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Josetxo Cerdán
Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos has been associate professor of Media Studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2003-2008) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2008-2015). He is full professor in the department of Communication at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a member of the research group Tecmerin. Since September 2018 he is the director of Filmoteca Española.
Luciana Corrêa de Araújo
Luciana Corrêa de Araújo is assistant professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). Her research on Brazilian silent cinema focuses mainly on intermedial relations, women’s activities, and cinema in the state of Pernambuco. She is the author of A crônica de cinema no Recife dos anos 50 (1997) and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade: primeiros tempos (2013), and has published in journals and edited collections including Nova história do cinema brasileiro (Sheila Schvarzman and Fernão Pessoa Ramos, eds., 2018) and Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema (Tim Bergfelder, Lisa Shaw and João Luiz Vieira, eds., 2016).
Miguel Fernández Labayen
Miguel Fernández Labayen is associate professor in the department of Communication at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a member of the research group Tecmerin. He is one of the two PIs of the research project “Cartografías del cine de movilidad en el Atlántico hispánico”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and one of the two researchers of “The Histories of the New American Cinema Expositions in Europe, 1964 and 1967-1968: The Emergence and Diversity of European Experimental Film Cultures”, funded by the Swedish Research Council. He is co-editor of the book series “Ibero-American Screens / Pantallas Iberoamericanas” (Peter Lang).
Talitha Ferraz
Talitha Ferraz is a professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) and at the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGCine-UFF), Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. She is also the coordinator of the research group Modos de Ver (ESPM-PPGCine-UFF/ CNPq) and member of the networks: Coordenação Interdisciplinar de Estudos Contemporâneos da ECO-UFRJ (CIEC/ECO-UFRJ), International Media & Nostalgia Network (IMNN), and HoMER Network.
Email: talitha.ferraz@gmail.com
Instagram: @talithaferraz_cines
Juan Antonio García Borrero
Juan Antonio
(Camagüey, 8 de septiembre de 1964) es un crítico de arte, ensayista, e investigador del cine cubano. Miembro de la Asociación Cubana de la Prensa Cinematográfica (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique/ FIPRESCI) desde 1999. Creador y coordinador general de los Talleres Nacionales de la Crítica Cinematográfica (1993-2003), considerado el evento teórico más importante para especialistas en el país. Presidente de la Cátedra de Pensamiento Audiovisual Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (2002), ha ganado en seis ocasiones el premio de Ensayo e Investigación que concede anualmente la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), así como dos años consecutivos el Premio Nacional de la Crítica Literaria, resultando hasta el momento las únicas ocasiones en que se entrega ese galardón a textos sobre cine.En 1990 fundó el cine club Luis Rogelio Nogueras, con sede en la Casa del Jurista de Camagüey. Su investigación Guía crítica del cine cubano de ficción registra por primera vez en un volumen la producción silente, sonora prerrevolucionaria y revolucionaria, incluyendo las realizaciones de los cineclubes de creación, el Taller de Cine de la Asociación Hermanos Saíz, la Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños, los Estudios Cinematográficos de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, los Estudios Cinematográficos de la Televisión, entre otros. Sus textos han aparecido en diversas publicaciones nacionales (Cine cubano, La Gaceta de Cuba, El Caimán Barbudo, Revolución y Cultura, y Temas, entre otras), así como en México, Estados Unidos, Argentina, Colombia, España, Francia, Italia y Perú. Ha figurado como Jurado en diversos eventos nacionales e Internacionales, y ha impartido clases en la Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños, y en el Instituto Superior del Arte (de La Habana), así como universidades de Estados Unidos, Brasil y España. Es actualmente el editor de Memorias, la Revista, publicación digital de la Cátedra de Pensamiento Audiovisual Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt
Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Buenos Aires. He is currently a professor and researcher at that university, with a project based at the Instituto deArtes del Espectáculo”Raúl H. Castagnino” on the history of film exhibition and distribution in Argentina and Latin America during the classical period. He has published articles in international journals and books and is the author of the book Modernidad y teléfonos blancos: la comedia burguesa en el cine argentino de los años ’40 (Ciccus, 2019), which won the 3rd National and Federal Competition of Studies on Argentine Cinema, BibliotecaENERC-INCAA. He has been a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Argentina) and has carried out research stays at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Fideicomiso Teixidor Grant), the University of Seville (AUIP Grant) and the University of Southern California (Fulbright -Ministry of Education of Argentina Grant).
Clara Kriger
Es Doctora en Historia y Teoría de las Artes por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, donde se desempeña como doc
ente y coordinadora del Área Cine y Audiovisuales del Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo. Es directora del proyecto de investigación “Historia de los públicos de cine en Buenos Aires (1933-1955)” (Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica). Es disertante en universidades extranjeras, como University of Cambridge (2010 y 2012), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2015), Universidad de Lovaina (2016), Universitat Tubingen (2019), entre otras. Es autora de Cine y Peronismo: El estado en Escena (Siglo XXI, 2009), y compiladora de libros, entre los últimos, Nueva cartografía de la producción audiovisual argentina (Peter Lang, 2019), e Imágenes y públicos del cine argentino clásico (UNICEN, 2018). Ha escrito capítulos una diversidad de libros y artículos en revistas especializadas, entre los más recientes en los volúmenes A Trail of fire for Political Cinema. The Hour of the Furnaces. Fifty Years Later (2019), Cine de Investigación. Paradigmas sobre revelaciones y ocultamientos en el cine argentino (2017), Ward Film Locations: Buenos Aires (2014), Masas, pueblo, multitud en cine y televisión (2012).
Rafael de Luna Freire
Rafael de Luna Freire is an Associate Professor in the Film and Video Department and in the M.A. and PhD Program on Cinema and Audiovisual at Fluminense Federal University. He is the head of the Audiovisual Preservation University Lab (LUPA-UFF) and was responsible for many preservation projects as the restoration of the film “Antes o verão” (Gerson Tavares, 1968) and the reconstruction of the first Brazilian sound feature film, “Acabaram-se os otários” (Luiz de Barros, 1929), together with Reinaldo Cardenuto. Freire has published widely on different aspects of Brazilian film history and has authored the book “Cinematographo em Nichteroy: história das salas de cinema de Niterói”, published in 2012. He is finishing a new book on the history of film distribution in Brazil, from 1907 to 1915.
Rielle Navitski
Rielle Navitski teaches a range of film history and theory courses, including Latin Ameri
can Film and Media and American Directors of Color. Her research interests include Latin American visual culture, silent and early sound film, and the relationship between cinema and the illustrated press. Dr. Navitski’s articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Screen, Film History, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, and a number of edited collections. Her Ph.D. thesis received the 2014 SCMS Dissertation Award for outstanding dissertation in film and media studies. Her book Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2017) expands on this research, exploring how early films and the illustrated press in the two nations staged spectacles of violence that were framed as signs of local modernity. Dr. Navitski is the co-editor (with Nicolas Poppe) of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960, an anthology of critical essays and primary texts in English translation (Indiana University Press, 2017). She is currently conducting research for a book-length project tentatively entitled Transatlantic Cinephilia: Networks of Film Culture Between Latin America and France, 1945-1965.
María Paz Peirano
María Paz Peirano is an Assistant Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at Universidad de Chile, with a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent. Her research involves an ethnographic approach to film as social practice, focusing on Chilean cinema, film festivals, and the development of Chilean film culture and film audiences. She is co-editor of the volumes “Film Festivals and Anthropology” (Cambridge Scholars 2017) and “Chilefilms: el Hollywood Criollo (Aproximaciones al proyecto industrial cinematográfico chileno (1941-1949)” (Cuarto Propio 2015). She is co-creator of www.festivalesdecine.cl and was the lead researcher of ‘Film festivals: exhibition and circulation of Chilean cinema’ and ‘Film Festivals, educative experiences and the expansion of the Chilean field’. She was part of the team of ‘Historic billboard: Film exhibition and reception in Santiago between1918 and 1969’ and she is currently the lead researcher of “Chilean film audiences: film culture, cinephilia and education” (FONDECYT 1211594).
Nicolas Poppe
Nicolas Poppe is Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies and Track Director of Latin American Studies at Middlebury College. His work on Latin American cinema has been published in several edited volumes, as well as peer-reviewed journals. Professor Poppe has edited two special issues of videographic criticism on Latin American cinema: an issue of [in]Transition (with Michael Talbott), the first peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to publishing videographic scholarship, and a dossier of Vivomatografías, a journal dedicated to the study of pre-cinema and silent cinema in Latin America. He also coedited the volumes Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960 (Indiana University Press, 2017) with Rielle Navitski and En la cartelera. Cine y culturas cinematográficas en América Latina, 1896-2020 (under review) with Alejandro Kelly Hopfenblatt. Professor Poppe’s book Alton’s Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Sound Cinema in Latin America is forthcoming with SUNY Press in September, 2021.
Irene Rozsa
Irene Rozsa received her Ph.D. in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University in Montreal in 2020. She was recognized for exemplary achievements during her graduate career with t
he Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal from her alma mater. Her dissertation, “On the Edge of the Screen: Film Culture and Practices of Noncommercial Cinema in Cuba (1948-1966)” employs archival research to trace the development of Cuban cinema in the years preceding and immediately following the establishment of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) in 1959. It expands the focus of Cuban media studies both temporally and thematically. Integrating examinations of exhibition, distribution, promotion, and knowledge dissemination, Dr. Rozsa highlights the continuities in Cuban cinematic traditions before and after the Revolution. Her work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas and the edited anthology Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960. During AY 20-21, she is the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center of Tulane University, working with Prof. Ana M. López on a postdoctoral project examining the impact of the Catholic Church on Cuban, Peruvian, and Brazilian film cultures from the 1940s to the 1980s. See her publications in Academia.edu: https://concordia.academia.edu/IreneRozsa
Carlos Roberto de Souza
Graduation in Cinema (1972), Master in Arts (1979) and PhD in Comunication (2009) at the São Paulo University. Retired curator of the Cinemateca Brasileira’s film collections. Collaborator professor of the Post-graduation Program in Image and Sound at the Federal University of São Carlos. He has published several articles on the history of Brazilian cinema.
CALI GROUP
Maria Luna
Adjunct Professor (TecnoCampus ESUPT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Researcher in the group Narratives of Resistance. Member of the association of documentary, Alados and former coordinator of the academic seminar at Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá. Coeditor of the book ‘Territorio y memoria sin fronteras, nuevas estrategias para pensar lo real’ (2021).
https://www.tecnocampus.cat/ca/detall-professor/maria-luna?p=462
Ramiro Arbeláez
Full Professor and former Director of the School of Social Communication at Universidad del Valle (Cali). Member of the research group CALIGARI. With Luis Ospina and Andrés Caicedo he was part of the intellectual and artistic boom of cinephilia during the 70’s and 80’s in Colombia known as Caliwood.
https://comunicacionsocial.univalle.edu.co/docentes/nombrados/item/19-arbelaez-ramos-ramiro
CARTAGENA GROUP
Waydi Miranda Pérez
Waydi Miranda Pérez is a university professor and cultural researcher with an emphasis on media. He is a PhD in Communication from the Universidad Iberoamericana CDMX and from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Master in Communication from the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. Winner of the XVII Héctor Rojas Herazo Cultural Research Grant, with the investigation Cinema and society in Cartagena (1912-1922): programming and exhibition spaces, (2015). Author of the investigation Cinema and society in Cartagena de Indias, 1897-1923, (2013). Co-author of the book The uses of audiovisual in the Colombian Caribbean, (2011). Winner of the Stimulus Grant for Cultural Research: the imaginary of the city, IPCC, (2011). Co-author and co-researcher of the book De Alicia adorada a Carito. Discursive memories on modernity in the Colombian Caribbean, (2009). Coordinator and Researcher of the Sensorium group for Sociocultural Research.
Osiris María Chajín Mendoza
Master in Cultural Studies with a Mention in Communication from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, (2009). Cultural researcher. Research professor of the Bachelor of Education program Emphasis in English of the Colombo International University Foundation. With experience as a project advisor at the undergraduate and graduate level. She has participated in research groups at the University of Cartagena as a researcher and at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University as a methodological advisor. She is a university professor with more than 15 years of work in the areas of research, communication, semiotics, Critical Discourse Analysis and others. She has also served as an undergraduate and graduate academic literacy teacher, research project designer, copy editor for university magazines. She has been linked to several local universities such as the University of Cartagena, the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Foundation and the Bolívar University Corporation of Arts and Sciences. She has published articles, books, and lectured at regional, national, and international events. She works the same line of communication, cinema and city, and her phD research is Representations of Film Audiences in Press, Cartagena, Colombia (1897-1997).
CIUDAD DE MEXICO GROUP
Jerónimo Repoll
Doctor en Periodismo y Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, España. Profesor/Investigador de tiempo completo del Departamento de Educación y Comunicación de la División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. Investigador nacional del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) de CONACYT (Nivel 1) Coordinador del Grupo de Investigación “Teorías y metodologías” de la Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (AMIC) desde mayo de 2005 a la fecha. Y Vice-coordinador del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Recepción de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC), (2011-2016).
LEON GROUP
Efraín Delgado Rivera
Ph. D. in Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidad Nacional Auntónoma de México and Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila) focuses on espistemology and complex systems.
Faculty professor at De La Salle University. Research area: Media research and audiences and culture.
Member or the Screen Culture research network (ciemacity culture project based on University of Ghent and University of Antwerp), and the Latin American Studies Association (media research); also, member of Sello, a latin american audiences studies based on Sao Paulo University; and the Association of Communication Researchers (Mexico).
Jaime Miguel González Chávez
Ph. D. in Social sciences and Humanities (Universidad Nacional Auntónoma de México and Universidad Autónoma de 
Coahuila) focuses on espistemology and complex systems.
Faculty professor at De La Salle University (León, México). Research area: Media research and audiences and culture.
Member or the Screen Culture research network (ciemacity culture project based on University of Ghent and University of Antwerp), and the Latin American Studies Association (media research); also, member of Sello, a latin american audiences studies based on Sao Paulo University; and the Association of Communication Researchers (Mexico).
Gerardo Covarrubias
Ph. D. in Social Sciences and Politics from Iberoamericana University, México. Master in Political Philosophy from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Bachelor’s in philosophy from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Coordinator of the postgraduate course in social sciences and complexity. Member of the National System of Training and Professionalization for Cultural Promoters and Managers.
MEXICO 1952 GROUP
José Carlos Lozano
Dr. Jose Carlos Lozano is Chair of the Department of Psychology and Communication and Professor of Media Theories and Research at Texas A&M International University (Laredo, Texas), and Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León Mexico since 2020. He got his M.A. in Communication Research from Leicester University, England and his Ph.D. in International Communication and Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was Director of the Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Communications, and Director of the Research Center in Communication from 1992-2012 and Research Fellow from 2012 to 2020 at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey Tech), Mexico. There, he founded the Observatory of Media and Culture of Lawfulness, devoted to the monitoring of Mexican news media coverage of organized crime and the War on Drugs, coordinating long-term analyses of many different daily newspapers and television news shows. Lozano is the author of numerous books and journal articles in the areas of mass an international communication, in particular a textbook in mass communication theories widely used in Mexican and Latin American schools. Currently, he coordinates a large research project on the historical exhibition of films and cinema going in several Mexican cities, in Barcelona, Spain, and in Barranquilla, Colombia with Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University) and Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp). Since 1993 he has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico, being appointed National Researcher Level 3 for the period 2018 to 2028. He is a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2007.
https://www.tamiu.edu/binationalcenter/Fellow-Dr.J.CarlosLozano.shtml
Blanca Chong López
PhD in Social Communication from Universidad de La Habana, Master in Communication from Universidad Iberoamericana Torreón. Research professor at tjhe Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. She participates in the international project Screen Culture, conducting research on the project for the citie of Torreón, México.
Jorge Nieto Malpica
PhD and Master in Communication and Journalism from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2016, 2005). Master in Teaching in Higher Education from the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (1990) and Bachelor in Communication Sciences from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudio Superiores de Monterrey (1980). Founder of the Communication Sciences Career at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (1981). He is currently a research professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico and a candidate for National Researcher of the National System of Researchers. He participates in the international project Screen Culture, conducting research on the project for the cities of Tampico and Veracruz, Mexico. He is a member of the research group Ciudadanía y Comunicación (CIDACOM – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), of Cinema City Cultures (University of Ghent and University of Antwerp) and of the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers (AMIC).
Efraín Delgado Rivera
SALTILLO GROUP
Brenda A. Muñoz
Brenda A. Muñoz is currently full professor at Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Doctor of Social Sciences: Communication Studies (PhD) (University of Antwerp, 2014). Doctor in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Communication and Cultural Studies (ITESM, 2014). National Researcher Level 1 (CONACYT, México). Member of the research group “Comunicación para el Desarrollo Social” (UACOAH-CA-87), the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers (AMIC). Co-coordinator of the Cultura de la Pantalla Network, for the city of Saltillo, México. Author of “Contenidos Alternativos en YouTube: Nuevos Formatos, Mismos Significados” (Fontamara and UAdeC, 2019), “La diversidad y el desarrollo social a través de la comunicación ”(Latina and UAdeC, 2019), “Perspectivas de género desde la mirada de estudiantes universitarios” (UAdeC, 2018), as well as scientific publications in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, and Ecuador. e-mail: brenda.munoz@uadec.edu.mx
Aída Hernández
Aída Hernández is full profesor at Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. PhD student in Social Sciences with a specialty in Social Communication at UAdeC. She is currently writing her PhD Dissertation on Cinema and memory, through an analysis of audience’s memories of movie-going in Saltillo in the eighties. Member of the Cultura de la Pantalla Network, for the city of Saltillo, México. Author of several book chapters regarding cultural diversity, migration and cinema history in Saltillo. e-mail: aida_hernandez_chavez@uadec.edu.mx
Antonio Corona
Antonio Corona is currently full professor at Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Doctor in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Communication and Cultural Studies (ITESM, 2014). Master in Sciences in Communication, with a specialty in International Communication. National Researcher Level 1 (CONACYT, México). Member of the research group “Cultura e Identidad”, the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers (AMIC). Co-coordinator of the Cultura de la Pantalla Network, for the city of Saltillo, México. Author of “Identidad-Agencia-Espacio. El videojuego desde los estudios culturales” (Fontamara and UAdeC, 2018), Procesos, Sentidos y Prácticas de Ciudadanía (UAdeC, 2020), as well as scientific publications in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, and Ecuador. e-mail: antoniocorona@uadec.edu.mx
Miguel Sánchez
Miguel Sánchez is currently full professor at Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Doctor in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Communication and Cultural Studies (ITESM, 2014). National Researcher Level 1 (CONACYT, México). Coordinator of the research group “Comunicación para el Desarrollo Social” (UACOAH-CA-87), the group “Sociedad Civil, Participación y Comunicación Alternativa” (GI-13) at the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers (AMIC). Member of the Cultura de la Pantalla Network, for the city of Saltillo, México. Editor of “Diversidad y Desarrollo Social” (Pearson and UAdeC, 2019) as well as scientific publications in Mexico, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia. e-mail: miguelsanchez@uadec.edu.mx
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
Daylenis Blanco Lobaina
Assistant Professor and doctoral student in Social Communication Sciences Joint PhD Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba and University of Antwerp, Belgium. Member of the Research Center for Visual and Digital Cultures (ViDi) of the University of Antwerp. Member of Project “Safeguarding cultural heritage. Instruments and practices for its integrated management in Santiago de Cuba and the eastern region of Cuba” of the VLIR-IUC UO program. Master’s in Social Communication Sciences. Specialist of the Department of Press and Public Relations of the Universidad de Oriente, Cuba. Graduate of the International Diploma in Media to Communicate Heritage. Diploma in Public Relations and Marketing and Communication. Graduate in Journalism.