………………………………. 18
05 Scientific Community ………………………………………………………………………… 38
06 Postdoctoral Fellows ………………………………………………………………………….. 42
PhD Fellows …………………………………………………………………………………………. 43
Associated Fellows ……………………………………………………………………………… 46
Alumni ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 46
07 Academic Management …………………………………………………………………….. 49
Contact Details ……………………………………………………………………………………. 50
Imprint……………………………………………………………………..…………………………….. 51
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01 Seeking Sources of the Future
in Latin American History and the
Present
Ever since the independence movements of the
research 19th century and the revolutionary enthusiasm
programme of the 20 th, competing ideas of ›progress‹ have
played a critical role in social thought and intellec-
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tual history throughout Latin America, affecting
the present of entire societies. Throughout the
history of the region, visions of future progress
have frequently included predictions of the dis-
appearance of indigenous groups and belief in
rapid growth through technological progress.
Those who could afford them envisaged railroads,
steamers, electricity and the like. During the Por-
firian era in Mexico, the idea of the future was not
only promoted through US investment in the eco-
nomic realm by building railroads and modernising
the mining industry, but also via futuristic imagi-
naries of the nation’s capital, developed by actors
engaging in architectural photography. Incipient
popular and transnational versions of indigenismo
emerged during the Porfiriato, which for the first
time envisioned the future as based on indigenous
assets such as the Nahua language, storytelling and
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to help construct a better future by influencing studying jointly the dynamics of aspirations and
processes of social transition after civil wars anticipations in Latin America and asking about
(Colombia) or in post-dictatorial societies (Ar- the explicit or implicit temporalities of the future
gentina, Chile, Brazil, Central America, etc.). The from different angles of analysis established by the
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges deals in his participating disciplines.
own way with temporalities and projections of the
future. In his essays, he deconstructs established
concepts of time and analyses philosophical ideas
Investigating Temporalities of
of the temporality of different centuries (e.g. in the Future in Latin America
›Nueva refutación del tiempo‹ from 1952). The main
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element of suspense in many of his fictional texts In a global comparison, Latin America is marked
mural painting. Throughout the 19 thcentury, eco- Among other media, novels evoked such percep- rests on the playful and often ironic manipula- by extreme social inequalities and has been
nomic and political elites ruled the Latin Ameri- tions and expressed and formed the anticipations tion of time levels, sometimes with frightening characterized by one of the highest levels of
can countries according to a European model of and aspirations of their readers. Literary produc- results for the human consciousness and em- economic volatility since its incorporation into the
progress. They wanted to foster national develop- tion has been at the forefront of shaping new pirical knowledge. With his basic model of the world market. Yet, given the struggle of its intel-
ment and to overcome the ›backwardness‹ of the temporalities of the future in Latin America by rhizome as a conception of the universe, Borges lectuals for a future beyond neoliberalism, Latin
region by its integration into the world economic evoking fears and hopes, memories and oblivion. brings together several sets of temporalities with America as a whole is seen as being in the fore-
system as a supplier of natural resources. The By using and representing different narrative spatial units. As a visionary of the evil, the Chilean- ground of thinking and practice around alternative
state was to guarantee the functioning of the modes such as the linear development of narration Spanish writer Roberto Bolaño converted a series economic theories. The reputedly ancestral indi-
export economy. The growth of exports would, so (realistic modes, as an example), cyclic structures of Borges’s concepts and methods into fictional genous concepts of buen vivir and vivir bien (›good
it was hoped, produce a rise in productivity and a (e.g. García Márquez), paradoxical settings (like texts to offer a radical synopsis of the Western living‹) have recently been incorporated into the
structural change towards a new market economy. Borges), narrative leaps in time (e.g. Carpentier) world. Similarly, Latin American comic and science constitutions and developmental policies of leftist
The cocaine boom in the Andes brought not only or avant-gardist postulations of the new (like the fiction writers went on to combine a social stock- governments in Ecuador and Bolivia. They project
a new dimension of global interaction to Latin Mexican estridentismo among others), literature taking with a largely pessimistic vision of the future. the future as in fact existing within their countries’
America, with new opportunities for the future arrays a huge potential for reflecting on temporali- indigenous societies. In the frame of this post-
located in transoceanic connections, but also ties. Recently, an important movement of what has The International Research Training Group ›Tem- developmental and decolonial concept, however,
cocaine itself came to be looked upon as a useful been called the ›literature of remembrance‹ has poralities of Future‹ (IRTG) investigates these both governments have in practice legitimized
medicine promoting progress. re-worked violent pasts and traumas in order various protagonists, projections and processes by their policies of extractivism as a temporal eco-
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nomic necessity to construct more equal and as a better form of convivial life in the future, of gender equality, ethnicity and other aspects of violence in Latin America. A process of ›securiti-
plurinational states. Grassroots movements, on which the communitarian life-style of indigenous pursuing a better life. Migrants’ aspirational tem- zation‹ has led in many Latin American cities to
the other hand, have appealed to a constitutional villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte furnished an poralities can pertain to the idea called ›futuring‹, technological armament, for which the pilot
right for ›good living‹ to substantiate their legal example. that is, understanding the present in relation to its project Detecta, a big-data policing tool imple-
demands for autonomy and for access to public value for the future. mented in São Paulo’s wealthy district Morumbi,
goods based on cultural distinctiveness. As in The uneven social distribution of the capacity stands as an emblematic example. The exertions
other world regions, such projections seek to to aspire, as exemplified in economic, urban or Uneven social distribution is also said to be one connected with Detecta aim at anticipating
counter the crisis of socialist utopias of liberation environmental processes in Latin America, is a of the most important reasons for criminality and future criminal acts and crime prevention, but
after 1990 with a ›productive nostalgia‹ or a ›nos- main explanation for competing visions of the the outcomes of ›predictive policing‹ measures
talgia for the future‹ and set the search for future and their implementation in a given space. enabled by new human-machine assemblages
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sustainable development against the belief in end- Certain social groups or individuals enhance their are still uncertain. While the stated goal of pre-
less material progress. aspirational capacities to push new beginnings as dictive policing is to reduce crime rates and
much as to put an end to undesirable structures, violence, it could also do the opposite, by
In further defiance of modernisation theory, Latin aiming at a literal non-future for social conditions exacerbating profiling and selective policing and
American thinkers elaborated the dependency of exploitation, corruption, individual indebted- perpetuating racial bias.
theory, predicting instead growing global inequal- ness or civil war. For instance, in the context of
ity within the same world system. This dystopian migration processes, future decisions are shaped Understanding time and temporalities as socially
view was in turn countered by more positive pro- by structures of inequality and poverty, and constructed, the IRTG employs an actor-centred
jections. The concept of conviviality, developed by these influence people’s capacities to aspire. At the approach to everyday-practices of aspirations and
the Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CID) microlevel, emigration of one or more family anticipations in a region, which has been mar-
in Cuernavaca, Mexico, represents one of the pio- members has become an important mechanism ginalised in the process of Western colonisation
neering and most radical critiques of the progress among the Latin American poor to gain additional and modernisation. Approaching practices of
paradigm during a period in which international household revenue in a foreign economic environ- ›doing the future‹, beginning with those of the
organisations, development agencies and local ment perceived as safer. Yet, although migrants’ actors’ routines when anticipating the future and
governments were searching for ways to ›modern- temporalities have been imagined as responding including aspirations they strategically engage
ise‹ Latin America. At the same time, indigenous exclusively to fears of an insecure future, they are in with the aim of shaping the future, adds a
intellectuals proposed the concept of comunalidad in fact much more complex, since displacement much-needed perspective on subaltern and non-
as an alternative approach to development and is often triggered by aspirations of class ascent, Western agency with regard to the future.
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02 Study Programme
The International Research Training Group’s study
programme focuses on original research by its
PhD students and intensive supervision of their
doctoral dissertations. The study programme in-
study tegrates dissertations in individual disciplines in
an interdisciplinary research programme and
programme combines close supervision with high mobility.
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The research-oriented study programme is de-
Summer term Winter term Summer term Winter term Summer term Winter term
m signed to be finished in a period of three years and
2019 2019/20 2020 2020/21 2021 2021/22
/22 consists of four elements:
D research as part of the doctoral project
Interdisciplinary Colloquium D courses in theory and methodology tailored
Berlin/ Potsdam
according to the dissertation topic
D interdisciplinary seminars
Lecture Series Workshop D courses to learn different skills
(academic writing, professional training
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Methods Research
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seminars, etc.)
Masterclasses Workshop Seminar Lecture Series
Participants of the study programme have the op-
Inaugural portunity to take part in both locations (in Mexi-
Conference Summer Panels on co and Germany) and to be involved in additional
training courses designed to prepare them for
School Congresses
their career outside the university, as well as for
Inaugural
academic purposes.
Colloquium
Methods Research
Mexico
Workshop Seminar Workshop
Interinstitutional Colloquium
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participating Freie Universität Berlin
Institute for Latin American Studies
El Colegio de México
institutions
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The Institute for Latin American Studies conducts Since its establishment in 1940, El Colegio de
research on social changes that influence the life México has specialised in a number of disciplines
of people in Latin America in the wake of globali- in the humanities and social sciences and is re-
sation: between global and local economic, social nowned for its intellectual and academic engage-
and political processes, but also the literary and ment in both research and teaching. It is one of
other forms of expression in Latin America. The the most prestigious universities of Latin America
Institute is known for its interdisciplinary cooper- and serves as the host university of the IRTG at the
ation with scholars in different Latin American Mexican location. The established doctoral pro-
academic institutions. It offers a lively and broad grammes in literature, history and sociology, po-
international research environment. litical sciences and economy of El Colegio de Mé-
xico are of a very high quality and enrich the work
www.lai.fu-berlin.de of the IRTG with a great variety of foci and topics.
El Colegio de México offers German researchers
and doctoral students an excellent network and es-
tablished structures, as well as an excellent library
in the fields of the social sciences and humanities.
www.colmex.mx
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Universität Potsdam Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores
(UNAM) en Antropología Social (CIESAS)
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Universität Potsdam is represented in the pro- The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is represented in Founded in 1980 and sponsored by CONACyT,
gramme by the Institute of Romance Studies. not only the largest university in Latin America, it the programme by the Institute of Educational CIESAS is a world-class research institute that
Ottmar Ette understands romance studies as a is also one of the best and enjoys a good repu- Sciences. Here, Marcelo Caruso conducts research is also dedicated to providing students with an
discipline that mediates between other disciplines, tation worldwide. The IRTG’s main Mexican part- at the interface of history, education and learning exceptional university education. Although its
while also directly engaging with them. He has ners include UNAM’s Instituto de Investigaciones in a post-colonial context. Educational reforms main area of specialisation concentrates on so-
been working on the ›prospective power of litera- Sociales (IIS), the Instituto de Investigaciones His- have always offered a good insight into the cial anthropology and history, research and
ture‹ and the idea of acceleration in respect to the tóricas (IIH) and the Centro de Investigaciones so- future visions of societies. Through the Scientific teaching include other subjects in the humanities
limitations of globalisation. His research includes bre América Latina y el Caribe (CIALC) . All these Community and Dieter Ingenschay, romance stud- and social sciences such as sociology and political
the Humboldt model of the future in an ecologi- institutions offer high-level doctoral programmes ies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin are repre- sciences. Anthropological and other research
cal and epistemological perspective, and the con- with a wide range of topics and methods. The pro- sented in the programme, with a focus on metrop- topics discussed at CIESAS enrich the work and
tribution of cultural studies to the production of gramme of the IRTG benefits from the social, olis, hybridity and diversity which contains future- the profile of the IRTG considerably. Moreover,
prospective knowledge in transatlantic and trans- historical and literary topics discussed at the oriented potential and enriches the programme. CIESAS has around 150 research institutes in
areal relations. Through the Scientific Communi- institutes of the UNAM. The IRTG also cooperates different parts of Mexico and therefore is an
ty and Sina Rauschenbach, religious studies and with the faculty of economic history, which sup- www.hu-berlin.de important contact for doctoral students during
Jewish studies enrich the programme and offer a plements the studies in economy at its German their field research in Mexico.
variety of relevant thematic aspects. location.
www.ciesas.edu.mx
www.uni-potsdam.de www.unam.mx
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Stefan Rinke is the speaker of the IRTG ›Temporali-
ties of Future‹. His research focuses on cultural
globalisation and North Americanisation, popular
culture, revolutions, memory and historical con-
sciousness, history of knowledge, trans-American
relations, temporality and future. It covers the pe-
riod from colonial times to contemporary history.
participating As an Einstein Research Fellow, he did research
scholars on Latin America and the First World War and
in the process encountered the problem of tem-
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poralities of the future. In 2017, he received the
José Antonio Alzate Award from the Mexican Aca-
demy of Sciences and CONACyT. In 2018 he was
awarded an honorary doctorate from the Uni-
versidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos
Aires, and in 2019 he was honoured with the
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Rinke (spokesperson) Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision by the
History Dahlem Research School. In total, he authored
Institute for Latin American Studies fourteen books, most of which were translated
Freie Universität Berlin into Spanish, Portuguese or English, edited 36
E-mail: rinke@zedat.fu-berlin.de volumes and published more than 180 articles
and chapters in Europe and the Americas. His
latest monograph Conquistadoren und Azteken
(München, Beck 2019) explores the issue of world-
making in the context of the conquest of Mexico.
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Stephanie Schütze is co-speaker of the IRTG . Marcelo Caruso is a professor of the history of
She is a cultural and social anthropologist with education at the Institute of Education Studies
a specialisation in gender and migration studies. of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and director
She has conducted research on political culture, of the journal of education studies Zeitschrift für
social movements and migration in diverse con- Pädagogik. His work focuses on the transnationali-
texts and regions including the Mexican states sation of organised forms of schooling and the re-
of Guerrero and Michoacán, Mexico City and lated combinations with Western schooling tradi-
the metropolitan area of Chicago in the United tions. He graduated from Universidad de Buenos
States. Her latest monograph on these topics is Aires and obtained a PhD from Universität Mün-
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Constructing Transnational Political Spaces. The chen. He has published research on the history of
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Multifaceted Political Activism of Mexican Migrants education of Europe, in particular Germany and
(2016). Her current research projects are ›Football Spain. Recently, Marcelo Caruso published the
as a space of belonging: amateur football teams chapter ›The History of Transnational and Com-
of Latin-American migrants in Rio de Janeiro and parative Education‹ in the Oxford Handbook of the
São Paulo‹ and ›Organised violence, new migra- History of Education (2019), as well as a series of
tion patterns, and development: A comparative articles on the history of education in 19 th-century
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze (spokesperson) study in Europe and the Americas‹, both funded Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso Latin America. He is currently working on a book
Cultural and Social Anthropology by the DFG (German Research Foundation). Also, History of Education about post-independency in republican education.
Institute for Latin American Studies she is a principal investigator at MECILA , the Maria Institute of Education Studies
Freie Universität Berlin Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E-mail: st.schuetze@fu-berlin.de Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences E-mail: marcelo.caruso@hu-berlin.de
Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, funded
by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry for Educa-
tion and Research). Within the IRTG she conducts
research on ›Future perspectives in migrant bio-
graphies within the US-Mexican corridor‹.
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Sérgio Costa is a professor of sociology at the Ottmar Ette explores literary and cultural theoret-
Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie ical as well as text and discourse analytical prob-
Universität Berlin, and co-speaker of MECILA , lems. His editions of Alexander von Humboldt’s
the Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre Journey to the Equinoctial Areas, Views of the
Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America. After Cordillera and Cosmos, of Humboldt’s political
completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees essay on Cuba (2004-2012) and the Kingdom of
in economics and sociology in Brazil, he earned New Spain (2019) address the history of European-
his doctorate and completed his qualification as American relations in the late 18th and early 19 th
a professor (Habilitation) in sociology at Freie Uni- centuries. Ottmar Ette’s book on José Martí (1991)
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versität Berlin. He has worked as a professor at the and his edition of José Enrique Rodó’s Ariel (1994)
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, the Cen- deal with this topic using the example of Hispano-
tro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento in Bra- American modernism and its importance for
zil and at Universität Flensburg. His disciplinary the transition from the 19 th to the 20th century.
interests include political sociology, comparative Other monographs have centred on transareal,
sociology and postcolonial theories. In his research, transcultural and translinguistic research, high-
Sérgio Costa has focused on questions of demo- lighting the relevance of interdisciplinary approa-
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa cracy, social inequality and cultural difference, as Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette ches in the context of transatlantic entanglements:
Sociology well as racism and anti-racism. His most recent book Romance Studies ÜberLebenswissen (3 vols. 2004-2010), Literatura en
Institute for Latin American Studies publications include A Port in Global Capitalism: Institute of Romance Studies movimiento (2008), Del macrocosmos al microrrelato
Freie Universität Berlin Unveiling Entangled Accumulation in Rio de Janeiro Universität Potsdam (2009). Ette published TransArea in 2015, Welt-
E-mail: sergio.costa@fu-berlin.de (Routledge 2019, co-author Guilherme Leite E-mail: ette@uni-potsdam.de Fraktale in 2017 and Mobile Preußen, which
Gonçalves); Entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico Negro. pursued transareal research, in 2019. In 2014,
Afrodescendencia y regímenes de desigualdad en Ottmar Ette received the Mexican science award
Sudamérica (Vervuert 2019, co-authors Manuel of the UNAM and was elected Honorary Member
Góngora-Mera and Rocío Vera Santos); Global of the Modern Language Association of America.
Entangled Inequalities. Conceptual Debates and As a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
Evidence from Latin America (Routledge 2017, co- of Sciences and Humanities and the Academia
editors Elizabeth Jelin and Renata C. Motta). Europaea, he is engaged in new transareal research
projects.
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Barbara Fritz examines from an economic per- Debora Gerstenberger is working on a project in-
spective the implications of globalisation proces- volving the introduction of computer technology
ses for developing countries and the possibilities to Latin American government security systems
of monetary and economic-policy regulation. She (military, police, intelligence) from the 1960s to
has published extensively on topics such as finan- the 1980s. The research emphasises the states of
cial crises, the associated uncertainty and destabil- the Southern Cone, while tracing the evidence of
isation of future expectations and the responses the artefacts (computers) and the experts to the
to them. Barbara Fritz also deals with the compari- USA and Europe. Debora Gerstenberger’s analysis
son of different economic development strategies combines global-historical and technological-his-
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in Latin America, which have a decisive influence torical perspectives, i.e. science and technology
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on the expectations of social actors. At the famil- studies (STS) and actor-network theory (ANT) .
ial level, she analyses transnational migration as a An earlier project (her dissertation) dealt with the
way of confronting a highly uncertain future. She transfer of the Portuguese royal court to Brazil at
also explores the interdependencies between eco- the beginning of the 19 th century from a global
nomic and social policy and their repercussions on historical perspective. Debora Gerstenberger’s
inequality in Latin America. geographical focus is Brazil, the Luso-Brazilian
Prof. Dr. Barbara Fritz Jun.-Prof. Dr. Debora Gerstenberger Empire and the Southern Cone, with special
Economics History attention being paid to state security systems
Institute for Latin American Studies Institute for Latin American Studies and current theories of (global) history. She has
Freie Universität Berlin Freie Universität Berlin recently organised workshops and conferences
E-mail: barbara.fritz@fu-berlin.de E-mail: debora.gerstenberger@fu-berlin.de on this topic.
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Susanne Klengel examines the literatures and cul- Ingrid Kummels explores, from the perspective
tures of Hispano-America and Brazil from a histor- of cultural and social anthropology, temporalities
ical and contemporary perspective. Latin America of the future, which are inherent to the migration
is understood here as a multifaceted culturally processes between Mexico and the USA . With her
aesthetically, communicatively and medially net- Mexican colleagues she investigates such future-
worked region within the world context. The cen- oriented practices within the scope of the research
tral research areas of Susanne Klengel include the programme of the IRTG. In her current mono-
historical avant-garde movements in Romance graph Transborder Media Spaces. Ayuujk Video-
languages and the Latin American literatures of the making between Mexico and the US (2017, Spanish
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20th and the 21 st centuries, also from a compara- version 2018), she engages in multi-situated field
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tive perspective, as well as image-text relations. research to show what media practices indigenous
A further focus is the constitution, circulation and Mexican migrants and their relatives use to re-
archiving of cultural knowledge, especially as part imagine their ›homeland‹, both in Los Angeles and
of transatlantic intellectual history and the cultu- in their Mexican communities of origin in Oaxaca.
ral and literary transfer between Latin America The motifs of self-produced photographs, video
and India in the Global South. Additional research films and social media reveal what this ›home-
Prof. Dr. Susanne Klengel topics include cultural translation processes and Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kummels land‹ could look like in the future, even in view of
Literature and Culture the transcultural debate on remembrance, in par- Social and Cultural Anthropology current and anticipated future uncertainties. Tem-
Institute for Latin American Studies ticular the processing of the Holocaust in recent Institute for Latin American Studies poralities are also the topic of Ingrid Kummels’
Freie Universität Berlin Latin American literatures. Freie Universität Berlin volume Photography in Latin America. Images and
E-mail: klengel@zedat.fu-berlin.de E-mail: kummels@zedat.fu-berlin.de Identities Across Time and Space (2016, Spanish
version 2018), co-edited with Gisela Cánepa. The
contributing authors explore today’s reinterpre-
tations and uses of historical photographs, taken
during the course of the 20th century in various
regions of Latin America.
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Jean François Prud’homme is a political scientist Federico Navarrete is a historian and anthropolo-
specialised in the field of comparative politics. He gist at the Historical Research Institute of UNAM.
earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from He has written over 20 books and 30 academic
the University of Montreal, a degree of profound papers on the history of the indigenous peoples
studies (Diplôme d‘études approfondies) from the of the Americas. His most recent publications in-
Institute for Political Studies (Paris) and a PhD clude ¿Quién conquistó México? (2019), Historias
from York University (Toronto). His primary re- mexicas (2018), Alfabeto del racismo mexicano (2017)
search focus is on the representation of politics and México racista (2016). In his work, he analyses
in Latin America, which includes an empirical the complex relations between the indigenous
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(parties and party systems) and a theoretical di- peoples of the Americas and the European and
temporalities of future
mension (citizenship and democratic quality of African peoples that arrived on the continent,
life, populisms, etc.). Additional research interests as well as the ways in which they have adapted
include issues related to the relationship between their cultures to the new realities. He has studied
space, time and political processes. the interethnic relations and the forms of dis-
crimination and racism that have developed in the
Americas. He is also the author of the novels El
Prof. Dr. Jean François Prud´homme Prof. Dr. Federico Navarrete Linares códice perdido (2018), Nahuales contra vampiros
(spokesperson) (spokesperson) (2013) and Huesos de Lagartija (1998), along with
Political Science History numerous historical books for young adults.
Centro de Estudios Internacionales Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas
El Colegio de México Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
E-mail: jfprud@colmex.mx E-mail: fnl@unam.mx
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Alberto Aziz Nassif earned his doctorate in social Luz Elena Gutiérrez de Velasco is a researcher at
sciences with an emphasis on political science. the Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios at
Since 1981, he has been active in the Centro de El Colegio de México, which she also led as a di-
Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antro- rector between 2009 and 2015. She coordinated
pología Social (CIESAS), which he represents in the Interdisciplinary Programme for Women’s
the IRTG ›Temporalities of Future‹. His research Studies (PIEM) at El Colegio de México between
interests include democracy, citizenship, the state, 1996 and 2002, as well as a feminist theory seminar
elections, political parties, media and governance. and a workshop about female Mexican narratives,
In a recent publication, he analyses the structural, both within the PIEM. She was also the director of
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cultural, and institutional conditions that led the Language Centre at the Instituto Tecnológico
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to the weakening of an emerging democracy. Autónomo de México (ITAM) . She is a specialist in
Alberto Aziz was a member of an interdisciplinary German and Romance philology from Universität
working group that conducted a comparative Würzburg and holds a PhD in Hispanic literature
study on the different forms of capitalism, from El Colegio de México and a master’s degree
federalism, democracy and labour relations in in literature from Universidad de Guadalajara.
several Latin American countries. He was simul- She was part of the IRTG ›Between Spaces‹ and
Prof. Dr. Alberto Aziz Nassif taneously involved in a study on the quality of Prof. Dr. Luz Elena Gutiérrez de Velasco has co-edited and co-authored several books,
Political Science citizenship in Mexico. Currently, he is working Literature and Culture including Femenino/masculino en las literaturas de
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores on a project on the impact of globalisation on Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios (CELL) América. Escrituras en contraste (2005), Los grandes
en Antropología Social democratic representation. For this purpose, he is El Colegio de México problemas de México. Relaciones de género (2010)
E-mail: aziz@ciesas.edu.mx preparing a comparative study on the crisis of E-mail: luzg@colmex.mx and Of Fatherlands and Motherlands. Gender and
democracy in Europe with parallels to Latin Nation in the Americas (2015). Luz Elena Gutiérrez
America. Since January 2014, Alberto Aziz is di- de Velasco is a member of the Taller de teoría y
rector of the magazine Desacatos. crítica literaria Diana Morán, of the UC Mexicanis-
tas, the Academia Mexicana de las Ciencias (ACM)
and the National System of Researchers (SNI) .
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Bernd Hausberger has investigated the history Ricardo Pérez Montfort studies the representa-
of missions and topics related to the social and tions of nationalism and regionalism since the
economic history of the Spanish colonial period. foundational phase of the Latin American states,
His research has focused on the specific role of focusing mostly on Mexico, from a historical and
certain actors (missionaries, merchants, pirates) anthropological perspective. In his research, he
in the creation of global entanglements from the approaches Latin American nationalism in rela-
early modern period onward. At the centre of his tion to every-day phenomena and examines the
research is the issue of the local development of conformity of powerful groups to historical justifi-
global processes. In the publication series Global- cations and cultural stereotypes. Ricardo Pérez
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geschichte. Die Welt 1000-2000 (2008-2011), co- Montfort’s work also deals with spatial concep-
temporalities of future
edited with Peter Feldbauer, he focused on the tions at the national and regional level and the in-
integration of Latin America and its global rela- tersection between academic and popular culture.
tions in the most recent global history debates. He is furthermore concerned, on the one hand,
In his books Die Verknüpfung der Welt (2015) and with the issue of representation and the problem
Historia mínima de la globalización temprana (2018) of memory in Mexico and Latin America and, on
he follows a similar approach with an emphasis the other, with the connections between Europe
Prof. Dr. Bernd Hausberger on the early modern period. His research project Prof. Dr. Ricardo Pérez Montfort and Latin America in relation to projects of the
History ›La Revolución Mexicana y el cine‹ (developed in History future. In recent years, he has studied the prohi-
Centro de Estudios Históricos collaboration with Raffaele Moro, among others) Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores bition and tolerance of drugs as both a national
El Colegio de México examines the transformation of regional and en Antropología Social and international phenomenon and worked on
E-mail: bhausberger@colmex.mx national historical processes in global images. E-mail: ripemont5408@gmail.com a biography of Lázaro Cárdenas. Ricardo Pérez
Bernd Hausberger worked at the Institute for Montfort has collaborated for many years with
Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin the Institute for Latin American Studies of Freie
from 1999 until 2006 and has continued to collab- Universität Berlin, the Ibero-American Institute
orate with German researchers since obtaining his and with Berlin-based historians specialised in
current professorship at El Colegio de México. Latin America. He also produces cinema and ra-
dio documentaries and works with museums to
make history and cultural processes accessible to a
wider audience.
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Nitzan Shoshan is a cultural anthropologist whose Lorenza Villa Lever holds a PhD in sociology and
work focuses on nationalism and the far right, is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones
particularly in Germany and, more broadly, in Sociales of UNAM, Mexico. Her book Expresiones
Europe. He has been a professor and researcher de las desigualdades sociales en espacios universi-
at the Centre for Sociological Studies of El Colegio tarios asimétricos, written in collaboration with
de México since 2010. His award-winning and Alejandro Canales Sánchez and Mery Hamui
internationally acclaimed book The Management Sutton and published by IISUNAM and CONACyT
of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of in 2017, shows how the field of higher education
Right-Wing Extremism in Germany, an ethnographic in Mexico is structured into asymmetrical spaces
04 | participating scholars
study of neo-Nazi youths in Eastern Germany, that promote mechanisms of differentiation and
temporalities of future
was published in 2016 by Princeton University hierarchisation, which in turn reproduce social
Press and translated into Spanish in 2017 by and gender inequities. Lorenza Villa Lever partici-
El Colegio de México under the title El manejo pated as associated member in the IRTG ›Between
del odio: Nación, afecto, y la gobernanza de la ex- Spaces‹. Currently, she is coordinating a research
trema derecha en Alemania. His work has explored project financed by CONACyT, in which she in-
utopian imaginaries, political temporalities, and vestigates how university education constructs
Prof. Dr. Nitzan Shoshan historical memory both in Germany and in Mexico, Prof. Dr. Lorenza Villa Lever students’ futures and explores their aspirations
Sociology where he did ethnographic research in socially Sociology regarding their education, employment and role
Centro de Estudios Sociológicos marginalised zones of Santa Fe, Mexico City. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales as citizens.
El Colegio de México Nitzan Shoshan is currently working on a new Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
E-mail: shoshan@colmex.mx project about German nationalism which analyses E-mail: lorenza@unam.mx
its less radical and most extensive forms from an
ethnographic perspective and in the light of the
recent advent of a German nationalist right.
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Liliana Weinberg investigates the essay in Latin Claudia Carolina Zamorano Villarreal is a member
America from the perspective of literary and of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudio Supe-
cultural studies, as well as the history of Latin riores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico
American intellectuals and their networks. In her City. She obtained her PhD in social science
most recent work, she analyses links between from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences
forms of intellectual sociability like those in- Sociales (EHESS) in 1999 with a specialisation in
volving the prose of ideas, cultural production, the urban studies. Since 2000, she has worked as a
editing process and magazines. She has focused professor-researcher at CIESAS, Mexico City. Her
on essay theory and criticism, literary theory, research focuses on working and middle-class
04 | participating scholars
symbolism and social discourse, and intellectual residential practices, the right to the city and the
temporalities of future
history, especially from the 19 th and 20 th centuries anthropology of urban (in)security, presenting a
onward. Liliana Weinberg was a member of the systematic analysis of the challenges and advan-
IRTG ›Between Spaces‹. In 2017, she finished her tages of ethnography in urban spaces. In 2011, she
project ›The Essay in Dialogue. Towards a Dense was a visiting scholar at the City University of New
Reading of the Essay‹ (sponsored by CONACyT ), York (CUNY). In 2014, her book Vivienda mínima
in which she studied the intersection between obrera en México posrevolucionario: apropiaciones de
Prof. Dr. Liliana Weinberg the genre and different forms of friendship and Dr. Claudia Carolina Zamorano Villarreal una utopía urbana earned the Best Research Award
Literature and Culture intellectual dialogue. Previous projects such as Social Science, Urban Studies in Social Anthropology by the Instituto Nacional
Centro Coordinador y Difusor de Estudios ›Essay, Symbolism and the Cultural Field‹ (also Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico. Since
Latinoamericanos sponsored by CONACyT) integrate the perspectives en Antropología Social 2016, she has led a scientific project on urban secu-
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México of social semiotics and the symbolic production E-mail: claudiaz@ciesas.edu.mx rity practices in the Valley of Mexico with support
E-mail: weinberg@unam.mx of genres in cultural and intellectual spaces. from CONACyT.
Liliana Weinberg’s project ›Theory of the Essay
and Literary Theory‹ (also sponsored by (CONACyT)
deals with essay writing and its relationship
with other literary narratives from a comparatist
perspective.
36 3705 Scientific Community
irtg berlin / potsdam
Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig
Political Science
Institute for Latin American Studies
Scientific Freie Universität Berlin
Community E-mail: mbraig@zedat.fu-berlin.de
temporalities of future
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad
History
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute
Freie Universität Berlin
E-mail: sebastian.conrad@fu-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Barbara Göbel
Anthropology
Ibero-American Institute
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
E-mail: goebel@iai.spk-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Dieter Ingenschay
Romance Studies
Institute for Romance Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E-mail: dieter.ingenschay@hu-berlin.de
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Prof. Dr. Günther Maihold Prof. Dr. Carlos Alba Vega Prof. Dr. Antonio Ibarra
Political Science Sociology Economic History
German Institute for International and Centro de Estudios Internacionales Facultad de Economía
Security Affairs El Colegio de México Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
E-mail: guenther.maihold@swp-berlin.de E-mail: calba@colmex.mx E-mail: ibarrara@unam.mx
Prof. Dr. Sina Rauschenberg Prof. Dr. María Isabel Belausteguigoitia Rius Dr. Carlos Riojas López
Religious Studies Psychology, Educational Science, Economic History and Compared Regional
05 | scientific community
temporalities of future
Institute for Religious and Jewish Studies Gender Studies, Cultural Studies Development
Universität Potsdam Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico
E-mail: sina.rauschenbach@uni-potsdam.de Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Administrativas
E-mail: maribela@pumas.iingen.unam.mx Universidad de Guadalajara, México
E-mail: riojas.carlos@gmail.com
Dr. Marcela Suárez
Political Science Prof. Dr. Ilán Bizberg
Institute for Latin American Studies Sociology Dr. Marion Röwekamp
Freie Universität Berlin Centro de Estudios Internacionales History
E-mail: marcela.suarez@fu-berlin.de El Colegio de México Cátedra Humboldt
E-mail: ilan@colmex.mx El Colegio de México
E-mail: mvera@colmex.mx
Prof. Dr. Teresa Carbó Pérez
Linguistics Prof. Dr. Guillermo Zermeño
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores History
en Antropología Social Centro de Estudios Históricos
E-mail: teresaecarbo@gmail.com El Colegio de México
E-mail: gmoz@colmex.mx
40 4106 Postdoctoral Fellows
irtg berlin / potsdam
Dr. Lasse Hölck
Project: ›Change or Continuity? The Temporal Impli-
PhD Fellows
irtg berlin / potsdam
Elis de Aquino
Project: ›The Road to Success: Mechanisms of
postdoctoral cations of Growth and the Avoidance of Growth in a Social Mobility and Individual Strategies of the Poor
fellows Culturally Heterogeneous Latin America‹
E-mail: lhoelck@zedat.fu-berlin.de
in Brazil‹
E-mail: elisdeaquino@gmail.com
temporalities of future
phd fellows Dr. Carmen Ibáñez
Project: ›Fragmented Future? Projections, Expecta-
Belén Díaz
Project: ›Struggles for Hegemony in the 21st Century:
tions and Imaginaries in the Popular Markets of The Renewal of the Right in Latin America‹
associated the Andes‹
E-mail: cibanezc@zedat.fu-berlin.de
E-mail: belen.diaz@fu-berlin.de
phd fellows Felipe Fernández Lozano
Project: ›Infrastructure, Aspirations and the Politics
alumni irtg mexico
of Temporality in Buenaventura, Colombia‹
E-mail: felipeberlin@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Dr. Rocío Camacho Rojas Elizabeth Gallón Droste
Project: ›Teaching Careers and the Building of Pro- Project: ›The Voices of the Atrato River: Navigating
fessional Identity in Contexts of Confinement‹ Futures through Rivers of Gold‹
E-mail: rcr7110@yahoo.com.mx E-mail: egallondroste@gmail.com
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Andrea Garcés Farfán Lorena López Jáuregui Edgar Córdova Morales
Project: ›Arid Futures: (Re)visions of the Desert in Project: ›Americanism. Science, History and Geo- Project: ›Border Struggles for the Search of Missing
Contemporary Latin American Literature‹ politics of a Continent in 1910‹ Migrants: A Transoceanic Ethnography of Political
E-mail: andreagf@zedat.fu-berlin.de E-mail: lorena.jauregui@fu-berlin.de Subjectivities, Justice and Violence in Mexico‘s South-
ern Border and the Central Mediterranean Route‹
E-mail: e.cordova@ciesas.edu.mx
José Francisco Hernández Reyes Isabel Richter
Project: ›From Ottoman Subjects to Eastern French: Project: ›The Future of Memory: The Romanian-
Temporary Culture and Sense of Belonging in the Jewish Avant-Garde Artist Emeric Marcier as a Chal- Inés Giménez Delgado
temporalities of future
Arabophone Communities in Mexico, 1908-1938‹ lenge for Memory Research in Brazil – A Contribu- Project: › War in the Body: Mechanisms of the Mech-
E-mail: jfreyes93@hotmail.com tion to the Reception of Interreligious Art in the Latin anisms of the Unlawful, Forced Displacement and
06 | phd fellows
American Exile‹ Dispossession in Guerrero, Mexico. An Ethnographic
E-mail: isaferr@zedat.fu-berlin.de and Audiovisual Approach‹
Georg M. Holfelder
E-mail: inesgdel@gmail.com
Project: ›Fatal News – Anti-Press Violence and the
Regulation of Information Flows towards the Mexican Alrik Schubotz
Public‹ Project: ›Contesting Identity Politics in Brazil: Trans- Samuel Lagunas Cerda
E-mail: georg.holfelder@fu-berlin.de national Culture Wars and Political Religion‹ Project: ›Imaginaries of the End in Latin America.
E-mail: a1rik@zedat.fu-berlin.de An Eschatological Reading of Our Recent Literature‹
E-mail: samlag_89@hotmail.com
Luis Kliche
Project: ›Constructores del futuro, herederos de la Ricardo Uribe
paz: The Role of the State in the Political Construction Project: ›Clocks for the New World: History of Uni- Juan Carlos Villafuerte Ramírez
of Young People in 21st-Century Nicaragua‹ versal Time‹ Project: ›Landscapes of (In)Security and Planning of
E-mail: luis.kliche@gmail.com E-mail: ruribe@fu-berlin.de Possible Spaces. Perception of the Security Patrols in
the Middle-Class Districts of the ›Xola corridor‹‹
E-mail: j.villafuerte@ciesas.edu.mx
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11Associated PhD Fellows Alumni Nancy Hernández Martínez Karina Sánchez Cortes
irtg berlin / potsdam irtg mexico Project: ›Social Representations of Women on Femi- Project: ›Gender and Social Inequalities in Higher
nicide in the City of Puebla‹ Education Admissions: The 2016-1 Undergraduate
E-mail: nancy.hmz@politicas.unam.mx Generation at the UNAM‹
Hans Fabian Bennewitz Hernando Castro Vargas E-mail: karasanchezc@gmail.com
06 | associated phd fellows | academic management
Project: ›West German Police Assistance for Gua- Project: ›The Introduction of Smuggling Routes from
Ariana Mendoza
temala 1986-1990: Knowledge Transfer and Trans- the Non-Hispanic Caribbean in Spanish America and
Project: ›Megaprojects in the City, Territorialities Paulina Segovia
national Security Networks‹ the First Republics (1670-1815)‹
and Temporalities in Dispute. The Case of the Socio- Project: ›The Transformation of Economic Thought
E-mail: f.bennewitz@fu-berlin.de E-mail: hcastro@colmex.mx
temporalities of future
Environmental Conflict of the New Airport in Lake and Institutions in Mexico During the 80s‹
Texcoco‹ E-mail: paulinasegovia3108@gmail.com
Dayana Murguía Méndez Carolina da Cunha Rocha E-mail: ary.xepje@gmail.com
Project: ›Socialist Education and International Col- Project: ›Cultivating the State, Seeding the Future:
Marina Téllez González
laboration. The Isle of Youth’s Scholarships in Cuba Progressive Politics in the Agricultural Sector and
Ana María Morales Chacón Project: ›The Habits of Power. Transfigured Interests
(1977-2012)‹ the Formation of an Agrarian Technocracy in Brazil
Project: ›The Redistribution of Income through Tax in the Foundations of Nunneries in Spanish America
E-mail: murguiad@student.hu-berlin.de (1930-1975)‹
Reforms in Latin America. The Cases of Uruguay and (16th Century)‹
E-mail: cdacunha@colmex.mx
Costa Rica (2005-2018)‹ E-mail: mtellez@colmex.mx
Alexys Monserrat Yong Solís E-mail: anamoralesch@politicas.unam.mx
Project: ›Young People with Migration Backgrounds –
Marco Antonio Villarruel Oviedo
Aspirations and the Acquisition of Different Forms
Lucía Pi Cholula Project: ›On Literary Tradition: A Latin American
of Capital‹
Project: ›Urban Figurations in Latin America. Views Discussion‹
E-mail: amyongsolis@zedat.fu-berlin.de
of the City in the 21st Century‹ E-mail: mavillarruel@colmex.mx
E-mail: lupicho@gmail.com
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1107 Academic Management
irtg berlin / potsdam
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ingrid Simson
Academic Director
irtg mexico
Brenda Margarita Macías Sánchez
Academic Coordinator
academic +49 30 838 56013 +521 (55) 5449 3000 - Ext. 4170
management E-mail: ingrid.simson@fu-berlin.de E-mail: bmacias@colmex.mx
temporalities of future
Jasón Joel Bustos
contact Student Assistant
+49 30 838 53222
details E-mail: jason.bustos@fu-berlin.de
Bega Melissa Tesch
Student Assistant
+49 30 838 53222
E-mail: b.tesch@fu-berlin.de
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